What is your game? IDPA, USPSA, Bullseye, IPSC, ICORE, NRA Action, Steel, PPC, Silhouette, Bowling Pins, Cowboy or even High Power Rifle...

Forgive me if I missed yours, those were all the ones I could imagine using a Smith and Wesson product in.

Let us hear it for your game and let us see your game guns.

Westczek

The two games I like most are Bowling Pin Matches, and IDPA
This is going to be photo heavy.

Bowling Pin Matches are broken into 2 classes, automatic & revolver. The matches are two shooters side by side, 5 pins each on a table at about 35 feet, first shooter to clear all pins off his table wins. Deadwood doesn’t count! We shoot 5-7 strings depending on how many shooters are there. The round count is about 50 rounds for each class, some use more.

My favorite revolver for pins is a model 25-2. It reloads very fast if you can’t get it done with 6.



I also like this Redhawk. A medium load knocks the pins right off.



For shooting the automatic class I use this Kimber Classic Custom Target series I. The dot makes things go pretty fast.





When shooting IDPA I shoot each type.
In ESR I’m expert with 625-3



In SSR I’m expert with 686



In SSP I’m sharpshooter with M&P 40



In ESP I’m sharpshooter with Para P-16 40. Ugly skateboard tape and all.



In CDP I’m sharpshooter with Kimber TLE



I try to shoot some kind of match every week. Doesn’t always work but sometimes I get to shoot 2!

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Warren

I am the Match Director for our IDPA club in Georgia. I currently hold Sharpshooter classifications in CDP, ESP, and SSP. I just got a nice used 4" Smith Model 19, so SSR is next.

I had our club treasurer buy some ICORE targets, so that is in the works for the near future.

Our club also has indoor bowling pin matches similar to roundgunner's club, except that we shoot at 25' and go best two out of three with double elimination. Half of the money taken for the match goes to the first and second place shooters.

Conventional Pistol (Bullseye), Police-L, and 2x4 stake matches, Trap, and Skeet for fun.
Intend to try pins, steel, PPC, and High Power Rifle if I get the chance. Some mobility issues make me hesitate to get involved in the "run & gun" games.

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NRA Highpower and Garand Matches, I have not tried any pistol competitions, yet

F-Class rifle, USPSA,ICORE,IDPA, 3 GUN uspsa, and a new fun match match just getting started here in Las Vegas called ZOMBIE matches. There is also a cowboy matche shot here that does not require a costum to participate.

Sir, right there with ya.



Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

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I shoot USPSA. Switched from an auto in production last year to revolver. My gun is a moonclipped 686 with a 6 inch barrel.

I start out competitive shooting when I was a kid in three-position smallbore. A club called Stony Brook with little indoor shooting range built into a hill side in the middle of town.

Also tried the Garands then, but it was a friendly revolver match fund raiser that got me hooked on handguns. One of the club members let me use his Smith and Wesson 38 special. Can't remember the model, it was stainless, and I loved it.

Westczek

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Used to be Match Director for our local IDPA club here in Bigfork, MT. Shot USPSA for a couple of years and got my B Card. Shot a Para P16 Limited.

Also got our local SASS club (Bigfork Buscaderos), up and running about 7 years ago. Used two 5.5 Vaq's, Baikal SxS and a Winnie model 94.

Shot the various steel and bowling pin matches here and there. Those sure were fun!

Got pretty burned out a couple of years ago and passed it all onto others. Only shot a couple of IDPA matches over the last 2 years. Waited until I finally got Expert in SSP with a 5906 and Expert in CDP with an old Kimber Classic Custom before I left.

This year, I'm gonna try to see what I can do with a 586 in SSR.

USPSA, Steel challenge and ICORE.

Use a 627 X 8 PC for the ICORE, 617 X 10 for the steel challenge and a 5" 625 for USPSA. Both the 627 and 625 need Federal primers. I use 38 short colt brass in the 627.

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I heard a lot about competition shooting so I gave it a try a few years ago. First was USPSA then IDPA. My older eyes are terrible and my reflexes have slowed. I took a year off due to the rising cost of ammo. I was classified sharpshooter. I'm trying IDPA again this season with my competition set up 3.5# trigger, Dawson sights, extended magazine release Springfield XD9 Tactical. My holster is a kydex TKW.

Guess there are not many PPC shooters left out there. I shoot PPC with a custom Model 13 and/or a custom Model 10. Figured I would see more from the PPC crowd at this forum since the sport is dominated by Smith and Wesson revolvers, but have not seen much discussion about it.

