spoon match - 19/20 was enough for...
 

"2nd" place in our monthly rimfire match today. We shoot informally, but some expensive rifles are there (rem 40x, H&R12, Win52, 10-22s with 900 in extra parts, etc) present. I shoot an off the shelf Savage BTV with a Simmons WTC 6.5-20x50 scope with adjustable objective, and I almost always shoot commodity level ammo - CCI SV is my favorite, but most SS hollow points shoot well in my rifle. Once in a while I'll splurge on SK or Lapua.

Course of fire today was our "medicine match" - Tylenol and tums (5 each) at 25 and 50 yards, 2 minute time limit. I got 19/20 (missed a tums at 25 yards!) but the almost part comes in with 5 others getting 20/20 - so in reality I placed 6th. They had a shoot off using airsoft pellets/bbs at 25 yards... fortunately it was a clean win for #1 so they didn't have to start splitting playing cards at 50 yards :eek:

Winning guns were the H&R 12, a TC Contender in pistol format, and 3 Remington 40x.

If anyone is in the Lake City, Fl area, we shoot at the public range in the Osceola NF, 2nd Sunday of every month. Warmups at 830 and match at 9am. We mix our course of fire up - next month is 1/5 scale silly-wets at 50 to 150 yards.

Still planning o getting out there some time.

I like matches like this - they are far more interesting than traditional bullseye.

We used to have a "fly shoot" at my home range. We would spray the target paper with WD40 to attract flies and try to shoot them when they landed on it. This was at 100 yards, with varmint and benchrest rifles. A bullet hole with fly goo around it was a point, a "clean" hole was minus one point.

Scoring got to be problematic once we got more "serious" about it, so one of the guys had a life size rubber stamp of a fly made up, complete with scoring values for various hits. Head shots were 10 points, body something like 5, and wings maybe 1 or 2 (it's been a long time, so I really can't remember). Then it got really serious - they moved the targets to 200 yards. And yes, the guys with the dedicated benchrest guns were still making headshots, at least on calm days or days with a steady breeze.

Love me some running pig match...