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5whisky, I think that old able target you mentioned was the century old military "A" target that was used by USA armed forces as well as the NRA high power competitions since the early 1900's until 1966. It had a 12" five ring, 24" four ring and a 36" three ring. A 4" V ring was added to use as a tie-breaker. It was used at 200 yards for standing slow fire and sitting rapid fire and at 300 yards for.
There was also a "B" 'baker' target for use at 500 and 600 yards with a 12" V ring, 20" five ring, 40" four ring and a 60" 3 ring. The "C" or 'charlie' target was used at 800 to 1000 yards and had a 20" V ring, 36" 5 ring, a 54" four ring with the rest of the 72" square target scoring 3 points. Prior to the 1920's when the 172-gr. FMJBT bullet became the standard service round that bucked the wind a lot better, there were two 24" wide panels on each side worth 2 points. 150-gr. ball ammo needed that extra wide target in the wind.
The standard course of fire when I went into the service in 1956 was 10 shots standing slow fire then 10 shot rapid fire in 50 seconds sitting all at 200 yards. 10 shots rapid fire prone at 300 yards then 20 shots slow fire at 500 or 600 yards. A perfect score (or 'clean' as it was called) was 250 points for those 50 shots. So your excellent score of 239 was way up at the top on the score board. Especially when the average service grade Garand shot about 4 to 5 inches at 200 yards.
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