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Competition

2008 Iron Man Regional Metallic Silhouette Rifle Championship

All the details can be downloaded here (260k .doc file). There is a limit on the number of participants allowed. You may want to send your entry in sooner than later.

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Competition

2008 NYPENN Regional Silhouette Championship

The Broome County Sportsmen's Association (near Binghamton NY) will host the 2008 NYPENN Regional Silhouette Championship, featuring smallbore competition on Saturday, August 30th and air rifle competition on Sunday, August 31st. Match details can be found on the BCSA Silhouette web site here and programs with registration form can be downloaded here.

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Competition

Texas State Smallbore Rifle Silhouette Championship

The Austin Rifle Club is proud to host the Texas State Smallbore Silhouette Championships. We have a word document with all the details. Austin Rifle Club information is available here. Contact David Hailes for additional match information.

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Technique

Practice vs. Training

Sometimes our forum is chock full of useful information. Other times it is entertaining. This excerpt is the former and worthy of being immortalized. You will find it on the Resources page along with a few other timeless gems. Hope this helps you weekend warriors focus on what matters.

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Competition

2007 Conard Cup

Break out your rain gear, the 2007 Conard Cup is scheduled for April 28th and 29th. Entry form and additional information is available in this Word Document.

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Competition

Winnsboro Schedule Posted

The Winnsboro Gun Club 2007 match schedule has been posted to it's own page. Check it out here. This schedule includes the Southern National Smallbore Rifle Silhouette Championships and The Southern National Sporter, Target & Open Air Rifle Championships.

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Competition

2006 Conard Cup Results

Although I was not able to compete in this years Conard Cup I did find time to visit Sunday's action. Hopefully Shooter Mike will have an article available soon. Until then, here are the 2006 Conard Cup results.

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Technique

Construction of the standing or off hand shooting position

We wish we had written this article. But we didn't. So we will give credit where credit is due. And turn everyone on to an informative site at the same time. Construction of the standing or off hand shooting position on www.smallbore.us.

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Competition

So you think you've had a bad day at the silhouette range?
Contributed by Dwaine

With the possible exception of a few shooters in Master class, few of us are happy with every score we turn in. Most of us are looking for improvement. Some days just don't go our way and we find ourselves unable to improve or even watching our scores slip a bit. On occasion some of us might have an outright awful day. Here is a recollection of mine.

Firstly, I didn't actually have a bad day. I had a great day. I wasn't at the office. The sun was poking through the clouds. There was a good turnout for the match. Lots of good conversation between relays. I got some good input from one of the master class shooters. When the day was over I still had a positive outlook on the sport and was particularly excited about having a concrete game plan on how to improve the weak points of my game.

So here is my true story about how a good day, going silhouette shooting with my friends, turned into a terrible day for my scorecard.  more

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Hardware

Hardscrabble Mountain Custom Leather Silhouette Vest
Contributed by Shooter Mike

This is going to be an ongoing article about the wear and use of a Silhouette vest for Smallbore and High Power. I've only been shooting this discipline a few years and have decided to take the plunge on a shooting vest.

Do I need a vest?

The only thing you certainly need is a rifle and some cartridges, but I've gathered enough evidence that a nice shooting vest is probably worth the expenditure. Besides the normal organizational benefits of such an article (pockets, five-in-a-row pins, name tag, pens, magazine pockets, etc.) I think a vest offers a few other advantages. The one I'm most interested in is a repeatable position. I find myself gaining and shedding clothing throughout the year and throughout some matches. A vest should allow the shooter to position the rifle and maintain a stance that is unaltered from bank to bank, relay to relay and hopefully match to match.

The rules for vests have the intention of keeping them from being a shooting jacket where your limbs and extremities are tightened down in an attempt to lock up your joints and minimizing the effects of normal muscle twitches. This doesn't mean the vest doesn't have some positive influences. Certainly the weight of a leather vest helps pull your center of mass down which could translate into improved stability.  more

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