Evening fog

[Fiddler Green]

.  Got 'a love the Sunnyvale Regulator's Monday night matches. It beats the heck out of sitting at home and watching a bunch of steroid created pre Madonna's play stick and ball sports.
   
BP shooting is a little tougher in the twilight, especially in that narrow valley. With the hills blocking the setting sunlight, it creates lots of shadows that are compensated for by bring HID lights out onto the range. For the lone BP shooter, it makes for a real challenge: the second and third stages being the toughest.

As I was in the second posse, we shot stage three first. It was a duel sweep stage with left to right and right to left sweeps on both pistols and rifles. The problem with that was that there was no breeze and the rifle targets were passed the pistol targets: white buffalos. Now, shooting the Buffalos was not the problem, shooting them through the big cloud of smoke I just laid down on the pistol targets......little tougher. I tried to see through the smoke, was losing time, pretty much guessed on their location and let fly. Not a good start but I got through. Three misses! But, the hooting and hollering' made up for the condition.

Stage four (my second stage) was a left-right, alternating stage. Start in the middle and alternate your way out. That give a little more time for the smoke to clear and you're working toward the clearer edges then the smoky center. One miss: better but it was one of the targets I could see clearly. Hummmm...........

The next stage was the real stage one (my third) and, again, BP friendly, left right sweeps...and, where did that breeze come from? A clean stage.

Now for the speed(?) stage. This was the "dump" stage: 10 rounds on the cook (cowboy) and 10 rounds on the center buffalo. Oh, great! The buffalo was white. A convenient cease fire was called for a knock-down fix, on the next range, so I took the time to switch out the white buffalo for a red one: it didn't help. After ten rounds of .45 colt BP loads, I waited for it to clear a little and went to the long gun. By the second shot, I was shooting by the brail method. Now, it would have been OK as the counters had no better view then I, but, the substantial "Blang" caused by that lead pellet, pushed by all that burning charcoal was a dead give-away. Still, I only had one miss. I guess I'm just used to shooting in the fog.

After he match was over, I let several shooter try their hand at the Chinese invention and, as always, at least one wanted to know where to get it and how to load it. I've offered to host a BP shoot for all the Regulators that have C&B guns but have never shot them (a surprising number) and have two takers; so far. So, all in all it was a good night.

Oh yea, I took third. It was a good night!

Bruce

[Angel_Eyes]

Sounds like you had lots of fun,well done!!

Have you ever noticed , that no matter how fast you shoot, the smoke gets there first

I shoot some indoors, ( with so-called smoke extraction system) and I can confound that too

AE

[Fiddler Green]

Sounds like you had lots of fun,well done!!

Have you ever noticed , that no matter how fast you shoot, the smoke gets there first

I shoot some indoors, ( with so-called smoke extraction system) and I can confound that too

AE

Yea, I've noticed that!

I shoot at an indoor range all the time. There is nothing like the reaction of the rest of the people on the range when I let lose with my .54 Cal Plains Rifle!

Bruce