My first ever Bullseye 2700

[Fred40]

I shot in my first 2700 a couple weeks ago.

My local club is hosting an NRA 2700 every month this summer.

I ended up being the biggest money winner. I'm currently ranked as a Marksman. I've been shooting just over a year and had a poor winter indoor season.

But I pulled out an 805 in the .22 portion. My .45 still needs work (which I never have time for) and I shot in the mid 700's (756?) during the centerfire portion and then a 769 in the final .45.

It was fun.....but looooooong. Shooting started at 10:00am and I left at 5:00pm

[JJE]

Nice shooting! I recently started informal Bullseye shooting (reduced 21' slow-fire target) with a .22 (stock Browning BuckMark 5.5 Target), and I've got a long ways to go. The only good thing about being bad is that I shoot a high score every time I go to the range.

I will hopefully do formal competition at some point, but shooting a full match seems way out of my league just in terms of having to get another competitive gun (don't own a .45 and have only fired one twice), practice with 2 guns, then devote a full day to a match. If I can just get competitive with the .22 I'll be more than happy.

[cavman]

Fantastic. Welcome to the sport.
Hope to see you at Camp Perry.

[kle]

I will hopefully do formal competition at some point, but shooting a full match seems way out of my league just in terms of having to get another competitive gun (don't own a .45 and have only fired one twice), practice with 2 guns, then devote a full day to a match. If I can just get competitive with the .22 I'll be more than happy.

If you can get a .45 with a trigger and feel close enough to your .22, then your .22 practice will easily transfer to the .45. Even if you don't (I haven't seen any 1911s with or grips like the Buckmark, for instance) a lot of the same ideas will apply, such as followthrough and trigger control.

And that's why there is the classification system: Marksmen compete against Marksmen, and don't compete against High Masters--it's so that you can be competitive against your peers. Once you get good enough, you get bumped up to the next class.

Keep practicing, and welcome to the sport (both of you)!

[10s&Xs]

Fred: Congratulations on your first match. And yes, there is an endurance aspect to shooting a full 2700. Nice shooting

JJE: You can shoot just the .22 portion of a 2700 to get the competition experience and then call it a day. Or, you can keep shooting your .22 for the center fire and .45 stages of the match, just not for a recorded score. Either way, there's no reason not to give it a try. There's no such thing as "not good enough to compete."

[krs]

Fred,

Did you say money?!? There sure wasn't any money in shooting bullseye back when I used to live for it. All I ever got was trophies and little medals. Oh, and a couple of gift certificates from Bob Chow's gun shop whenever I'd shoot at the Presidio in San Francisco.

JJE,

Is Chabot Gun Club still open and operating the range in Oakland? If so you're in the right place to compete in Bullseye. Look into whether or not they're still running International Air Pistol matches at the big Lockheed facility in Sunnyvale too. That's a related game that's always indoors.


You guys want to practice lots and shoot informal non registered matches to retain your Marksman classification until you can regularly shoot in high expert or master scores in practice.
Then one day you go to a registered match, a big one, holding your Marksman classification card tight in your hand while you sign in. Shoot the match as best you can and clean up - take home everything they're awarding. Sandbag them - You can only do it once. :) Act all surprised that you did so good on only your second match.

[Fred40]

Just shot my second match....not bad not great. Kind of fell apart at the very end.

I did shoot a 272 National Match Course with my .45. That was a first. I've never shot an expert score with my .45, not even close. The 50 yard line was killing me though....too much work the day before the match.