Chapter 4 · Range Equipment · p.23
4.1Targets – General Principles
Only targets listed in Appendix B are to be used for USPSA Matches. Only official, USPSA-licensed cardboard targets may be used.
Scoring targets used in all USPSA matches must be of a single color, as follows:
The scoring area of scoring cardboard targets must be of a brown or tan cardboard color.
The entire front of scoring metal targets must be painted a single color, preferably white. Scoring metal targets may not be painted black, red or green.
Metal no-shoots in the general size and shape of authorized targets may be used. No-shoots must be of a single, unique color different from scoring targets throughout a match. Cardboard and metal no-shoots may be of different colors in a match provided that the chosen color is consistent for all no-shoots of the same material (i.e. if metal no-shoots are yellow, they must all be yellow and if cardboard no-shoots are white, they must all be white in a match). Metal no-shoots do not have a non-scoring border. No-shoots may not have holes cut in them and be used as penalty targets that must be shot through to hit a scoring target; see 9.1.5.
Targets used in a may be partially or wholly hidden through the use of hard or soft cover:
Cover provided to hide all or a portion of a target will be considered hard cover. When possible, hard cover should not be simulated but constructed using impenetrable materials (see Rule 2.1.3). Whole cardboard targets must not be used solely as hard cover.
Cover provided merely to obscure targets is considered soft cover. Shots which have passed through soft cover and which strike a scoring target will score. Shots that have passed through soft cover before hitting a no-shoot will be penalized. All scoring zones on targets hidden by soft cover must be left wholly intact. Targets obscured by soft cover must either be visible through the soft cover or a portion of the affected must be visible from around or over the soft cover.
Declaring a single, intact target to represent two or more scoring and/or penalty targets by use of tape, paint or any other means is prohibited.