The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
The May Bowling Pin match should have been next Sunday – Mother’s Day. Outstanding planning, no?
Well, like last month, it’s been cancelled. The range is still doing berm work, so the Action ranges are not available.
I’ve been promised, however, that the work will be done in time for the June match, so the next match is Sunday, June 12 at 8:00AM at the Tucson Rifle Club. Same rules, same price: $10 for your first gun, $5 per additional gun.
Hope to see you there!
Today, April 15, is Buy A Gun Day, a tradition going back at least eight years or so.
Here’s mine:
If you read this blog much, you’ll note that it looks an awful lot like my .38 Super Witness. That’s because it is my .38 Super Witness – mostly. I bought a .40 S&W conversion kit for it, plus six spare magazines (for a total of seven). The conversion kit I bought direct from European American Armory. The magazines I bought from U.S. Citizen. I also bought 1,000 pieces of once-fired brass and 1,000 Berry’s 180 grain HP plated bullets. I thought about buying a 10mm conversion, but the cost of brass decided it for me. .40 S&W is ubiquitous and cheap. 10mm, not so much. Everything’s here but the bullets. I may have to break down and buy some factory fodder for a test this weekend.
It looks like the .40 will be MUCH less picky about what it eats than the Super.
It’s on. The Luckygunner.com Memorial Day Weekend Blogger Shoot.
(No bloggers will actually be shot. I hope.) I’ve got my airline reservations (thanks, U.S. Citizen!) and I’ve made my hotel (Lenoire City Holiday Inn Express) and car rental reservations. I fly in Friday evening, and leave Tuesday morning. The shoot is Saturday and Sunday, leaving me Monday to visit.
I’m really looking forward to it. Now I just have to decide whether I want to risk transporting firearms through Chicago on the way home. And what to bring if I do.
UPDATED AND BUMPED: There will be NO BOWLING PIN MATCH SUNDAY APRIL 10.
The range is doing major berm improvements, and the Action Range will be unavailable. Sorry. Next match will be Sunday, May 8.
Hope to see you there.
LuckyGunner.com is, as has been mentioned, putting on a blogshoot. I’ve been waiting for an update from them since the announcement. Well, that first link is to the current page, where Lucky Gunner tells us:
The following “Big Guns” have already confirmed they will be in attendance:
(*cough*cough*cough*)
Well, we held the 10th monthly Bowling Pin match at Tucson Rifle Club today (we took last September off while I traveled to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous). Today’s turnout was light, only six people besides me came to shoot, but we still had a lot of fun. Because of the light turnout, we only ran two tables instead of three. The match started at just after 9:00AM and ran until about 12:30. I forgot my CCI Mini-Mag .22 ammo, but Larry Boykin let me shoot his Federal stuff, and it worked fine. I also brought my S&W M25 Mountain Gun chambered in .45LC and my Browning Hi Power.
When I hit the pins with the M25, they left the table. With extreme prejudice.
I really need to practice shooting that gun double-action. If you want to win, you can’t miss twice. Reloads are slow.
Shooting borrowed ammo, I did manage to win the .22 class. Bill Tab won centerfire with his Kimber Classic Stainless beating me with my Hi Power in the last two rounds, but each of us had to beat last month’s winner Jim Burnett to get there. He’s a tough competitor with both his Clark Custom 1911 pin gun and his bone-stock Beretta 92. Jim took home the $17 from the drawing at the end of the match, though and he took second in .22.
Hopefully we’ll have more turnout next month, Sunday April 10. The match will begin at the normally scheduled time – first rounds downrange at 8:00AM, not 9:00. It’s already starting to warm up. And I’ll be bringing three tables again, to help speed things along. Hope to see you there!
Full-auto goodness? With free ammo?
Lucky Gunner is putting on a blogshoot in Knoxville, TN over the Memorial Day weekend.
I may have to re-think my idea of flying someone to Reno for Gun Blogger Rendezvous VI.
On second thought, maybe not. United wants over $700 to get to Knoxville.
Damn.
UPDATE, 3/9: Best. Birthday. Present. EVER. (Except maybe for the D.C. Circuit Court Parker decision of 2007.) USCitizen has comped me airline tickets to Knoxville. I’m GOING! See you there!
I haven’t seen this one elsewhere:
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3/1/2011
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Today’s match went very well, though turnout was down, I believe, because of Valentine’s Day. We had ten shooters with 22 guns, and everybody brought (or borrowed) a .22! I never expected the rimfire class to be the most popular, but it is.
We ran the match in the now-standard three-abreast mode, requiring one of the three shooters to win twice before moving on to the next group. If I didn’t have three shooters, we just went head-to-head with two. You have to lose two sets to be eliminated from competition.
At the end of the day, we had an undefeated champion of centerfire, Jim Burnett. He won Major with his Clark Custom pin gun, a 1911 in John Moses Browning’s (pbuh) .45ACP, and Minor with a Beretta 92 chambered for the Europellet, going undefeated in seven matches over a total of seventeen tables, including two ties. Since he couldn’t shoot against himself for the spot of overall centerfire champion, we just gave it to him anyway.
In .22 class we had a total of thirteen matches, and the finish was a doozy. After the first round, only two of us remained undefeated, Travis Higgins and myself. We lined up head-to-head, and I managed to eke out the win. At the end of the day, it was again me against Travis. To win the match, he would have to beat me on not two, but four tables.
He did.
But I had a lot of fun losing to him.
First round was downrange about 9:00AM, and we were packed up and leaving by about noon. Everybody had a good time. I’m looking forward to next month already!
My monthly bowling pin match is coming up this Sunday at the Tucson Rifle Club. Same setup as last month, with three-abreast shooting positions, double-double-elimination, centerfire and .22 long-rifle classes (handgun only) with .38 Special being the smallest centerfire caliber acceptable. Most shooters seem to prefer “standard capacity” Wondernine pistols of some tactical tupperware persuasion or another.
If you’re new to the sport, a detailed description is available here.
Sign-up starts at 8:30AM, first rounds downrange about 9:00 or so. We should be done before noon. Bring plenty of ammo. Hollowpoint and flat-point works better than round-nose or FMJ at carrying pins off the tables. Pretty much any .22 round works on the pin tops, if you can hit them.
See you Sunday!