Bullseye pistol leagues, post your scores and your stories!

[skierd]

New season, new grips. Spring .22 league starts Wednesday! I’m plateaued at ~750/900. I’m getting closer to keeping everything in the black but often have a flyer or two per target that are shooter error. I’m hoping the new grips help me grip consistently and focus on the shot more. I’ve also changed the rebound slide spring to a 14# to lighten the trigger pull.

I’ve also applied to become a member of the board for the non-profit that runs the league and signed up for the NRA RSO class. I’m ready to do more than participate and want to keep the league and shooting sports alive.

 

[6string]

A good way to improve your scores is to train with an air pistol.
A match grade air pistol is at least as accurate as any cartridge firing pistol, plus the build quailty and shooting/handling qualities are excellent.
Another thing you can do is shoot on plain, blank paper so you can focus on sight alignment.
Here's a couple of my practice targets. The first one is probably my best ever 10 shot - 10 meter group. The second is more like my typical targets.
The air pistol is a Pardini K58.

 

[F224]

A good way to improve your scores is to train with an air pistol.
A match grade air pistol is at least as accurate as any cartridge firing pistol, plus the build quailty and shooting/handling qualities are excellent.
Another thing you can do is shoot on plain, blank paper so you can focus on sight alignment.
Here's a couple of my practice targets. The first one is probably my best ever 10 shot - 10 meter group. The second is more like my typical targets.
The air pistol is a Pardini K58.

Where can you buy Pardini air pistols in the US?

 

[6string]

Where can you buy Pardini air pistols in the US?

Hi,
There is a Pardini USA dealer in Florida. They sell the full line of air pistols, .22 LR standard pistols, 32 CF Int'l & Bullseye pistols, 9mm and 45 ACP GT pistols, and their new rifles.

The older stuff, like CO2 or Single Stroke Pneumatic air pistols are much harder to find. They're built like tanks, shoot like the blazes, and most people that own them tend to keep them. Occasionally, they turn up on eBay, often for good prices.

One more picture: this is a Pardini K2s that runs on compressed air. It is very similar to the current production K12.

 

[Jebus35745]

Hey Jim, I like the looks of the Pardini K58. Ever see one for sale, let me know. Don’t they usually sell for 1000.00? Downstairs I shoot a Daisy 777.

Monday starts the Dirty Harry league at the club. Any center fire pistol .32 and above. Most are .38 special of some sort and some old fashioned .45 acp. It’s at 50 ft on a B24 target?? The center X is red and about 5”-6” oval. Run-on the Bullseye format but different, the targets turn to start and turn when time is up. Use 5 minutes slow fire for 10 shots, 25 seconds timed fire twice for 5 shots each, 10 total and 15 seconds rapid fire twice for 5 rounds each, 10 total. It’s 30 round a match at 10 points every round for a high score of 300 points.

Start with revolvers down and when they turn you start Shooting. They added 5 seconds to timed and rapid over Bullseye because of the gun down and long trigger pull for DA shooting. We shoot 2 matches a night and it’s 7 weeks total. Out of the 14 you shoot, your 2 worst matches are dropped for your final average. Normally with practice it’s a 600 round event. Fun time, Larry

This year I will shoot the Manurhin mr73 only because I shoot it better then the S&W ‘s. I may use the Manurhin mr73 in .32 long once.

 

[6string]

Hey Jim, I like the looks of the Pardini K58. Ever see one for sale, let me know. Don’t they usually sell for 1000.00? Downstairs I shoot a Daisy 777.

Monday starts the Dirty Harry league at the club. Any center fire pistol .32 and above. Most are .38 special of some sort and some old fashioned .45 acp. It’s at 50 ft on a B24 target?? The center X is red and about 5”-6” oval. Run-on the Bullseye format but different, the targets turn to start and turn when time is up. Use 5 minutes slow fire for 10 shots, 25 seconds timed fire twice for 5 shots each, 10 total and 15 seconds rapid fire twice for 5 rounds each, 10 total. It’s 30 round a match at 10 points every round for a high score of 300 points.

