10 Meter Air Pistol Target

The full 10 meter air pistol face, one bull per sheet, at true size on both A4 and US Letter. At 155.5 mm across the outer ring it is not the biggest sheet here — the B-8 is 203.2 mm and the FAST body circle 177.8 mm — but it asks for a tighter hold than either.

Ring diameters, in millimeters and MOA

Measured in the PDF: 155.5 mm across the 1-ring, 16 mm off the diameter for every ring inward — 139.5, 123.5, 107.5, 91.5, 75.5, 59.5, 43.5, 27.5 — down to an 11.5 mm ten. Bands are 8 mm wide. The black aiming area is 59.5 mm, so it begins at the 7-ring and the 8, 9 and 10 are white lines inside it.

At 10 m one MOA is 2.909 mm, so the outer ring is 53.5 MOA, the black 20.5 MOA and the ten-ring 3.95 MOA. Those are the reference dimensions of the 10 m air pistol discipline, which is what makes a score here comparable with a score anywhere else. It is our own sheet drawn to those dimensions — not an approved competition target, and no substitute for one at a sanctioned match.

How hard the ten really is

A shot takes the higher ring if the hole touches the line, so with a 4.5 mm pellet the ten-ring gives you 8 mm of center error — a 16 mm circle, 5.50 MOA at 10 m. The nine allows 16 mm, a 32 mm circle at 11.0 MOA.

Worth putting next to something familiar: the X-ring of a B-8 at 25 yards allows a 9 mm bullet 7.83 MOA. The air pistol ten is 5.50 MOA — a harder angular ask than a B-8 X at 25 yards, from a gun with no recoil, in a room. That is the whole argument for training on it: nothing else lets you find out this cheaply whether the shot broke where you were aiming.

Print at 100% — the black is the proof

Set the printer to 100% or Actual Size, turn Fit to Page off, then lay a ruler across the black disc: it must read 59.5 mm, and the outer ring 155.5 mm. The 1-inch bar in the footer is the faster check — exactly 25.4 mm in the file. Scale error is lopsided on a target with 8 mm bands: printing at 95% moves the ten boundary by 0.29 mm, which you will not notice, but pulls the 1-ring in by 3.89 mm — 49% of a scoring band. A badly scaled sheet does not cost you tens, it deletes the outer rings. The calibration test sheet settles the printer in one page, and printing targets to scale covers the settings behind it.

A4 and US Letter

Identical geometry in both files, at full size in both. At 155.5 mm the bull fits inside the 194 mm printable width that A4 and US Letter share, so unlike the B-8 it needs no margin-breaking and no compromise on either format. The 10 m disciplines are shot mostly where A4 is the paper in the tray, so the A4 file is drawn first here rather than derived from the Letter one.

Shooting a string on it

Unlike the 9-bull rifle sheet, this one takes a full string on a single bull: at 11.5 mm the ten survives more than one pellet, so ten shots on one face is how the discipline is actually shot. The four string rows under the artwork hold the session, with a total at the bottom.

If the group is consistently off to one side rather than loose, that is a trigger problem, not a hold problem — why you shoot low left applies to an air pistol exactly as it does to a service gun, and an air pistol is the better place to prove it because there is no recoil to hide behind. For plain aiming-point work without rings, the three-quarter-inch dot sheet is the companion.