Bullseye pistol leagues, post your scores and your stories!

[skierd]

Still shooting!

I shot our winter league with my 38/44. I did ok, shooting in the 210-225 range pretty consistently. Iron sights make the game much harder.

Spring 22 league starter two weeks ago, and I went back to a dot on my 17-9 because I’m ready to play the game more. I tied my best ever score tonight and shot my best target yet (rapid fire, 97-4x, shot single action).

 

[Krogen]

Nice shooting, skierd!

 

[Inland7-45]

I’m starting my first .22 pistol league on Wednesday. I’m using my 17-9 with an ultradot matchdot and Fitz ten-o grips. We’ve got 5 scored events and a final tournament over the next 6 weeks.

Our first practice was Wednesday and i shot a 683-3x, which put me at 13th of 32 for the match. High score was a 826-15x, so I’ve got a ways to go lol.

Anyone else shooting in a league this fall? I’m also getting the stuff together to do some reloading with hopes of shooting center fire revolver in the winter and spring leagues too.

In the mid 1970,s I participated in an indoor .22 Winter league at a local revolver club. I used a High Standard Victor and had a low 260s average. I sold the Victor after losing interest in competition shooting.

In 2006 I started again at a local club that had a short springtime shoot after the .22 matches ended.

I started off with a model 18-3 for .22 shooting DA for slow, timed and rapid. Used a stock 1911-A1. Average was 221 for .22 and low 100s for center fire.

For the second season I used a 1950 K- 22 with original magnas and a grip adapter. For center I used a no dash model 67 with a factory action job and a pair of reshaped smooth S&W stocks.
I stayed with it until 2014, but I may go back this fall. Both .22 and center fire scores averaged in the high 240s.
All time high .22 score was 269 . Highest center fire score was 268. Best single target was a timed fire score of 296 during last season. I wish that I had saved the target.

While there were quite a few shooters using revolvers in the center fire matches I did not see any other revolvers in the .22 matches.

I used 148 gr WC and Bullseye in the .38. The matches were a lot of fun and it gave me a chance to show that revolvers can still be viable for .22 indoor matches. The Smith and Wesson K frame has a great DA pull. For me it is easy to keep the sights aligned on a 6
O’clock hold on the bullseye and stage the trigger for the final squeeze. I never had a problem keeping up in timed and rapid against .22 autos. I did try a few practice matches for center fire with my Colt Officers Model bu

 

[skierd]

Halfway through the leagues!

Still using my 17-9 with a dot in the fall and upcoming spring 22 league. Still trying to break out of the 250-260/300 range.

Centerfire winter league I’ve been playing around with a couple different guns (a CMP 1911 and a smith 1917, both of which are shooting too high to be useful, and the 6 inch model 10 pictured here) but have settled back in with my 38/44. I’m getting better with the fixed irons and my new mantra of “front sight, lolli-POP”, trying to have the trigger break on pop. I’ve tried so many grips it’s not funny, and whodathunk the best so far would be plain old hogue monogrips?

 

[rct269]

Having simply browsed through here, I'm left with the impression we have some serious shooters with some serious guns in this hive. Reminds me of "the good old days"!

Good on you----one and all!

Ralph Tremaine

 

[SmithSwede]

MIT had an excellent range, built under their basketball court. Most people had no idea it existed.

I think it has been shut down.

I spent 4 happy years there, and I loved that place; especially its pistol Coach, Pasquale Melaragno.

Pat once shot an 898 out of 900 outdoors with .22. He screwed up, and had one 8 at the 50 yard line. Pat is one of the most impressive gentlemen I have had the privilege to know.

 

[AJ]

Looks like good shooting to me. It is a difficult game, more so with a revolver.
Our winter league doesn’t start for a couple months. Nobody shoots revolvers, everyone shoots semi-autos. At 75 I am more a participant than competitor, but they still let me shoot if I show up.
Sure is fun though. Here is a couple pictures of my set up. Hammerli 280 with Ultra-Dot

Don't shoot matches. A friend was a team shooter in the Corps. He and I both have Gun-Ho Pistol Cases (he uses his and I use my Pachmayr). We are the only ones with pistol cases at our local range. Does anyone else see them at their local ranges?

 

[Krogen]

Don't shoot matches. A friend was a team shooter in the Corps. He and I both have Gun-Ho Pistol Cases (he uses his and I use my Pachmayr). We are the only ones with pistol cases at our local range. Does anyone else see them at their local ranges?

Yes, they exist! In our Bullseye leagues I see Pachmayr and StrongCase mostly, plus a couple of Gun-ho cases. I use a StrongCase. Being aluminum, one might think it's lighter than the plywood or particleboard cases. It is, until you fill it up with three guns, ammo and other stuff. Then it gets really weighty.

These days they're hard to find and may well be in rotten condition. They do show up on the big E site but can be pricey and shipping is up there too. A caveat is the older ones were geared toward iron sights. Often they're not tall enough inside to accommodate red dot sights. It seems Bullseye newbies all ask about getting a case but interest wanes when they find out the realities of scoring one.

