page_title: Metallic silhouette shooting
section_title: Target layouts
hierarchical_section_title: Metallic silhouette shooting / Target layouts
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Silhouetten Bogenschiessen in Anlehnung an die IHMSA-Regeln English: Archery targets according to IHMSA regulations
context_page_description: Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at steel targets representing game animals at varying distances, seeking to knock the metal target over. Metallic silhouette is shot with large bore rifles fired freehand without support out to 500 meters, and with large bore handguns from the prone position with only body support out to 200 meters. Competitions are also held with airguns and black-powder firearms. A related genre is shot with bow and arrow, the metal targets being replaced with cardboard or foam. The targets used are rams, turkeys, pigs, and chickens, which are cut to different scales and set at certain distances from the shooter depending on the specific discipline.
context_section_description: To allow shooting at ranges which may not have space for a full target layout, NRA rules allow the use of reduced scale pigs, turkeys and rams placed at the same distance as chickens.  The scale is reduced proportional to the change in distance, so the targets will cover the same angular distance as they would if set up at full range.  Reduced scale matches fired at paper targets are also popular for informal competitions, especially for Internet-based matches where the shooters may reside in different countries.  These are generally fired with rimfires or airguns.
  Targets for large-bore use are 9.5 to 13 mm (³⁄₈ to ¹⁄₂ in) thick hardened steel; small bore targets are 5 to 6 mm (³⁄₁₆ to ¹⁄₄ in) steel, and airgun targets are 3 mm (¹⁄₈ in) steel, although some aluminum targets are produced.
  Ranges are measured in meters only. The exception is the new IHMSA air pistol discipline, which is in yards only.
caption: Cut cardboard targets of the same shape and sizes which are used for IMSSU metal targets in metallic silhouette shooting
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