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Target Shooting Discussion Forums General => Springer Rifle Target Gate General => : Truman January 28, 2009, 06:36:22 AM
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So who is up for a postal challenge? The name of the game is honesty folks, and being the best airgun forum in the whole wide world,and I think we are all honest people, so how about it! Lets show the Dark Side what we can do! (Well you guys anyway, I've got some work to do on my offhand shooting style but I'll give it a go for a laugh!)
As I haven't worked out how to post a target you can all download, anybody care to pick a target for me?
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Okay. I'm in. What are the rules, end date etc?
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No fighting, no pulling hair, no blowing rasberries when somebodys about to take a shot! Apart from that, A free for all!
First, we need a target! How about the 10m air rifle targe on this site?
http://www.gamecalls.net/free_stuff/52_free_targets.html
So that's 15 shots offhand at 10 meters!
maximum of 20 miniuts to complete the whole 15 targets!
entries to be in by Monday morning so that we can all shoot at the weekend! (late entries will be laughed at!)
Targets will be inward gauged!
11 for a clean bull, 10 for a touching the bull, followed by 9,8,7. Maximum score of 165
And on the target write what gun, pellet, etc....
No multiple entries!
And anymore rules that you care to add!
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Pistols??
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Are two's and one eyed jacks wild ?
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Only pistols that are sprung, no PCP stuff and as for two's and one eyed jacks, only if you can shot the eye out of the jack at 10M offhand! You get a bonus 10 points towards your score!
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What about sights? I have scopes on all my rifles, and the iron sights on my Gamo suck! I'm figuring it's enough challenge just shooting offhand, what say the rest of you?
Dave
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I'm scoped up aswell! How about the first challenge being open to all sights, scope, open, dioptic, what ever you prefer!
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You guys are on steroids or something.LOL
So, we need targets that are the same and as I recall some printer settings may make the size vary slightly.
You may want to do a little trigger work and some dryfire with a rifle that you can actually dry fire so that you can see what you are doing for a few days before we start anything. A bolt action 22 rimfire with a spent case in the chamber is a good choice. Watch yourself flinch and blink a few times. I think the guys that shoot pcp's have a good chance of already having dealt with that, but it is really to your advantage to find a way to dryfire. You want to make that trigger click and not blink, flinch or jerk.
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Good call, Charlotte, I know I need some practice, I almost always shoot from a bench. How about we schedule this for NEXT weekend. Besides, isn't the Superbowl this weekend? Sounds good otherwise.
BTW, the target that Truman listed is a PDF, as long as we all download it from the same site, we should be fine for size. I happen to already have that one on my computer, but I'll download from the same site to do a check on what I just said. I'll let you all know if there's a difference. Later.
Dave
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Hey Guys,
This is the Springer Rifle Target Gate, if this is all for springer Pistols, it should be down on the Springer Pistol Target Gate ! So what are we shootin ???? Rifles or pistols ???
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Hey Ron,What pistol do you shoot?I've been checkin out the fwb p55,but don't personally know anybody who own's 1.THX
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It is for the Springer Air rifle, but being a friendly first comp, I think we could let the Springer Pistols have a bash aswell! What say you guys! Another thing has popped up too! It's Superbowl this weekend so if you guys fancy pushing the end date to Sunday 8th Febuary at Midnight then it will give us all a bit of time to dust off our favorite shooting hats aswell!
As for the standardization of the target size, I've just printed off the target and measured the size of the outer black ring! It comes in at 24mm with the bull at 6mm!
I myself, will be shooting with my .22 Gamo Maxima
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Got me an IZH46 and a Gamo Compact.
I got to shoot a P55 years ago. Nice guns for sure but more than I wanted to pay since I was doing well with mine.
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Hi all, am I the first to shoot the postal challenge? I know it was Super Bowl weekend so alot of you were probably participating in the events or were busy with other stuff.....anyways it have been suggested that the challenge should start this week and the results posted by next Sunday evening.....
First off....just to let everyone know, I'm not a competitive shooter......and I just found out that I'm a terrible shot shooting off-hand. heh heh Anyways here's my dismal results...2 sets of 16 targets at 9 meters...yes I know it should've been 15 and at 10 meters. For 10 meters...I'll need to go to the backyard in the cold with 4 feet of snow.
Btw, these were shot at hand drawn targets...using Truman's spec's - 6mm, 11.5mm, 17.5mm and 24mm outer circle. I'll print one sheet of the fifteen and get them photocopied during the week.
Air Rifle ; .177 Crosman Storm XT
Pellets; 1st set using Crosman Premier Hollow Points 2nd set using Crosman WadCutters
Distance ; 9 meters indoors
Shooting Position; Standing, Off-Hand
1st set - 5 misses, 6 in the 7, 5 in the 8 giving a total of 82 points. Yikes, I'll call this my practice round.
2nd set - 1 miss, 1 in the 7, 5 in the 8, 4 in the 9 and 5 in the 10 = 133 points. Abit better.
