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IDAHO AIRGUN FIELD TARGET CLUB
Pocatello, ID
New IAFTC Officers
for 2009!! |
President/Treasurer - Ron Gill |
Rifle Match Director - Ash Covey |
Pistol Match Director - Ray Carter |
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Idaho Airgun Field
Target Club
November 15, 2008 Match
Report
By Ron Gill
| This November shoot kicked off our
first winter airgun shooting season.
We held two events indoors as well
as an outdoor field target match for pistols.
After a week of rain and snow, the
weather was nice enough to shoot FT outdoors even through the
temperature was low enough to put a crimp in our CO2
performance.
We
can’t expect balmy high altitude temps in the 40s to come to our
rescue of our CO2 powered guns over the next four months, but
the Idaho Airgun Field Target Club started its first indoor
season with this match.
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INDOORS
We shot ten meter international
pistol on regulation (B-40) targets.
This sport is a departure for most of our
shooters, since it requires open sights and a one handed hold.
Everyone was up to try it.
After the match, Ash Covey said that he
liked the match, “It is very Olympic and very traditional”.
George Gardner shot a Smith and
Wesson model 78.
In the 1970s, before the current wave of
lookalike CO2 pistols, this gun was made in the United States, and
resembles the S&W model 41 automatic.
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Our ten meter scores:
Ron Gill, 122/150, TAU-7,
Misterklugen pistol
Ray Carter, 101/150, Daisy 777,
Ash Covey, 80/150, Crosman 1377
Crosman wad cutters
Ron Roberts, 78/150, Daisy 1377,
Crosman wad cutters
George Gardner, 77/150, Smith and
Wesson 78,
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Scoring targets behind the firing line |
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We also shot bell
target.
This sport goes back over a century
in England, and is still shot in pubs in England and Wales.
We used traditional scoring rings
for our target, but we allowed scopes as well as iron sights to
be used.
Some folks only have scopes on
their rifles and many scopes will focus no closer than 10 yards.
The only hitch is that our steel
bell targets are not yet made, so we used paper targets.
What a rush that is going to be
when the bell rings with each bull’s-eye!
In Bell Target competition there
are 6 shots at a target with scoring rings valued at 1 thru 5.
Since bell target is
traditionally shot with iron sights, I brought my
Hanel 311 ten meter target rifle.
Back in the early 1960s this rifle,
made in East Germany, was the hot ticket on the other side of
the Iron Curtain.
This rifle has a leather
compression washer that needs to be oiled to maintain its
performance.
The 311 has to smoke with each shot
to shoot its best.
It is always a favorite with other
airgun shooters.
The bell target scores were:
Scoped
Ash Covey, 25/30, Daystate X2, JSBH
George Gardner, Crosman Custom Shop, JSBL
Iron
Sights
Ron Gill, 21/30, Haenel 311,
Ray Carter, 16/30 Haenel 311
Ron Roberts,
16/30, Haenel 311,
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Ash shooting bell target
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OUTDOORS
Ray Carter, our pistol
director, laid out a pistol FT match.
We were going to do this indoors, but the
weather turned out nice so we went back out to the sagebrush, where FT
belongs, and shot a 27 shot match.
The cold weather, high 30s, really played
havoc with our CO2 powered guns, but it was good to be out in the
sunshine.
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Pistol field target scores:
Magnifying (Scopes)
George Gardner, 12/27, Crosman 2250, RWS
3-9X, JSBL
Ron Roberts, 1/27, Crosman 1377, Crosman wad
cutters, 4X
Non-magnifying (Iron and red dot sights)
Ray Carter, 6/27 Crosman 1740, Beeman Laser
Ron Gill, 2/27, TAU 7, Misterklugen pistol
Ash Covey, 3/27, Crosman 1377, Crosman wad
cutters
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