 

[AJ]

I get mine when the LGS buys estates. The can't sell them in the shop normally. When I see one there I will give them $50.00 for one. I have bought 5 Pachmayr's and one Gun-Ho at that price. Either sell (at my cost) or give to friends. Have kept one of each for myself.

Yes, they are heavy. People ohh and ahh over them at the range until they pick it up. Then their minds change fast.

 

[skierd]

Centerfire league began yesterday and I opened up the season with my best score ever with Centerfire and with iron sights. Shot with a 6” 28-2, 148gr wadcutters over 4.0gr of HP-38. I’ve decided I’m a dead-on hold guy, not a 6 o’clock, and next task is to find a way to make the front sight pop better.

Also in the fall 22 league I shot my best score ever:

 

[CALREB]

If you use a carbide lamp, the soot will make your sights pop out against the lighter black target. Bullseye and PPC shooters have used them for years. Not something you want to use on any plastic ramps or fiber optic sights though. For those I think some company used to make a sightblack spray. But it wasnt as good as carbide. You can find lamps on online auctions, carbide just do a search, but its not cheap. Hazmat and all.

I see you are in Ak, might find some old mining stuff up there.

 

[Krogen]

Centerfire league began yesterday and I opened up the season with my best score ever with Centerfire and with iron sights. Shot with a 6” 28-2, 148gr wadcutters over 4.0gr of HP-38. I’ve decided I’m a dead-on hold guy, not a 6 o’clock, and next task is to find a way to make the front sight pop better.

Nice shooting skierd! We have just started our winter postal league. For a so-called "dying sport" our turnout is bigger this year than in the past. We broke it into two weekly sessions to accommodate. It's great to see.

I'm wondering why you've settled on center hold. With iron sights, I use a sub-six hold. A six o'clock hold works almost as good unless I start getting the sights into the black bull. I'm worthless with a center hold because it's too tough to discern center as you observed. With an Ultradot, though, center hold is the way to go for me.

 

[AJ]

If you use a carbide lamp, the soot will make your sights pop out against the lighter black target. Bullseye and PPC shooters have used them for years. Not something you want to use on any plastic ramps or fiber optic sights though. For those I think some company used to make a sightblack spray. But it wasnt as good as carbide. You can find lamps on online auctions, carbide just do a search, but its not cheap. Hazmat and all.

I see you are in Ak, might find some old mining stuff up there.

This is an old school sight blacking kit. It is part of my collection. I found it in a Pachmayr pistol Case that I had acquired.

We used a larger variation on the rifle range when qualifying in the Corps.

 

[sledvet77]

I guess I never realized how good I have it. I joined a private range about 5 yrs ago and have been jumping between 100 yd bench 22lr, 300 yd bench and indoor and outdoor pistol. Can't decide which I want to concentrate on, but I digress.
My luck is in the members that keep this club going. We have 2 good shooters that have been going to Camp Perry religiously for a long time . We have members that keep the 100 and 300 yd bench competitions going every year with younger members coming in. We do outdoor 25 and 50 yd pistol competitions every week in the summer and indoor in the winter. we always do bullseye and we have a full range. We started Sporter rifle this year and had 4 teams. In September we always have a NYSERPA NRA 2700 match for 2 days and get people from out of state and canada.

Mind you that I am in NYS in Niagara County. I Love my club.
And to top it off, we want to get more people involved in the sport so our yearly dues are a measly $80. Did I say I loved my club? Bullseye is alive and well in NYS.

 

[AJ]

No bullseye matches at our range. But I will be shooting my original Colt Series 70 Gold Cup National Match, my S&W 52-1 and my Walther OSP tomorrow morning at the range.

 

[AJ]

I ended up not shooting the Walther OSP. I had had problems with my Browning Buckmark and had worked on it and took it instead of the Walther. I had a faux pas with the S&W 52 and threw one out to the 7 ring. The Buckmark is 25 rounds of rapid fire without a hiccup. The Gold Cup is the pistol that I shoot consistently better than any.

Target 1 is the 52-1

Target 2 is the Buckmark

Target 3 is the Colt Gold Cup National Match

Not really match quality shooting, but not to bad for an Old Guy.....

 

[6string]

Still pluggin’ away mostly with air pistol on basement 10 meter range.
Pardini K-60 air pistol.
High quality and cheap shooting.
I just got my two 5 lb CO2 tanks refilled, for $30 each. I use them to fill the cylinder on the gun. The cylinder under the barrel holds about 50 gr of CO2. I end up getting about 10,000 shots out of a full 5 lb CO2 tank. So, about 3/10 ¢ per shot, plus pellet cost (less than a cent, when they’re on sale).

The circle used on the target equals the diameter of the 9 ring, plus the diameter of the pellet. As long as the pellet is completely within the circle it would score a 9 or better.

 

[AJ]

I use Air Pistol Targets at 50 yards when shooting my heavy barrel .22LR rifles with scopes. Sometimes will shoot them at 50 yards with iron sights. Rested of course.

This is with irons.

The scope is a Lyman 25X Super Target Spot.