Oh boy. When there finally is a perfect, almost tailor-made competition for Sako Triace in .32S&W Long I'm a few thousands of miles away.lol my local gun shop is having this competition next Saturday and I'm gonna enter. Must be centerfire, no lasers or optics.
So it got me to thinking, what should I use?
How big is the snowman, and how big are the circle/targets?
According to the link provided by Pat Riot, the overall all size of the target is 23"x35"
I would say that the 12 circles are roughly 4" in diameter, the circles at the bottom are bigger than the ones on top but I think 4" would be about the average size. So yeah, at 45 feet you have to actually aim but 30 seconds is a lot of time even if you are doing two revolver reloads.
well then - how about you try it and report the results?
So me being a iron sight revolver piker shooting a 6 shot S&W 686 my worse stage was in the low 50 seconds (55 seconds) shooting at 34 targets until they fell at 25 yards, so certainly had a few misses while the clock was running. So if we divide this in half to approximate 15 shots (in this case targets) and also divide the finish time in half we can say 17 shots at 27.5 seconds at almost twice the distance. And again I'm a piker, still if this were local to me I would do it with a 6 shot revolver with 2 reloads knowing that I will certainly beat some of the guys with 15 rounds in the basement. An event open to the general public most likely there will be some targets with no hits on any of the circles, so chances of being laughed at are probably minimal. But even so who cares, just go out and have fun. If I wanted the best possible score in as fast a time as I could get I would use my 8 shot iron sight revo that would be only 1 reload.
Are you challenging me to a contest Merle1?
As a reminder, I said:
OP listed a Blackhawk as one option. That is what I was referring to. I can reload my 625 and shoot accurately eighteen rounds in 30 seconds easily using moon clips and am pretty sure I can do the same with my 686. I have done the el Presidente a couple times with my Model 19 in under ten seconds.
Single actions, well, that's another story. Had one guy who shot pins with one and had two cylinders, one 357, the other a 9 and switched out but still three shots short.
But hey it was a eye opener, next time I go by there
The fact that there is a "next time" means that the event served it's purpose. Some shooters get discouraged and come up with a million reasons why the whole thing is stupid, others like you lionking realize that when you add pressure that "hey this is fun and I want to do it again". I want to get better. I want to do this. There is always a first time so I'm glad you are still of good cheer.
One bit of advice I wanted to give you but forgot. Most shooters would start with the head and shoot down. Personally I would start at the bottom and shoot up. For two reasons, first the targets are bigger and so that helps you get settled and second it is harder to see the targets when you move down. When you start at the bottom all of the targets are in view, when you start at the top only the top is in view so you are hunting around for an unseen target when you move down.
If you watched others shoot you probably noticed that you cannot judge a shooters ability by what they look like, what they wear or the hardware they carry.
One bit of advice I wanted to give you but forgot. Most shooters would start with the head and shoot down. Personally I would start at the bottom and shoot up. For two reasons, first the targets are bigger and so that helps you get settled and second it is harder to see the targets when you move down. When you start at the bottom all of the targets are in view, when you start at the top only the top is in view so you are hunting around for an unseen target when you move down.