As a kid whenever playing horse on the basketball court I always liked to do come up with a shot that was impractical and challenging. Like throwing it over the support beams from half court. I’ve not really matured past that as an adult and shooting gives me that same ‘hey, I wonder if I can actually make this’ challenge.
Over the weekend I spent a few hrs at the outdoor range. Had a paper target set at 30 yds, a playing card on a yard stick turned sideways at 30ft, and a 8x10 metal plate at about 230yds. I shot a few thru my carry to keep familiar with it. Then a few thru the Cz Shadow just because it’s still ‘new’ to me and it’s really fun. Then I shot a few 223 but put it up early. A bit expensive to replace rounds now.
I took my last 2 boxes of CCI SV and went for goal #1 - hit something at 230yds with my pistol. I was using my MKIV that’s set up for bullseye/precision and tuned the Matchdot to the smallest and lowest brightness I could and sat down on a bench and used a bag for a rest. Using points in the background I emptied the first mag and only saw 1 hit in the dust. Because of COVID there haven’t been as many ppl go to the range and matches were off for so long the grass has grown up a bit in the back of the hill/berm where the bullets hit. I went thru the 2nd mag and had only a couple come anywhere near it. Really frustrating. Not sure if it’s my trigger pull, the wind, or a number of things. Started to get discouraged about it.
So I put the pistols down and dinged the plate with my 10/22 a few times. In doing so I knocked it off the stand and at the next clear, I went up and reset the target placing it in an area with less grass.
3rd mag in and I pushed the bag to the side and just planted the butt Of the grip firmly on the bench and scooted back to line up. There is a spot that I found about 10ft or so higher than the mound that would get me close. First couple of shots got me close. About the 4the round out I heard the “Ding” I’ve been working towards. It felt awesome to pull it off. Too bad I was by myself with no one to see or give a high five.
I then decided to try and split a playing card like I see Plinkster22 do on YouTube. How hard could that be??? Lol. My old eyes couldn’t see it! I shot at that thing 30 times and only managed a couple of scrapes. It’s a wonderful exercise for trigger pull and keeping your horizontal stability when firing. There is Zero leeway. Any little bit left or right and you miss.
Curious, what are your Challenge shots?
Over the weekend I spent a few hrs at the outdoor range. Had a paper target set at 30 yds, a playing card on a yard stick turned sideways at 30ft, and a 8x10 metal plate at about 230yds. I shot a few thru my carry to keep familiar with it. Then a few thru the Cz Shadow just because it’s still ‘new’ to me and it’s really fun. Then I shot a few 223 but put it up early. A bit expensive to replace rounds now.
I took my last 2 boxes of CCI SV and went for goal #1 - hit something at 230yds with my pistol. I was using my MKIV that’s set up for bullseye/precision and tuned the Matchdot to the smallest and lowest brightness I could and sat down on a bench and used a bag for a rest. Using points in the background I emptied the first mag and only saw 1 hit in the dust. Because of COVID there haven’t been as many ppl go to the range and matches were off for so long the grass has grown up a bit in the back of the hill/berm where the bullets hit. I went thru the 2nd mag and had only a couple come anywhere near it. Really frustrating. Not sure if it’s my trigger pull, the wind, or a number of things. Started to get discouraged about it.
So I put the pistols down and dinged the plate with my 10/22 a few times. In doing so I knocked it off the stand and at the next clear, I went up and reset the target placing it in an area with less grass.
3rd mag in and I pushed the bag to the side and just planted the butt Of the grip firmly on the bench and scooted back to line up. There is a spot that I found about 10ft or so higher than the mound that would get me close. First couple of shots got me close. About the 4the round out I heard the “Ding” I’ve been working towards. It felt awesome to pull it off. Too bad I was by myself with no one to see or give a high five.
I then decided to try and split a playing card like I see Plinkster22 do on YouTube. How hard could that be??? Lol. My old eyes couldn’t see it! I shot at that thing 30 times and only managed a couple of scrapes. It’s a wonderful exercise for trigger pull and keeping your horizontal stability when firing. There is Zero leeway. Any little bit left or right and you miss.
Curious, what are your Challenge shots?
aay better than mine.)
