Bowling Pin Shoot - Tucson, Sunday, April 11

OK, I'm going to do a "dry run" of the bowling pin match on Sunday, April 11 at the Tucson Rifle Club. The plan is to try to have the first rounds downrange by 8:00AM. I'm not charging entry fees for this one, other than the daily range fees if you are not already a member.

The plan is thus: Each shooter will shoot five tables of five pins, each run timed on a shot timer. Longest time gets thrown out, the remaining four are averaged. Once everyone's been through, shooters will be paired off by time to compete against each other, best two runs out of three. Winners from the first match-ups will be paired off, losers will be paired off. Lose twice, and you're done for the day, but you'll have shot at least nine tables, four in competition against another shooter. We keep going until only one shooter is left who hasn't lost twice.

Any repeating handgun in .38 Special / 9x19mm or higher caliber. Hollow-point, soft-point and flat-point bullets are far superior to round-nose "hardball" ammo. The more power, the better, BUT:

"Major" loads (.40 S&W and larger) will have the pins located 12" back from the FRONT edge of the table.

"Minor" loads (smaller than .40 S&W) will have the pins located 16" off the BACK edge of the table.

The front edge of the table will be 25 feet from the firing line.

Bear in mind, this is a PRACTICE RUN to see how all of this works out. If it goes well, I plan to run a match each second Sunday of the month.

We'll see how it goes. Hope you can make it.