Bullseye

The L Match is intended to draw in non-Bullseye shooters. It allows two-handed shooting and has significantly bigger scoring rings, and is fired completely from the 25 yard line. Slow fire is briefer with only four minutes and many competitors shoot “double-taps” (spaced a few seconds apart) to compress the needed time.

I’ll be driving to Canton and Perry this year and can carry some ammo for others. We plan to drive from Phoenix through Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Amarillo, Oklahoma City and St Louis to get there.

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Two series of test loads have been fired downrange in the Ransom Rest in pursuit of an accurate load for some 155 grain Moly-coated LSWCs I have on-hand.

The Doing Brain

This brain rides the bicycle, throws the ball, drives the car and makes the shot. It knows how to coordinate eye, hand, arm and foot so everything acts in concert. It works best if left to its own. It can learn new things by imitation but it needs repetition to get it down. And while you can do other things while riding or driving, don’t talk to the Doing brain while it’s doing. Just let it “do” and everything will come out fine.

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Fortunately, Hodgdon’s on-line database does and, better still, it includes loads for two powders I actually have on-hand, Hodgdons Clays and Winchester 231.

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The ammo shortage recently had me checking my storage bins, drawers and shelves out in the garage.

Look on the left for the “Shooters to the Line!” list of the next five events, and also at the top of the display via the “Calendar” button in the main menu.

In a staple match, everyone puts a buck into the kitty and a single staple into the center of each target. When the line is called, the first to shoot away their target’s staple wins. It has to be completely gone.

Click the picture to go to ArizonaPistol.com, the scores and events calendar for Bullseye and International pistol at Phoenix Rod & Gun.

Speaking in 1962, President John F. Kennedy explained why America should go to the moon. He said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”