January Match

[Dphariss]

This from www.targetz.com page 9 target 10128. With the additional lines shown. These were drawn with a fine point Sharpie felt pen. Pencil will work as well.
Could be shot from ANY position, 25 yards. Strongly recommend a rest position.
Maximum 5 shots per target. Shoot as many targets as you like,  submit the one you like best.
A line drawn from points to points creates 5 spaces. One round in each for 5 points each..
1/2 ball in to score. Cutting any internal border counts as an X for tie breaking. LINES must be CUT not just touched, except the solid diamond. Here the leaded edge on the black counts as an X.
A shot that cuts all three border lines at one of the 8 corners scores 8 points plus 1x.

Daryl came up with the idea and I edited the rules a little.  Good luck.  As Dec winner I am out.
Backing the target with a piece of cardboard should give cleaner holes in the target.

[Daryl]

Sounds like a GREAT target idea. ( )

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Congratulations on your fine target for December Dan,,,fame, honour and glory heaped high upon you!!  Thanks for taking the initiative, as you are indeed December's winner. I've come down with a bad cold, and am a little slow on the uptake.  I sure hope to get to the range this month, though January and February are traditionally our coldest nastiest months.  Good luck to everyone who participates.

[Nessmuck]

I don't have a scope on my flintah...lol

[Daryl]

LOL- none of us have scopes, but with the wonderful accuracy we keep hearing with smoothbores, I figure 25 yards should be easy for them.
You could always put a rear sight on it and make it even more accurate. Heavens!!!

[Dphariss]

Congratulations on your fine target for December Dan,,,fame, honour and glory heaped high upon you!!  Thanks for taking the initiative, as you are indeed December's winner. I've come down with a bad cold, and am a little slow on the uptake.  I sure hope to get to the range this month, though January and February are traditionally our coldest nastiest months.  Good luck to everyone who participates.

Thanks  I really thought I blew the shot on the little one but…

I hope you get over the cold quickly

I was shooting the Kibler at 420 yards (385 Silhouette Turkey berm) bench rest today.
Trying the recreate the shot that Col Hanger detailed from his time in the US.
Had a heck of a time getting the right elevation since I could see no bullet strikes not on the berm and if there was any dust the smoke hung out front most of the time.  But it was almost totally calm so it was possibe to try. I finally gave the right guess and got three in where it would have pretty much done what Hanger said it did, killed the bugle man’s horse. He was behind Hanger and Tarleton ball passed between the two officers. The one to the right is  about shoulder high between the tow rocks and the left ones were lower and screened by grass on the pig berm I was set up at the far left of the berm.  The Slihouette range is on a slope and the turkey line is barely higher than the pig berm where I had the target. I did not see the two to the left until I drove up to collect the target.  The one to the right is high enough that other two low.  But tis ball park for what Hanger described. However, with about 18 ft of total drop and the aim point in the sky abover a tree  behind the hill that forms the Ram berm…. It makes holding elevation tough.  Rifle  is sighted 2” high at 100 yards with 100 gr of FFF Swiss. Did three shots at 100 yesterday went. 15/16” H x 1 7/16” W.  Guessing 1900 but need to check it. My doppler radar chrono would not read it the other day. Need to set up the other one someday.  It was fun. Made up some Beeswax and Neastfoot oill patch grease and it seems to shoot cleaner and thus load a little easier.than just neatsfoot oil. Cotton canvas patch with a .530 ball. Seems to allow shooting indefinitely with 2-3 good breaths through the barrel. Neatsfoot or tallow makes a hard spot about 1” above the spot the ball sets.
Now I need to cut a bunch more patches and lube them.





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[Jakob]

Great target!
I've uploaded a modified version with the additional lines here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CoVVa1XefY_xqo4rB4zlD3FRzR19YXLs/view?usp=sharing

[alacran]

Thanks Jakob! Just printed three targets. Don't want to get too ambitious. Woke up to three inches of snow today. Hopefully it won't be too windy this weekend.

[Daryl]

Question Dan.  If cutting 3 lines, scores 8 1X, would this target score 37 5X and if the centre shot also cut 3 lines, would the score then be 40 5X?

[Dphariss]

I did not consider the drawn in lines to continue into the black this would create too many divisions,  so it would score 37 with 5.
No wonder the NMLRA, NRA and CMP rule book are so big

Dan

[Daryl]

You have a PM, Dan.

