Offhand shooting

You might as well make them on the smaller side if you like challenges, plus you can move them closer if needed where as if they are too easy to hit you will have to move them out further.

Maybe you can design it so that you can swap out the branches for speed vs accuracy challenges and rifle vs pistol.
 
Pete G said:
I am with airwolf on this one........clays at 100 yards offhand every time ........ not likely !!
Some are way better on a keyboard.
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Is this what you mean?….even more accurate off a rest.
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We have a 100 and 200 yard berm on the farm where we do our rimfire shooting... we often stake out stations and move as a group of 2-4 and have casual competitions at offhand shooting... mostly we shoot at clay pigeons (3 7/8")... but we switch it up and shoot at different targets from filled water bottles, eggs and golf balls to shotgun hulls and damaged brass cases... generally a good time had by all... with a group, we can run through a case of ammo in a day... this is where we introduce kids and newbies to shooting, emphasis on handling and safety. My son once ran 36 eggs in a row ranging from 50-100 yards, freehand... that was a few years ago and nobody has topped it since.
 
little_airwolf said:
The reason why I asked this question is Im having a dueling tree made and at 50yds the 2" targets look crazy small.
I'm not saying it cant be done. Heck bench rest with a good scope even @ 100yds isn't bad but offhand. The clays are say 5-6" Thats fantastic shooting offhand if your hitting them every time.

Guess I could learn alot from watching you shoot.
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Do you know for example that 300m Olympic size target 10x ring is just 100 mm /4" vide. Inside ten is just 5cm vide.
50m Olympic target has center 10x ring of 10.4 mm vide, and
10 m Olympic target has 10x ring 0.5 mm vide and people punching those on regular bases weather is three position or single position match.
Biathlon shooters hitting those 10 cm rings with "ease" after few Ks run at 50 m distance which look humongous to us bullseye shooters. Clay pigeon is about the same size as those.
And do not doubt that is doable, it is very doable, hundreds of shooters doing it every day.
I am not competing any more at international level like I used to in my days but I can still have fun at the range.
 
100m/yds is different than 50m/yds!
I myself use to compete nationally in archery. Indoor 25m and outdoors 30-50-70-90.
The junior team would have fun splitting pencials indoors. Again if anyone is shooting offhand and grouping sub 4", I could learn alot from you!
 
In NRA High Power (the discipline that David Tubb is famous for) they shoot standing at 200 yards. The 10 ring on their SR target is 7" and top shooters put most of their 20 shots into it (in 1976 the match had 30 shots). They have a sanctioned reduced target for 100 yards that has a 3.35" bull (SR-1). A lot of guys down there practice on that target with Anschutz rifles and low end match ammo like Wolf (SK Std. Plus), which will easily group under 1" at 100 yards.

Here's the rule book with target sizes:
http://compete.nra.org/documents/pdf/compete/RuleBooks/HPR/hpr-book.pdf

Here are the results for the 200 yards standing slow fire for match rifle and service rifle:
http://compete.nra.org/documents/pdf/compete/nat-trophy/tro-086.pdf
http://compete.nra.org/documents/pdf/compete/nat-trophy/tro-083.pdf

It's funny, up here we think shooting a clay pigeon offhand at 100 yards is an impossible feat. Down in the US, their national shooting sport involves shooting targets offhand that have 10 rings than are equivalently smaller. And they've been doing it since long before keyboards or the internet existed.
 
kombayotch said:
It's funny, up here we think shooting a clay pigeon offhand at 100 yards is an impossible feat. Down in the US, their national shooting sport involves shooting targets offhand that have 10 rings than are equivalently smaller. And they've been doing it since long before keyboards or the internet existed.
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Most think that the people that think that hitting a clay pigeon at 100 yards is impossible have never shot SFC or ISU competitions and think that something that is used for hunting rabbits or gophers is considered an accurate 22 if it can hit a dime at 50 yards from a bench.
Cat
 
little_airwolf said:
Lol. I didnt say it cant be done. However I guys who are use highend rifles with match ammo.
Its not like they are shooting bulk ammo with a 10/22.
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A sporting class rifle is under 8lbs with iron sights for SFC competition, and many of them will do it, like a C.I.L. 180 or a 310 ( rebranded Anschutz 64's single shot and repeater)
I don't think I saw anything mentioned about what type of ammo or rifles , just that it was not possible, and it is even with these rifles.
Cat
 
I've got a couple of the Birchwood Casey flip up steel targets. One is the rimfire and the other the center fire handgun. The rimfire target has 2 inch diameter discs and the other has 4 inch discs.

The rimfire rifle paddles I can generally hit about 7/10 at 25 yards on my better days using my iron sight rimfire rifles once I figure out what ammo they like. Oddly enough using a scope for this doesn't help a whole lot. Mostly it just shows me more clearly how much I shake and wobble.

With rimfire handguns the 4 inch paddles are pretty easy to hit 9/10 at 25 yards once I figure out the hold needed or get the sights set.
 
little_airwolf said:
100m/yds is different than 50m/yds!
I myself use to compete nationally in archery. Indoor 25m and outdoors 30-50-70-90.
The junior team would have fun splitting pencials indoors. Again if anyone is shooting offhand and grouping sub 4", I could learn alot from you!
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I use to compete Nationally in archery as well. We may have crossed paths once or twice. Were you in Sherbrook or Orangeville for Nationals?
Scott....
 
little_airwolf said:
100m/yds is different than 50m/yds!
I myself use to compete nationally in archery. Indoor 25m and outdoors 30-50-70-90.
The junior team would have fun splitting pencials indoors. Again if anyone is shooting offhand and grouping sub 4", I could learn alot from you!
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Making friends again little airwolf?

Don't like the answer?

Then don't start a thread with that question first off.
We post here under the impression that others will ask honest questions and be answered honestly in kind.

Without evidence of otherwise, I say his word is good.

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one of these days im gonna make a claim and get called out, or im gonna call someone out on their claim and we are gonna actually meet up and do some shooting.

and i dont know if its sad or not but im actually looking forward to it!

what good is having elite skills of pop can killing if i cant show off said skills to the masses!
 
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