Tuesday, June 02, 2015

June E-Postal

With the warmer weather comes the annual migration of a species common to much of North America.  They start off following the cherry and apple blossoms up the milder coastal climates then as the storm season subsides they move into the Midwest to partake in the sweetcorn and watermelon, eventually moving south with the fall festivals before the cold weather.  I speak of course of the common American Carny. 
Back before the lawyers and legislators made it a liability nightmare carnivals would commonly feature shooting galleries with actual .22 rifles.  Anyone young or old could walk up, pay their money and be handed a little pump action 22 loaded and ready to go.  I’m sure some of these were rather shady affairs with plenty of bent front sights and glued down tin cans, but some of them were absolute mechanical marvels.  Animated targets, gongs, and falling silhouettes were common features and if you had enough nickels you could destroy an entire fleet of steel ducks and an army of jumping hares. 

Since you can’t really go to one of these galleries anymore, I’m bringing one to you.



This month’s edition of Mr. Completely’s e-postal match.

Here are the rules.

Print the PDF at 100% scaling (you may lose the edges depending on the margins on your printer.  That’s OK)

Tape it to a cardboard backer and place it at 10 yards (or 25 feet)

You have 10 shots. 
  Animal targets count for 10 points but may only be counted once.  (Just imagine them falling with a satisfying ‘ting-GOOOONNG’ sound.) The three bull’s-eye targets are worth a maximum of 20 points with 15 points for the center dot and 5 for the surrounding circle.  Each shot can only be counted once so it’ll take two shots to get the full 20 points out of one of these.

The target should be shot standing unsupported.  There is no time limit.

The classes break down as follows
1 Rimfire pistol with iron sights.
2 Rimfire pistol with magnified sights.
3 Rimfire rifle with iron sights. (This is how this target is meant to be shot so if you submit a picture of your slide action 22 with your target you get 10 bonus points!)
4 Rimfire rifle with magnified sights.
5 Centerfire pistol with iron sights.
6 Centerfire pistol with magnified sights.
7 Centerfire rifle with iron sights.
8 Centerfire rifle with magnified sights.
If you care to shoot the target with anything else, let me know.  I’m sure we can accommodate. 

Send a picture of the target to my email (posted on the upper right side of the page) by the end of the month.

Have some fun with this one folks, after all, It’s a carnival!

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let me guess. We get a target featuring a wide selection of farm products which we "select" to compose a bowl of "Chili con Carny", right?

With points off for adding fruits.

Billll

Mr. Engineering Johnson said...

This is odd, the 'meat' of the post is missing when I view it in IE.
Must dig into the code

Mr. Engineering Johnson said...

Ok, I think it's fixed now.

Billll said...

Wiseass?

Moi?

Merle said...

What are the chances of getting a color version, like the one you display? That would be super cool!

Merle

Merle said...

I have a couple of question;

is it kosher to shoot more than one gun per class?
is a red dot considered the same as iron sights?

Thank you

Merle

Mr. Engineering Johnson said...

Merle, I think I can run off a PDF of the color target in the morning, but it'll burn some toner to print it!
Submit as many targets as you like regardless of class.

As for the red dot, since this is not timed and has small target areas I'm using magnification as the distinction between classes. Any unmagnified red dot can go in with iron sights.

Merle said...

OK, thanks for the reply. I'd like to print out at least one, to see how much ink it gobbles before I decide.

Merle

Mr. Engineering Johnson said...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8tforPmgcwlU0RtenRpMlBoNUU/view?usp=sharing

Merle, pretty sure I got the scaling right on this. It doesn't have the 'fill in the blank' bits but otherwise it should be right.

Merle said...

OK, thanks again !

Merle

Merle said...

I hate to be a pain, but I keep getting "document not found" error message. Any ideas?

Merle

Mr. Engineering Johnson said...
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Mr. Engineering Johnson said...

Try this

Merle said...

That did it - thanks! Merle