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Re: Offhand, again
Reply #3 - Aug 25th, 2011 at 2:04am
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Chris, The 1910 - 1927 info comes from a article that C.T. Westergaard wrote titled, Defining the Schuetzen Style of Rifle Shooting. from the January 1929 American Rifleman. His 2253 score shot in the 1922 match was shot at Wheatland, IA at 170 yards and not 200. The 1920 match was shot at Wheatland also at 170 yards and Ed Kundert won that one with a 2283 so, those two can't really be judged in the same light as the others. The 1893 - 1904 comes from the 1904 issue of American Field. Both the Ross and Hudson scores come from that source. I don't have info for for the 1905 - 1909 matches. Do you have any on thoughs years? Dave, My point is to build a match that would interest people to get started competing in it. How many of us started with a high end gun? It can be a one gun CF match. You could have a smaller 22rf match to go with it but, very limited prizes for that. These guns aren't really out of the reach of middle income people, look at the $40,000+ cars running around. If you can develop the interest there won't be a shortage of people and guns to compete. Again, look at the Coors matches, The match was there that people were interested in and they showed up with a gun. That match did well for all, shooters, equipment makers (action, barrel, gunsmith, scope, iron sights and more) and especially the ASSRA. You couldn't pick up a gun related magazine w/o finding a article about it in at least one issue during the year. Hype the tradition and the difficulty. Today there are lots of TV shows that I believe would cover it, especially The History Channel but, others such as ESPN, The Outdoor Channel and Verus to name a few. Back at that time, people used to flock to the qualifying matches to link there name to the Coors match. Frank
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