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I am the webmaster at ArizonaPistol.com -- you may reach me directly as ed@flat5.net or through the Contact form at that website. Access to scores is restricted at the specific request of several competitors. While not universal, ArizonaPistol.com is one of several club-based websites to follow this...

Fred Mannis wrote:I am trying to visualize what a combination of center, 6 o'clock and sub 6 holds would look like.

My wobble.

If you are in San Francisco, see Dr. Norman Wong. He is a Bullseye shooter as well as a top-notch eye guy. After my normal exam and with a preliminary prescription ready, we went to his front office where he handed me a broom handle with a red dot and the rib from a 1911 screwed onto a platform affi...

I once threw a dirt clod from my right field baseball position at the back of the head of the second baseman who, for some reason now long forgotten, deserved it. There was absolutely no way my little league throwing could hit such an object so I was quite safe in merely dreaming of the effect of th...

Use two hands and support the end of the barrel on something to get it sighted-in for the desired aiming point. (I'm working to learn sub-6, roughly half-a-bull below the bottom of the black.) Alternatively, let someone who shoots well do the sighting-in for you. Once the sights are set, leave them ...

We're all adults but we all behave like children sometimes. The rules should be posted before the match and, by entering you are agreeing to those rules. But if this particular rule wasn't posted, or wasn't within the "reference rules" under which the event took place, then a change shoul...

Standing nearby, I observed that Steve Reiter seems to be doing something like this. I noticed that, when preparing to shoot, he will gently press and release the trigger several times before committing to releasing the shot. My first thought was that he's feeling for that right spot on his finger b...

Photographed "under construction", you can see the shooting hall and the clay target center for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing using Google-Earth. (Surf to http://earth.google.com/ if you don't already have Google-Earth for the free download -- I'm not affiliated with nor compensated by them...

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shooting_sports which provides a link to the handgun category as well as many others.

I'm cheap. I use a Meade 'scope that comes with the 45 degree viewer. I use only the lowest power objective (the lens nearest the eye) and it works great at both 25 and 50 yards. It attaches just fine to the standard adapter used with gun boxes -- that's how mine is attached. I paid $38 for the firs...

Several shooters I know are also left/right or right/left including myself. I tried shooting left-eye/right-hand for quite a while. I shoot NRA Conventional (aka Bullseye) which is one-handed only so I tried a couple of different techniques for getting everything lined up. For example, I tried holdi...

For Bullseye 2700s that last all day (8:30AM to about 3:30PM or so) I have adopted a very specific diet. Several other shooters seem to do about the same. I normally do not eat any breakfast. I tried a couple of different ones on shooting days but universally found I did worse with the change of hab...

I have guns with both kinds (roll and non-roll) and each feel has its advantages. It truly is a matter of personal taste. Mechanically speaking, a roll trigger has a "face" between the hammer and sear which must be slid across before the hammer is released. A non-roll trigger has almost no...

There are displays of several types of guns (free, air, bullseye, etc.) and a 10M AP range with several guns to shoot along with some *very* capable instructors, all for free. The building is at the far end of the event and not everyone is making the trip but those who do are reporting a very benefi...

Oops, wasn't logged in. (The above note about the 1/4"x1/4" clipped-down flip-up was by me.)
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Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/ (shooting notes)
and http://conventionalpistol.blogspot.com/ (shooting blog)

Sorry, wasn't logged in when I posted the above. Some Free Pistol events also take place at the PR&GC. You might want to contact the club's pistol division representative, Don Plante; his email link is at the bottom of the club's calendar page (URL in previous message). He can put you in touch w...

I've been using an inexpensive Meade telescope with 45-degree prism for a little over a year. It's not as pretty as the others on the line but it works great. The only thing you will want to check is whether or not the image is upright and left-to-right correct. Spotting scopes put the image right s...

A friend of mine once owned a bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans many years ago. He told me that late at night when only a few regulars were left, they would lock the door, sit on the customer-side of the bar, wait for the rats to come out behind the bar and then shoot at them with 22 pistols....

Divide your efforts into four mental categories, each of which is distinctly different: training, practicing, competing and fun. Training is doing something very specific in one small area to try and effect a change or work out how to do something. Yesterday, for example, I did some experimenting wi...

(As a relatively new shooter who is reading and thinking about this a lot,) I think of the perfect shot process as something in a closed box that can be started and monitored but, left to its own, will continue on automatic and run to completion. Monitoring of that process is (ideally) also largely ...