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Hosting a shootin' match in the backyard this afternoon. 3 good friends and myself, shooting on the 20 & 50 yard butt on pretty much any style they want. First round on the 20 will have 5 Lifesaver candies taped to the board. 10 points if they hit the candy, bonus 50 points for putting it thru the hole w/o breaking the candy. Putting one thru the hole will net 60 points total. I suspect they will bring their .22 RF guns. The hole measures .284" in diameter. I think that's plenty of slack, how about you?

I have a .177 caliber RF gun that shoots BB caps. Is that cheatin'?

so what's the prize ?

adult beverages after ?

If you ain’t cheatin’, you don’t want to win bad enough😮

You get to eat the candy.

yes, ;but your rules.

Yes you say? Thanks, I feel better.

Prizes? Well, I got a tree full of grapefruit and mebbe one of the prize winners can take a dozen or so. Think I have a brick of CCI .22 WMR for another prize. Not sure any of them have a gun with that chamber. Maybe a box of Sneezer bullets? They all have .30 cal rifles. Not my fault if they are .300 Win Mags and such.

Not according to Askins.

Going through hole with no break-50 extra points.

Does all who shoot get a 1st prize?

Offhand?

Don't forget your participation ribbons.........

Reminds me of a shooting competition I was at once a few years ago.

During one round, the usual NRA scorer was in the can, or lunch or something... He was replaced by a real idiot.

My group was just a ragged hole in the "x" ring. A small hole at that...

The scorer counted like 6 shots as 'misses'.

I objected, and he said the "shots were nowhere to be found on the target, and therefore I must have missed the target completely."

So, idiot... I have a bughole group, and then, for some unexplained reason, missed the entire target with 6 shots?

"Yep." he said, handing me my target...

You don't reckon those shots may have gone through the hole made by the group in the X ring?

"nope"...

Yes. Maybe. Smoke and mirrors are a no no.

They just might each win all prizes.

I liked the way Askins thought.

You have .177 cal. BB caps? Let's see em.

Make sure they say "You're Special!"

He showed them yesterday on a rimfire thread.

I'd be out, but I'm far more accustomed to putting much bigger diameter things in bigger diameter holes.

Well, the party is over. Nobody was able to put a .22 thru a 7mm hole at 20 yards. One fella missed one completely and to make amends had to eat that one. 4 shooters at 50 yards and the spread was 19 points for 10 shots. They all took some grapefruit and the rest of the lifesavers...praise be unto Zeus!

One curious experiment involved a comparison of recent production CCI SV and Aguila 60 gr ammo. I'd never shot that stuff before and to my surprise it shot better thru my 15" twist barrel than the CCI. 20 yards: 1/4" for 3 with the Aguila and 3/8" for the CCI.

One of the wankers brought along his grandfather's bicycle rifle, a most curious thing mfg'd by International Firearms, allegedly located in Washington DC. It had not been fired in approximately 60 years and it took two tries to fire the first round. Extraction was sticky at first, and the sights were not well regulated. That said, 3 shooters put 2 shots in one hole. Cute little artifact. Should I buy a bike now?

Just for DMc, 'cause I know stuff's not always easy to find here in the Campfire...

A fella named Paul Neubrand from Munderkingen, Germany, lost his mind back before WW1 +/-, a time when parlor rifles were quite the rage over there. Maybe they still are, I dunno. As a result...







There are some curious features about the construct on this piece. An uniformed inspection would lead one to think it is a .38 to .45 caliber CF, falling block. Well, it has that appearance, but don't be fooled. The barrel is an insert of about 12" length, .177" in the groove and sporting 12 grooves with a 8" twist. The twist rate is a rough approximation.

Unlike most double set trigger guns, this one only appears to be of that construct. In reality the forward trigger actually cocks the gun and the rear....just breath on it lightly and it goes POP! 3-4 ounces is my guess. Then we get to the rear sight. It isn't a peep/vernier though it has similar form. It is a diopter sight with optical glass in the interior that allows for limited magnification and focus.

Lastly, it is obviously not intended for snap shooting and in fact might be more difficult for full size adults to mount than OJ putting his glove on. It can be done however and once it becomes one with the shooter it is stunningly precise. The ammo comes from ISS ( http://www.iss-internationalshootersservice.com/ammunition.html ) and is primer powered. MV runs in the 800-850 fps range, the BBs are lightly lubed with SPG in my home, but others might do it differently. I have a conical mould as well....makes the cutest little bullets you ever did see. The mould is a good training tool for dwarfs.

The target above was shot at 50', offhand, in Cody, WY about 10 years back. I have several more like it, scoring in the 245-249 range. One of these days I intend to kill a pig with it....just because I know it will.