Skill of marksmanship and all related (join in)

[jtbo]

I did order just few days ago 250 official targets and one box of H&N Finale Match Pistol pellets (I have heard that should be best for the gun), so I think that I can do few rounds with these supplies

Also oiled and adjusted my pistol as was recommended by pyramidair blog which seem to be rather informative.

Lot of shots seem to escape near to edges of target still, my hand seem not to act way I command it to act

Done also lot of reading about proper technics and such so I could tell what I do wrong and how I should do things, from three main things I can do only one right at the time, locking wrist, watching sights so they form correct pattern and squeezing the trigger, if I can do all those at same time, maybe I hit bit better

I did make also a bow and my arm has nice bruises from that, cord slapped few times quite well to my arm, really painful, anyway wooden arrow with field tip entered almost 2cm into solid wood when shot from 10 meters, it starts to be near, too bad wood which I used was spoiled by bugs, there is tunnel in such place that bow is about to crack each time I draw it, but making bow is not too difficult from some branch.

[volvodspec]

And you think you have a problem

holy shit, yeah that's a bit worse than we have here hahahhahaha!!!

[jtbo]

And you think you have a problem

holy shit, yeah that's a bit worse than we have here hahahhahaha!!!

Funny thing is that they did not hover over any other of my cars, only that one and it is not like this only for me, there are other yank tank drivers that have reported the same, even same colour cars and only yank tank has been chosen by those creatures.

Birds have been rather happy today

Got new targets, got new pellets, shoots really nice, just have to rest a bit and then will do some shooting, with tired arm got 43 points as best one when tested quickly, not bad, but I know I can do better, or at least better 43, that was quite barely as several shots were just tiny bit touching higher score zone, but as rules state, that is enough and is accepted as being higher number. Nice thing is that there is no more tearing of target.

[jtbo]

Jtbo takes 1st place with whopping 46 points, is round 2 already over or will there be challenger from the shadows?


I'm improving, hitting 10 every time now, still quite bit of room for improvement as I still hit 5 at times and it seems to be that shots go more right than they should, but I'm quite happy that I can actually already keep sights on target and target is not just some dot that zooms past sights with ridiculous speed. Changed way I grip, how I stand, also left arm position to what many seem to use in Olympics by photos, seem to relax my aim quite a bit, also hand is not so tired now as I grip with fingertips instead of squeezing the handle, also I'm now using thumb and other three fingers to kind of pinch the handle, had quite lot of effect to how pistol handles after squeezing the trigger.

Quite happy with improvements that I made to pistol too, as you can see it makes now crisp circles instead of tearing the target.

[jtbo]

New improvement again, that is 10, 10, 10, 10, 9 = 49 points, still not getting these daily, but moving towards that

[jtbo]

Round 2 is about to close, when Sunday ends round 3 starts, make sure you post your scores in time or at least post at least some scores

I promise not to make 49 next week as well

[Fuse]

Nice.

My BB guns are at summer house, if those work I'll post some results at the end of month when I'll visit there.

Both ones are cheap chinese crap though, which can't be adjusted properly.

At the military my scores were usually around from 95 to 100 points out of 100 points, with 10 rounds, bullseye giving 10 points, shot from 150m.

With a bit different gun though than BB gun http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... parent.png

[jtbo]

I just realized that I'm getting bit of hurry, there has been so much going on that I haven't had chance to shoot at all at this week and round is going to end tomorrow, so have to do some shooting at morning before I continue working with 360.

Fuse, I did remember that you were a good shot, your equipment is going to make some luck into game I think, but will be interesting to see what kind of results you get from those. Some bb guns can be surprisingly accurate.

I got new pellets too as I already used almost all the old ones, some really good ones here shoot even 3000 shots at month, but I think that even when I shoot a lot, I can shoot only 1000 shots in a month, probably few hundred less, my arm will get tired too easily.

[jtbo]

Sorry guys, I missed deadline for last round, so no winners there. We got quite severe thunderstorm here yesterday, just now got power back and having checked damages, all stuff that I did grow at garden are destroyed by half inch size hails, luckily no damage to cars, but pretty much every edible plant was destroyed, lot of trees came down less than mile up north from here, so kind of lucky that trees on yard did not fell down.

So it is now Round 4 that is going, however if anyone else likes to join in, I naturally start from round 1 so it would be fair to everyone involved, but if we have few members in, then it would not be good to start always from round 1, however let's see if it comes to that state, bit quiet so far

[jtbo]

Sorry that there is small break in here, week ago I did manage to shoot 43, but failed to post it up here as I haven't still managed to take photo from board.

There is now bit busy days so probably can't put up new result this week, but maybe next is bit easier.

Things are quite busy here, some work, need to get car running as at Thursday need to be in big job meeting with all collegues, house is mold infested and also next year need to move to new town because of work etc. So haven't got much of time for shooting lately.