Muh God that was fun!!!

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Last weekend I took my bone stock Kimber Stainless II in 45acp to shoot some pins.

A little friendly competition our club puts on on various weekends. There are sessions for Major, and for minor. Basically the placement on the table for the caliber used.

So I got trounced on by a guy shooting a Smith 1911 in 9mm. He's a good shot. And the guy that beat him, Shooting a Glock in .40 smith.

They've done this before! The open class saw pistols in some form of 1911 or the other. 38 super, .40, and .45acp. With some pretty damn good veterans at this game.

OK I got beat by a 9mm ... Er' uh, a pretty good shooter, but it took three tries to make me step aside. Both of us had some unfortunate pin's dancing the Mamba and spinning on the table. Both of us had to reload, the rest of the competitors and spectators chanting "Who want's it more", as we reloaded. We both hit our last pins, and well, his was just closer to the edge. I got beat fair and square. But Damn That Was Fun!

Heads up quick accurate shooting against each other.

I'll have to check the schedule and see when I can make the next shoot, since in the first timed session, where we shot against the clock to determin the placement brackets for the rest of the day, I, With a stock pistol, set the fastest time clearing a table.

4.64 seconds clearning five bowling pins from the front of the table. None of the veterans with heavily modified pistols did that that day. If I can do it once, I can do it again. (I've looked at the history for our club and this match. There's one guy that's repeated less than four seconds several times. I don't know where that ranks with the national competitions, but that's damn fast in my book)
Oh, and did I say that I'm doing this with my own lead pours. Just a Lyman 230gn hp.

-Steve
 
That does sound like a fun time. I have often thought of doing a pin match with my Austin Behlert S&W 25-5. It has a 5" ported tube, which should help. I figure a 260g pill moving about 900fps should do the trick to just about any pin that gets in the way.

bob
 
I shot at the old Second Chance Bowling Pin Shoot for 10 years.

I saw a lot of fast pin shooters including Brian Enos and Jerry Miculek. Some times were under three seconds.

My best time ever was a bit slower than the one you posted and was shot with a Hybrid ported Para/Caspian pin gun.
I never could be consistent enough to win in anything but the Trivia competition.
 
I'm sitting in a training classroom on the 28th floor of the Union Towers here in Seattle, just itching to get back home and to the range. If the weather co-operates this weekend I hope to go practice against some pins at least once. My 230gn offerings are moving at 925fps, so that's a little more recoil than I'm used to shooting in my weekly rimfire Bullseye league. Posting that fast time was really fun, now I guess I'll have to work on the consistency. "If I can do it once, I can do it again." is my motivation.

Only one dose, and now I think I'm addicted!

If you've never shot pins, Go watch one time to get a feel for the game, then take yer pistola the next time.

-Steve
 
Yeah, pin shooting can get addictive. We've been doing it for about a year at a couple of local ranges here in Michigan. Our 13-year-old daughter is getting rather good at it. Her best time for 5 pins at 36 feet (pins set 3 feet from the back of the table) was 1.98 seconds on a shot timer. With her 9mm pistol she can usually be counted on to get tables in the low to mid 3's. Oh, to have those young eyes and reflexes again.

Steve and Sue

ps. Model 649, where were you last week? Giving up pins for lent?
 
Pins are a great thing to do indoor in the winter if you can get you local range to put it on. We have one that shoots every Wednesday night. It's a head to head double elimination and it attracts 20 to 30 shooters every Wednesday. It's fun and yes it can be addictive. Best advice I ever got for pins was on this fourm. Slow down to go faster. Think about it, it works.
 
I took that same approach in my Bullseye shooting in Timed fire. Slowing down, with almost a rythm of one shot every 2 seconds, right down to the last shot being right there when the target turned, actually made me more accurate and as I practiced that, my rapid fire sessions improved too. That's the same I'm going to try with pins, slow and deliberate center hits that make the pins leave the table. Consistent clearing won't have me reloading at all.

Unfortunately for the next few Saturdays, I've got family stuff going on, so I can't shoot pins for a bit. Our club runs it year round now. The fees from this discipline were funneled to build a 24x36' pole building open on the shooting side, with covered bleachers on the backside looking toward the tables. When they shoot falling plates, all a person needs to do is pull the rope to reset the targets. Setting pins, somebody gets to venture out in the rain or snow for a few minutes. -Generally not the next shooters to the line. The building has a concrete floor and a member donated a double barrel wood stove. It's not quite indoors, but is rather nice for this kind of fun year round.

-Steve
 
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