Yeah, umm you didn't get teh part wife and I have shot smallbore, I'm aware of the time limits etc...
In highpower if you use a minute per shot, you've probably lost the match... We get basically a minute per shot, you get 30 seconds per shot. Almost every slow fire shot I've shot in highpower has been in under 30 seconds typically on average. Thats including waiting on someone to pull and mark and recycle your target, no instant feedback.
I never said HP silhouette was easy, but it sure would not be as tortorous as putting all the highpower gear on. There are 2 parts to shooting.
And since a particular person you MIGHT know, David Tubb, has won both HP and Silhouette more than a few times, its a workable thing to shoot both.
Like I said, much easier game to get into is the silhouette wihtout suffering. Now accelling at the game won't be easy, but at least you won't have to learn sitting rapid(yes sitting, its not all prone after offhand, like you say), prone rapid and prone slow all the way to 1000 yards.
Have you ever gone out in 110 degree heat with 80% humidity, and jeans and a shirt on, then put a long sleeve hooded sweat shirt on, then a leather felt insulated coat, insulated glove, and such and then been in that gear sometimes for 20-25 minutes depending on prep time, sighters, and strings plus alibis and so on? I have actually come off the line after winning a 600 yard match with stars showing and had to lay down in the shade and get some wind on me as I was basically in heat stress....
Those days silhouette would have been very welcome.
Wanna show me some of your 600 and 1000 yard supported iron sight groups. LOL.
In the rimfire stuff the turkeys were the worst to me. But it sure helped my standing highpower scores.
Really its all relative. wife and I have shot all kinds of things as cross training and contrary to your thoughts, at least for us, we've moved towards the top in all of them and have trophies from winning in every last cross training event we've tried.
In fact in bullseye pistol shooting, I managed to leg two 10 point hard legs, including winning an overall leg match in the first 2 legs I ever shot with a pistol 3rd one I cross fired in rapid or I've have been pistol distinguished in 3 matches. Something fairly uncommon I'd think.
Which brings me to the point, all competition is good for us. Cross training is good for us. Each competition disicpline has its hard and easy parts. We should all be helping each other out, not out here snubbing someone elses choice of sport for being too easy or not hard enough or whatever... its as arrogant as I used to be about anyone that hunted with anything other than archery... too easy to hunt, to kill, why would you. I learned after I got out of my teen yeras, we are all in this thing together.
Quick question of you though, how did you quickly change your NPA from target to target on banks? Or did you set up NPA to the last target and just have tension in the first ones?
Still need to pick your brain abou 284 loads one day if I ever bed my rifle into the stock and get to working loads in it....