Trap, modifed IDPA, modified cowboy, rimfire silhouette and the yearly "turkey shoots" when they have them.

I say modified IDPA and cowboy, because we don't abide by association rules- we use club modified rules. Rimfire silhouette is the only one that I know of that is officially scored and that we go "by the book."

After all, cowboy should be shot with full bore loads anyway, and your old 1917 should be allowed in IPDA anyway- I'm not trimming my barrel! I don't care if I was scored or not- I pay and shoot for fun anyway.

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I shot PPC from the mid 70"s until my retirement in 1987. Its a shame that there isn"t more PPC matches around. I guess its not as exciting to the present day shooters. PPC is all about accuracy with some time constraints throw in.
Jim

I first thought about trying PPC, because I wanted to shoot revolver, but it was a big hike to the nearest match. There were more USPSA matches around.

PPC didn't seam a civilian friendly, but that might be my misunderstanding. The USPSA and IDPA clubs were also good about letting you shoot a match and see if you liked it, before asking you to becom a member.

I'm not sure if these are a factor for others, beyond the dynamic nature of IDPA and USPSA.

Westczek

I shoot PPC, in fact my first match of the season is this weekend. I'll be rolling out at zero 6 and shooting both days, 2 revolver 1500 1500 matches tomorrow and 2 auto matches on Sunday. I'll follow that up with another four 1500's in two weeks. Just a little over a month until I light out for the Mississippi Highway Patrol Academy for their match.

Lobosolo - you're only 234 miles from a nice big mid year match, the Rocky Mountain Nationals at The Whittington center. That match is a combination of the NM State Match, the CO State Match and the Charlie Pirtle Memorial Regional. With the practice day(s) that is a full week of shooting. This year I believe the match runs July 13 or 14 through the 17th.

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Westczek,

It all depends on what state you're in. When I was stationed in Michigan, they had a large civilian group of shooters. We shot outdoor matches in the summer and indoor 50 foot matches in the winter, LE and civilian shooting side by side. The civilian shooters seemed to stick with the indoor winter matches and stayed away from the 50 yard outdoor stuff. Not sure what other states have a civilian PPC league (I know CA doesn't).

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Here in the KC metro we have a gun club that holds PPC matches that encourages all shooters to shoot in, both civilian and LE. There are alot more civilian shooters than LE and we all shoot together. We shoot the NRA 1500's in the summer at the 50 yard outdoor range and a PMA 1200 year round both indoors and outdoors. We have a blast and it is a great group of people. I think the area's that are restricting shooters to LE only are missing the boat on a great sport that they could get lots of participants in if they would relax.

I agree, so much so that when I transferred back to CA and got elected back on to our governing board (I was a board member before transferring out) I asked about permitting non-LE shooters. The problem here is that nearly all of the suitable ranges are agency ranges rather than public or shooting club ranges, and the liability issues prompt the agencies to restrict shooters to LE only.

The winter matches in Michigan would often approach 300 shooters. That is a huge number of dues paying shooters. Plus we had shooters from Canada, civilian and LE and I also was a member of the Canadian organization. Shot a number of matches north of the 49th and always had a great time. The Canadian rule only slowed me down a little at the border, I couldn't bring all my gear (little guns and hi-cap mags) but my Canadian friends had "grandfathered" snubbies and 4 inchers for the off-duty and service gun matches.

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I started with Bullseye, when to PPC. Then I went to High Power Rifle, then I screwed up the hips and back to bullseye. Not much fun by yourself. I like to shoot pins or plates, but there isn't althing like that around here to do.

I started shooting IDPA last fall and have done three club matches. For IDPA, I use a Glock G17 in SSP (sorry folks). I'm thinking of trying SSR next year.

I have been shooting IDPA for four years and shoot two or three matches every month.
Mostly I shoot SSR with a 4" 686 or a 2 1/2" 66.

I have classified as a Sharpshooter in CDP with both a 1911 and a Glock 21.
I am also SS in SSP and I just started shooting a Springfield XDM in ESP a little too.

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That's my favorite combination too.

For years I shot a lot of IDPA and USPSA with only two guns, a 4" 625 and a Glock 21. I classified SSR MA back in the days of moonclips and 125 PF and now they tell me that MA is also good for the new SSR speedloader division, even though I never shot much with speedloader guns. When I diversified to the autos I bought a used Glock 21 and kept it stock. I shot all the IDPA divisions and USPSA Limited, Limited 10 and Production with one load at 165 PF and managed EX in all IDPA divisions and B Class in all USPSA iron sight divisions. I do not own any "match only" guns and compete only with my carry guns. I'm classified an A shooter in the Steel League (with Glocks until my 627 will be up and running) and though I shoot ICORE I have never been formally classified.

