Target Generator - You Will Be Able To Create Your Own Targets

[Billm]

I mentioned that I was building a target generator. I have created a target generator that allows several options:
1. Print or Download pre-designed targets.
2. Design and print or download your own targets
3. When you design a target the copyright belongs to Airgunfun.com. That is due to the fact that your design will be added to the Airgunfun.com community gallery and everyone will be able to access it and use it.
4. I’ve added the ability to upload an image as a background. For example you could upload an image of a zombie and place a kill zone on it and have a zombie target.
5. There are lot of standard targets that cover airgun competition.

You do not need to register to download or print targets. You will need to create a free account to create your own targets.
The target generator is part of a video hosting site that I’m building. The video side is still under development. I just wanted a place to store videos online that a non airgun friendly platform couldn’t control. I thought I’d add a few other options that might be useful to airgun enthusiasts.

I’ve discussed this with Stephen and I’m trying to see what I can make useful for the HAM community while at the same time respect Steve, his business and the members of the great community he has established affectionately called “HAMSTERS”.
I ve added a voting/rating system so that users can rate the targets they use. The most popular target by downloads is featured.
Below is a screenshot of the design interface. It’s very simple to use. Below it is a sample of the target generated. I will post a couple of additional screenshots and some target examples.

 

[Billm]

Here are a few of the free preset targets.

 

[Billm]

Here is a downloadable 10m air rifle and 100yd air rifle benchrest target. They are PDF files. The first two are screenshots, don’t print those. Use the PDF files.

 

[hameditor]

This all looks great to me! Thanks for doing this, Bill. I look forward to see other Hamsters opinions and how they us them.

 

[Auto1191]

Biim you always do an amazing job. A lot of time & effort. You have a true passion. Un fortunately for myself as a business owner I work 60 70 hrs a week. I try to get on this forum as much as possible, to get the latest & greatest from all the members here.

 

[Billm]

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Biim you always do an amazing job. A lot of time & effort. You have a true passion. Un fortunately for myself as a business owner I work 60 70 hrs a week. I try to get on this forum as much as possible, to get the latest & greatest from all the members here.

I feel your pain. I had hobby stores in malls for years which meant working a minimum of six days a week. Over 21 years in the Navy meant lots if six month deployments. When on deployment almost every day is a work day. I never regret my military time, I constantly wonder if I made the right choice after the Navy. I enjoy every living minute now.

 

[Playingdead]

Absolutely incredible! Let us know if you need any help!

 

[LM22]

Awesome! Nicely done and thanks for setting this up!

 

[Playingdead]

@Billm would you rather us create a unique account or use sign in with Google? If you are doing any adsense I will sign in with google as it should pay better.

 

[Billm]

@Billm would you rather us create a unique account or use sign in with Google? If you are doing any adsense I will sign in with google as it should pay better.

I’m thinking that I’ll probably avoid Adsense. Google prohibits ads being run on any site that promotes the sale of airguns. Google/youtube currently is under direct pressure right now to remove all gun including airgun related content by one of the most active gun control groups. Thanks, that is a great point, I might remove google sign in.

 

[Billm]

I’m hoping for constructive input. It’s not the first target generator by any means. But, I’d like to make it the best. I plan to add ballistic calculators etc.. I know they’re already available, but having some nice to use utilities all in one place can’t be a bad thing. Thanks for everyone’s help and interest. I’m thinking about adding larger paper sizes. My printer can handle 13x19” and so it can print A3 (ELEY X-Shot) sized targets. I’m not sure there would be much demand for that though.

 

[Billm]

Don’t try to register right now. I’m making some changes to it

 

[Billm]

I had it in what’s called a sandbox for testing and so it was redirecting new users to the wrong place. That is fixed now. I’ll let the cat out of the bag: I haven’t started the next Benchrest match yet, because I’m working on my own target scorer. Right now I’m testing it with just 100yd single targets. I’m trying to get past all of the scoring issues with the ELEY app. I believe I just printed and scored my first 100yd target. There’s still some issues, I shot two slugs through the same hole and it scored it as one. It’s amazing that there was stacked hole considering it’s so windy that I was holding 7” to the left and 1” over LOL. Once I get this working I’ll attempt scoring a five bull target. I hate autocorrect

 

[Billm]

Right now it’s caliber specific for scoring. I’m trying to decide whether to make it calibrate scoring to .224” and so it will score all calibers as if plugged with a .224” scoring plug or to make it use a . .35” plug. Maybe I’ll try both. That’s why making an event caliber specific I.e .22 is so much easier.

 

[Solo1]

Right now it’s caliber specific for scoring. I’m trying to decide whether to make it calibrate scoring to .224” and so it will score all calibers as if plugged with a .224” scoring plug or to make it use a . .35” plug. Maybe I’ll try both. That’s why making an event caliber specific I.e .22 is so much easier.

What ever works best mister wizzard!

 

[Billm]

What ever works best mister wizzard!

I decided to make it selectable. I’ve had to use a hybrid system for stacked shots. Computer with human intervention

 

[Billm]

Will someone please score this so that I can compare it to the scoring feature. .177, 11yds 12 shots.

 

[FL22]

Starting top L to R
7,0,9
3,4,6
6,6,5
8,7,7

12 shots total

Score 68

 

[Jaabaa]

Yeah, these are Cool
I've been set back again with another surgery. Probably be at least 6 weeks before I'm doing anything.

 

[Billm]

This was one of the target scorer attempts.
iPad. fL22
7,0,9. 7,0,9
2,3,5. 3,4,6
6,6,5. 6,6,5
8,7,7. 8,7,7
Tot 65. Tot 68

If you zoom into target (4) assuming top down, left to right you can see the blue ring is not centered causing an under score of 1. On 5 and 6 @FL22 may have over scored. There our basic correction tools where you can delete any phantom hits, move incorrectly scored hits ( if the scoring ring is placed wrong), add a scoring ring and center it over a hole that was not counted. Target two was missed and hit target 5 and so 5 should be a 0 for a total of two zeros. I may be trying to do too much in one step. I set it up to be able to score a single target with multiple shots or score a target with multiple bulls and assume one shot per bull. Most matches are set up as one shot per bull to ensure precise scoring. That is the way to go for online matches in most cases. But, the results are promising. I will score one and readjust the scoring circles. This was a quick snapshot with an iPhone 17 and I think it’s hard for it to discern the .177. I’ll refine ut and also try a white sheet under it.