News:

Want Appleseed to grow and fill our firing lines?  We need help with advertising, social media, graphics design, and administrative tasks.  An hour of time spent at this level can have a huge impact.  You can make a difference!  Send a Personal Message to Cleveland.

Main Menu

Aim small, miss small: move it out to 50 yards!

Started by jimmythegeek, January 23, 2013, 05:16:57 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

jimmythegeek

January 23, 2013, 05:16:57 PM
In the guns subsection of the discussion site www.reddit.com (http://www.reddit.com/r/guns ) they have informal shooting matches for various types of firearms.  This month for rifles with iron sights...the AQT stages 1 and 3, at 50 yards. 

http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/169g4n/january_2013_ironsights_match/

I scored a total of 23 out of 45 possible.  Pathetic.  But I noticed when I went back to 25 yards, my Stage 4 score jumped to 49.  Previous best with irons was probably 44, I think. 

Good to push yourself!

I also believe in bringing the target in and making it smaller, but close enough to see the holes as they accumulate.  Instant feedback. 

flynbuff

#1
March 12, 2013, 08:59:34 PM
Thanks for sharing.  It sure looks like fun!  Another excuse to make the drive to the range.

GEmanuel

#2
March 12, 2013, 10:31:03 PM
Quote from: jimmythegeek on January 23, 2013, 05:16:57 PM
In the guns subsection of the discussion site www.reddit.com (http://www.reddit.com/r/guns ) they have informal shooting matches for various types of firearms.  This month for rifles with iron sights...the AQT stages 1 and 3, at 50 yards. 

http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/169g4n/january_2013_ironsights_match/

I scored a total of 23 out of 45 possible.  Pathetic.  But I noticed when I went back to 25 yards, my Stage 4 score jumped to 49.  Previous best with irons was probably 44, I think. 

Good to push yourself!

I also believe in bringing the target in and making it smaller, but close enough to see the holes as they accumulate.  Instant feedback.

If you really want to push it and your eyes will allow you to do it. Post the AQT at 100 yards. The net effect is your targets are now reduced at 400, 800, 1200, and 1600 yards on the respective stages of the AQT. I am older, my eyes will not do it on their own, so I consider a scope an option.
Have fun!
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." — George Washington

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." --Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." ~ Thomas Paine

Red Alder Ranch

#3
March 13, 2013, 01:59:10 AM
I don't think my eyes would do that! I did move back to 50 yards the other day with my mossberg bolt gun, shooting large mouth canning lids, my improvised target of choice. I was a bit surprised at the degree of drop that I had going from 25 to 50 yards.

jimmythegeek

#4
March 18, 2013, 07:01:27 PM
Quote from: GEmanuel on March 12, 2013, 10:31:03 PM


If you really want to push it and your eyes will allow you to do it. Post the AQT at 100 yards. The net effect is your targets are now reduced at 400, 800, 1200, and 1600 yards on the respective stages of the AQT. I am older, my eyes will not do it on their own, so I consider a scope an option.
Have fun!

I'm in a hurry to shoot AQTs with irons this Spring, because I may not be able to next year.  Dang targets they make these days are all blurry! 

George Hacker

#5
March 19, 2013, 12:47:46 AM
Quote from: jimmythegeek on March 18, 2013, 07:01:27 PM
I'm in a hurry to shoot AQTs with irons this Spring, because I may not be able to next year.  Dang targets they make these days are all blurry!

jimmythegeek,

Remind me when we get together in Coupeville next month.  I have a special fuzzy AQT that I would be happy to give you. ;)

ShadowMan
Tell your Pacific Northwest facebook friends to "like" and post in the Northwest Region Project Appleseed page.

"You can't miss fast enough..."  "Aim small, miss small."

Charles McKinley

#6
March 20, 2013, 12:41:32 AM
If you are properly focused on the front sight the target will always be fuzzy!  ;D

Gettin' old sucks but it sure beats the alternative.
Last evening, it occurred to me that when a defender of Liberty is called home, their load lands upon the shoulders of the defenders left behind. Just as the Founders did their duty for Liberty, every subsequent generation must continue their work lest Liberty perish. As there is no way for the remaining adults to take on the work of those that die, we must pass the ideals and duties on to the children. -PHenery
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions