Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles 24HC Black Rifle Challenge Thread

Just tape a flashlight to the side of the rifle....

Wood gets you points for style. All practical (away from bench) rifles are welcome.

What are the diameter of the circles? Any info or link to the rules on that one?

That was shot at the beginning of this year and I believe would be the high score (19/20). I never even posted that target because the thread is old and there was not a lot of interest in the shoot. Mainly Formid, Carl, Prarie goat, Deflave and myself shot the event. Guys like steelhead flapped their damned lips (as per usual), but never threw up any targets...



Great question mr mountain... Here's the link to that shoot:

Carl Ross positional drill "postal" match

It's a timed event and is a little challenging. I about half wore myself out the first couple times doing it. Great practice for those of us that like shooting in different "field" positions.... One thing about it, You need to be selective about what rifles you use, because the big heavies will wear you out.... I posted scores and targets from just about every dang new "hunting" rifle I bought around that time. It's also a great way to weed out the ones that don't fit you well in different positions and the ones you don't shoot as well. Trust me, after running a rifle through this event, you'll find out which ones are good, which ones are great, as well as ones that are absolute dogs.... Give it a try, even if you don't post results. It's excellent practice.... By the way, I believe mr. Pat Sinclair tried this shoot, but did not complete it (no score) or use Carl's targets. Like i said, big heavies will get you...

Thanks, BSA! I'll try it this weekend. Makes alot more sense than shooting a hunting rifle off a bench.

It's fun practice man. I like running that drill right before hunting season starts.

The walking douchebag strikes again.

. Jimmy, thinking this wasn't 3 inch groups. LOL

Jeff,

Dig your jacket and glove out of the closet, your groups would probably tighten up a bit.

At Perry on the 300 yard line I shot a 98 in the P-100, a 99 in the NTI, and cleaned it in the six man team.

Also shot a 99-5x at 600 in the P-100. Shot a 9 on the first shot and cleaned it from there. Would have made the cut if I could shoot on my feet. Ordered a SCATT trainer and will have to start putting some serious effort in it.

Also cleaned a couple of 300 yard 10 shot strings at Atterbury including a 100-7X. A little easier there with sighters and not having to stand.

Not having to stand? I guess I've been gone to long. Scopes. Not standing etc...

But thats good shooting at 300 really. IMHO once I got really solid at all the other lines the offhand came together too. Seemed like rimfire silhouette did good for cross training for us for offhand years ago. But mostly offhand is knowing when to take the shot or make the attempt a second or third time instead.

Never got higher than 8x at 200 or 300 for me. Can't even recall the X counts at 600 anymore. Probably not more than 15. Standing I sucked at. May have shot a 99 string out of 20 once. Can't recall shooting higher than 97 in 10 or 193 or so in 20

You still have to stand for CMP. There is not much difference in 300 prone, but not having to stand from sitting has made a difference. To stay competitive in the big matches cannot afford to drop any points in rapids.

I do love the scopes, no issue seeing, but the scores are going up, especially as we learn to shoot them better. To LEG out now it is going to take solid 480 plus scores. The cutoff at Perry was a 479 with around 10Xs. The weather was good but so is the equipment.

What is that on your rear sight? It looks brown? Can’t really see the target holes that well. Hope you get free to shoot it again.

Looks like some of mother natures thread locker.

its white paint on the rear base and sight with a fine black vertical line so that I can see if its centered for windage zero or not at a glance. Also have paint marks on the rear to verify elevation and windage settings.

Oh yeah holes are hard to see cause I didn't shoot 10 shots. LOL

Despite all the development of the black guns and ammo being used by the hot shots in the military teams, it took a scoped M16 to finally break the old record in the Interservice set by a Marine with his M14 - 995-50X.

Jeff, you are right, I still remember when you stuck it to that New Yorker at Camp Perry, yours was the only clean at 600 in the NTI - 200-14X.

Found it, would there be anything wrong with firing 20 rounds with your scoped rifle then pulling the scope and firing 20 with the irons?

Now i have to figure out what size a reduced target is, cant PDF?

Gunner I don’t see why that would be a problem at all, as long as you shot 10 and 10, then 10 and 10 again.
As for the targets it’s pretty lax to which targets you use. I don’t think anybody cares, as long as it’s two targets that can both be seen together at once and not two individual targets photographed separately ya know...?
Shoot em up and have fun is what it was all about

Yep, have at it. You can use whatever target you like. The MR-31 in the link was a good size for me with irons but use whatever gives you the best sight picture.