Hi guys!
I have mentioned a couple times previously in this forum that I have participated in some fun online competitions.
A new season just started in November (a season is six months so it runs until April). The submission date for the November entries just got extended by a week to allow some more shooters to join in.
I spent a few hours on the weekend reacquainting myself with some guns that I do not shoot much and had a ball.
All you need to participate is a 6 yard range - sounds easy but some of these competitions are challenging. The contests are run by volunteers in the UK so if you go to their web site all their downloadable targets are formatted for UK size paper. I have converted them all to Letter size and confirmed the sizes.
There are many different competitions, many at 6 yards so most people can shoot them in their basement or garage, some are 10M, some are longer. I only shoot the 6 yard ones. Most are standing, freehand with exceptions available for those that need them. The idea is to have fun with some friendly competition.
I participate in:
6 yard pistol (5 shots 2-handed and 5 shots 1-handed) in both open sight and optical sight categories
- P17 in the SSP category and Airbug in the CO2 category for Open sights
- P17 and 2240 in the Optical sight matches
6 yard rifle (open sights only, 10 shots at tiny scoring rings) in both budget rifle and precision rifle categories
- Crosman Optimus .177
- Crosman Phantom .22
- HW50 .177 (precision rifle category)
6 yard Budget Springer (still open sights, but more forgiving targets)
- Crosman Optimus .177
- Crosman Phantom .22
PIPAS - this is a surprising amount of fun. You need a multi-shot pistol for this one. It is a timed competition 3 rounds of 5 shots in 10 seconds. Penalties for missing make this one challenging even though it is only 6 yards and two handed. I shoot either my Crosman Vigilante or my CP88 (open sights only).
Police Pistol - 3 different elements again for multi-shot pistol - time constrained and penalties for shots that get away on you. I again use my Vigilante or CP88.
You can see from this hardware list I am shooting inexpensive guns at distances that most of us have available in the basement or garage. I would love to have some of my CAF forum buddies join me in some (or all) of these competitions. You can drop in and out if you want although for the best season-long points ranking it is better if you shoot all six. You can shoot your targets anytime during the month so it should be easy to schedule, but somehow I always find myself cramming them in over a day or 2.
This is all for fun and on the honour system - you do not have to send in your targets or even a picture, just submit your scores. You can shoot as many practice rounds as you want, but I always write on my targets - either practice or Comp before I shoot them to avoid the temptation to submit that amazing practice target as my official score, or to give myself a mulligan if a few shots get away from me (as you can see happened with my 2240 yesterday - I shot a practice round with 5 tens 2-handed, then a respectable (for me) total of 40 1-handed, then signed the next target for submission and....just barely squeaked a few into the 10 ring and ended up posting 7 less than the practice round shot 5 minutes earlier.)
So - you have a week to join me and still make the November cut off. Break out one of those pistols or rifles that you do have not shot in a while and have some fun. I can email you the targets ready for you to print and you can be up and running in minutes.
I will post a couple pics of a couple of my targets ( the police pistol one has some extra holes since after I counted my official score I did some practicing for the next comp).
Who is in?
Rob27
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