Practice for competitions at home

[Bill177]

Want to have a little fun while worrying your scores to death? Try these "shoot with honor" postal matches. They follow the rules you are training with and can give you a trackable record of your progress over a long period of time.

http://www.airguninfo.com/matchinfo.htm
Offers a biweekly fun AP 20 shot/20 minute match and a monthly AP 60 shot/60 minute match.

http://omega.pol.lublin.pl/highnoon/highnoon.htm
A monthly series of matches for AP, AR, FP, and FR.

http://www.targetshooting.ca/matches_tsc.htm
A selection of AP, AR, FP, and 50Mm rifle.

All of the above matches are free - no cost to the shooter. You just report your scores via a form or email on each web site. It couldn't get easier.

For variety, there are other competitions that do not use standard paper targets or standard distances. You can see a selection of these at: http://www.airguninfo.com/matches.shtml

Although sure to stir controversy, there is nothing to prevent you from shooting at a shorter distance than 10 meters for AP or AR. Just use properly reduced size targets - as can be found at: http://www.airguninfo.com/pell_tar.shtml

The AirgunInfo matches allow the use of reduced size targets. High Noon allows 6m shooting with proper targets. I don't know about Target Shooting Canada.

Reduces size targets, when used correctly, give the same sight picture at a short distance as the real thing. Scoring can be a problem, as the pellet is not reduced. Hence, some shooters score to the lower ring, rather than the higher ring.

Postal matches are a lot of fun and generally, for AP and AR, don't require travel to a range (in the winter). Basements, rec-rooms, hallways, garages, etc. can be your range.

Personally, I love my indoor range - heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer. It doesn't get much better than that. On
those long cold winter evenings I wouldn't shoot at all if I had to drive to the range.

The object is to shoot, shoot, and shoot some more.