Practicing routine before a gallery match shoot

Mass Shooter · Post by **Mass Shooter** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:43 am

What's your warm up routine just prior to begin a gallery match shoot?

Do you shoot 10 or twenty shots to warm up the barrel or just go in cold?

Reasons for either?

Thanks

marvelshooter · Post by **marvelshooter** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:26 pm

A few dry fires once command to handle has been given and then shoot for score. Reason is this how a 900 (or 1800 or 2700) is done, no warm up shots.
Dan Allen

Freepistol · Post by **Freepistol** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:41 pm

What is the reasoning that no sighters are allowed?

Dogchaser · Post by **Dogchaser** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:39 pm

Freepistol wrote:What is the reasoning that no sighters are allowed?

2650plus could probably tell us.

I thought it was odd having sighters when I started A/P and F/P.

marvelshooter · Post by **marvelshooter** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:47 pm

NRA Conventional Pistol Rules: Number 14.6 - All shots count. Leagues are free to allow whatever they want including practice shots or warm-up time either before the match or as part of the preparation period. I prefer to follow the NRA rule on this one to more closely duplicate match conditions which means shooting cold at league matches.
Hope this makes sense.
Dan Allen

Richard H · Post by **Richard H** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:54 pm

It usually has to do with the origins of the event. In Bullseye , you are engaging targets at various distance, such as what would be done with a pistol in a real world situation, in such situations you wouldn't get warm-up's or sighters.

CR10XGuest · Post by **CR10XGuest** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:20 am

The NRA rules for Approved and Registered matches allows for the provision of a "practice period" providing all competitors have the opportunity and it is so noted and included in the match bulliten. In reality, only local matches typically have practice periods.

The larger matches, Regionals and Nationals do not have the provision in the match bullitens and therefor do not have practice periods. This is mostly due to the time constraints involved in multi relay matches that tend to fill up the entire day. Losing another 10 to 15 minutes per relay would really add up.

Finally, as stated above, it appears the intention was for the match to be a "step up to the line and shoot" procedure.

You will find that even if practice periods are given, most of the higher level shooters will not participate. Why do something you will not be able to do at the larger matches and the Nationals?

Respectfully Yours,

Cecil

Cecil

Mass Shooter · Post by **Mass Shooter** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:01 pm

Finally, as stated above, it appears the intention was for the match to be a "step up to the line and shoot" procedure.

Respectfully Yours,

Cecil

Cecil[/quote]

I should have been a bit more clear, ... "yes indeed, this is indoor gallery match 22lr competition "Step up and shoot procedure"
Thank you everyone for your replies, this is helpful.

Regards

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:16 pm

There are plenty of big matches that allow for practice before shooting. However it is usually not on the same day as the actual competition. They usually do it the day before. Canton McKinley in July, which is the big warm up match before Camp Perry does this. Camp Perry kind of allows for practice on the day they have the preliminaries and also if you have a gun malfunction and need to function test a gun, you are issued a ticket and sent to a function test rage to do this. No rules aginst shooting your best and using a function test as a warm up. Isabel