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A hostage target with the gunman's head fully visible and his pistol leveled at the trainee beside the hostage's face. It trains keeping the aiming point on the head and off the weapon.
His head is fully visible above hers and squared to the shooter. The pistol is in front of her face, at the same height as her eyes, which puts the muzzle and the hostage in the same part of the picture.
It trains shooting above a weapon and a hostage that occupy the same space, without being drawn down to the gun. It carries one scoring zone, on the gunman's face.
One kill zone is printed on this target, and it is on the gunman's face.
A hostage target with the gunman's head fully visible and his pistol leveled at the trainee beside the hostage's face. It trains keeping the aiming point on the head and off the weapon.
His head is fully visible above hers and squared to the shooter. The pistol is in front of her face, at the same height as her eyes, which puts the muzzle and the hostage in the same part of the picture.
It trains shooting above a weapon and a hostage that occupy the same space, without being drawn down to the gun. It carries one scoring zone, on the gunman's face.
One kill zone is printed on this target, and it is on the gunman's face.
The head circle is completely clear on the gunman's face. The hostage's head is just below and beside his jaw. The rings give you a strict standard: hold shooters to the 3-inch or 2-inch ring once they can keep every round inside the circle. See the Range Manual on choosing and running hostage targets and on how T-box, cardiac box and A/C scoring zones compare.
Most printed targets are rectangles that have to be folded or cut to fit a silhouette backer. This one is already cut to the E-type shape: 19" x 38", made to mount on the standard 19.5" x 40" E-type backer used on military and law enforcement ranges. The person on it is printed to fill that outline, so what the shooter sees downrange is a human figure and not a sheet of paper.
The figure is printed life-size. Heads, shoulders and hands are the size they are on a real person at that distance, so sight pictures and hold-offs carry over.
Watch for rounds that land on the pistol. Shooters stare at the muzzle and hit what they look at. It works on static stands, turning stands and pop-up lifters that take an E-type backer.
Instructors teaching the hostage shot on E-type backers: law enforcement and military police cadre, tactical team trainers, and academy staff running precision and decision blocks.
A course of fire needs armed threats, no-shoots and hostage problems side by side. These five come from across the E-backer line:
See all 48 designs in the E-Type Silhouette Targets collection, or browse Hostage Rescue Shooting Targets and Scored Shooting Targets. For drills, see hostage decision-making drills.
The same decisions on a 24" x 36" scenario sheet: Nightclub Exit Hostage Crowd Crisis Shooting Target, Corridor Hostage Control with Rear Gunman Shooting Target and CQB Home Defense Hostage – Child Shield Handgun Threat Shooting Target.
