Phone, Inhaler, Badge, Raised Hands: The Unarmed Scenes Every Training Library Needs
A buyer's checklist for the unarmed side of a training target library: the five kinds of unarmed scene (mistaken object, threatening posture, surrender, armed non-threat, bystander), what each trai...
How to Plan Targets for a Police Academy Firearms Block, Phase by Phase
A phase-by-phase how-to for academy firearms coordinators: which targets each part of the recruit firearms block needs (fundamentals, qualification prep, low light, shoot/no-shoot, scenario blocks)...
Mantis Laser Academy Targets: Using MantisX, TitanX and Blackbeard With Life-Size Paper Targets
Mantis makes several dry-fire systems and they do not all treat a target the same way. This guide covers every current model (MantisX X2, X3 and X10 Elite, the Laser Academy kits, Pink Rhino laser ...
Shooting Target Dimensions Chart: B-27, FBI Q, IDPA, USPSA, B-8 and Scenario Sheet Sizes
Sheet sizes and scoring geometry of the B-27, B-21, FBI Q, TQ series, Texas DPS, USALE, IDPA, USPSA, B-8 and life-size scenario targets, in one printable chart.
Police Qualification Targets: Courses of Fire, Target Types, and Scoring
A police qualification target is a measuring instrument named by the standard, not a training choice. This guide puts the common qualification sheets side by side (B-27, B-21E, FBI QIT-99, the TQ s...
Vehicle Barrier Shooting Targets: The Armed Driver, the Windshield, and the Open Door
A vehicle barrier shooting target puts the threat in, behind, or coming out of a car, with the glass, door, or frame in the way of the shot. This guide covers what a vehicle does to a shot, the sev...
What Makes a Target a Scenario, and How to Run One
A scenario shooting target is a person, a place, and a decision on life-size paper. This guide defines the category, lists the four things every scenario target has to show, sorts the five scenario...
FBI Q Target (QIT-99): Dimensions, Scoring & the Qualification Course
The complete FBI Q target reference: exact QIT-99 sheet and bottle-silhouette dimensions, the one-point-or-nothing scoring, the full current 60-round qualification course of fire with every stage a...
T-Box, Cardiac Box, A/C Zones: Shooting Target Kill Zones Explained
Every scored zone on a training target came from somewhere — trauma surgery, Col. Martin Fackler's Army wound-ballistics laboratory, the FBI's 1989 wounding-factors report, or the competition circu...
Self-Defense Shooting Targets: Train the Decision, Not Just the Shot
A defensive encounter is a decision problem with a shot attached — not the other way around. The four demands self-defense places on training, a four-rung realism ladder from bullseye to scenario p...
Tactical Shooting Targets: What Counts, What Doesn't, and How to Choose
"Tactical" is the most abused word on a target rack. A working three-part test — context, decision, geometry — for what makes a shooting target genuinely tactical, how to match scenario targets to ...
Vital-Zone Targets: Train Real Stop Zones, Not Scoring Rings
Vital-zone targets put the body's real stop zones — cardiac box, cranial T-box, pelvic girdle — at true size on a life-size figure. What they are, how they differ from ring-scored silhouettes, the ...
B-27 Target: Dimensions, Scoring Rings, and Qualification Standards
The complete B-27 reference: exact sheet and scoring-ring dimensions, how the X–10–9–8–7 rings actually score (with the Texas LTC worked example), the qualification standards built on it, and where...
Silhouette Shooting Targets: From B-27 to Life-Size Scenario Realism
The silhouette is the most-shot target in America — and the least questioned. This guide covers what B-27s and their kin genuinely train well, the three skills a flat outline cannot teach (true ana...
From Qualification to Decision Training: How Agencies Build a Target Program
An agency target program covers three jobs: qualification, skill development, and judgment. This guide maps all three layers — what the qualification course actually verifies, how to build a docume...
Live-Fire Judgment Drills: Building Decisions Under Stress
Put the decision back into live fire: is this person a threat right now? This pillar covers the four-step decision ladder, a crawl-walk-run drill progression for any square range, a scoring method ...
Active Shooter Training: The Realistic-Scenario Guide for Civilians, Instructors, and LE
A field guide to active shooter training with realistic scenario targets — how the scenarios translate to skills, which drills to run, and how to build a training block that prepares civilians, ins...
Target Paper Guide: Materials, Ink and How Targets Hold Up
Explore the benefits of paper shooting targets over other materials. Discover GunZee's manufacturing excellence and extensive target line-up. Shop 220+ designs, ships same day.
Shooting Targets: The Buyer's Guide for Serious Training
The three training layers, the five categories of shooting targets that matter, what separates training-grade paper from scoring paper, and how to build a range-day order.
Carjacking Shooting Target — Buyer's Guide
A carjacking shooting target trains the engagement geometry the square range never replicates — seated, belted, looking through glass, with the attacker already inside conversational distance. This...