I got out to the Range this morning at around 8:00 AM, and spent just over 3 hours completing my 40 shots at our official TMA Silhouette targets. It actually turned out to be a nice "no wind" morning... I've posted my score, and here's what it was;
(32) [8 Chickens - 8 Pigs - 6 Turkeys - 10 Rams]'32' is the same score I posted last year... I started out on the "Turkeys" to get a feel for these paper silhouettes (I now wish I had posted one of those practice targets that was in our packet) - before heading in "cold turkey" so to speak...
The turkeys frustrated me. I actually had 8 hits on the turkeys - but our Silhouette Scoring Rule calls for (1/2 the ball has to be in the target from the outside line, and two weren't... The other two misses were just flat out misses...
I moved on to the Chickens next, and was happy with my score there. Aiming at the smaller chicken targets seemed to agree with me, as I got 8 of them.
Pigs were third, and I managed some decent grouping on them - but unfortunately the "half in" Rule cost me two counters.
Rams were good to me, I got all ten of them. On the top Ram I think mentally I was trying for kill shot placement (and it showed) but all five shots were in solid... On my second Ram I got my best 5 shot grouping of the day, and it ran horizontal...
As I said earlier, I couldn't best my 32 points from last year - (and after the disappointing Turkey results) I just felt good about getting to 32...
These silhouettes are a challenge for sure... I believe between our Silhouette Match and our Mike Fink Partner shoot - we really feel the up's & down's of our results... At least I do - but then there's always next year.
Oh, by the way,,, I used ol' Candle Snuffer for my silhouette shooting and I think he's a bit put out with me for not taking him to Rendezvous a couple weeks back... I opted for a different rifle to take - and now I've paid the price...
But he forgave me on the Rams... I think?