Start with revolvers down and when they turn you start Shooting. They added 5 seconds to timed and rapid over Bullseye because of the gun down and long trigger pull for DA shooting. We shoot 2 matches a night and it’s 7 weeks total. Out of the 14 you shoot, your 2 worst matches are dropped for your final average. Normally with practice it’s a 600 round event. Fun time, Larry

This year I will shoot the Manurhin mr73 only because I shoot it better then the S&W ‘s. I may use the Manurhin mr73 in .32 long once.

I like your match format, and the name!
Yeah, starting with the gun down, as per Int'l rules, yet still having the 5 shot sustained fired component of the American rules is a clever mix!
It is really quite sad how many clubs have entirely dropped Bullseye and Int'l pistol and now offer nothing but defensive/combat. Yeah, I call it "spray n pray"! A lot of newer shooters will never get any good because the sheer volume of fire they do, along with lousy trigger control and follow-through just ingrains poor habits.
Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent!

Good for you guys keeping it going!!

 

[skierd]

Shot my best slow fire target this week, an 88 and for the first time in slow fire I kept all my shots in the black.

Of course, my rapid and timed fire look like they were shot with a skeet choke… next week is another chance to put it together. I’m consistently shooting in the top 5 now, about 50 points behind 1st (750’s vs his consistent 800-815 scores).

 

[Krogen]

Shot my best slow fire target this week, an 88 and for the first time in slow fire I kept all my shots in the black.

Of course, my rapid and timed fire look like they were shot with a skeet choke… next week is another chance to put it together. I’m consistently shooting in the top 5 now, about 50 points behind 1st (750’s vs his consistent 800-815 scores).

Nice shooting! I chuckle at your skeet choke pistol. I have one too. Sometimes it looks like I'm at a patterning board with a single-pellet shotgun.

At times, I exhibit my "other pastime" while on the line. Astronomy. Yeah, my targets can look like constellations . . . .

 

[H Richard]

I have done the same for quite a few years. Air Pistol shooting is very demanding and can improve your bullseye shooting. There are postal league's you can participate in to give you the incentive to shoot your best. I use a IZH 46M (Biakal) .177 single stroke. These are great guns for entry lever prices. Capable of one hole groups at 10 meters. I only wish I would still have the capability to shoot it to it's capability.

 

[muzzlestuffer2012]

Shot my first bullseye match last Monday with a brand new Browning buckmark 7.5 " barrel came in 5th out of ten competitors we shot at 25 yards the whole match because the lighting won't work out to 50 but i really liked the match and the guys were real helpful I shot cci standard but the gun shot some one hole groups when I did my sight in I actually shot much better at the rapid fire segment but that doesn't suprise me I am a real fast style shooter. Might try this with some other guns as well.

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[muzzlestuffer2012]

Shot a 753 monday evening second match used my browning buckmark

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[Krogen]

Going Old School

I'm going old school Bullseye. I generally shoot a Gold Cup .45 and a Model 41. Sometimes I use a Ruger 1911 and maybe a Buckmark or MKIII. I flop around with pistols, and between iron and red dot sights.

I'm looking for something new. I also admit, I'm tired of chasing .45 ACP brass. Yeah, I have a brass catcher, but it misses almost as much as I do.

Revolvers, here I come! I recently added a 25-2 to the herd. It will go nicely with my Model 17 and Model 14. I may toss my Model 16 in the mix one of these days.

So without further ado, the starting string:

 

[6string]

Hi Guys,
Nice to see this thread still going. "Slow and steady" wins the race! Actually, that's a good metaphor for the Bullseye game.
Still no serious match activity nearby. However, I'm keeping up with free pistol and air pistol. I recently fired two of my best practice targets. These are shot offhand (one hand) at 10 meters. The use of the white targets (backs of cut up and fired free pistol targets) is to practice sight alignment, trigger control and follow-through. No thought about score, just group size.

