Hi there!
Back in March there was a thread about our 2019 rimfire goals - some may recall that as a part of my greater goal to teach my soon-to-be-big-game-hunting-youngest-daughter about shot placement, we were working on inventing a new shooting game inspired somewhat as a cross between sporting clays and metallic silhouette shooting.
We're well down that road and have made up a bunch of hinterland rimfire challenge silhouettes. We've been out a bunch of times as a family focus group and have a couple of different varieties of games we've been playing, which almost all revolve around a series of 5 to 10 stations we've set up in our woods, each with two targets set at varying distance and of varying difficulty. For the most part we've been working through the following shooting positions:
You shoot each target 5 times from a prescribed position, scoring either an X (hit) or an O (miss), and if you get an x where the paddle stands up and on your following shot you successfully knock the paddle back down from the same prescribed shooting position, you get an über x (x with a dot on top) to denote your awesome superiority. Highest number of x's wins, ties broken by the shooter with the highest number of über x's.
So here's my ask - If the game were to have the greatest appeal to the greatest number of folks, what do you all think about the various shooting positions? Poll attached, and to give you a taste here's some pictures of our family focus group setting, starting with my wife opening the gate to our back woodland pasture where we've set up the hinterland rimfire challenge:
Here's me running my CZ 457 Varmint on a 50 yard moose from the sitting position...as an aside and mini-range-review, this is my favourite .22. My wife and girls are all running Tikka T1X's which are total tack drivers, but I prefer the feel of a wooden stock and am prepared to sacrifice 5 round of mag capacity to get it. The gun make a ragged hole at 50 yards with CCI standard and CCI mini-mag, and the action has become super-smooth after the several thousand rounds I have through it now. Anyway, I digress, so here's me imagining I'm moose hunting:
Here's some of the targets after getting a paint touchup at the end-of-the-day:
And here's some pics of the targets in action. I think we've got the design down-pat and have figured out the optimum paddle configuration for size, weight, thickness, angle-of-tilt, and the inner and outer range limits on how far they can be away. Here's our smallest target, our wiley coyote with a 2 inch target hole:
Cougar:
Moose:
Bull Elk:
Caribou:
Grizzly:
Mule Deer:
Whitetail Buck:
Whitetail Doe:
Thanks for helping out, hope you're all having a great summer!
Cheers,
Brobee
Back in March there was a thread about our 2019 rimfire goals - some may recall that as a part of my greater goal to teach my soon-to-be-big-game-hunting-youngest-daughter about shot placement, we were working on inventing a new shooting game inspired somewhat as a cross between sporting clays and metallic silhouette shooting.
We're well down that road and have made up a bunch of hinterland rimfire challenge silhouettes. We've been out a bunch of times as a family focus group and have a couple of different varieties of games we've been playing, which almost all revolve around a series of 5 to 10 stations we've set up in our woods, each with two targets set at varying distance and of varying difficulty. For the most part we've been working through the following shooting positions:
- Standing unsupported
- Kneeling unsupported (but allowed to brace elbow on knee)
- Sitting unsupported (but allowed to brace elbow on leg)
- Sitting supported (off a log, stump, or shooting sticks)
- Prone
You shoot each target 5 times from a prescribed position, scoring either an X (hit) or an O (miss), and if you get an x where the paddle stands up and on your following shot you successfully knock the paddle back down from the same prescribed shooting position, you get an über x (x with a dot on top) to denote your awesome superiority. Highest number of x's wins, ties broken by the shooter with the highest number of über x's.
So here's my ask - If the game were to have the greatest appeal to the greatest number of folks, what do you all think about the various shooting positions? Poll attached, and to give you a taste here's some pictures of our family focus group setting, starting with my wife opening the gate to our back woodland pasture where we've set up the hinterland rimfire challenge:
Here's me running my CZ 457 Varmint on a 50 yard moose from the sitting position...as an aside and mini-range-review, this is my favourite .22. My wife and girls are all running Tikka T1X's which are total tack drivers, but I prefer the feel of a wooden stock and am prepared to sacrifice 5 round of mag capacity to get it. The gun make a ragged hole at 50 yards with CCI standard and CCI mini-mag, and the action has become super-smooth after the several thousand rounds I have through it now. Anyway, I digress, so here's me imagining I'm moose hunting:
Here's some of the targets after getting a paint touchup at the end-of-the-day:
And here's some pics of the targets in action. I think we've got the design down-pat and have figured out the optimum paddle configuration for size, weight, thickness, angle-of-tilt, and the inner and outer range limits on how far they can be away. Here's our smallest target, our wiley coyote with a 2 inch target hole:
Cougar:
Moose:
Bull Elk:
Caribou:
Grizzly:
Mule Deer:
Whitetail Buck:
Whitetail Doe:
Thanks for helping out, hope you're all having a great summer!
Cheers,
Brobee
Last edited:
