[May 18] 25m Pistol (Precision/Rapid) in Rathdrum

rrpc

Rathdrum Rifle and Pistol Club are holding a 25m Pistol (Precision/Rapid) Match on Sunday May 18th 2008. This match is for .22 cal pistol only. Booking is now open.
25m Pistol (Precision/Rapid) Match



To be held at the Indoor Range: Rathdrum Rifle and Pistol Club,

Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.

Sunday 18th May 2008

Championship: 60 shots at 25 metres
To be shot using .22lr calibre semi-automatic target pistol with five shot magazine or .22lr calibre revolver with five shot capacity (larger magazine or revolver capacities must be loaded with five shots only before each series). Subsonic ammunition (<1130fps) only to be used.


Entry Fee: €15

Prizes for 1st to 3rd in Championship

Course of fire:

Precision Target

• 5 sighters in 5 minutes,
• 6 series of 5 shots in 5 minutes each,
• There will be a 60 second loading period and 7 second attention period before each series.

Rapid Fire Target

• 1 sighting series of 5 shots in 3 seconds a shot each,
• 6 series of 5 shots in 3 seconds a shot each,
• There will be a 7 second attention period before each shot in a series.
• There will be a 60 second loading period before each series.
• There will be a five (5) minute preparation time before each detail.
• Details will last approximately 60 minutes each including target changeover.

Targets used will be ISSF Precision 25m (200mm aiming mark, 50mm ten ring) and ISSF Rapid fire (500mm aiming mark, 100mm ten ring) on the Megalink electronic target system.

Ties (from 4th place) to be broken by countback, highest number of 10's, 9's, 8's etc. or the highest number of inner tens, in that order. Ties from 1st to 3rd place to be broken by shoot-off in one rapid fire series with a rapid fire sighter series.

Sunday 18th May
Range Opens at 09:30

• Detail A - 10:00 (course of fire as above)
• Detail B - 11:00
• Detail C - 12:00
• Detail D - 13:00

To book a detail, go to www.rathdrumrpc.org and choose 'Book Detail' from the menu on the left. Follow the steps to book date, firing point/detail. A confirmation email will be sent to you to confirm your booking. Only available firing points/details will be displayed.

N.B. The booking engine has been having hissy fits lately and not sending confirmations. Please ensure you have clicked the 'Confirm' button after clicking the 'Submit' button (you'd be surprised how many people fail to do this ). If in any doubt, post a reply to this thread and your booking will be checked.

bigred

I'm getting a ' -No slots available this date - ' when I try to book??

rrpc

OK should be fixed now. There was a block in place to stop people booking it instead of the Nationals.

rrpc

Please note that we will be introducing some equipment control for this competition. Trigger weights and pistol sizes will be tested thanks to the loan of a sizing box and trigger weights from Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club.

FYI, trigger weight must be 1000gr or over, dimensions must not exceed 300 x 150 x 50mm. Sight radius must not exceed 220mm and barrel length 153mm.

Sparks

From the RRPC website:

25m Pistol results
Written by Kealan Symes
Sunday, 18 May 2008

In a closely fought contest with Paul Flanagan of Rathdrum, the 25m Pistol match was won today by Alan Kelly of Hilltop. Third place went to John O'Brien of Rathdrum in his first competitive outing giving the experienced shooters a bit of a shock in the process.

Thanks to everyone who turned up, it was an enjoyable match and one we hope to repeat in the coming months.

25m Pistol - 18th May 2008
Name|Club|Precision|||Rapid|||Total
||1|2|3|1|2|3
Alan Kelly|HSC|87|87|88|85|88|92|527|
Paul Flanagan|RRPC|83|87|91|83|84|92|520|
John O'Brien|RRPC|81|85|85|78|83|89|501|
Michael Madigan|RRPC|80|84|78|88|83|68|481|
James Farrell|WTSC|81|77|85|60|69|58|430|
Oisin Reid|HSC|63|59|55|82|74|77|410|
Joe Kinane|RRPC|75|80|73|52|58|72|410|
Michael Doherty|ECSSC|62|73|64|74|50|76|399|
Kealan Symes|RRPC|59|64|65|75|64|57|384|
Caroline O'Brien|RRPC|66|77|79|0|0|0|222

Bananaman

Well done Alan

Any Photos ?

