E postal match "pin shooting training".

Here we are,the results from the very first e-postal match hosted in France, I'm so proud !

First I'd like to thank all competitors for their participation and humor, I had a lot of fun reading your mails, compiling your results and discovering the guns you shoot.

Update: Added Merle's results, his mail was probably lost in my spam box. I had to add these results at the end of each list, sorry, blogger seems to hate me these days and doesn't allow me to write things like I want (as you may have noticed).

Class 1 : rimfire open sights

Shooter	Gun	Circles	Pins	Total
Mr.Completely	High Standard .22	43	40	83
Bill (10yards)	Ruger Mark I .22 6"	35	42	77
Bill H	High Standard .22	23	30	53
Danno	Ruger 22/45	30	15	45

Merle Ruger SA 9,5" 45 35 80

Merle Ruger mark 2 6"7/8 45 45 90

Class 2 : rimfire optic sights

Shooter	Gun	Circles	Pins	Total
Mr.Completely	High Standard .22 +reddot	49	50	99 !
Manfred	Colt .22 Target 2xreddot	46	50	96
Kee Wee	High Standart .22 Sporting Sharpshooter	44	45	89
Conservative UAW Guy	M107 .22 Ultradot Match	44	45	89
Bety	Colt .22 Target 2xreddot	36	45	81

Class 3 : centerfire open sights

Shooter	Gun	Circles	Pins	Total
Ahab	Remington 1858 .45 Colt	46	50	96
Ahab	S&W 1937 .45 ACP	45	45	90
Wyatt Earp	Uberti 1875 .45 Colt	45	35	77
Manfred	HK Mark23 .45 ACP	46	30	76
Torpedo	Tanfoglio .40S&W	40	33	73
Bill	Cz Vz82 9.18 Makarov	30	42	72
Bill	Rossi .357 Bullseye 6"	35	31	66
Bill H	S&W 19 .38Special	31	15	46
Bill H	Glock 27 .40S&W	33	6	39

Merle Dan wesson 357 10" 48 45 93

Please allow me...

...to dedicate this song to the one, the only one sweet girl, living so far away from me but so close to my heart: Anna marie.
You restored hope in my life.

Salamat.

Mahal kita Anna marie.

Your red baron :-)

Happy birthday my mauser !

Last year I bought a german mauser 98k, it came from ukrainian army surplus, they were captured over wehrmacht during the second world war.
I received it for my 34th birthday: http://viedepassion.blogspot.com/2007/05/joyeux-anniversaire-manfred.html

I had no plan to buy a gun a that time but didn't want to miss it, so it took time to buy ammos, reloading components and a shoulder shield.
My rifle is chambered in 8.60s caliber not in the genuine 8.57is because in France it takes less paper work to buy a rifle if the caliber has not been used by an army.

I needed a protection for my shoulder as consequences of my motorbike crash, a mauser is not really user friendly, recoil is quite violent.
I discovered also, my eyes were not good enough for the genuine sights, the rear sight is very far away and the front sight is too thin for me.
So I bought a cheap scout rifle with mount, it arrived last week.

Today is my 35th birthday so I realize I own my mauser for one year already.

I used reduced fire ammos, 1 gramme of french snpe A0 powder and 125grs tmj H&N bullets.
So my mauser became "shoulder friendly" and still pleasant to shoot, I only shot at 50m /55yards so far, accuracy is good, better than my skill with a rifleso far.

Here is a video taken this week:

e- postal match:pin shooting training

Ok, guys, here we are, the May e-postal match.


For those who are already pin shooters it may be a training session, for the others I hope this will let them trying this very funny discipline.


Shots have to be fast but accurate, as a bullet hitting a pin at the wrong place can make it roll on the table rather than throwing it on the floor.


The first target is here:http://reloadbench.com/pdf/files/half-inch-center-small-1.gif

Rules are simple, one shot on each target, off hand or two hands allowed but you can not lower your arm until you have shot all the targets.

Shooting distance is: 25 feets/7.62 meters (Hi Mr.C) or 10 yards wichever is available at your range.

The goal is to simulate,five shots on a pin shooting table, the ten ring represents the good area to hit in order to throw the pin away from the table. I know it's rather small but hey, we are all master shooters !

Second target can be found here: http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5779/epostalmatchmay0002eo6.jpg

5 shots once again but on one lone poor pin.
This time you have to lower your arm between each shot but once you're aiming the pin try to not spend more than one second each time.
The goal is to simulate the first shot to a row of pins, which often is the most important.

A shot in the triangle counts 10 points.
-inside the lower body or inside the red line is 5 points
- inside the head is... 1 point.

Any hole outside the pin is worth, well, nothing.

A perfect set will render a score of 100 points.

Mark your individual scores for each target, target #1 total score, target #2 total score, the total score for both targets combined, and the name you want to use when listed in the results all on target #1 with a legible felt pen, along with the class and type of gun used.Don't write your name on the target, only the name you want to appear in the results.Email the results and pictures of target at:

somua 2003 AT yahoo DOT fr.

CLASSES:

CLASS ONE: Rimfire - Iron Sight. Any rimfire handgun with no more than a 12" barrel. Optical sights such as red dots, lasers, or scopes are not allowed.

CLASS TWO: Rimfire - Optic Sight. Any rimfire handgun with no more than a 12" barrel. Red dots sights, lasers, or scopes can be used.

CLASS THREE: Centerfire - Iron Sight. Any centerfire handgun with no more than a 12" barrel. Optical sights such as red dots, lasers, or scopes are not allowed.

CLASS FOUR: Centerfire - Optic Sight. Any centerfire handgun with no more than a 12" barrel. Red dots sights, lasers, or scopes can be used.

CLASS FIVE: Other stuff - BB, pellet, arrows, slingshots, catapults... Let me know, but no shotguns.

ALTERNATE ENTRIES: If for whatever reason you cannot shoot the match in the manner described, shoot it anyway and send in your entry, but be sure to tell me what you did so I can include that info in the results.

MULTIPLE ENTRIES: You can enter more than once, in fact, it is encouraged. Shoot everything you own, and everything you can borrow! Take a buddy to the range, get him entered, then borrow his gun and enter that! The only restriction is that a shooter can only enter once for any given gun.Different calibers in the same gun count as one gun. For example, .38SPL and .357MAG are considered as one, as would be .44SPL and .44MAG. Different guns of the same caliber and barrel length can be entered. A .22 conversion on a .45 frame counts as a second gun, so you can take off the conversion and shoot the .45 too.

Feel free to ask any question, thank you for coming :-)


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E postal Match May

The team of "armes et tir passion" is honored to host the next E-postal match.
It will be posted on may 5.

I imagined a match who could serve as a training exercise for pin shooting.

Thanks to Mr Completely for the invitation,Leon and myself enjoy challenging other shooters from far away.

The results from April can be found there "The Conservative UAW Guy".

Congratulations to Leon for his good results, he recently had a motorbike crash and is currently stucked at home, I'm sure this will help him to keep a good mood and recover quickly.