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Silhouette Shooting: Fun for the Whole Family

A truly fun activity. Back in the mid/late 80's and into the 90's, my wife and I both shot several classes of silhouette at our local club weekly and even followed the circuit around where ever a match was being shot. It was not uncommon for us together to shoot upwards of 12-15 thousand rounds per year. That's when I first became a reloader!!!

There's not much that brings the shooting excitement like hearing that loud "clang" of lead meeting steel, and then watching that silhouette animal teeter and fall off the stand, or literally flying off in a whirl and flip. For some inexpiable reason, punching paper just doesn't have quite the same effect, on me at least.

Try it ..... you'll like it!

regards,
jumpinjoe
 
Back in the 1990’s I was a member of IMHSA, I shot the .22 class with a TC Contender, and also tried big bore with a wildcat cartridge, .338CJMK in Remington XP-100, good times and lots of fun.
 
My silhouette gun of choice was also the Contender, in several calibers. 10" bbl's for the NRA Hunter's Pistol games and 14" bbl's for the IHMSA stuff. At one time had bbl's in calibers from .22 cal up to and including the 45.70 Gov't. The 45.70 was a 10" and not a lot of fun to shoot! That .22 was a real squirrel and rabbit getter!

Also as an aside, I was fortunate back then to get hold of a Contender carbine conversion kit with 3 calibers of long bbl's. IIRC they were 22" long, and with the rifle stock installed all shot like tack drivers. I liked that little rifle so well, I eventually bought an Encore. Much like the Contender, just bigger, heavier, and beefier. That was back in the early 80's for the Contender and probably the late 90's or early 2000's for the Encore. Still have them both.

regards,
jumpinjoe
 
I just recently switched from paper targets to shooting steel and I’m hooked.
Nothing like hearing the sound and seeing that steel plate swing.
My lady also enjoys going with me when I shoot, she is not big on shooting my AR’s but she loves shooting my 9mm Mod2.
 
I like the steel behind the paper target in the kill zone Center Mass 6" Round & Head 4" round. You hear the ping you know it's a kill shot. At 100 yards & beyond you can't see where you hit the paper but you can hear it hit this way.
 
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