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If you answer would be different for a club event vs. an actual NRA Approved (or Registered) match, please say what's different and why.
Anyway, I tagged along with my Dad (and often Mom too) for a number of regular bullseye pistol matches when I was a kid and there used to be a LOT of participation. Two different clubs within 20 miles of home had turning targets back then (both ranges are gone now, but one of the two clubs is still around).
It's a tough accuracy-centered game, with the same target (black bull out to the 8 ring instead of the 9) at 50 yards slow fire as for the 25-yard timed and rapid fire stages.
The times are generous, 10 minutes for a 10-shot slow fire string of 10 shots, 20 seconds per 5-round string timed fire at 25 yards (two strings), and the same drill in rapid fire except 10 seconds per 5 round string. That's nothing compared to the "splits" in IPSC and IDPA of anywhere from a slow .8 second between shots to the blistering (to me) splits of .18 second.
But it's done with a 3.something inch 10-ring and one-handed.
It IS hard, but is also IS the "National Match Course" for pistol.
And a typical match has one done with a .22, another with any safe centerfire (certain size and other limits apply), then finally with a .45. That's 900 points for a short match. Big matches are "2700"s, with three targets done with each gun at each stage.
Even if just to try it out, what would it take to get YOU to one of these precision accuracy events???
Anyway, I tagged along with my Dad (and often Mom too) for a number of regular bullseye pistol matches when I was a kid and there used to be a LOT of participation. Two different clubs within 20 miles of home had turning targets back then (both ranges are gone now, but one of the two clubs is still around).
It's a tough accuracy-centered game, with the same target (black bull out to the 8 ring instead of the 9) at 50 yards slow fire as for the 25-yard timed and rapid fire stages.
The times are generous, 10 minutes for a 10-shot slow fire string of 10 shots, 20 seconds per 5-round string timed fire at 25 yards (two strings), and the same drill in rapid fire except 10 seconds per 5 round string. That's nothing compared to the "splits" in IPSC and IDPA of anywhere from a slow .8 second between shots to the blistering (to me) splits of .18 second.
But it's done with a 3.something inch 10-ring and one-handed.
It IS hard, but is also IS the "National Match Course" for pistol.
And a typical match has one done with a .22, another with any safe centerfire (certain size and other limits apply), then finally with a .45. That's 900 points for a short match. Big matches are "2700"s, with three targets done with each gun at each stage.
Even if just to try it out, what would it take to get YOU to one of these precision accuracy events???