Match #2

[airgunandy]

Try printing them out on 110lb cardstock. You can get it from stores that sell printer paper. I picked up a bunle of 150 pcs at WalMart for about $4.
Makes nice targets.

[ronbeaux]

I'll go on a target hunt tomorrow.

[gamo2hammerli]

...today specifically for the multi-pumper rifle match. I cheapy one though....Remington Air Master 77... .177 pellet and bb's. I think I'll shoot bb's for this match.....just to see how accurate they are.

Ten yards sound fine to me. Same Gamo 5 target sheet. I'll go iron sights for this one......

[gamo2hammerli]

I went to 2 hunting/outdoor sports shops and 2 Walmarts and 2 Canadian Tire chains....while searching for a multi-pumper today....got the pumper but none  had the regular Gamo target.   cry....oh well....stuck with the smaller "10" Gamo 5 target sheets.

[riflejunkie]

Viper - 2/12/2009  5:05 PM

Anybody have a decent working link to ChampChoice?

http://www.champchoice.com/

[riflejunkie]

ronbeaux - 2/12/2009  5:57 PM

I need better paper. My targets I printed out tear with every shot making it hard to score.

That's the problem with printing your own targets.  Targets are not that expensive.  Use your printer targets for practice and get some real ones for the match.
Pyramid Air has the Gamo targets.

[riflejunkie]

TCups - 2/12/2009  10:25 AM

May I suggest we not get too wrapped up in all of these details and variations for a simple weekender off-hand shooting match, at least for this one.   Cal 177, 20 and 22 are fine with me.  25 cal may be pushing it, but if that's all you have and you want to shoot, OK, why not?  Nothing larger though.  My main point is not to shoot 10 targets of 5-shot groups and then cherry pick your best 4 targets.  Practice all you want, but when you decide to go for your score, 20 consecutive shots.  And if those are not so good, you don't have to enter those 20.  Try again, but for match scores, the 20 shots that count need to be consecutive, once you start keeping score.

I think .177-.22 should do it Doc.  In a "normal" match that's how the shooting is done.  You don't get to cherry pick your "sighter" bull.  It is the top bull and the ones below are all for score.  
The thing about online matches is you have the opportunity to see how much you can improve, or it gives you some structure for practice.  
BTW, without going to google, who knows who Matt Emmons or Hank Gray are?  Consider why I asked.

[TCups]

Well, I got home a bit early today Thursday and got some practice in for the weekend match!  I shot 175,183, 187, 185, 168.  So I guess it is too early for this to be the official entry, but I was proud of my 187, and hope to do better!  The 187 may have actually been a 186, but that 1-hole group felt so good, I gave myself the benefit of the doubt.  These with the Walther LGR-U, Lefty, standing, off-hand with Vogel Greens.  I love this rifle.

[riflejunkie]

Really nice Doc.  I love my FWB too.  How much does your Walther weigh?

[TCups]

Charlotte:

11# according to the bathroom scale.  BTW, is it cheating to use a yellow highlighter on the 10 spot of the bull?  Seems to make it easier for me to find the center with these old eyeballs.

[gamo2hammerli]

Hey guys and gals....I think we're in trouble....this guy have a REAL target rifle   heh heh....and he's using expensive pellets.    Excellent shooting btw TCups.

[ronbeaux]

Yep,TOTALY ILLEGAL. "The target shall not be modified in any way so as to give and unfair advantage in sighting or aquiring a shot. Especially if it means that you shoot better than me"

Nice shooting!!

[TCups]

You know, the hardest damned thing to master is making yourself put the rifle down and start your entire routine again when the sight picture just isn't right.  I know exactly whenever I have made a good shot (I can now usually see the hole appear in the paper) and exactly whenever I shot a flyer, but it takes such mental discipline to NOT shoot unless everything is perfect.  I believe that to be the first 1-hole 5-shot group I have ever shot off hand at 10 meters, so I know I can do it.  I think I need to go up one or two clicks on the elevation too.  BTW, just for grins, I tried some 10-meter groups with the BSA Scorpion .177 and the AA- 410 ERB .22 -- not even close.  And the scope just gave me motion sickness.  And the Daisy 853 is pretty good, but once you get accustomed to the heft of a serious target rifle, it is hard to go back to a light-weight rifle and shoot with the same technique.

[riflejunkie]

TCups - 2/12/2009  9:40 PM

Charlotte:

11# according to the bathroom scale.  BTW, is it cheating to use a yellow highlighter on the 10 spot of the bull?  Seems to make it easier for me to find the center with these old eyeballs.

I have a yellow tinted lens I put on my knobloch's that gives me extra clarity.  You know if we get enough people around here to get rifles like these we could have a prone match.  Smallbore prone is my main thing and omg is it harder than you'd think.  Position is everything and you can't really understand that until you shoot a bunch of 9's and 8's and you are thinking, "my sights were perfectly on target."   Then you close your eyes and breathe 3 good breaths and open them and then you can see why you are out in the 8 and 9 rings.  Position, position, position.  
Halelujah, you have Ways of The Rifle.  Everybody who wants to shoot at a higher level needs to own that book.

[pawpawdan]

i feel we should all shoot what you brung.had a good time need more of that.i like to see what others are shooting with.
a man has to know his limitations?????