One is a ten shot group fired with my Pardini K58. The other is a very small five shot group fired with my FWB 80 (with Rink grip). After the fifth shot went in the same hole as the previous four, I decided to call it quits for the day!

Jim

 

[Troystat]

I am a member of a small league here in the Bay area, we have a match every 3rd Sunday morning for either 22 and air pistol. For the 22 we shoot 30 shots at 25 yards on a B-8 target and for the air pistol we shoot at 10 meters on an air pistol with 60 shots. The best I have done with the 22 is 296 out of 300 the best on an air pistol is 514 out of 600. Lots of fun and not easy.

 

[skierd]

Back at it for 22/23! Fall season is over, this year I went back to iron sights and man has it been humbling. I’m shooting a good 100 points lower this year but I’m learning a lot again.

I’m shooting centerfire this winter season, with my 38/44 HD.

 

[skierd]

Every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving, my local shooting club holds a Harry Reeves Memorial Revolver Shoot bullseye match. Open to any and all double action centerfire revolvers with iron sights only so there was quite a smattering of cool old guns shot yesterday; vintage Colts, N frames in 44 and 45, a Taurus tracker, K and L frame 357’s, and… my Model 10 snub.

Full power 158gr +P loads in a 2” DAO gun was probably not the best choice, but for the most part I kept my shots on the paper at least. 87/300 1x and 95/300 1x are about 150 points lower than my best open sight scores with my Model 17 6” 22lr.

For reference I normally shoot my S&W 6” Model 17-9 well enough to get in the 675-700 point range in a normal match with iron sights, and closer to 750-775 with a dot. Doing the math, in a normal match I’d have shot about 275/900 with the snub…

I see some lighter loadings and more range time in my future. In our winter centerfire bullseye league I’ll shoot my 38/44 HD instead as well I think.

 

[F224]

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Full power 158gr +P loads in a 2” DAO gun was probably not the best choice, but for the most part I kept my shots on the paper at least. 87/300 1x and 95/300 1x are about 150 points lower than my best open sight scores with my Model 17 6” 22lr.

For reference I normally shoot my S&W 6” Model 17-9 well enough to get in the 675-700 point range in a normal match with iron sights, and closer to 750-775 with a dot. Doing the math, in a normal match I’d have shot about 275/900 with the snub…

I see some lighter loadings and more range time in my future. In our winter centerfire bullseye league I’ll shoot my 38/44 HD instead as well I think.

Consider that you fired that at 25 yards one handed with +P ammo, and you kept most of the shots on paper, your preformance was pretty impressive!

If I remember correctly that match must be fired double action only, is that right?

 

[skierd]

It requires double action revolvers, but I don’t believe you have to fire them double action. I don’t think anyone else was firing DA, at least not during slow fire when I was paying the most attention. I was, because my hammer is DAO and doesn’t have a SA sear.

 

[bmcgilvray]

I wanna do this!

I have dabbled in bulls eye in the distant past. I'd be wretched because of shoulder surgery, but I'd romp into the fray if matches were held in Texas, in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex region.

 

[6string]

I wanna do this!

I have dabbled in bulls eye in the distant past. I'd be wretched because of shoulder surgery, but I'd romp into the fray if matches were held in Texas, in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex region.

Go for it!
I'd like to respectfully suggest that you try it with your weak side arm/hand. You might be surprised!
I have been doing this for a while with air pistol. (see my previous posts here) A few years ago, I was almost killed in a terrible bike accident. My left side (I'm a lefty) took most of the damage: skull fracture, broken ribs, shattered clavicle, etc. After a couple months recuperation, I was able to do limited motion activities, but nothing extensive with the shoulder. So, I started air pistol using my right arm/hand. Very quickly you'll discover how much of shooting is a mental game.
Ragnar Skanaker has an excellent book on pistol shooting that has a physical training section. You'll get your muscles tuned up fairly quickly.

To find matches, both the NRA and the CMP have search tools on their websites to locate matches. I'd be surprised if you didn't have a few options.
By the way, both of these organizations now offer one type of revolver-specific match or another.