Excellent shooting, you two! I hit an unexpected ammo issue recently at the range (long story short, just needed to make sure it was an ammo problem vs. a gun problem) and still haven’t gotten this installment of the match shot myself.

Please don’t cause my delay to delay a move to a next stage. I’ll rejoin soon.

Sounds good, The FrontRange! Congrats Richard, you take the trophy on this one...what have you got for us next?

FrontRange's boarding House match from page ten.

Let it run two weeks.



From FrontRange: posted December 1, 2021 23:10


“PCC Stage a’la Boarding House” haha…everyone gets a first serving before anyone gets seconds! Smile

* What you’ll need:

2 B8 targets
Pistol caliber long gun of choice
If gun is box magazine-fed, two magazines
Six rounds

* Take 2 of the fabled B8 targets positioned one over the other placed at a distance of 20 yards.

* Start with two rounds in gun. Four more rounds of spare ammo / second magazine loaded with four rounds placed at position of shooter’s choice (bench, pouch, whatever works).

* Starting with gun at low-ready, fire 1 round each at the 2 B8s, order is up to the shooter.

* Reload gun with four rounds and fire 2 rounds at lower B8 and 2 rounds at upper B8.

* Reasonable “defensive pace” of fire throughout.

* Slings / sights / optics / etc. all at the discretion of the shooter. "

Nice, a PCC match! I'm in!

Cold as heck this morning. 16 with windchill at -2. Had to wear my Elmer Fudd hat and the insulated gloves. Even though this was a nice quick one, I still only had one practice run and then the real deal in me today.



I score it as 60-4X in 11.37 seconds on my timer. Kinda slow, but that's me.



If it warms up in the next two weeks I want to try this again with a lever-action....maybe use two with the second as a New York reload lol.

Very nice targets there, Nanook of the North!

9MM ?

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Very nice targets there, Nanook of the North!

9MM ?

Lol. Yup, 9mm.

Shoot, I’m honored that this one got rebirthed - and darn nice shooting there!

Alas, unless I make a discovery at this weekend’s local gun show, I shall have to rent a PCC as I was talked into selling my last one away some time back haha…

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Originally posted by TheFrontRange:
Shoot, I’m honored that this one got rebirthed - and darn nice shooting there!

Alas, unless I make a discovery at this weekend’s local gun show, I shall have to rent a PCC as I was talked into selling my last one away some time back haha…

I know I'd have no objection to you shooting it with an actual rifle if that's all you've got...but if you did happen to stumble across a desirable PCC at the gun show this weekend, this seems like a perfectly good excuse to acquire it !

Intended to shoot this match with the Feather AT-9/red dot last Friday, It wouldn't feed
Speer Lawman 9MM 147GR subsonics.

Tried again today with 124Gr NATO 9MM successfully.



Score 59-2X. This carbine does not have a bolt hold open, so reloads are painfully slow.

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Just for kicks, I shot it again with the Marlin/3X scope using 158Gr .38Special, not for match score.
Its painful & slow to reload, the lift gate and ejection port edges are sharp. 59-3X

Nice shooting!

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Feather AT-9

Ok, I had to look that up, but that's freaking cool! I think we need some pics and details about what it's like to shoot that thing. I've never seen one...in fact this was the first I knew it existed!

I got stuck working extra over the holidays because somebody else was out on sick leave, and then the two days I did have off we were in Ohio with family, so I haven't had a chance to try my "New York Reload" lever-action attempt yet (because like you said, reloading a leverguns is slow and painful!), but I still want to try it.

My Feather is pre-2000, uses 32-rd Uzi mags, Illusions by Laseraim red dot sight in See-Thru Weaver rings, upgraded buffer kit (original failed during a Steel Challenge match), sling, collapsible wire stock, barrel shroud-barrel nut, rubber grip sleeve

The sights, trigger, barrel nut latch, grip and fore end are plastic.

