2018 review of Consolidated day 1

I am back into my blog after a year hiatus.  That is a topic for a different post.  Today, I thought I would share with you just how much fun it is to shoot silhouette with a bunch of other folks that share the same passion and or form of self torture.  This is my third year and I have yet to come close to a repeat of my first year.  Yet every year I seem to learn more.  And in some cases, learn the same lesson twice.

2018 found us up 4 travelers from the cold and soggy climate of NH.  Ron and I were solo but Phil and Mark, his first time, were joined by their significantly better halfs which made the trip all that more entertaining. 

All of my match prep work involved hand loading in my "remote reloading bench" in Ohio.  No range time as I don't have a range in Ohio but I found reloading a way to escape. My efforts to get my Daisy airgun going have not been very, ah, concerted. But why not, go to your first match of the 2018 season, shoot a new gun and hope for the best. 

PCCLA - Click on photo for larger image

I kept a nice old 1892 in 32-20 in the NH family.  She has been refinished and rebored but she should shoot.  She does shoot.  I just have not figured her out yet.  Although I had all sorts of excuses around varying brass case length and lollipop posts, I think the main issue is me.  PRACTICE!  You simply cannot shoot something well you have not sorted out.  More sorting to come.  When you lay down a 5-7-8-5 for c-p-t-r, you have got to walk away a tad more in that "self torture" mode than "I love this game" mode.  To shoot 8 turkeys yet only 5 chickens tells you I don't have my sight picture well sorted.  Ah well.  There is always the 44 mag which fared well at Bradford in 2017.  But I had such high hopes for this gun.  Paper and practice is the bottom line.  Results to the left.





Lunch was provided and was hot and yummy both days.

SBCR - Click for larger image

The afternoon was the gun I shoot best.  The gun I know. My 39A made in New Haven in 1985.  But, I left a few short line animals here and there and you simply cannot do that when you are a Master Class shooter in SBCR.  8-9-6-8.  31 will not work in PA.

10 of the 20 master shooters competing were 32 or higher.  Take note, the top gun was a rather low 35 so that called for a lot of shoot offs to sort them  all out.  10 shooters fell in the 32 to 35 range.  That sure demonstrates the importance of the rule:  "EVERY SHOT MATTERS!"  Never take a shot just to get over with it.  A 32 would have tossed me into the shoot off sorting game but not this year.  That one pig is all she wrote.  No excuse and you will see later I drilled that into my head.  In all cowboy shooting, 10 chickens and 10 pigs is a must.  These are the key "point getters" and you simply must get them.  Not a 8 or 9, but 10.  Practice on paper until you can get 10 EVERY time.  Woulda, coulda, shoulda.  If I had followed my own coaching, a 34 would have been a nice place to be with a clean "short line" and one more Turkey.....there is always next year.

Easy to read PDF results for aggregate scores