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Bowling Pin Match – Sunday, Dec. 9

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The December Bowling Pin match is Sunday the 9th.  Usual place, the Tucson Rifle Club action range. 

Time: 8:00 AM sign-up, first rounds downrange about 8:20. We should be done around 11.  Weather should be beautiful.

Handguns only: .22 rimfire, centerfire revolver (.38 Special minimum), semi-autos (.380 minimum).

You’re welcome to shoot your revolver against the semi-auto crowd, but we think it’s more fun to shoot wheelgun-v-wheelgun.

Cost: $10 for the first gun, $5 for any additional guns. Bring about 100 rounds for each. You probably won’t need ’em all unless you’re really good at missing fast.

What’s a bowling pin match? This:

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Hope to see you there!

Bowling Pin Match!

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The October Bowling Pin match is Sunday the 14th.  Usual place, the Tucson Rifle Club action range. 

Time: 8:00 AM sign-up, first rounds downrange about 8:20. We should be done around 11.  Weather should be beautiful.

Handguns only: .22 rimfire, centerfire revolver (.38 Special minimum), semi-autos (.380 minimum).

You’re welcome to shoot your revolver against the semi-auto crowd, but we think it’s more fun to shoot wheelgun-vs.-wheelgun.

Cost: $10 for the first gun, $5 for any additional guns. Bring about 100 rounds for each. You probably won’t need ’em all unless you’re really good at missing fast.

What’s a bowling pin match? This:

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Hope to see you there!

Bummer

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The seventh annual Gun Blogger Rendezvous is only 27 days away, and I’m not going to get my .458 SOCOM upper in time. 

I ordered it on May 3, with an advertised 90-day lead time.  I checked with Rock River a couple of days ago, and here is their response:

The .458’s are running over the approximate 90 day time frame, so it could be 30-45 days before it is available.

Rock River is still advertising “60-90 days” for “most LAR-458 rifles and upper halves.”

Regardless, I won’t have a “thumper” to bring with me to the Rendezvous. I’ve got dies, brass, bullets even (some kind people let me have some of their private stash, so I’ve got about 200 of the 405 grain Remington softpoints to load.)

But nothing to shoot them through.

Ah, well. It’ll still be fun.

Last Bowling Pin Match of the Summer

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In a related note, the August Bowling Pin match is Sunday, August 12.  Usual place, the Tucson Rifle Club action range.  There won’t be a September match because I’ll be in Reno that weekend.

Time: 8:00 AM sign-up, first rounds downrange about 8:20

Handguns only: .22 rimfire, centerfire revolver (.38 Special minimum), semi-autos (.380 minimum).

You’re welcome to shoot your revolver against the semi-auto crowd, but we think it’s more fun to shoot wheelgun-vs.-wheelgun.

Cost: $10 for the first gun, $5 for any additional guns. Bring about 100 rounds for each. You probably won’t need ’em all unless you’re really good at missing fast.

Hope to see you there!

Why We’re Winning

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I may have another mom hooked on the idea of shooting. After getting the hang of the pellet rifle, she pointed at my pistol and asked if she could shoot that as well. I explained that there wasn’t a safe place in my little yard to do so, but that there was talk of getting a “Mom Shoot” together for beginners and she should really come to that. I kept a calm and neutral tone, but inwardly I was jumping up and down clapping my hands yelling “WE’VE GOT ANOTHER ONE!!!” — Nancy R. at Excels at Nothing

As Robb Allen says, what have the anti-gunners got? Anti-gun ranges?

Match Report – Bowling Pins, 6/10/12

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Well, I’ve heard the expression “Won the whole shootin’ match,” but I’ve never actually done it.

Until today.

Seven other shooters showed up for the June Bowling Pin match.  Two brought Major guns, four brought Minor guns, six brought revolvers, and six brought .22’s.  There were too few of us to break out Major vs. Minor, so we shot centerfire pistol as one class.  There were a lot of malfs.  Still, I managed to win all three divisions.  (No malfs on my part, except for the loose nut behind the trigger.)

Note:  Eight shots in the revolver class really helps.  I only managed to clear a table in six shots or less twice.  The rest of the time it took seven, and once it took all eight.

The next match is July 8.  Hope to see you there.