[alacran]

Gee Daryl don't worry about that possibility until you accomplish it.

[Daryl]

LOL - sounds like a challenge? The scoring rules need to be known for all possibilities, don't they?

[taterbug]

speaking of possibilities, it IS possible to only break TWO of the lines with one ball, and not a third.  Sooo, 6 points for that one?  7?  12?

Only sort of kidding about the scoring.  Not that I'll be the one doing it

Now I really wish I had that .62 I've been thinking about.  Bigger balls would definitely be an advantage here  

[Daryl]

Bigger balls are generally an advantage.   

[Daryl]

Taylor and I got out. Nice and dang warm today as it hit +3 (37.4F). No gloves, not ear covering - NICE. Fun shooting.
Used the 14 bore rifle.
.682" pure lead ball, .021" denim(10 ounce) - LHValley lube
113gr. 2F Scheutzen
same load all targets.
Top left target, shot all aiming for the middle and thought the odd stray might get me points. I think the right hand upper quadrant crosses 3 lines, which would make the total 18 5X
for the 3 scoring hits.
I do think the bottom target is a good 31 10X. Actually that top left quadrant cuts across 3 lines, so might be an 8 as well, for a 34 11X (after looking the target over the non-shot one)
All fired off a table, 25 yards lasered -  single rest under the entry pipe. No rear bag.
I think I didn't score correctly as I counted all lines cut. Dan's picture shows 3 lines cut as being 8 1X so I assume 2 lines cut is 5 1X.
Thus, across the top mine appear: 18 3X : 15 1X : 20 1 or 2X: bottom row: 10 2X and 34 4X. Of course that one might be 28 3X. LOL
No matter though, Dan will score than as he sees fit.




Edited to update target score(ing):

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

We had +3C today so Daryl and I headed for the range.  I personally found the target very challenging.  I could see the border lines a bit at 25 yards until I put the sights on them...then they disappeared.  It took me four targets to figure out that I needed to aim at the edge of the centre diamond to get into the white quadrants around the black diamond.  Otherwise, I'd miss by a half ball outside the bit diamond.  It was fun to finally get out and do some shooting, as I missed all of December.
I hope the rules allow a second effort, or maybe a third?  Otherwise, this will be my last entry for January...





Rifle:  Chambers' Virginia in .50 cal., .490" pure lead ball, 10 oz. (.021") denim patch lubed with Lehigh Valley, and 86 grains of GOEX 2Fg.  Shot from a table with a rest.

[Jakob]

I did get to the range today and finally met up with one of the other locals, who's been shooting black powder for decades.
Between chatting and plinking, I never got around to the monthly target, but I did get to try is Tulle out and shot my first smoothbore target.

It went well....for the target.


(Beyond having to learn a completely different sight picture it was extremely pleasant to shoot and I've added it to my list of guns to build).

[Daryl]

They all go through that little hole at the top, Jakob? What calibre is that Tulle?

[Jakob]

Erhh, yeah...that was it...all through that hole. It's a very large target, you see. (It was a .62cal)

[Nessmuck]

That target looked my first attempt at shooting  my Tulle. Guarantee ..your shooting low. Don’t file the front sight either. You have to point it ...and see the top of the barrel. It doesn’t make sense now...but it will...

[Jakob]

Got out again today, but the long range shooters were also there, making target turnovers sloooow, so only shot 3 targets and this was the best of them:


Fun target. Would love to try it again, but I'm away next weekend and then the temps return to normal (near -20C).

[Daryl]

You did very well Jakob. Looks like a 20 3X to me. Glad someone else got out to shoot it.
Too bad you only got in 3 targets. We made 5 and my best was my 4th.
That makes 3 competing of us out of ?

[Jakob]

It was fun! On the first one I was chasing the corners and missed outside too much, then shot a 'safety' target, (the one posted). 3rd one, I got one corner, 1 center, 2 whites and then when looking through the scope, thought I'd shot 5 shots, but it turned out to be only 4.
I need to get back to my old habit of laying the balls out in advance.
 Also got hold of some caps, so I can use my capper and keep my gloves on at all times and I'm now in a far better place to deal with colder weather.
I might just try and take a loooong lunch break later in the week and go to the range again. (Luckily my boss is a total smokeless gun nut and will understand and maybe even join me).

[alacran]

We have been getting a series of storms and the wind has been horrid. Hope to get out yet.