September 2024

We shoot Big Bore Handgun Silhouettes at 50, 100, 150 and 200m, with open sights, and interesting guns¹.

The bank on the left are standard Big Bore targets. I can’t hit those for shit².

The ones on the right (look carefully) are Big Bore Unlimited targets. Apparently I can hit those quite well³.

Same day, same gun, hit more of the small ones than the big ones.

Yea, I don’t know how that happened either⁵.

¹ In this case, a Thompson Contender in 300 Whisp-R, which is a damn nice round, and a damn nice gun, I got the barrel from Mike Bellm himself.

² I only hit 24/40, while the winning score was 39/40. BUT! In my defense, this is the first time I was shooting after having cataract surgery to my left eye⁴ and my old sight settings were way off.

³ Got 32/40, which is a decent if not excellent score.

⁴ For my sins I am cross-dominant.

⁵ On the small bore side, I only shot a 28, which should have placed me maybe third or so. But the other people shot worse than I did. Sucks to be them.

(Previously)

This time the weather was a lot better.

I didn’t take many pictures, the above is a crappy cellphone pic. Nice idea of what the area (Bot River mouth, that’s Arabella on the right) looks like.

I was there for five of the six days. This is too much (up at 06:00, get home > 17:30) but they are desperately short of guns and without guns the competition can’t happen.

They do take good care of us, this was breakfast the one day (admittedly the best looking of the lot, but all the food was good).

Hopefully next year I can get away with two days max.