HFT in the USA

[RacineJohn]

I am very new, and have not competed yet. I have been practicing with a club in Wisconsin, (north central USA), and hope to try it in a few months. 

The norm for the club is 'bucket and sticks' shooting. Most guys use PCP, but a couple use springers. (I will shoot spring.) They limit scope magnification to 16X. Their power limit, (the USA norm), is 20 foot pounds. 

In the winter we shoot indoors at 30 yards. You likely do this to: It is timed. The targets are two concentric circles, (two points in the inner circle, one in the outer). There are twenty sets on a page, for a maximum of 40 points. Many shoot sub-12 fpe guns for this. I don't think many compete in field target with them because of the flatter trajectory of the higher power. 

If your ever stateside, look some clubs up. We would love to have you shoot with us! 

 

[Laity]

I love HFT ... Just can't get enough of it . I am off to the IWA in Germany to talk about HFT and Daystate ... It seems there is some BIG news coming out on Friday . 

Cant wait for that ! 





Rog 

 

[Motorhead]

I get that , makes sense .. kind of . We dont use range finders in HFT , its all done by eye , in FT they use these nuts high powered scopes that you can PX in and get the distance , I have looked at one at a comp , a March 80 mag scope and OMG , it was nuts ! You could PX it right into the yardage to within one yard .. WOW . Loved it . I use Vortex scopes for HFT , I have the PST Viper 2.5-10.32 and Diamondback 4-16-44 and both are totally amazing and bang on for HFT . I have often thought about range finding the whole course , writing the range down for everyone and seeing if they score more .It sounds like they would but to be honest , when only running 11.6 ft/lb as you can imagine the wind has a whole bunch to say !! Its difficult as you like the its windy and you are like holding off maybe 3 mill dots .. Really great feeling when you nail one though ! Love it ! 





Rog

As I understand European "Hunter" class .... You DO NOT get to adjust parrilax for range finding but must use judgement of distance and estimate what varied degrees of "In Focus / Out of focus blur" miens to the distance you correct your hold over for.



Is this correct ?

 

[Scotchmo]

...
As I understand European "Hunter" class .... You DO NOT get to adjust parrilax for range finding but must use judgement of distance and estimate what varied degrees of "In Focus / Out of focus blur" miens to the distance you correct your hold over for.



Is this correct ?

There is no European "Hunter" class in field target. HFT is a different sport and their courses and shooting styles are not compatible with FT rules. Outside of the USA and Canada, I'm not aware of any "Hunter" FT class.

You are correct in that adjusting the parallax for range finding is not allowed in HFT (or in Canadian "Hunter" class FT). The only "Hunter" class FT that allows focus range finding is AAFTA.

 

[Laity]

HI there 

So once you have take your first shot , you cant touch your scope again, I PX to about 30 yards and leave it there . Some shots are in focus and some are really not . The scope I use is a Vortex Diamondback and it seems to work really well .The close ones ate blurred out to 14 yards, after that its fine really . So 45 yards is slightly blurred but not enough to miss.... I hope ! Some use the scope to range find but to be honest I just do it by eye . Seems to work ok ... most of the time ! 



Rog

 

[dan_house]

"Known distance" class? Im in.



Id really be interested in shooting a match that way. See if my consistent 57% scores are due to my bad technigue, wind reading or sucky range finding......

 

[Laity]

"Known distance" class? Im in.



Id really be interested in shooting a match that way. See if my consistent 57% scores are due to my bad technigue, wind reading or sucky range finding......

I know that feeling buddy ! 

 

[c_m_shooter]

"Known distance" class? Im in.



Id really be interested in shooting a match that way. See if my consistent 57% scores are due to my bad technigue, wind reading or sucky range finding......

We have had a couple club shoots where the match director gave us the distances for reference and it didn't shift people far from their normal averages.

 

[Guest]

"Known distance" class? Im in.



Id really be interested in shooting a match that way. See if my consistent 57% scores are due to my bad technigue, wind reading or sucky range finding......

I've shot a couple matches this way as well. The ranges were available to be read at each lane. I only used them to confirm ranging mistakes, of which only a few occurred. For the new shooter this may be a good idea but after a season or two if you haven't worked out how to range find within a yard in your respective class well..........