Hunter Pistol Silhouette "Grand Slam" pin -- Still around ?
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extex
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I was in the gun club in Granbury, TX shooting IHMSA in the 80s. At the time there were several North TX ranges where you could compete in 22LR and big bore. I'm not flexible enough to shoot free-style any more but I still have my 357max El dorado.
If you're ever over here on the wetside, look me up. We have three silhouette matches a month at my club. One day it's Hunter's Pistol / Lever Action Rifle. 22LR in the morning and straightwall centerfire in the afternoon. A different day it's 22LR Long Range.
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sophie ---- I love the ammo caddy ! ... I could have made good use of one like that. Thanks for posting the pics. The "Texas" pins you have are very colorful ......"PURTY" 
I have a lot of fun memories of those days back in the '80s. Just finding where some of those matches were (out in the boonies) was an adventure !
I have a lot of fun memories of those days back in the '80s. Just finding where some of those matches were (out in the boonies) was an adventure !
We had a Municipal Shooting Range between Amarillo and Canyon, Texas during those years and it's been long since gone, years ago. Speaking of ranges being out in the boonies, when we went to shoot matches with the Pampa, Texas Silhouette Club their shooting range was between Kingsmill and Pampa, north several miles, and set up in an old gravel pit and dump ground out there. Worked real good actually being dug out like it was and had natural banking and berms. Shot there several times. Fun times.
I wonder why magnum handguns are deemed necessary at 200 meters, when the "Long Shooters" of yesteryear were routinely using .38 Special M&P Targets out to 300 yards? (!!)
Ralph Tremaine
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Metallic Silhouette still has a pretty big following here in Australia.
The targets are heavy and it takes some retained momentum to knock them over at 200 meters. With lighter loads, and depending on where you it it, you can "ring" the target. If it just rings and doesn't go down, it counts as a miss.
OKAY!!-----shows you what I know!
What I didn't know was you have to knock them over----DUH!!
So the moral of the story is "Some's good, more's better, and too much is just right!"
Makes sense to me now!
Ralph Tremaine
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I just got home from our club's Long Range Silhouette match. We shoot 22LR rifles at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters. I had to grin, and so did a bunch of other folks. Two dads brought their young daughters. The daughters each beat their dads by one point. Big smiles from the kids and their dads.
I competed in IHMSA at Rio Salado Range in Mesa, Az. Back in the 80's. At the time I was competing in IPSC, PPC, Bullseye & service rifle matches. I enjoyed the metallic matches more than any of the others.
The matches were much more laid back than the other disciplines I competed in.
I loved shooting the steel, instant feedback, you knock it down to score or you don't. Simple & easy. This could also add to the pressure when you knew you were cleaning the rack and got to the 5th or 10th shot.
I shot long range production ( standing - iron sights ) for years with a Ruger 7.5" SBH, shooting Hornady 240 gr JHP's over 20 gr of 2400.
I eventually moved to a 10" 7mm TCU, shooting 139's & for 200 yds, the 154's.
Out in the desert, the wind blows occasionally and as a result, sometimes the rams had to be "hard set" so that we could shoot w/o the wind blowing down our rams at 200 yds.
I learned a LOT about shooting at 50,100,150 & 200 yds with open sighted Hgns.
The turkeys at 150 were always my nemesis's.
I have a box full of these pins some where, had these in an envelope in my loading bench.
The matches were much more laid back than the other disciplines I competed in.
I loved shooting the steel, instant feedback, you knock it down to score or you don't. Simple & easy. This could also add to the pressure when you knew you were cleaning the rack and got to the 5th or 10th shot.
I shot long range production ( standing - iron sights ) for years with a Ruger 7.5" SBH, shooting Hornady 240 gr JHP's over 20 gr of 2400.
I eventually moved to a 10" 7mm TCU, shooting 139's & for 200 yds, the 154's.
Out in the desert, the wind blows occasionally and as a result, sometimes the rams had to be "hard set" so that we could shoot w/o the wind blowing down our rams at 200 yds.
I learned a LOT about shooting at 50,100,150 & 200 yds with open sighted Hgns.
The turkeys at 150 were always my nemesis's.
I have a box full of these pins some where, had these in an envelope in my loading bench.
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My Hunter's Pistol Silhouette gun for the Big Bore Matches was a S&W Model 27-2 in .357 Magnum 8 3/8" barrel with a 4X Leopold EER Pistol Scope. The bullet that worked the best for me was the RCBS #82033— 162 gr. LCSWC (w/gas check) and 15 gr. of WW296 Ball Powder. The gas checks didn't seem to make much difference in barrel leading so I eliminated them. The wind always seems to blow here in Amarillo also and if we had a reasonably calm day to shoot it was a rarity.
I only shot Hunter's Pistol Silhouette Matches in Big Bore and Small Bore which was 25, 50, 75, and 100 meters. The Turkeys were the most difficult for me also. I never had scores as good as bigmtnman and Tolo in the above posts but I did pretty good and had lots of fun. I enjoyed the fact that the matches were laid back as you described. It was such satisfaction to hear the gong of the hit and see the target go down. Sometimes you had a hit but the target didn't go down, especially the Rams at 100 meters and if the hit was low on the Ram body.I never shot Long Range Silhouette. Working up the most accurate load, casting your own bullets, experimenting with several different powders, loading your own bullets, that was half the fun right there and the other half was the matches. Couple of pages out of the NRA Rule Book from 1981 below. Lots of fun.
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40 rounds of big bore magnum loads would wear me out. Sounds like fun though. 
I have shot small bore silhouette for a while, both rifle and pistol. It is fun and fairly inexpensive family fun. It can be as serious as you want it to be.
Some pins and stuff on display with more in a drawer someplace. The pins make it fun for even the shooters who can't win the match.
I have shot small bore silhouette for a while, both rifle and pistol. It is fun and fairly inexpensive family fun. It can be as serious as you want it to be.
Some pins and stuff on display with more in a drawer someplace. The pins make it fun for even the shooters who can't win the match.
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I just got home from our club's Long Range Silhouette match. We shoot 22LR rifles at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters. I had to grin, and so did a bunch of other folks. Two dads brought their young daughters. The daughters each beat their dads by one point. Big smiles from the kids and their dads.
Was that Atglen?
I'm way out in Western Washington, so no it wasn't Atglen. I hadn't heard of Atglen before. I looked it up and it seems like a real nice club! Too bad it's so far away.
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