Shooting sequins at 50 yards with a 22 LR

[hswaters]

I go to Bayou Rifles (Houston) every month on the third Sunday for smallbore benchrest shooting (22LR). We shoot three regulation benchrest targets then we have been having an aspirin shoot. The aspirin shoot works as follows; you pay a $5 entry fee and the target you shoot at is a regulation benchrest target but it has ten aspirins glued to it. Sort of drug abuse I guess. You get ten minutes and ten shots to hit the aspirins, no warm up or sighting shots. When the shootin is done you get $1 for each aspirin you hit. My record was 7 up till this Sunday. This time we shot sequins off the targets and the same rules applied. It was raining a little and the targets were wet so I am not sure I got 8 or not but they credited me with that many. I shot this target through a video camera mounted on my scope and uploaded the video to youtube. I will put a link below and you can see if you think I hit 8 or not.

Shooting Sequins at 50 yards with 22 long rifle - YouTube

The rifle is a special made for benchrest shooting by Evelio McDonald in Houston. It has a Shilen barrel, weaver T36 scope, a Harris action, a tuner that I don't know the manufacturer of just now and a very nice stock. Here are pictures of the rifle.

http://tinyurl.com/kp55cj6

 

[H Richard]

Looks like fun. I wish we had a bench rest club around my area. I made my own portable bench rest which I use for Prairie Dog shooting. I think you would enjoy that. Shots vary from 50 yards out past 600 yards and more. Average shots I enjoy shooting is in the 200 to 400 yard range, and try to position myself for shooting at those ranges when I go. I'm using a Rem 700 VS re-barreled with a Douglas stainless barrel. Caliber 22-250, with a 55 grain Nosler BT over 36 grains of Varget. Finding places to shoot is the challenge.

 

[walkin jack]

Mr. Waters, You do get around. Just curious, do you ever shoot at the Texas City Municipal Shooting Range. It's a FINE place. Well Run, and seniors (60 +) shoot for $50.00 a years. Bring all the guns you want to and stay all day. It's my very favorite place to shoot, it's our doors and has a pistol section, black powder section, Rifle section to 100yds and and regulation trap/skeet range.

 

[hswaters]

Mr. Waters, You do get around. Just curious, do you ever shoot at the Texas City Municipal Shooting Range. It's a FINE place. Well Run, and seniors (60 +) shoot for $50.00 a years. Bring all the guns you want to and stay all day. It's my very favorite place to shoot, it's our doors and has a pistol section, black powder section, Rifle section to 100yds and and regulation trap/skeet range.

When I retired in 2011 I looked all around for shooting ranges and found the Texas City municipal range. A bunch of really nice guys run the range and I went there very regularly until I got a membership at the local range. It is a great place to shoot and I highly recommend it.