Here's what y'all been waiting for. The official rules for the May/June 2x4 shoot.
The target is a standard lumber-yard pine dimensional lumber 2X4.
A line, dot, or other sighting point may be placed on the 2x4.
The target 2X4 may be planted in the ground with no more than 4 feet above ground level. Or, if your ground is too hard, or if you're not allowed to dig a hole at your range, you may lean a 4-foot 2X4 up against something, like your brother-in-law's truck (just kiddin' ) , to hold it up. You can build a base. Stick one end in a concrete block. Be creative, just have 4 feet of 2X4 showing to shoot at.
The 2x4 is to be held in the vertical position during the shooting.
Distance is 25 yards.
Offhand.(Standing or seated is allowed, elbows unsupported by anything other than the shooters torso)(In the event that a member is not physically able to hold his rifle up unsupported, a "prop-rod" that is supported only by the shooters torso, no part of which prop-rod may touch the ground, may be used to hold up the fore-end of the rifle)
Any traditional muzzleloading firearm firing a single projectile.(No cannons)
Any sights.
Only registered forum members may participate.
The object is to shoot the 2X4 in two with the least number of shots. Count your shots as you try to chop down the "post" with your muzzleloader. Count shots fired, not just the hits, the misses too!
Don't mail the post! Send me a PT before the end of June, 2012. No postage due. Tell me the number of shots it took to cut down your post and what gun/load you used to do it with. I'll split 'em up according to categories depending on who shoots what and post the results at the end of the contest.
Each members score will be posted at the end of the contest.
You may enter more than one gun with a separate post for each.
Have fun! Shoot safe! :hatsoff:
The target is a standard lumber-yard pine dimensional lumber 2X4.
A line, dot, or other sighting point may be placed on the 2x4.
The target 2X4 may be planted in the ground with no more than 4 feet above ground level. Or, if your ground is too hard, or if you're not allowed to dig a hole at your range, you may lean a 4-foot 2X4 up against something, like your brother-in-law's truck (just kiddin' ) , to hold it up. You can build a base. Stick one end in a concrete block. Be creative, just have 4 feet of 2X4 showing to shoot at.
The 2x4 is to be held in the vertical position during the shooting.
Distance is 25 yards.
Offhand.(Standing or seated is allowed, elbows unsupported by anything other than the shooters torso)(In the event that a member is not physically able to hold his rifle up unsupported, a "prop-rod" that is supported only by the shooters torso, no part of which prop-rod may touch the ground, may be used to hold up the fore-end of the rifle)
Any traditional muzzleloading firearm firing a single projectile.(No cannons)
Any sights.
Only registered forum members may participate.
The object is to shoot the 2X4 in two with the least number of shots. Count your shots as you try to chop down the "post" with your muzzleloader. Count shots fired, not just the hits, the misses too!
Don't mail the post! Send me a PT before the end of June, 2012. No postage due. Tell me the number of shots it took to cut down your post and what gun/load you used to do it with. I'll split 'em up according to categories depending on who shoots what and post the results at the end of the contest.
Each members score will be posted at the end of the contest.
You may enter more than one gun with a separate post for each.
Have fun! Shoot safe! :hatsoff:
looking that way for me as well...