The right side magazine release is in front of the magwell, the safety hangs vertically inside the front of the trigger guard, no bolt hold open.

Its been fun to shoot and accurate enough. I never benched it but that would be interesting.



The barrel removes and reassembles easily, and it was advertised as being take-down and available with 9MM, 357Sig (be still my heart), 40S&W, 10MM and .45ACP. I be the more powerful calibers would have beaten it to death in short order.

I consider it a hobby gun. Bolts like to loosen and the barrel nut latch lever is plastic and worn, due to its ham-fisted owner. I had to re-tighten the barrel nut after 15 or so sighter shots; should probably use purple Lock-Tite on the threads this time.

After the match, I found two of the four bolts holding the upper into the lower were loose. Again. The upper was rocking a little
bit. Should probably use red Lock-Tite this time.

As mentioned, it choked on pointed, tapered 147GR ammo, had never tried those. Its been dependable with 115 and 124GR ball ammo, even my favorite Federal 9MM BP hollow points.

Its about 5 lbs, simple blowback mechanism, the wire stock is not too painful on the face, the narrow trigger is not too painful on the finger, the safety is convenient, the mag release button is 1.78" out of reach of my right index finger, loaded mags have to be seated aggressively against the closed bolt,
the 'irons' and red dot are nicely placed, I have a linear blood blister (deja vu again) on my right ring fingertip from trying to clear jams without a bolt hold-open,

Here's an old video from the 'net, not me:

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Very neat piece, and I also enjoyed the "guntuber" content from 25 years ago, lol. Thanks for sharing the details, that's definitely a unique one!

Tried this with the leverguns today. It was bad...so bad I'm not posting pictures, lol. I need more practice behind the levers...it's been too long.

Gents, I’m kicking the proverbial can a little further down the road again. Gun show was a bust as far as PCCs go (had a strong look at a very interesting but also rough-actioned customized S&W 28-2 that had Jovino-like qualities (I don’t think he was the craftsman on this specimen)).

Regardless, please don’t wait on me and I’ll dive back into the mix here when I can.

Richard, if you wanted to come up with a new one, I'm down. Not sure when I'll get to actually shoot it because I started an 02 sensor job in the Suburban and it turned into pulling the exhaust off, which was enough of a nightmare that I decided I might as well address the oil pan, rear main seal leak, and motor mounts while I'm in there...so that's going to be monopolizing most of my free time for the next week or so .

Modified Bill Drill from p. 28,
posted October 19, 2022 06:40:

Modified Bill Drill. Target zone represents central nervous system hits.

Paste a 2" by ~29" stripe on any backer.

Any centerfire handgun, any sights. NO extra $$$ prize money but bigger attaboys if you use a caliber more violent than eff bee eye .38 Spec or 9MM.


Facing away from target at 7 yards, turn, draw and fire 6 rounds quickly. Do not draw before fully turned!
Shoot 3 separate strings for 18 rounds total, faster each time.

If you can't draw from a holster on your range, improvise, adapt, overcome. Maybe from low ready. .Or, lay it on the shooting table , and turn uprange to start
Only hits cutting the tape count.

Use a shot timer if feasible. 3 seconds par time.

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Nice. And now that the challenge has been extended, I have to decide if I'm man enough to try it with the 329, lol

If .44 "light specials" are man enough for Harry Callahan on range day competition, they're more than acceptable for this match.

Well, I didn't get to try it with the .44 because I was just stopping by the range to break in the new 43X, but that's probably for the best because it's 6 degrees out and my hands would have probably shattered like icicles if I'd tried that today.

This was hard, and I suck!

First run with the new 43X was rough. I probably would have patterned better with a shotgun at that distance.

5.92 2 Hits
6.66 1 Hit
5.98 2 Hits




I also had a P320 along to confirm zero after a battery change in the RMR. My group was a lot tighter with this one, but the score wasn't any better:

6.35 1 Hit
6.29 2 Hits
4.92 2 Hits