My carry guns these days are a 625 Mountain Gun and 625 with 3" barrel. Competing with them in high round count matches is downright brutal at 165 PF using wood boot grips and JM stocks. From now on most of my competition with be with a pair of Model 64s, one with a 4" barrel and a soon to be acquired "twin" with a 2" barrel. They will be cheaper to shoot and easier on the hands and challenging just the same.

Dave Sinko

Bullseye. I shot the first revolver match at Perry a few years ago. I did lousy, but had fun. I've gotten quite a bit better shooting double-action with a revolver since then.

Been shooting Cowboy Action for the past 10 yrs. I shoot Frontiersmen mainly which means cap & ball pistols. Just started IDPA last August and like my model 10 for that, but bought a model 65 that will probably take center stage now.

Have been shooting bullseye for the past 15 years. However the area I moved to in Nevada dose not have any matches in that discipline, so I think I will check out the local IPSIC matches this Spring. Got to find an excuse to go shooting.

Over the last 40+ years I have done most of it. High Power and Small Bore rifle, IHMSA Metallic Silhouette, NRA Silhouette, IPSC, PPC, Bullseye, Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays. Now my knee's aren't so good anymore so I don't do any of the ones where you have to get up and down or move quickly. That pretty much leaves bullseye, Trap & skeet.

We just finished our winter bullseye league, I've been the secretary/match director for the past 25+ years. As usual I finished a little above middle of the pack. Winter skeet league is over, and Trap will be starting in May.

The most challenging match shooting is the "Masters International Shooting Championship". It's now in it's 25th year, and still shot the first week of August. The Masters is a 3 gun match; Precision, Action, and Long Range. The Precision is 45 Biathlon targets at 25 meters and 50 meters with 4.5" and 1.77" targets, shot under varying time frames. The Action is 45 steel reactive targets between 6" and 12" shot at distances of about 15 to 25 yards. 5 targets per run, and 9 runs. Score is the total "Time". Long Range is 45 steel targets shot at distances of between 100 and 200 meters. Shot under varying time frames in both freestyle and standing positions.

Doug Koenig has won the match the last 7 or 8 years. If any of you want to try a really challenging (but fun) match, this is it.

This match was originally designed and developed by S&W; Roy Jinks, Tommy Campbell, and writer Dick Metcalf designed the match and our club built the range where it is held. This is the match where Jerry Miculek was discovered and offered a spot on the S&W shooting Team.

While there you can eat lunch in "Smith & Wesson Hall". Our club house that S&W donated 1/3 of the cost to build, so we named it for them.

If anyone is interested, contact me and I can get you in contact with the match directors.

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

Lessee...a G19 for USPSA, a 627 & a GP100for ICORE, and the plan is to use my 4" model 17 for Steel Challenge rimfire.

pmacb

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NRA-USPSA-ICORE-NROI

I started shooting static steel plates about 3 or 4 years ago, then added a few USPSA matches, and tried IDPA last year. I try to shoot 2 to 3 matches a week.

Been shooting smallbore and high power long range rifle for over 25 yrs, till I'm getting tire of lugging all those equipments around, now I mostly shooting bullseye handguns match, just 1 gun box! Active in the local bullseye winter league and shoot some outdoor match in the warmer months, still run the winter smallbore rifle match and shoot in the smallbore rifle and air pistol indoor winter league, I guess once you become a competitive shooter there just no turning back.

I've shot USPSA, PPC, bowling pin, IDPA, IPSC, NRA high power rifle, 3 gun, skeet, trap, sporting clays, five stand, & steel plates.

I mainly shoot just IDPA now.

I shot PPC with my depts pistol team for 15 years until my retirement.
Then I got involved shooting icore,and steel challenge.I tried idpa for three matches and met some very unfriendy people and I gave that up.
my match revo"s are 327 with action job ,apex hammer and c.more sights its also magna ported.
my 627 is set up the same way
I also shoot a 617x10 with a Tasco propoint,action job,and I just installed an apex mass driver hammer thats reliable to about 7 lbs.
Jim

I shoot skeet. Sometimes I like to show off and see how close I can get without breaking them...

Gee, I do that quite frequently.

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

SSR in IDPA with the 10-8, and starting this weekend I'll also be doing IHMSA Field Pistol with the 14-4.

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