Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Postal Match

The postal match for May is up at Armes et tir passion, and it's posted in English so you can read the rules. It's a sort of training match for pin shooting.

For those of you who have never done it, it's tougher than you'd think. First you have to hit the bowling pin with a hand gun. Second, it doesn't count until it's off the table. You get 5 pins to shoot for time. Pins that fall over and remain on the table have an annoying way of aligning themselves in such a way as to be able to ignore your best efforts by spinning in place.

Printed targets should fill an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So shoot full power loads.

Billll said...

That only helps if you hit the pin relatively squarely. A glancing hit from a.44 mag only makes the pin spin faster on the table, and take longer to stop spinning (with the top pointed directly at you)than a .38+P.

See "Pistol Match" post above.