Flint Table Rifle

[okawbow]

A few more coats of oil and then wax, and I’ll be ready to try it out.

[okieboy]

 I shot at an old-fashioned table shoot, and the tables (there were two) were just standard wooden picnic tables. It was a six shot match with the X's cut into one board that had your number on it. Boards were put up and taken down as shooters rotated up the tables. We were shooting for beef and each shot could win a prize (there were more than six packages of beef), but shots that didn't cut the center of the X were not even measured.

[Tim Crosby]

 Posting these for Smokinbuck.









  Tim C.

[Daryl]

Excellent pictures of a table shoot - thanks.
I suspect that rifle will do well at this game.
Are flat spots on the underside of a full stock allowed for 'table' shooting.

[okawbow]

It is my understanding that no modifications are allowed that give an advantage over a traditional hunting or target rifle.

The idea is to keep the equipment simple so everyone can compete without needing to buy new equipment and get into a technology war.

[smokinbuck]

Oakawbow is correct, no cant blocks are allowed and if a fore stock were purposely built to act as one it would be disallowed. As said the game was designed to allow anyone with an offhand rifle that meets the weight requirement to play. there are two classes, one is the Hunter class for rifles 10# or under with open sights and the other is an Open class for rifles 13# or under and using peep sights. That allows anyone with a TC, CVA etc to not have to have a purpose built rifle. Rules have been established and accepted by the NMLRA and I can forward a package of information to anyone who wants one.
Mark

[Daryl]

Thanks guys - nice to hear.
Other shooting sports also started that way. Some fell into race gun shoots.
Others remained good events.