Getting into Bullseye

[mr.elite]

I was on various forums and website researching about bullseye. As of now the only competitive shooting I do is PPC. Something about precision shooting just draws me in. I have a 22/45 that I was going to try out bullseye with. Since I’m starting off I know I don’t need anything fancy or expensive and I heard the Rugers are more than sufficient. Another thing I have to get used to is shooting with one hand. My question is if I’m left handed and right eye dominant would I have to shoot with my right hand? Any recommendations and/or tips to get me started would be appreciated. -JK

 

[ACP230]

You can cant the gun and use your right eye, or switch hands.
Try both and see what works for you.

If you don't have extra mags, get a few. Having them loaded ahead of the timed and rapid fire stages is a help.

I don't shoot Bullseye currently. If I went back to it my gun would be
an old Ruger Mark II with five inch bull barrel.

 

[Troystat]

If you can shoot right handed switch. I am left handed and have been shooting right handed since I was a kid (air pistol with a right handed grip). Even though I am left handed I am so used to shooting right handed left hand shooting seems odd now. Shooting right handed will also give you more options with grips and such.

Good luck

 

[454gene]

Two great sources for Bullseye shooting information are John Dryers site and the bullseye-l forum.
This time of year clubs with a indoor range may have a bullseye league. Show up at a match to observe and ask questions, before you know it you'll have several people offering advice about equipment, techniques etc.

 

[PERAZZI]

You'll find the Ruger Mk's are just fine.

Try and find a bull barreled MkII, but, a MK III will work too.

check out GunTalk-Online.com :: Index

for a great resource on Ruger bullseye guns.

 

[getoff]

mines a ruger mkII like others have said. go to a local match, watch, ask questions. any and all will help. some more than others... have fun and above all, SHOOT!

 

[mr.elite]

Thanks guys. I have a mk3 22/45 target model with 5.5 bull barrel. I'll just get a trigger job and some better grip and go at it. Maybe later i'll upgrade to high standard or m41.

 

[586L-Frame]

Thanks guys. I have a mk3 22/45 target model with 5.5 bull barrel. I'll just get a trigger job and some better grip and go at it. Maybe later i'll upgrade to high standard or m41.

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I painted my front sight on my Ruger mkiii 22/45 florescent orange for a better sight picture.
586L-Frame

DLC’s MKIII 22/45 with Finger Grips

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[El Biblioitecario]

My comments are based on experience from nearly 40 years ago...having admitted that, a spotting scope is useful for the slowfire stage. A carbide lamp is useful for blackening the front sight. A carrier is useful for hauling one's paraphrenelia to and from the firing line--the traditional type is the shooting box, with scope mounted on the lid.

 

[AllAces]

What everyone else has said. Most important, join a bullseye league and start shooting. Try different types of ammo to find out what works best with your Ruger. In a league, members will share their experience, their ammo, even their guns. I got into bullseye, then after a friend loaned me his pistol, decided to also shoot NRA Distinguished Revolver. It will grow on you. Soon you'll want to shoot both rimfire and centerfire, then it'll be local 2700 matches, then DR, then Camp Perry.

 

[harvester1]

Everyone in my Bullseye league uses a red dot sight of some type.

 

[CGM]

Thanks guys. I have a mk3 22/45 target model with 5.5 bull barrel. I'll just get a trigger job and some better grip and go at it. Maybe later i'll upgrade to high standard or m41.

Ruger's are great...... Don't rush into "upgrading". Accurate scores are 95% shooter, 2% luck and lastly, 3% equiptment. The top master ranked shooter in our club shoots a ruger. He kicks butt to all the walthers, pardinis and hammerlis. Yes, a trigger job will be helpful if yours is very creepy or gritty. Otherwise, just get used to it.

Practice....practice and, practice some more. Your misses are yours...not the gun! It is a rare shooter who can actually outshoot a ruger!!

PS....I was one of those suckers who "upgraded" to a M41......Took me a long time to learn it and to actually improve from where I was with the Ruger. Then... you have to put up with their finicky ammo nature. The high standards are a nightmare unless you have a well tuned magazine.

Any way.... my point is don't look down your nose at the lowly ruger..... in many ways they are as good as any shooter will ever get.

 

[22shtur]

When I got into bullseye, the better shooters all told me to get similar guns like the winning shooters at Cp Perry are winning with. You can take it serious and get the top guns, or have fun and shoot a gun you already have and like.

 

[PPCSHOOTER]

I'M BOTH A PPC AND BULLSEYE SHOOTER MYSELF.

1ST WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS? BEST SCORE OR TO GET DISTINGUISHED AND MAKE THE PRESIDENTS HUNDRED?
SIMPLY PUT. HIGHEST SCORE THE QUICKEST? USE ULTADOTS MOUNTED TO YOUR GUN.
BEST SHOOTER (AND TO HELP YOU PPC SCORES ALSO) IRON SIGHTS.

EQUIPMENT ?
ROCK RIVER ARMS HARDBALL GUN.
MARVEL PRECISION IRON SIGHT CONVERSION FOR THE ABOVE.
JIM P

 

[mr.elite]

I plan on using iron sight so that I can have the same sight picture as my PPC pistols. As of right now PPC is more important but I think that bullseye will make me a better shooter overall and to have a better knowledge on trigger control. I’ll compete with a .22 and see where it takes me. I think it’ll only be beneficial at this point.

Does anyone know anywhere in southern California that has a bullseye league? I know prado shooting park has a bullseye match once every month but anywhere else? Any recommendations will be helpful. Thanks!

 

[mkk41]

Every time we try to get a bullseye league going , the strangest people show up with the strangest guns. .22 'cowboy' guns & Luger replicas , .380 or 9mm Mak pocket pistols and plastic .40cals , saying they don't have a .38 or .45 , so "they're gonna shoot the .40 in both , it's close enough".

 

[mkk41]

Ruger's are great...... Don't rush into "upgrading". Accurate scores are 95% shooter, 2% luck and lastly, 3% equiptment. The top master ranked shooter in our club shoots a ruger. He kicks butt to all the walthers, pardinis and hammerlis. Yes, a trigger job will be helpful if yours is very creepy or gritty. Otherwise, just get used to it.

Practice....practice and, practice some more. Your misses are yours...not the gun! It is a rare shooter who can actually outshoot a ruger!!

PS....I was one of those suckers who "upgraded" to a M41......Took me a long time to learn it and to actually improve from where I was with the Ruger. Then... you have to put up with their finicky ammo nature. The high standards are a nightmare unless you have a well tuned magazine.

Any way.... my point is don't look down your nose at the lowly ruger..... in many ways they are as good as any shooter will ever get.

I shoot my Ruger Mk.I better than I shoot my 'better' S&W Mod.41.

 

[DaTerminat'r]

I got the 41 cuz I've been told Rugers are hard to clean. When I shoot with my buddy, his Ruger malfunctions, but my 41 never. Mine eats any ammo. I attributed to my religious cleaning. My buddy's gun is always dirty.

 

[PERAZZI]

I found the Rugers to work well when set up right..

I just can't stand success....

 

[handgunner356]

I'm just the opposite, right handed/left eye dominate and I found it easier to just close my left eye and shoot right handed. Although I do use mostly Red Dots now and that allows me to keep both eyes opened, as my left can't see the dot in a tube style sight. I would guess 2/3rds of our .22 shooters are using a Ruger of some sort with very good results, some add Volquartsen trigger kits or Red Dots to their guns. We actually run two classes, for scoped and open sighted guns to put things more on par. I agree the Ruger is harder to clean but there is a easy tear down kit out there that really helps make things go quicker once installed.