Post a unique rifle match attended

[Larry (Omaha)]

Couples shoot, or partner shoot.

Sounds fun, hope the target is big.
Flintlocklar

 

[Loyalist Dave]

A 6' high 2x2, erected vertically, with a platform on the top holding a brick. The "stake" was marked; each team got their own stake, and each team of two shooters, at 25 yards, kept shooting off hand until the stake was cut. I ran out of patches and found that even without a patch at 25 yards you can hit the stake and cut it. The brick was to help ensure the stake broke....due to the weight plus the holes shot through the stake. First stake cut got first prize....etc

Sounds like it favors the guys with the .62's....well they can miss too....

LD

 

[Rifleman1776]

partner shoot

Did that once.
I won.
Wife RIP.

 

[Vhntr]

It was challenging,75 yds and all you had to shoot at was the top 4 to 5 inches of his head off hand ,great time wish it never ended.

 

[fleener]

I hosted a turkey shoot one year at my rendezvous. Might of been the first year, 21 years ago.

I had 2 or 3 live turkeys that I got from a turkey farm.

I let the darn things roam loose the first day, the first night they spent under my travel trailer bumping the bottom all night keeping me awake.

I did not have the heart to tie them up with their heads sticking above a log to be shot at. So we shot at a turkey target and the losers had to butcher the turkeys, and we ate them for supper.

Fleener

 

[spudnut]

we did a tradegun match flintlock only where one clanger shot you picked a piece of cannon fuse out of a crack in a log , some long some short,you load and prime and stick that fuse in the touch hole then the judge would light the fuse,try to hold on target. Then another they would drop a marble down a twisty tube with a bell at the bottom, shoot before the bell rings,then we took one of those battery powered balls with the critter attached you get at a toy store, they roll all over by themselves,we stuck one in a sack and you held onto it with your forward hand and try to hit the gong

 

[joelweeks]

at one we had smoothbore without a cock, hand to start fire with flint and steel light cannon fuse wait for it to go off, closest to center wins. another one did canoe shoot on a creek but had a sack of apples had to throw at targets then paddle out into lake go up shoreline get out set a trap run across finish line, lowest time and most number of hits determined winner.

 

[azmntman]

Sounds like one I'd like to WATCH :surrender:

 

[Gene L]

at one we had smoothbore without a cock,.

The Chelsea Manning match.

 

[Many Klatch]

I was asked to put on a shoot once. They are still talking about it and I haven't been asked since.

The Scotsman target - a Granny Fanny target with a kilt on it. Hanging below the kilt were two pingpong balls hot glued together. Object of the target was to hit both balls. We had women carrying their targets tucked into their belts like scalps.

The Low roofed targets. 6 reasonably easy gongs at 25 to 30 yards. First shot done standing. Then next 5 shots have to be loaded and shot under a tarp that is strung about 4 feet off the ground. Be surprised how many people can't load and shoot that way. Oh yeah, 5 minute time limit.

Candle target. Paint a cardboard box black on the inside. Use a cheap candleholder. Must snuff the candle. If they hit the wax candle its a minus point. The nice thing about the cardboard box is that you can actually see the flame. Also as the candle burns down the last bullet hole in the cardboard moves up so you can see the flame.

Finally the Cheater target. Two pieces of carpet, tied up with rope. Looked like a clanger. Instructions were "must hear it ring". If you put it down as a ring it was a -4 points.

Like I said, they are still talking about that match and haven't asked me again.

 

[Redstick Lee]

as a teen and young adult (1978-83) the local M/L club (all relatives and friends) used to stage BP "Manhunts".....this was before firearm safety was given much concideration

everyone turned in their ball bag to the hunt-master, then as a group we'd all charge with light loads and paper wads.....and head into a plot of woods filled with trails and hills and cutaways etc.

the last one to show up at the starting point w/o a soot mark on them was declared winner of whatever trinket was awarded that month......I once won a tomahawk.

of course all this ended when someone broke the rules and took a head-shot at his cousin ( my bro in law) and peppered his face really badly.

YES, I KNOW this was all a bad idea from the get-go........but I sure enjoyed it !!