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Events Ultimate Field Target @ PRGC on 03/22/2025

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The next UFT match will take place at the normal location, Phoenix Rod and Gun Club on the typical 4th Saturday of the month, which falls on 03/22 this month.

Here's last months match report, to give an idea of what these matches entail (FUN): https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...e-field-target-at-prgc-february-2025.1328113/

Check back with the PRGC's calendar for more details. They've got our standard time blocked off so match will probably start at 1pm (1300), with sight-in, sign-in from noon to 1pm.


Register for the match on Practiscore.

Feel free to pose any questions here in the announcement, or you can shoot me or the match director a PM. @Nofilters is the match director.
 
What does everyone think of the full Monty to this point?
I like it but I feel like I don't have the right gun to use in it presently, which is a single shot, then having to fill every 3 lanes so must carry the tank around too, and I need a lighter HS, plus lower reg setting for optimal tune, and really don't want to send the gun off for tuning, (honestly I prefer using the gun at 67 fpe where it shoots best with 42gr hand swaged slugs), so this all takes away from my personal fun factor in this FM match.

Yeah I can do it with that gun but would rather use a repeater, not need to fill during the match at all, but retain the excellent Ergos, trigger, and precision with the slugs I prefer. A tall order!

I currently have a decent 25 cal that I feel would automatically cause lost points on the 3/8th KZ's that I could use but I'm thinking about other rifles and calibers that might be more optimal for FM. We'll see??!!
Or stick to long range slug and rimfire. I do miss the rimfire = love that 1827F, a joy to shoot!

I never know what I'll do next, lol.
 
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What does everyone think of the full Monty to this point?
I like the format a lot.

As Steve pointed out, the parameters combine for a lot of strategizing....with the 50fpe limit, a guy can't bull his way through the wind with caliber and fpe. And the 3/8kzs also somewhat penalize larger calibers....with the trade off of probably having a higher hit percentage on the far targets with a high BC/FPE of a larger caliber....lots of pros and cons to mentally work through, and that has been FUN!

I spent a bunch of time getting dope on a potential full Monty gun on Friday of last week. This gun shoots pellets and slugs quite well, and I noticed that the pellet accuracy was better than the slug accuracy on the 10-25 yard shots. But that pellet advantage flips somewhere around 50 yards, where the slugs outpace the pellets in keeping true to their flight path (wind). So @steve123, I think we're all in the same boat of trying to figure out how best to tackle this unique problem. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but in the last two matches the Full Monty high score has been @5Power, using .22/25.4grain Monster RDs at just below the 50fpe cutoff. She seems to have found a happy medium of caliber, fpe, BC, and near AND far accuracy.

Generally though..... I like the 72 shot match. If I'm driving that far to shoot a match, I like to shoot more, rather than less. I like the 50fpe limit. I like the REALLY hard targets like the 3/8" kill zone at 22 yards or whatever it was. I like the 4 minute limit for 6 shots. I like that we've still got standing shots (although would personally prefer true offhand, versus standing bipod, but I'm likely in the minority here).

The Full Monty class of UFT fits my airgun mentality by leaning more towards lower power. And it does that without taking away the opportunity for the 60, 70, 80, 90fpe guys to be able to come and shoot their guns in the high power class.
 
This last meet was my first with the new format and I shot the full monty with my Redwolf .22 using JTS 22.07s at around 41 fpe. I enjoyed it, you know it’s just nice to try something new to get the juices flowing!

I think these JTS 22.07 pellets have promise but I need more time in the saddle with them to get my dope truthed more to my liking, particularly in the 75-100 range.

So my only concern on the full Monty is kind of a first world gripe which is the 4 minute time limit for the 6 shots which is the same time limit for the folks shooting 4 shots. I normally single shot load but was worried before the start of the match that I might be on the edge of not making the last shot so I decided to use magazines. I had no time issues with using the magazines (had plenty of time, usually over a minute, remaining after my last shot) but since I have always used single shot load in all my field target competitions it just put me out of my “normal” set up routine and I always felt awkward throughout the match.

My squad mate who is a very experienced FT shooter who placed high in this meet started out with a magazine because he apparently was close to timing out at the last meet. But after a couple lanes he changed back to single shot because of the hassle of having to reload his magazine between each lane. He was able to make it through the remaining match OK loading single shot but I was worried he might not make it on a couple lanes as he was down to the wire. Based on that I will probably continue to use magazines and do fine as I get my setup into memory but would prefer another 30 sec to 1 minute allowed for the Monty shooters to allow SS loading.