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Author Topic: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?  (Read 27985 times)

Online The Miner '49er

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #210 on: June 29, 2024, 11:01:50 AM »
Hey Don!!

What do you think of 50 yard Revolutionary Challenge with a PISTOL!!

I've tried it with my .50 cal Flintlock pistol and IT AIN'T EASY!

Rifle, musket, pistol, slingshot, or rock throwing all = the same amount of challenge for me. And that's with or without a bikini.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #211 on: June 29, 2024, 12:09:07 PM »
Would it be PC and HC if, when using a pistol to try the Revolutionary Challenge, the shooter wore a coonskin cap along with a Borat mankini? Asking for a friend.
Defend the 2nd Amendment - If you can't fight for your rights, you don't have any!     "I was standin' at the toe mark on the 25-yard line, I was gunnin' fer' a 50 with my rifle Clementine."

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #212 on: June 29, 2024, 10:39:09 PM »
Really? I'd like to know what that rule might be.  ;) ;)
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #213 on: July 02, 2024, 09:43:10 AM »
Try, try, again…

“We’re supposed to be surrounded…we’re paratroopers” Captain Richard Winters, Bastogne 1944

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #214 on: July 02, 2024, 02:48:02 PM »
Join the crowd Salty. [ Invalid Attachment ]  Patience is wearing thin.


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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #215 on: July 06, 2024, 11:36:31 AM »
Another try today but… getting closer
“We’re supposed to be surrounded…we’re paratroopers” Captain Richard Winters, Bastogne 1944

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #216 on: July 06, 2024, 08:47:45 PM »
I'm feeling a new member of the regimen coming on.
 You're so close don't give up.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #217 on: July 08, 2024, 09:57:00 AM »
SAL-TY!! SAL-TY!!  SAL-TY!!   YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!


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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #218 on: July 08, 2024, 11:14:51 AM »
Going to try again tomorrow.
Thanks for the encouragement fellas.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #219 on: July 09, 2024, 09:37:43 AM »

Storm missed us completely so I went out today but

Another swing and a miss…

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #220 on: July 10, 2024, 03:49:13 PM »
I kind of wish I had kept the same target on the same backer so I could refer back to what previous shots have been.  But I didn't, so it's a moot point.

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #221 on: July 10, 2024, 04:19:31 PM »
Based on my backer, I’m not sure it’s helping my new shots. If/when I hit it will be pure luck.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #222 on: July 10, 2024, 04:34:08 PM »
I can't agree with you, Salty. If and when you hit it the result will have been due to a combo of persistence and skill. That target is a real mind blower for even the most seasoned and experienced shooters. Every time you, me (although I haven't tried in quite a while), or anyone else tries it and comes up short it merely shows how much superior those 1770's Revolutionary shooters were to us. Those guys were light years better. Imagine you're about 17, you say "Yeah, I'll try that, I think I can hit it, and I want one of those snazzy RWB uniforms." Then you step up, take that one cold bore shot and voila, your get the uniform! Incredible. Good luck. 
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #223 on: July 12, 2024, 10:14:20 AM »
On another forum (TMF) under Flintlock Rifle there is a very interesting discussion, Long Range Shooting, about that topic at distances like what we are mimicking in our scaled down version of Morgan's challenge. There are some tips that could be helpful for those who are still trying to "jine da boyz".    ;banghead;
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #224 on: July 12, 2024, 10:58:48 AM »
Another swing and a miss…

“We’re supposed to be surrounded…we’re paratroopers” Captain Richard Winters, Bastogne 1944