accuracy

I’ve only shot one bullseye/bench rest style match and when I was a teenager we went to the local precision rimfire club to pick up the scrap lead. This is where the high school shot at and they had the recent  groups of targets out on the table. I’m looking at them while my dad talked to the guy there, and the director or whoever he was looked over and asked me what I thought of those groups. Without skipping a beat I said “I can outshoot those with my hunting rifle”.

The club had Anschutz match rifles and shot delay ammo. The guy seemed a little offended and I offered to go get my rifle from the truck and prove it. The rifle I had was a Zastava bolt acrion 22 with barrel mounted irons and I had some CCI mini mags. I layed down prone and proceeded to shoot a group about half the size of all the high schoolers groups. The head of the shooting team wanted me to join after that, but I was home schooled and wasn’t allowed to participate. I doubt I could shoot like that now, even though I still have that rifle and it’s still the most accurate 22 I have ever owned.

I did shoot a bit of USPSA and always struggled with the speed part. I can shoot double alplahs all day, but speed is a large part of the game, and even though I can shoot reasonably fast, I always struggled with making damn sure I had good sight pictures and shot doubles. The only 3 gun match I ever shot I took 2nd place over all and 1st in my division, and part of this was due to a 100 yard plate rack that had to be cleared with a pistol. I don’t think I still have the video, but I sent Tom videos back then of my warm ups on that plate rack.