Shooting Competition, Hunters Hole
 

Thought I’d take a few minutes and go through one of the competition matches I shoot through on a regular basis. The targets are of animals, and have point rings like 10, 9, 8, 5 & 3. The basics are:

Disciplines:
Rifle: 100 meter (150 Points Max)
-- Buck, 5 shots standing supported (50 pts max)
-- Boar, 5 shots freehand (50 pts max)
-- Fox, 5 shots prone unsupported (50 pts max)
50 meter (50 Points Max)
-- Running Boar, 5 shots (50 pts max)

Shotgun: Low gun, pivot point hip (150 Points Max)
-- 15 birds Trap and 15 birds Skeet (Each Clay broken equals 5 Points)

The Hunters Hole, shooting range tucked into the woods:
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Here’s a photo taken shooting the Buck, 100 meters from the pole.
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Shooting the Fox, 100 meters, prone unsupported:
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Freehand, 100 meters, on the Boar. If you really want to know how well (or how bad) you shoot, this is your moment in the lime light:
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Running Boar, shot at 50 meters. Boar moves across 6 meter opening in 2 seconds:
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Then on to shotgun, 15 birds Trap. This stand had 3 machines on each shooting position:
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Skeet is also shot, and includes doubles from stations 2, 6 & 7.
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At this shoot I scored 329 points – worst target I shot was on the 100 meter Boar, scoring a 40. Scored a 50 on the fox, 47 on the Buck, and 47 on the Running Boar, which gave me top rifle score in my class. I missed one Trap and ran Skeet, and took top shotgun score.

At the end of the shoot is the winners’ ceremony:
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We get a few guys together and have a good time; one of my friend’s pictures says it all:
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Great clubhouse with food & drink, and of course story time. We have about a zillion excuses why our scores could have been better!! Waidmannsheil, Dom.

After the day headed for home.
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