Nice work, Richard! I'm going to try to sneak out again tonight or tomorrow and shoot it again. I may take the Marlin this time.

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David, after reading your post, I re-discovered that Tippmann started making .22RF AR's a few years ago. Cool!

Yep, and they're made about an hour from me on the east side of Ft. Wayne, IN! That's the closest "big city" for us, so we go there pretty regularly for Costco runs and the like. I've been by the factory a few times, and have owned their paintball guns in the past, but have yet to try one of their firearms.

Went out tonight to the indoor range with my youngest (the 8 year-old) and shot it twice. He shot it too, but I let him shoot it off a rest.

We used the old Glenfield 25, because Richard reminded me that it would be nice to have a sling.



Mine are on the left, son's are on the right. First run I got a 267-3X. My son got a 261-3x off the bench.



The second time through I was on track to break 270, and shanked a couple right at the end on the the third target. I ended up with a 268-3X, and my son got 261-3X again, with an 87 on each set of targets. He's nothing if not consistent!

Wow, 92FStech, very nice father & son performance, and with a classic!

My first rifle was a Marlin/Glenfield.

I gotta say, the old girl doesn't give up anything to the CZ at 50 feet, and it sure is nice to have the sling! We benched it to confirm zero before shooting the match, and it'll make one hole.

92fstech, your post inspired me to shoot my Marlin Glenfield 81G. It was my first rifle, a Christmas gift in 1966. I still have the original box, manual and the soft case that was part of the gift. I
I had a Tasco 4X scope on it for decades until that got mold on the interior lenses. I shot it so much, the tube feed and lifter mechanism wore out. All that was removed long ago, and the stock was inletted a bit to allow mounting Lyman aperture sights, so it became a single shot. The cases extract but no longer eject.
Prepping it required a good bit of cleaning and lubrication. It took about an hour to prep the leather sling with Ballistol and remount.. The zipper on the soft case needed paraffin on the teeth to loosen up and allow function.
Sighting in at 50 feet took some time and a couple targets, not enough room to lower the elevation; I am tempted to buy the taller front aperture sight, if 50 foot practice is in its future.

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For the match, shot T1 89-1X, T2 80, T3 84-1X = 253-2X/300.

That's a great first rifle, and I love those aperture sights. With all the fancy new stuff out there, sometimes it's just nice to go back to an old reliable workhorse that you have history with and know well. My Glenfield was the third or fourth rifle I ever bought, and its purchase brought about one of the first fights of my young marriage. Almost 20 years in now, and she still brings it up whenever she sees that gun. She has come to accept the compulsive gun buying a little better as the years have gone by, and I've learned more tactful ways to go about it. I still love her, and I'm still glad I bought the rifle !

Hey, 92fstech, ask Vtail how he got his event posted simultaneously (and auto-inclusive with replies) in this forum and in the Lounge.

P.S. Its good to have understanding wives.

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Hey, 92fstech, ask Vtail how he got his event posted simultaneously (and auto-inclusive with replies) in this forum and in the Lounge.

P.S. Its good to have understanding wives.

I started a discussion in the office to ask Para his thoughts. We'll see what he decides.

And yes, it's definitely is good to have a wife that gets you. Mine has come to terms with the fact that gun spending and an aversion to participating in mindless social interaction are my only two major vices, so as long as I don't make it so we can't pay the bills and agree to go out to stuff with her every once in a while, she tolerates it .

Ok guys, Para has agreed to create a link to this thread in the pistols section to give it a little more visibility, and hopefully welcome more participation. Do we have any ideas for a new drill to kick off this new era in the life of the postal match?

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POSTAL MATCH DESCRIPTION : MODIFIED EFF BEE EYE QUALIFICATION MATCH

https://targets4free.com/wp-co...-by-Targets4Free.pdf

Print "Q" targets, reduced to an 8/12" by 11" page. Milk bottle dimensions should be 10" high 4 1/2" wide at the 'shoulder' just above the "Q".

Post at 20 feet. "inside scoring". Any hole touching or cutting the outline is a miss.
Par time 8 seonds or less.


Any centerfire handgun, holster, cover garment, timer and a free range or understanding range officer on a non-permissive range. *wink, wink*

Shoots 6 shots on each of 3 targets for a total of 18 rounds, each of the three stages timed separately.
T1: Draw from concealed holster (cover garment), fire 6 shots two-handed.
T2: Draw from concealed holster (cover garment), fire 6 shots strong-hand only.
T3: Draw from concealed holster, switch gun to other hand, fire 6 shots 'other-hand' only.

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Note: I haven't tested this out yet.

This match protocol could be easily varied for future matches:

distance to target, par time, shot with .22 rimfire, shot with
airgun or airsoft.
It could be shot as a single stage, with two reloads for a total of 18 rounds.
It could be scored as total hits divided by time in seconds minus one second for each miss.

I like it, let's do it!

I just got home from trying it.

I should have printed more targets and taken more ammo.

In retrospect, I guess all three strings could be shot on one target to save paper & toner;
its not like all 18 are going to be a one-holer and hard to count hits.

I can’t draw from concealment. How much time to add for drawing from compressed ready or picking up from the table?

I’m having back surgery on 2/7, so I’ll be out of commission for a while.

I'd imagine taking a second off the par would be reasonable...what do you think Richard now that you've shot it?

Best of luck on your surgery! Hoping for 100% success and a brief recovery so you can get back to shooting!

Picking it up off a table doesn't seem faster; I'd say no time penalty.
Maybe one second penalty from compressed ready.

^ Works for me!

Here's my pathetic practice target with a .38 Special revolver.

Dang Richard, this one is deceptively difficult! That timed left handed crap is for the birds, lol! It gets exponentially harder as you go, too, because the last stage is left-hand only (already harder), plus it costs you time to draw and hand the gun off.

Noah and I both shot it 6 times today. These are out best targets (his left, mine right). Noah shot his CZ 75 from an OWB Kydex holster under a hoodie. I used the P320 Carry with RMR and TLR-7 out of the IWB hoslter I recently made and posted in cslinger's kydex thread. The holster worked well...me, not so much!

Noah's times were 6.65, 8.33, and 14.55. 15 hits on target (subtracted one on the line, two off paper).

My times were 6.56, 7.91, and 10.50 . 15 hits (subtracted one on the line, one off-target low right, and one about an inch off the paper to the right).



This is definitely getting shot again...maybe after some left-hand-only dry-fire work.