As the completion of this announcement, https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...pril-2024-upcoming-matches-duncan-az.1307502/
Rex and gang hosted another awesome airgun weekend at Tom's beautiful river bottom property in Duncan Arizona this past weekend. The property offered the same great setting for field target and silhouettes that it has in the past, with a few bits of sour to go along with all that sweet. The ample shade and terrain and cottonwoods and etc all combined to make the sweet, while the sour this month was some rather serious wind and swarms of mosquitoes. There's a relevant saying about not fully appreciating the sweet without occasionally experiencing some sour. All in all, it was fun, despite the skeeters and the wind.
Here are some photos of the site and camping, etc.
With the Southwest Airgunners, what started as typical AAFTA-style rifle field target matches has, over the course of a few years, morphed into weekends full of field target silhouettes, pistol field target, and the most recent addition, field target pistol silhouettes. That's a lot of shooting crammed into just a few days! And how can field target and silhouettes be combined? Well, we're using our ft rifles and pistols, and ft shooting positions, to shoot silhouettes.
Pistol Silhouettes
The most recent event, held for the first time this past weekend, was pistol silhouettes. We of course used our <12fpe field target pistols, topped with scopes used at < 12x, and we all shot from the "Hunter" position, ie shooting sticks/bipod and stool/bucket. We also used the tiny little 10m silhouettes. Distances were 10, 15, 20, and 25 yards. This a bit of a learning experience, with the biggest learning curve that the targets are so small that the lead splatter and/or vibration effects on the support beam were knocking targets off that hadn't been shot. We kept track of what hadn't been shot at and reset them. With all the resetting we only made it through one "relay" each, making a total possible 20 points. There were a handful of us that were 19/20, but only two shooters that went 20/20: Steve Q and Dan L. The tie was decided by a shoot off, using the 40 yard 1/5 scale silhouettes that we typically use for rifle silhouettes. There were some grumbles about only having dope to 35 yards for the ft pistols, but the shoot off went ahead. Steve Q won the shoot off to become the first winner of pistol silhouettes. There was already much discussion about how to keep the peripheral targets from getting knocked off.
Some photos from the pistol ft match...
The shoot off between Dan L and Steve Q
I've always wanted to get great photos of a bunch of the rigs used in a match, and finally made it happen for this ft silhouette match (somehow missed a close up of Dan's RAW micro but it can be seen in the shoot off photo above). An astute observer will notice a bit of a unicorn in these gun photos..I'll give a hint,....it is 1 of 1 in two ways, the ONLY .177, and the ONLY pistol using this airgun platform that exists anywhere (click on em for better images).
Part 2 will have the rifle silhouette....
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