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How good is your offhand shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jud96" data-source="post: 954293" data-attributes="member: 69478"><p>I do a lot of off hand shooting because I'm a member of the North South Skirmish Association and all of our small arms shooting is done off hand. Now these are not modern firearms, all have to be Civil War issued arms that are either originals or approved reproductions. There are many categories of competition, from revolver and smoothbore at 25yds and 50yds, to rifle-musket, carbine, repeater, and single shots rifles which are shot at 50 and 100yds. There is even artillery matches involving full scale field guns and mortars! For the small arms, there is both individual and team matches. </p><p></p><p>Individuals shoot paper bullseyes for score at the same ranges that team matches shoot breakable targets such as clay pigeons and 4" tiles that are either suspended from a frame or placed on a backer which is attached to the frame. For individuals the goal is to shoot the highest score on the target and the team shooters must break all of their targets as fast as they can and their time is recorded. Each team event is a maximum of 5 minutes and shooters must clear their targets before time runs out and they get penalized for their non-hit targets. </p><p></p><p>Teams and individuals are broken into classes depending on there skill, and compete against those in their class but if they are continually shooting higher scores that match or beat those in the next class up, they are bumped up to that class. It is a really fun sport because you must be deadly accurate with your arms that you compete with, but also fast and keep calm so you can clear your targets precisely and quickly. I personally do not shoot individuals, but our team competes in the rifle musket and carbine matches and I'm a 3rd Generation shooter at the </p><p>N-SSA so it is a lot of fun to shoot alongside friends and family and doing what you grew up with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jud96, post: 954293, member: 69478"] I do a lot of off hand shooting because I'm a member of the North South Skirmish Association and all of our small arms shooting is done off hand. Now these are not modern firearms, all have to be Civil War issued arms that are either originals or approved reproductions. There are many categories of competition, from revolver and smoothbore at 25yds and 50yds, to rifle-musket, carbine, repeater, and single shots rifles which are shot at 50 and 100yds. There is even artillery matches involving full scale field guns and mortars! For the small arms, there is both individual and team matches. Individuals shoot paper bullseyes for score at the same ranges that team matches shoot breakable targets such as clay pigeons and 4" tiles that are either suspended from a frame or placed on a backer which is attached to the frame. For individuals the goal is to shoot the highest score on the target and the team shooters must break all of their targets as fast as they can and their time is recorded. Each team event is a maximum of 5 minutes and shooters must clear their targets before time runs out and they get penalized for their non-hit targets. Teams and individuals are broken into classes depending on there skill, and compete against those in their class but if they are continually shooting higher scores that match or beat those in the next class up, they are bumped up to that class. It is a really fun sport because you must be deadly accurate with your arms that you compete with, but also fast and keep calm so you can clear your targets precisely and quickly. I personally do not shoot individuals, but our team competes in the rifle musket and carbine matches and I'm a 3rd Generation shooter at the N-SSA so it is a lot of fun to shoot alongside friends and family and doing what you grew up with. [/QUOTE]
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