Printable WW2 Mauser Acceptance Targets

[emcon5]

I was looking through Backbone of the Wehrmacht, Vol. II: Sniper Variations of the German K98k Rifle and found this image:



It shows sizes for acceptance at 100 meters. I did some Jethro Bodine cipherin', and scaled them down to 100, 75, and 50 yards:



I converted them to PDF, so they can be printed from a standard letter sized printer and keep the correct scale:

Mauser Test Target 50 yards (~420KB PDF)

Mauser Test Target 75 yards.pdf (~900KB PDF)

Mauser Test Target 100 yards.pdf (~800KB PDF)

When you print them from Adobe Acrobat, select "Actual Size", and they are as close as I could get them to the correct size scaled for range.

Note: You may need to open and print them in Acrobat, the built in PDF viewer in Firefox screws up the scale, and shrinks them quite a bit.

Unfortunately the 100 yard is a little too tall for a standard 8 1/2 X 11" sheet of paper, so I cropped a bit of the aiming black off the top, and depending on your printer, you may lose the bottom line of the acceptance box (outside printable area), but they still work fine. If you are between the vertical lines, and on the paper, you are good.

The shape of the aiming black works pretty well with the K98k sights.

Acceptable accuracy is pretty generous by modern standards, the box is about 5 MOA tall and 2.8 MOA wide.

[73 RB-Z]

These are pretty cool, thanks for making these

I'll have to try these with my other rifles. No K98k... yet

[emcon5]

I dug out the book, and re-read the referenced letter with the test firing procedure.

"Test firing has to be done with test firing device AV 114-101." (whatever that is).

"Five shots have to be fired successively, without marking in between, from a distance of 100m with the rear sight set at 100, anker (point of aim; armature) mounted." "anker" is German for anchor, maybe it means the rifle locked in place?

The following conditions must be met:

a: Three of the five shots fired have to be within the rectangle (8 x 14cm). If the bullet has touched the outer edge of the rectangle, it is considered inside the rectangle.

b: All five shots have to be within a circle of 12 CM

So pretty generous, 12 CM at 100M is a little over 4 MOA.

I would love to see a picture of "test firing device AV 114-101" and some more info/context of "anker".