What's the difference between an X-ring and the 10-ring in target archery?

On a standard target face the 10-ring is the innermost scoring zone, the centre of the gold. The X-ring is a smaller ring inside it, on World Archery's 122 cm and 80 cm faces and on the Vegas three-spot. An arrow in the X still scores 10, and the X is counted separately so X-counts can break ties between archers with equal totals. In a Vegas Shoot championship shoot-off only the X scores 10. Compound archers on World Archery's 40 cm and 60 cm faces score only a smaller inner ring as 10, but that ring is the compound ten, not an X.

Why do target faces come in different sizes?

Bigger faces go with longer distances. World Archery shoots 122 cm faces at the longest outdoor distances, 80 cm faces at the shorter ones, and 40 cm faces indoors at 18 m. The layout does not change: every ring is scaled with the face, so the recurve 10 is always one tenth of the face's diameter, and the compound 10 on 40 cm and 60 cm faces is half that.

Skórovací kruhy

Scoring rings are the concentric zones drawn on a target face that translate arrow placement into points. The number of rings, their shape (circular versus elliptical), and the value of each zone vary by archery format — every federation defines its own ring layout to match its scoring rules.

Detaily

On 3D archery faces the rings are drawn on an animal silhouette. ASA has the most complex layout: twin 12-rings inside a 10-ring, of which the upper scores 12 only when called, an oval 8-ring, a 14-ring that ASA uses only at special shooting events, and the body silhouette as the outermost zone. IBO and WA-3D use simpler concentric rings — an 11-ring inner spot at the centre, then 10, 8 (vital), and body. IFAA animal faces have only two scoring areas, kill and wound, while IFAA's 3-D rounds score three — kill, vital and wound.

On 2D faces (target archery — World Archery, formerly FITA, NFAA and others) rings are circular concentric zones; on World Archery ten-zone faces they run from 1 (outermost white) to 10 (innermost gold), with an X-ring inside the 10 on the 122 cm and 80 cm faces that is counted for tie-breaks (in World Archery qualification only at long distances; short-distance qualification ties go to 10s, then 9s). On the 60 cm and 40 cm faces compound archers score only a smaller inner ring as 10. The NFAA single-spot indoor face uses a shorter scale, a white centre worth 5 and blue rings scoring 4 down to 1 (the five-spot keeps only the 5 and 4), and the Vegas three-spot keeps only the gold, red and blue rings, scoring 10 down to 6. Different distances use different face sizes (40, 60, 80, 122 cm).

When printing scaled training targets the ring positions are derived from real-world specs scaled by a known print ratio — get the ratio wrong and the rings still look right but the practice distance is meaningless. This is why scaled-print pipelines record the print scale ratio and the corresponding training distance directly on the printable.

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What's the difference between an X-ring and the 10-ring in target archery?: On a standard target face the 10-ring is the innermost scoring zone, the centre of the gold. The X-ring is a smaller ring inside it, on World Archery's 122 cm and 80 cm faces and on the Vegas three-spot. An arrow in the X still scores 10, and the X is counted separately so X-counts can break ties between archers with equal totals. In a Vegas Shoot championship shoot-off only the X scores 10. Compound archers on World Archery's 40 cm and 60 cm faces score only a smaller inner ring as 10, but that ring is the compound ten, not an X.
Why do target faces come in different sizes?: Bigger faces go with longer distances. World Archery shoots 122 cm faces at the longest outdoor distances, 80 cm faces at the shorter ones, and 40 cm faces indoors at 18 m. The layout does not change: every ring is scaled with the face, so the recurve 10 is always one tenth of the face's diameter, and the compound 10 on 40 cm and 60 cm faces is half that.