Field target

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Field target

A typical UK competition target painted in contrasting colours, with a 40 mm "kill" zone and orange reset cord.
Highest governing body	World Field Target Federation (WFTF)
Characteristics
Contact	No
Mixed-sex	Yes
Equipment	Air rifle
Venue	In the terrain
Presence
Olympic	No
World Championships	Yes
Paralympic	No

Field target is an outdoor airgun field shooting sport. Competitions are usually fired at self indicating steel targets placed between 9 and 50 m (9.8 and 54.7 yd). There are two classes; Piston for spring-piston air guns, and PCP for pre-charged pneumatic air guns. In sanctioned competitions, the same competition rule set is used around most of the world. A small match can consist of 40 to 60 rounds, while the world championship consists of 150 rounds. It is common to use scope sights with high magnification and a short depth of field such that an adjustable parallax knob can be used to precisely determine the target distance. The target kill zones have three standardised sizes, which are 15 mm (placed between 12 and 23 m), 25 mm (placed between 7 and 37 m) or 40 mm (placed between 7 and 42 m).