New match (Maybe)

[Roger Fisher]

I assume no one has any old illustrations showing a 'door' match

Meaning staking a truck door into the ground on the firing line (driver's door for we rightys and passenger door for the southpaws?

I am seriously thinking of doing so.  Sit on a portable seat and this should appeal to some of our locals, since they are fairly experienced in shootin deer thataway!

Anybody ever use such a setup at a shoot??   How did it go? etc etc...  May work as a 1 shot in our primative agg....  What say You??

[smylee grouch]

I'd try it but only if I could use my flashlite after dark.   Smylee

[Don Getz]

Roger........being out in the open won't give you the same effect.    It must be enclosed like the cab of a truck so that
when you touch it off everything is smoky............Don

[Daryl]

   Good one, Don. Is that what happens?   does the pan flame crack the windshield? I know .22's and .17 Rimfire empties plug the defrost vents.

[jmdavis]

I always make sure the muzzle is outside the truck. Helps with the smoke...


Someone once asked me why I practiced shooting my rifle to the left and right from a seated position in a chair. I looked at them funny and said, "Uh, the windshield..."

[490roundball]

Roger........being out in the open won't give you the same effect.    It must be enclosed like the cab of a truck so that
when you touch it off everything is smoky............Don

cough cough cough-  luckily (not counting the pan) the barrel will be out the window.  a 45acp in a truck cab - now that rocks your clock

[Roger Fisher]

Roger........being out in the open won't give you the same effect.    It must be enclosed like the cab of a truck so that
when you touch it off everything is smoky............Don

Great, but in a truck cab you'd be cleaning windows for a week (if you bother trying)

[Standing Bear]

A match in Ivan, La years ago had a night silhouette match.  We were disqualified when we pulled the Suburban onto the line me with a Q-Beam and Bull in the back with water pipe insulation on the window glass.  Bull was using the window crank for elevation adjustments.  I wouldn't let him use a flintlock on that trick!

Great memories!  Thanks.

[Standing Bear]

On another link, Don Getz complained about getting up and down for shootin chunk guns.  A suggested new rule would allow grey beards to shoot in teams so each would only have to get up after each relay or two.  I load and you shoot then switch.

Oh well.  Just a thought.

[ERH]

we where going to have that match a couple years back but never got around to it . we also where going to have a match that two people lined up and shot at each others target that was attached with a string to a bucket of water so who ever hit first the other person got wet. I love these kind of matches it puts the fun back in shooting. roger if u put this match together i no a few people  that would like to come

[B.Habermehl]

On rondyvoo we had a team shoot set up like that. The target was two 2by 4s, rigged up with string dropping water balloons onto the team "Captains" who were to heckel the other team in hopes of staying dry. Wrong answer! After the losing "captain" got wet we volley fired on the remaining stake!

[B.Habermehl]

When we do this next we had better wait till the June or July shoot!

[blunderbuss]

  There are alot of cab stands in Texas There were several on a lease I was on for years, some were flat on the ground some on poles .1930 vintage cabs no steering wheel or motor just the cab. Some had been there so long that the floor was compleatly gone. The windows would still roll up on some so if the cold wind was blowing hard enough you could roll that window up. The windshield pushed out on one. If you shot out of one you would come out blowing smoke from the priming and flash.  Ring tailed coons loved to get in them sometimes it was in question who was going to possess it. I had to drive several out with my ramrod.