Let's see those competition target guns from the past

[ApacheCoTodd]

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And my poor old 686, set up as a Bianchi cup gun by a grand old man of the shooting game, now passed on for many years. I can't begin to count the number of rounds this gun has seen. It taught me how to shoot under pressure, but now rattles like a WWI 1911.

I so VERY miss the grand days of the early Bianchi Cup. Mickey Fowler was a personal hero of mine.
On your 686, what do the items at the front and the rear of the scope base contribute?

Todd.

 

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I so VERY miss the grand days of the early Bianchi Cup. Mickey Fowler was a personal hero of mine.
On your 686, what do the items at the front and the rear of the scope base contribute?

Todd.

Well, the part at the front is the barrel, where the bullets come out.

Okay, so the barrel is slab-sided and grip-taped to help hold onto the edge of the barricade. The black "crossbar" thing is a barricade wing, which gets shoved into the barricade. When the barrel and barricade are gripped by the gun and your off hand, everything is locked in tight and you can just go crazy without worrying about trigger pull or grip or any of that other nonsense. The black stuff on the wing is Plasti-dip - when the wing was bare steel it once slipped during the string and I machine-gunned most of the cylinder into the dirt. No prize table that day!

The bit under the sight is for shooting the mover. You pull out the black handle at the rear of the base and slide it left or right, depending upon which direction the mover will be going. That moves the sight just the right amount so that you don't need to lead the target - just hold on the black and have at it. I always had trouble with the mover, but that sight base allowed me shoot three or four perfect scores on that match.

 

[hps1]

Well, the part at the front is the barrel, where the bullets come out.

Okay, so the barrel is slab-sided and grip-taped to help hold onto the edge of the barricade. The black "crossbar" thing is a barricade wing, which gets shoved into the barricade. When the barrel and barricade are gripped by the gun and your off hand, everything is locked in tight and you can just go crazy without worrying about trigger pull or grip or any of that other nonsense. The black stuff on the wing is Plasti-dip - when the wing was bare steel it once slipped during the string and I machine-gunned most of the cylinder into the dirt. No prize table that day!

The bit under the sight is for shooting the mover. You pull out the black handle at the rear of the base and slide it left or right, depending upon which direction the mover will be going. That moves the sight just the right amount so that you don't need to lead the target - just hold on the black and have at it. I always had trouble with the mover, but that sight base allowed me shoot three or four perfect scores on that match.

AHA! The tricks of the trade; every discipline has them. I wondered how youse guys managed to hit those moving targets so consistently.

Regards,
hps

 

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AHA! The tricks of the trade; every discipline has them. I wondered how youse guys managed to hit those moving targets so consistently.

Regards,
hps

Yup. Legalized cheating. The first time I used it in a match I turned the lever the wrong way and was amused at the perfect little group I made right on the edge of the paper. No prize table that day either.

 

[hps1]

The first time I used it in a match I turned the lever the wrong way and was amused at the perfect little group I made right on the edge of the paper.

About the same as the (5 ring size) rapid fire group I shot in qualification with the M1 carbine, half in and half out of the 3 ring, when the brim on my cap pushed the rear sight all the way down when I assumed prone position! A lot funnier now than it was at the time.

Regards,
hps