Ummmm... did this thread take a detour?
Straight over the cliff! Having competed at the highest level of pistol field target with most of the posters here, including all those going at one-another in the ensuing free-for-all, this seems a good time to repeat something I often say. On any given day, any of the top FT shooters is capable of winning. Who does win is usually a matter of not only which is having a good day, but not experiencing the
many elements of field target that can go awry. That said, allow me to enter this fray!
While shooting a perfect score in the first pistol match at the 2012 AAFTA Field Target National Championships (Sporter Pistol-
ALL OFFHAND SHOTS), I happened upon the match director before engaging my last lane. In boasting how great a course he'd set, the MD stated, "I don't think anyone will clean the course".
So of course I missed a shot on my last lane! But FWIW, in the field of 13 shooters Second Place to my 39/40 shot a 32/40, Third was 31, Fourth was 30, etc.
Totally pissed about having succumbed to mental weakness
, I turned that frustration into such hardened resolve that I
DID clean the subsequent 42 shot main event, Hunter Pistol. I'd give good money for a photo of aforementioned MD's face when he asked about my Hunter pistol, a 1960s vintage Crosman 187 Co2 rifle
that sold for $20 brand new; that I converted to a world-beating field target pistol with a hack-saw and sand-paper (pictured here with it's 3 State and 3 National Champion titles).
View attachment 435132 I brought 3 National Champion titles home from that 2012 FT Nationals (shown below with the 3 State Champion titles I also captured in 2012). Suffice to say 2012 was my banner year.
View attachment 435130 My (primary) point here is on any given day any of the combatants in this thread could beat me... or any of the others.
But on that day, I beat them.
With the cheapest field target pistol ever used in competition! .