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Stanley,
What, no suffering for your sport!! At least you gave it a go, nobody can ask for more! (Well you could ask for more but until we see the targets we will have to accept what you say!! LOL) So with the 1 meter penalty and the extra shot per card......may have to work out a percentile score for ya mate!! Apart from that, yes you are the first to shoot the postal challenge! Well done! ;-)
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I did suffer (Just a teeny bit) on Sunday afternoon....went outdoors to test out my .177 Hammerli Titan....all my air rifles are sighted in for 9 meters so I wanted to see how the Titan shot at 20, 30, 40 and 50 meters....I know they would shoot high on the targets. Anyways, it was only -10C....about 25F I would guess with no wind. I was planning to shoot 10 shots per target... I shot 10 at the 20 meter target and was starting to feel numb in the fingers of the trigger hand. Shot another 10 in the 30 meter target...now I`m having problems picking up the pellets. So I end up shooting only 5 shots at the 40 and 50 meter targets each. The hand holding the forestock was fine...It was in a glove.
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Only -10C!!! I left all that minus weather stuff in England! I don't do cold anymore due to a long walk across the north of France in March in sub zero temps with a tent! I swore to myself that I would only walk in walm countries after that, so here I am living in Spain 10 years later! I didn't account for a windy season! That plays hell with my offhand shooting! (Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!)
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Yeah...only -10C....I`m a wimp now. My hat`s off to the guys and gals that hunt or punch paper outside in the winter. You need steady hands to shoot...but it`s kind of difficult when you`re shivering. But 15 shots in under 20 minutes is not that bad....I only took under 10 minutes to shoot 16 shots inside. Outside in the cold...the problem is picking up the darn pellet when you`re starting to lose control of your finger and thumb. heh heh
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Good excuse to buy a Dragon Slayer!
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Good job! Good job! You shot by yourself this weekend, lol, but it will really pay off.
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Figured I'd better start doing some practice, since A) I just about never shoot off hand and B) I've shot PCP's almost exclusively for almost 2 years. I expected to be lucky to even hit the paper, never mind actually scoring :-). So I'm happy with the 98 I shot tonight. Rifle is a Gamo Hunter 440 .177 "tuned" by me, pellet was CPHP, rifle is scoped with a BSA 4X AO. This may be what I've been looking for all winter, something to put the challenge back in my shooting. BTW, I'd like to be using wad cutters for this, but all I have are Gamo Match which are lousy in this rifle, or RWS Supermags, which are good in my S200 but too heavy for the Gamo. So, can I shoot the rest of these with my S200, it's much easier ;-)!
So are we going to scan and post targets, or just use the honor system? Since I'm sure not everyone has a scanner, maybe we just post our scores as a string in the order it was shot, like this: 9,8,9,0,7,0,9,8,7,10,7,7,8,0,9.
Any suggestions for arm exercises, I shoot right handed but my left arm is really feeling it. I know, Charlotte, practice, practice, practice! Later.
Dave
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Oh yes...forgot to mention that my Storm XT is scoped with a cheapie 3X9-32mm Center Point.....one of those package combos. For me....I would go with the "honor" system.....I don't think we need to eat up all the bandwidth of GTA. Anyways....after awhile all the targets will look alike. Printed up some official size targets.....will go outside to zero my air rifle for 10 meters tomorrow....it's now zeroed for 9 meters. So when I shot my first two sets....I had to aim 1 1/2 to 2cm below the bullseye to hit it (At least close to it).
Thanks Charlotte......I desperately need the practice. Hopefully this friendly match starts......it'll give me incentive to shoot off-hand more.
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I'll play.
I'll be shooting the TX with CPL's. Off hand.
Have we decided on a target??
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Step up to the plate Ron, Here's the target... http://www.gamecalls.net/free_stuff/52_free_targets.html ...It's the 10m Air rifle with 15 targets! Good luck and welcome to the GTA International 10 Meter Shootout! May the best gun win and everybody else enjoy themselves!
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Ok. Did a little practice from my bag of charcoal bench rest. 10yds, 32 power with a 5 mph cross wind.
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d153/ronbeaux/BBQ%20stuff/bbq%202/bbq%203/DSC02137.jpg)
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That's some mighty fine shooting there Ron! I hope your offhand isn't as good for your real entry! 8-)
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Don't worry! My off hand has been off and on the shelf for many years, I'll be lucky to keep them in the black.
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Yep...that's pretty good shooting considering there's a 5mph cross-wind.....
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Less said the better!!
Gamo Maxima .22
Barsca 3-12*50 scope set on *3
Gamo match pellet
strong winds 15mph blustery (Gentlemans excuse!)
I hit the white 12 times but it was the wrong white!
SCORE 24 (I'm BAAAAD!)
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Here's my 2nd 10 meter off-hand shots.....this one at the 15 target sheet. I already sent in my 1st one....using a .22Air Arms 410 PCP on the 5 Gamo target sheets (I shot 1 shot per target)......so this one will not count (Supposed to be only one entry per shooter per week).
.177 Crosman Storm XT, 3X9-32mm Center Point scope set at 5X magnification, Crosman Wadcutter pellets, +3C no wind
6 misses with a total score of 78
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Here's the 15 target sheet....
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Well you whipped my ass anyway! LOL
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My entry is shooting from my bench at 25 yds. Gamo Shadow .177 L/W choked barrel and BSA Lightning XL .177
Crosman CP's 7.9gn
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No pics, scanner's toast. Rifle is a Gamo 440 .177 tuned by me, BSA 4x32 AO scope, CPHP pellet, scored an 8,9,8,8,0,10,10,0,7,8,0,7,8,9,10 for a total of 104. This would be easier with my S200 :-).
Dave