Waksupi, Postal Match Question

[chromecrow]

Just returned from shooting some papers for my entry in my first ever postal match. I had a thought. It has been my practice to place a plain sheet of white paper behind the target to record my 10 shots. I place a fresh peice behind the target for the 2nd group of 10. Now I have a target with 20 holes in it. My question is would it be considered cheating to pick the best 10 of the 20 for the 10 shot group or must the group consist of 10 consecutively fired shots? I will lick the envelope when the law has been laid down. Thanks, John.

[waksupi]

John, you kinda have me confused. Do you mean you have a target, with two separate distinct groups on it? If so, I may be able to work with that. Otherwise, if you have a shotgun pattern of shots, and want to select the ones I will score, I don't teenk so!

[chromecrow]

Yes, a target with 20 holes in it . It seemslike I read in another post where someone was cutting out their group to send in. It occurred to me that if I picked out my 10 closest holes adn cut it out I would appear to be a better shooter. Otherwis I will have to send in one of these lousy groups that are more like what I can do while shooting from my two wobbly hind legs.

[imashooter2]

Good try chromecrow!

[waksupi]

I think I'm beginning to smell a rat, and feeling my leg being pulled.

[Scrounger]

I think I'm beginning to smell a rat, and feeling my leg being pulled.

Oh, God! Is Carpetman going into 'rats' now? I give up...

[chromecrow]

Well then, I suppose any tape present on the target is a no-no also?? Oh well, I guess minute-of-barndoor will have to do.

[SharpsShooter]

Well then, I suppose any tape present on the target is a no-no also?? Oh well, I guess minute-of-barndoor will have to do.

BTW what is the postage for a barn door??

[JSH]

"BTW what is the postage for a barn door??"
Ditto to that! Today was not a good day. Stuck a bullet in the 30-30 and the 357 did not want to feed right for some reason. I tried shooting the 357 one at a time and was all over the place, then realized I had the wrong glasses.............
I couldn't get 10 on paper out of 20 shots.

Any of you have a marlin in 357 and have feeding problems? I thought I whatched my OAL length pretty good. Could not get it to feed for crap. ANy thoughts on this?
Jeff
oh and no targets from me this time, unless some generous soul wants to donate some for me.

[waksupi]

You guys tickle me! I had more than a few requests for offhand matches this year. I'm getting some of the funniest alibis in, this time around!

[Frank46]

I have a marlin 1894 in 357 and no feeding problems. Mainly because I use them J bullets.
Waksupi, maybe you should make a list of the alibi's, this way you can tell them that one has been used and to come up with a better one. Frank

[David R]

Offhand Alabi Competition. I like that one.

Just shoot em, mail em and smile!

David

[imashooter2]

JSH, my Marlin 1894C will feed anything as long as I keep the OAL to 1.590 or below.

[Bullshop]

There used to be a fella that came by often to shoot. He knew I always over run orders so would ask if he could shoot the over run's. He sometimes brought his molds for me to cast even though I knew he had all the equipment.
His excuse that I am still unable to figure out was that the floor in his house was not level so his boolits came out with crooked bases. HUH!!!
Yea crooked bases, can ya blame him then!!!
BIC/BS

[slughammer]

You guys tickle me! I had more than a few requests for offhand matches this year. I'm getting some of the funniest alibis in, this time around!

Since my scope sighted group is kind of embarrasing; I pulled the glass off and went on Friday to shoot a group with the irons. Just enough time to hang a target out at 50 and shoot. Pulled up to the range and found that the 50 yard backer had fallen down Two main post were busted right at ground level, and the ground was frozen solid...

Just finished digging out from the snow. Looks like I'll be heading back with my own target stand in the next day or two.

[chromecrow]

Now come on, I'm not mailin the barn door, I need that to keepthe bugs out of the barn. I'm just mailin the peice of paper that I cut out that size. BTW once in shop class there was a line on a drawing I had made that was not straight and the teacher asked me the reason why. I replied " The ruler was crooked". My shop teacher said" You go get me that crooked ruler"!

[woody1]

Hey Ric, Whadaya think, when I shot my groups for that Waksupi’s Postal Match contest I forgot to use a backer for my targets. I do have the box that I taped the targets to and I think it’ll work. See, the box is 11 ½ inches by 14 and there’s 80 holes in it. Now that’s 8 times more than the group is supposed to be shot, right? Now the diagonal on that box is about 18 inches which is the maximum dispersion (group) that there could be on the box, right? But you can clearly see that most of the holes are in the middle third of the box. That box has a calculated square inches of 11 ½ by 14 or a hunert and sixty-one. Now if we square the hypotenuse 18 and divide by the number of shots on the box (80) we get 4.05. BUT, now wait a minute, I know yer sayin’ that that’s the amount of each shot, but it’s not. Starmetal, you need to weigh in here. We haven’t accounted for the shots mostly being in the middle third. So we have to square the 4.05 and then take the 4th root (4 sides to the box) which gives us 2.0125 and that’s the amount accounted for by each shot. So the group is supposed to be 10 shots right? Therefore a 10 shot group would be 20.125 but since I shot 8 groups we should divide by 8 so my best group would be 20.125 divided by 8 or 2.51 inches. Oh by the way, the box being 11 ½ by 14 by 8 inches deep calculates to a BS factor of 1288 and you can take that to the bank!

[waksupi]

Darn! I was looking forward to getting that barn door. I was going to patch the holes, and make it into a tom Sawyer raft this spring!
Woody, keep shooting that same box, and pretty soon, you may have aone hole group. Although, it may be a foot or so around!

Keep in mind everyone, the Scoped and aperture offhand, lever action match, and Sub-.30 cal. match ends on Wednesday. I won't be scoring them for a week or two, so you can probably squeek in some shooting this next weekend, and still get them here.

[grumble]

When I shot for my group, I was HOT! So I kept shooting. Pretty soon, there was just a 2" hole in the center of the target. Now, I'm pretty frugal and hate to waste paper, so I just cut out the center of the target to mail.

Waksupi, if you get the 2" hole in an otherwise empty envelope, it will be my 40 round offhand target shot at 300 yards.

[waksupi]

Woody, after re-reading your post, I was ready to accept your explaination, and enter your group into the competition. However, you failed to mention the rifle, load, bullet, and other pertinent information.

Disqualified!