On the disscussions page scroll down to 2005 fall match at besson range for all the matches presented. Not all are re-entry!

Blue,

I came to Schutezen from BPCS and Modern Silouette.  I like it a lot mostly because it's totaly offhand and a single effort match. BPCS is very spotter dependent and a two man team is required to do well. High power too and Small bore while not essental a good spoter is an advantage. In Schuetzen the sighter target is your spotter.

The re-entrys are fun but I only shoot a couple to confirm my sights. I am one of those guys that only shoots the 100 shot Hudson and goes home.  It's single entry and to my mind a very good test of offhand skill. 

I think I am correct that in all matches your re-entry target is identified before shooting as is the sighter. You cannot enter a sighter target as a record.  When I shoot  re-entry I will stop putting holes in a target that has no chance to be in the running and go on to the next one. But thats the rule and all competitors can do the same.

Last Hudson I shot even though the match did not require it I used Steve Garbes rules. No sighters and all shots count. Out side the scoring rings was a zero even if on the paper. I think thats the best format and to tell you the truth it only cost me a few points compared to the sighter allowed and 100 holes in the paper counted rules.

I can't think of a outdoor match that does not offer the Hudson match.  Indoors Gallery seldom but the several clubs I shoot gallery in the winter have a agg and single entry match format as well as the re-entrys.

Another popular match is the King target with a closest to the center or heart of the target rule.  Single shot and single entry too.  It's generaly a fancy one and you take it home if won with all competitors holes named

At first I found the named matches confusing but once I figured it out found plenty of good competition. Give it a try.

Boats

Looks like this has been covered very well other than to say if you only like to shoot matches as single entry there's no reason you can't do the same for the re-entry ones. Our club has so many different matches I'd like to shoot it's seldom that I shoot the required targets more than once.

  I'm a fan of the single entry match to and that's how we hold all our WSU rule matches. Also everyone shoots that match on the same relay. Gets kind of humbling sometimes. But, as has been mentioned, no one wants to drive X number of miles just to shoot one or two matches. Plus re-entry is where a club makes money to pay for those cash awards or trophies they put out.

  I guess I'm not quite getting leadballs point. As far as I know if you shoot in a match under ASSRA or WSU rules you do shoot the same targets. The WSU targets just go out to the 10 ring and any shot outside the scoring rings is a miss, whereas the ASSRA rules allow you ten points if you're outside the scoring rings but still on the paper and you can keep shooting till you have ten shots on the target. Of course if your club isn't affliated with either, or want to shoot under their rules, then you might have to take pot-luck as far as targets, and rules of the match go.

PETE

boats,

  You're probably a much better shot than most to. Or, at least better than I am.  My goal is to keep them all in the bull Something I've only managed once this year....... during a WSU match to!

   In some regards....... target size especially.... WSU rules are actually an advantage, altho they wouldn't be if you shot WSU rules with ASSRA targets. Before we got our WSU targets I made up an overlay to at least be able to use as much of the ASSRA target as possible. Altho you don't get all the way out to the 10 ring on the sides there will be a little room left in the corners that will give you a miss.

  My problem is I like to leak a shot or two out of the scoring rings, and even tho you get 10 points under ASSRA rules the WSU target usually gives you two or three more points than that for the same shot placement.

PETE