The proof of the pudding!
In the 1970s a very popular shooting competition started in Calgary, then to Salmon Arm, BC, and on to several other centres in Alberta and BC. Briefly, it was a contest designed for hunters and the calibre had to be a bullet size legal for big game in Alberta, which was 6mm. The shooting could be prone, but the rifle could not touch any artificial rest and any sight could be used, basically meaning any power of scope. There were five shots, one at each animal shaped target, ranging from 100 to 300 yards. At 100 and 150 was a running deer or antelope. The three longer range, 200, 250 and 300 yard targets were pop ups that stayed up for four seconds. When one laid down to shoot, he/she said OK and a target would appear, but the shooter would not know which target would appear.
Each plywood animal had scoring rings, with the ten ring on each being about 4 inches, or slightly less in diameter.
There were many classes, including slngle shooter, buddy event (two shooters,) parent and junior, etc.
One popular event was called the "Frontier," class. In this, the cartridge had to have been developed prior to 1900 and the event had to be shot with iron sighted lever action rifles. This boiled down to lever action to 30-30 rifles.
The picture shows three trophies I took from my cabinet to show that I won first place in the Frontier event in 1978 at Salmon Arm, in 1975 I got the trophy shown on the left for second place and the trophy on the right for second place in 1977.
I used a 1956 Winchester model 94 with a Williams Fool Proof aperture.
The father of Dark Alley Dan, on the CGN here, was always a strong competitor, using his 94 in the Frontier event. Dark Alley Dan competed in some type of junior event, but he got all google eyed over one of the cute little girl juniors from Calgary and couldn't shoot straight!
I was secretary of the Salmon Arm Club during these years and I still have the original score sheets, made by the scorers at the time of the shoots.
Going through them I see some interesting things. I notice at least three where I shot buddy in the any rifle/sights event with Eagleye, from these threads!
Damn, Eagleye, some "lucky" shooters always seemed to beat us!
Looking at the scores, it was very rare that any single shooter made a score of 40, or better, any rifle/ any sights, while the Frontier event, lever action 30-30s with iron sights, had winning scores in the lower or mid 30s! Not really that much difference.
