ReadyOnTheRight
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My trap team is done with trying to shoot Fall trap. Too many nights of driving 45 minutes to get pelted with snowflakes late in the season. And the Winter league is simply brutal.
So we have been talking about some sort of pistol competition when our summer league is over if a few weeks.
We all have home defense-type pistols in 9mm or .45acp.
No one has a real interest in the "run & shoot" type of games. The guys who do not have a 1911 or a .22 are not interested in spending $1000+ to do NRA bullseye.
A few of us shoot high power rifle. Why is there not a similar competition for pistols?
A pistol competiton where a person can use their standard home defense pistol, caliber does not matter - as long as it is "high power", no holsters or running are involved (due to the rules at many ranges), accuracy is valued over speed, and you can score with a standard paper target.
I am thinking something along the lines of...
-Standard targets (NRA Bullseye targets perhaps)
-10 yards slow fire
-10 yards rapid fire
-25 yards slow fire
-25 yards rapid fire
-5 yards rapid fire
-Stance does not matter - one-handed NRA Bullseye, two-handed weaver stance - Who cares? What works for you?
-10 shots each stage
-Total of 50 shots
-Use any defensive handgun you like - we establish a minimum caliber - I am thinking .38spl / 9mm as a minimum caliber. We would have to approve/disapprove calibers
-Iron sights
-Rapid fire allows (just barely) enough time for revolver reloads
I am open to suggestions, but I want to keep it simple and based on home-defense types of handguns.
I am calling it "High Power Handgun".
Since we have the Internet...we could start this as an online league.
-Teams of 5 (can be online/virtual teams)
-Self-scoring
-Completed targets are scanned in with scoring
-Online member voting for disputed targets
-10 weeks of shooting per season - you can shoot all at one if you want to.
-Regional and national championships if it get popular enough
What do you think?
So we have been talking about some sort of pistol competition when our summer league is over if a few weeks.
We all have home defense-type pistols in 9mm or .45acp.
No one has a real interest in the "run & shoot" type of games. The guys who do not have a 1911 or a .22 are not interested in spending $1000+ to do NRA bullseye.
A few of us shoot high power rifle. Why is there not a similar competition for pistols?
A pistol competiton where a person can use their standard home defense pistol, caliber does not matter - as long as it is "high power", no holsters or running are involved (due to the rules at many ranges), accuracy is valued over speed, and you can score with a standard paper target.
I am thinking something along the lines of...
-Standard targets (NRA Bullseye targets perhaps)
-10 yards slow fire
-10 yards rapid fire
-25 yards slow fire
-25 yards rapid fire
-5 yards rapid fire
-Stance does not matter - one-handed NRA Bullseye, two-handed weaver stance - Who cares? What works for you?
-10 shots each stage
-Total of 50 shots
-Use any defensive handgun you like - we establish a minimum caliber - I am thinking .38spl / 9mm as a minimum caliber. We would have to approve/disapprove calibers
-Iron sights
-Rapid fire allows (just barely) enough time for revolver reloads
I am open to suggestions, but I want to keep it simple and based on home-defense types of handguns.
I am calling it "High Power Handgun".
Since we have the Internet...we could start this as an online league.
-Teams of 5 (can be online/virtual teams)
-Self-scoring
-Completed targets are scanned in with scoring
-Online member voting for disputed targets
-10 weeks of shooting per season - you can shoot all at one if you want to.
-Regional and national championships if it get popular enough
What do you think?