B'Man

rrpc

Bananaman wrote: »

Well done Alan

Any Photos ?

B'Man

I think Alan has photos of the medal winners. It was a real ding-dong battle between the two of them. Paul had a miss on his second rapid string of five (the 83 could have been a 93) and that put an end to it really.

Bananaman

Please note that we will be introducing some equipment control for this competition.

Anything not pass? I trust the "plinkers" were well within limits.

I'll chase up Alan, Paul and the other guys for photos. I'm looking for them for the clubhouse wall but I'll ask if they won't mind posting here aswell.

B'Man

rrpc

Bananaman wrote: »

Anything not pass? I trust the "plinkers" were well within limits.

I'll chase up Alan, Paul and the other guys for photos. I'm looking for them for the clubhouse wall but I'll ask if they won't mind posting here as well.

B'Man

Alan's trigger didn't pass on the first go, but with a small adjustment it made it through. Everything else was fine. The measuring box wasn't needed because everything else was well within size.

It's not that tough really. Most non-ISSF pistols (and that's a very loose description) have fairly heavy triggers and are a good deal smaller than the measuring box.

The only drawback would be barrel length, as some pistols have 7" barrels and that's not allowed.

Bananaman

How did the rest fair on the trigger? Everyone else "exactly" on the limit or was there much deviation?

B'Man

rrpc

Bananaman wrote: »

How did the rest fair on the trigger? Everyone else "exactly" on the limit or was there much deviation?

B'Man

Most were between a little over and comfortably over. I know mine is about 1100gr and there was a Beretta which must have been about 2Kg as it wouldn't go off with the max of 1500gr on the tester.

With the two-stage match triggers, you can split the weight between the two stages so that your release wieght is about 500-600gr even though the overall weight is over 1000gr.

Congrats to Alan!

xesse

i,m thinking it will be a really good day on sunday
i shot a personal best of 530 on wed night
i think that is the highest score in the club so far:P

xesse

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that was first attempt wed evening

xesse

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this was the 530 score card
it also added in the sighters so the score is minus 34 which is a score of 530
how do you like them apples alan:D

Sparks

Very good shooting - have to get you guys to try a bit of air pistol as well

xesse

would like to try air pistol and air rifle
i,d have to borrow the kit
what kinda scores and distance do you guys shoot

Sparks

Well, you've got the targets for it! Range is 10m, and guys like Tim Scannel and Joe Conroy are putting in scores around 530 in competition, but we've seen bigred in here put in 550-odd in training. If you're in RRPC, talk to Mike Madigan about it, he shot air rifle in DURC for years. Or call out to WTSC, take a look about and talk to Geoff.

rrpc

We have to get one club air pistol at least, but have to wait for funds to build up first. Hopefully the new year will see us add a few new training tools and bits and bobs for lads and ladies to try out.

Hate to burst your bubble xesse, but I checked the records and the highest score was 536 by J.O'D in the 2006 Nationals (shot in May 2007 - lack of a venue delayed it until we had the range up and going).

The full results from that competition are here.

Sorry I misled you, but it's hard to remember every score

That's not to take from your achievement either. The only difference between what you are doing and what Joe did is that he was knocking in 97, 95 in the 150 second stage. Your rapid is obviously better. The other really impressive part is the fact that all your shots are in the black.

Keep it up :cool:

xesse

536 :eek:
oh well there s always tommrow
shot a 521 and a 525 today

Kryten

Shot a 519 today. Also used it as an opportunity to zero the gun. On my first 2 150 second series, I had most of my group at 12 o clock in the low 8 and high 9. This skewed the result a bit. Also my 10 second series were not great with 169/200. My 20 second series, 171/200 and my 150 second series 179/200.

Just need more practice!!!!!!:D:D