What Would it Take to Get YOU out to a Bullseye ("Conventional Pistol" Event?

[Pete D.]

About old eyes and focus.....that is why so many competitors have put red dot sights on their Bullseye guns. Sure does change the game for older eyes.
Aside from dots, there are devices like the Merit adjustable iris which work marvelously well with iron sights.
My experience over the years with Bullseye shooting is that whatever problem you have, someone else has had it and found a solution.
Pete

 

[fordfan485]

I would love to try it out because it sounds like the pistol equivalent to high power rifle which I shoot fromm time to time. Only problem is of the two local clubs to me, one requires that you be a member or a guest of a member (e.g. you cant just show up, and membership is closed). The other has .22 league match at 11am on weekdays. Sorry but 11am on a weekday is a no go for me cause of work. I picked up a nice Springfield Custom 1911 Hardball gun for CMP EIC pistol shoots that I would love to try it out in a match. I do need to get a decent .22 pistol though, I doubt my Walther P22 would cut it.(Looking at a Ruger MkIII 22/45 Target). Btw I am 28 years old

 

[RAT807]

I just happened to show up an hour before our club's Bullseye match started. I decided to watch as it is something I want to try later when I get a good load worked up for paper targets and not steel. lol I had several guns offered to me and they waived the entry fee to get me to shoot. So with a borrowed Ruger .22 and used my stock 9mm and shot the 3 courses and had fun. Needless to say I experienced several things I was not expecting or preparred for but managed to improve as the match went on. There is a big difference between a 1.5 lb .22 trigger and a 5+lb Glock trigger

 

[TRX]

I'd love to. And there are even ranges within half an hour that sponsor such events.

But they want a $300 membership, plus bench fee, plus $125 or so for an "event fee." $425, plus ammunition.

FU

They don't really have any desire for non-current-members to contaminate their facility, of course. I'm not entirely sure why they keep posting the dates on their web sites.

 

[murf]

grump,

my suggestion is to start a two-handed class. all legs to be shot with the same centerfire gun, same rules otherwise.

seems the problem here is no love for the one-handed game. may get the idpa guys interested in improving their basics. most people shoot two-handed anyway. this might make getting into the bullseye game a little more palatable.

murf

 

[tuj]

bullseye is not shot two-handed. The technique is very very different than conventional defensive modern pistol.

maybe if we put up a 'wall' for the IDPA guys to hide behind and make them run to their targets, they would come shoot bullseye.

 

[Sa-tevr]

Some clubs allow new shooters to use two hands.

The two clubs I participate at charge about $15 bucks to compete in a 2700 (22, Centerfire and 45). No membership fees or anything, so I was really surprised at what I was reading about other clubs.

 

[Trent]

How to draw shooters? Put a row of 10 3" clays at 25 yards and count how many shots it takes the person to hit them all.

Yeah I know so far off base it's ridiculous; but that's the point.

It's why the weekly Trap meets at my gun club draw 75+ people every week but the sporting rifle match I run, draws 10, and the F-Class and Benchrest event draws 2 or 3 live bodies.

People like the immediate feedback.

We're a "fast food generation". Our previous generation was an "I'm OK with preparing dinner 8 hours early in a crock pot" generation.

The current generation has the sum expanse of human knowledge on the internet at their fingertips so learning and remembering aren't really necessary. Putting time in for a reward doesn't make sense anymore, to the new generation. The last generation, if you wanted to know something, you best read, and REMEMBER it because you couldn't just pull your phone out of your pocket and get the answer to any question on the planet in any field, in 3 seconds or less.

There's very few shooters that ever use the 25 yard bank on our pistol range. I'm one of the few who does, because, frankly 7 and 10 yards just don't do anything for me anymore, and the plywood backing is always in superior shape to the swiss-cheese-head-sized-holes in the plywood on the shorter range berms, so it's easier to staple up my targets.

Patience.

You're fighting to keep a sport alive which involves patience in a world that has NONE.

I don't think it's possible, at least, nowhere near the numbers that the last generation drew.

 

[Trent]

Please note that while my previous post was dripping with venom, it wasn't directed at the sport. There's nothing wrong with the Bullseye / Conventional Pistol sport. Rather, there's something wrong with the world.

 

[murf]

trent,

the world is constantly evolving (yes, i looked up the definition in a dictionary, not the internet). if bullseye doesn't evolve with it, it will eventually go the way of the dodo.

i got rid of my slide rule a long time ago (still have my hp 12c though). i understand the venom, but realize it makes no difference in the end.

and, making sarcastic fun of the other disciplines won't help the shooting sport as a whole. i, for one, think a change to the sport of bullseye shooting is a good idea and way over due.

murf

 

[twofifty]

....action bullseye

 

[Trent]

Zombie bullseye.

Heck, you want to get the kids involved, put the target on the head of a zombie picture.

"10 points for an eyeball."

Game over, that'd take off.

 

[murf]

zombie bullseye will be on xbox360 by next christmas. reminds me of playing "duck hunt" with the kids on our nintendo.

i like your idea better, trent. more of an audience. i bet if you polled the idpa guys, a lot of them would be gamers. just a logical progression.

murf

 

[MrBorland]

i got rid of my slide rule a long time ago

i bet if you polled the idpa guys, a lot of them would be gamers.

This IDPA shooter's interested in bullseye as it is, and I doubt putting some cutsie dressing on it would attract other practical shooters, either. I don't hear IDPA guys talking about all the silhouette matches they shoot, for instance.

I don't think the slide rule analogy is very valid. Though bullseye competition may not have the participation it once had, the skills it develops are far from obsolete and/or irrelevant. Brian Enos, the great practical shooter once wrote "You never really go 'Beyond Fundamentals', you just apply them better and faster.

 

[PiratePenguin]

I'd do bullseye if it were:

1. In my city
2. Inexpensive
3. On a weekend (I work 9-5)
4. Possible to be competitive with a stock gun

It may actually be all of these things, I'm not sure. I will probably look around after I actually have a gun and see what's in the Pittsburgh area.