It was the LAST damned shot that ruined a good target!

[chief38]

My all favorite target shooting and PPC revolver's are two of my M15's (actually one is a Combat Masterpiece). I was out at the range last week and was competing against a friend & shooting buddy in an informal match shooting for lunch. He is a great shot and not easy to beat.

We shot at 50 feet on B-3 NRA targets and I was shooting 18 rounds of my 158 grain RNL hand loads. I threw the last shot and that resulted in a tie. We both paid for our own lunches and that was that. I have throw the last shot a few times lately - I guess I need to work on that last trigger pull.

 

[ColbyBruce]

Photoshop that flyer out.

 

[Denverd0n]

I have throw the last shot a few times lately - I guess I need to work on that last trigger pull.

Gonna guess that you're getting down to the last shot, you relax a little, you hurry a little, the mind is on to what's next, and OOPS! There goes the flyer! Here's hoping you find a way to get it under control.

 

[stansdds]

Just like with bowling. You bowl a perfect game until the 10th frame, then miss your marks and the ball goes off to one side or the other, leaving one or more pins standing and laughing at you.

 

[Krogen]

Maybe you were thinking about lunch! You took your "eye off the ball." Shooting is as much physical skill as mental. I shoot Bullseye and slow fire can be the pits. You have an eternity (10 minutes) to shoot 10 shots. You have LOTS of time to overthink it. It gets worse when other folks finish early and begin flapping their jaws. Mental focus goes out the window. So, I figure you lost your focus or were distracted by borborygmi.

 

[22hipower]

I'd be pretty happy with that target, flyer at the end or not.

Jeff
SWCA #1457

 

[hdfinder47]

1. just take a close up that doesn't include the flyer
2. photoshop as stated above
3. claim a mulligan and forget about it (at 78 I give myself 1 mulligan every mag - blame it on eyes, wind, tremors, whatever)
4. I don't shoot nearly as good a group as you do - nice shooting (ignoring that mulligan)

 

[cruiserdan]

With that big hole in the middle you could have put the last one in the berm

 

[chief38]

With that big hole in the middle you could have put the last one in the berm

Yea, but I couldn't do that! Its got to be the real deal and I'd expect nothing less from him. Once you start cheating, it demeans the entire purpose of the "game". I like to win fare and square.

At 50' I did not actually know all the shots were all in one hole up until I retrieved the target, with the exception of the last bullet which I KNEW I pulled.

We tied scores so neither of us lost! We both laughed and that was worth more than the lunch!

 

[Narragansett]

When I shot trap in the summer months, and was on my game, I was well known for running the first 75 targets and then getting to the last field and dropping 1 or 2 targets for a 98/99. If you have a 98, don't even begin to look at the scoreboard. you might win with a 99

 

[H Richard]

Same reason a lot have never shot a 25 in skeet. The "Pressure" on that last shot makes you rush it and miss.

 

[raljr1]

With that big hole in the middle you could have put the last one in the berm

My thought exactly

 

[WILDPIG]

Don't worry about that little guy down there.

WILDPIG

 

[smitholdtimer]

I can attest that the last one will also work!

What you called a miss is actually a good shot into something left to shoot at CHIEF, good shooting, the middle was all but gone anyway. "It ain't Bragging If You Can do it", nice shooting, SIR!

 

[chief38]

The best Trap I've ever shot was 99/100 but can usually count on 97 or 98. Never got 100, but I did win a trophy once with the 99/100.

 

[Alk8944]

18 rounds in a group? Why? This is exactly most shoot only 3-5 rounds when shooting for accuracy.

 

[chief38]

I have one friend that I compete with whenever it comes to anything involving guns! We hunted together for 40+ years and always have to get more Pheasants than the other - lol. We have even split playing cards at 20 feet with .22 handguns. We have shot McDonalds coffee stirrers at 25 yards with scoped .22 rifles and after we both shot off the 1/4" stirrer end, we then went for the 1/8" stem - lol. We shoot green apples off his tree from the stem - don't want to ruin the apple.

One time I bought a plastic squirrel that looked so real just waiting to scam him. At the hunting cabin I set the squirrel out at 100 yards and them told him I spotted it - he grabbed his scoped rifle and fired, but I yelled YOU MISSED! He scratched his head (he never misses) and said, how could that squirrel still be sitting there? He took another shot and still the squirrel had not moved significantly. Then the rest of the guys and I stared laughing so hard. He ran down range and looked - we had some good laughs that week!

 

[Model29-26.5]

Bah! We are not machines. You did great.

 

[chief38]

18 rounds in a group? Why? This is exactly most shoot only 3-5 rounds when shooting for accuracy.

At the end of our range session I only had 18 round left. He had more but I said let's do 18 rounds and finish up.

Normally while target shooting I only load 5. The last few cylinders full I will sometimes practice point shooting, double action with a full cylinder at 7 yards, so I wind up with an odd amount of bullets left.

 

[gwpercle]

Photoshop that flyer out.

I wont tell anyone !

Awesome group ... Be Proud !
Gary