Recent content by Soupy44

The 6oc and sub-6 holds also help you keep your focus on the front sight. If your focus shifts to the target instead of the front sight, grouping will be quite difficult.

I haven't made a round go off since July. Life has been busy lately. We just moved and I had the joy of moving: 3500 147gr 9mm JHP 5000 185gr .45 JHP 2000 158gr .38 RN 2000 185gr .45 SWC And all the brass and primers to load all of that. Ready to get it done, after I find everything in...

The 50ft target is...challenging

The quality of your gun/ammo combo will be more pronounced at 50y. I was told early on in bullseye that most pistols will shoot a box of rocks well at 25y. As proof, I shoot my great grandfather's WW1 1911 in the M&P and As-Issued matches which are all at 25y. That gun sounds like a baby...

I'm betting human element is the major factor here. Even off bags we can easily mess things up!

It's easy to try to dress up shots too much in slow which leads to poor trigger control. You feel you can snatch the 10 or X, but that usually leads to snatching the trigger ruining all your good hold work. Timed fire is fast enough to force you to stay on the trigger while slow enough to...

Download the Marine Corp Pistol Workbook. It will give you step by step drills that will get you to master level scores.

I'm at Atterbury now and look a walk down the line. You can pretty much sum it up as : 185gr lead SWC HP 185gr SWC 185gr JHP 200gr SWC There is more variety at the short line (25y), but accuracy isn't the same issue there.

Same style and design as Unertl, but it's a Lyman.

Couldn't find a newer picture of it, but I shot a Lyman Super Target Spot for smallbore. I think I'm 11-12 in this picture. Worked just fine!

Smallbore prone and position shooters will use 25-30x. Our 10rings are about a dime at 50m and a quarter at 100m. We might drop the power some to shoot offhand, but 30x isn't too bad offhand either.

The 158gr loaded light for BE shooting with Titegroup is around 3.0gr with a 6in barrel. I'd imagine you could go a little lighter than that by a couple 1/10ths at least.

In BE circles I've heard as low as 2.0gr BE, your results may vary. Most stories are around 2.3-2.4gr BE.

Forgot to mention, here's a forum completely devoted to Bullseye: https://www.bullseyeforum.net/ Lots of High Masters, National Champions, some Olympians, and a number of highly regarded gunsmiths regularly post.

Bulls with no rings are great practice. Simply put, bullseye tends to have good shots, and then the other shots. If you focus on hitting the black with good fundamentals, good things happen. IF you try to dress up the shot and shoot a 10 or X, fundamentals tend to go downhill quickly. You'll...