Just some food for thought. The 2014 shooting season here in NYS (May-Oct.) was my first taste of the Schuetzen matches. Taking part in the matches held at Wilton, Bath, and Alabama NY was both an education in the world of single shots and an introduction to some very fine people to say the least. All that I had the pleasure to meet & shoot with were very helpful. One thing stood out more that anything else with these shooters. It wasn't who was the best shot, or who had the fanciest rifle, nor any game of one-ups-manship that I have encountered in some other shooting sports, but rather it was their love of single shot rifles. I have to admit that I have also been so infected with an un-ashamed love for them as well. For me it all started with a Stevens 1915 Favorite model 27 that I acquired a few years earlier. That little rifle had not engraving, nor inlays, but the persona of a well used and cared for working rifle. I can only imagine some youngster on a farm shooting pest and small game. I looked through the bore and seen the typical pitting in the first few inches of barrel ahead of the chamber. Kind of expected that, and went ahead and scrubbed the bore and dry patched it before test firing it. When I first test fired it I was quite surprised as it shot way more accurate than I had expected. Looking back now I know that's when the single shot bug infected me. My only regret is that it didn't happen several decades before. So the food for thought that I offer is why not have a match category for the 22RF boys rifles. Rifles like the Stevens favorite, Crack Shot, Remington #4 &#6, and other that fit in that class of rifle by size. Those small rifles played a unsung major role in the culture of our nation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They taught the boys that became the men who went to war for our country how to shoot. They provided food for the table of countless families. They are 100% Americana.
                            Sendaro   

as a gallery match it'd be a great off-season event, and maybe a way to get kids and grandkids into the game.   the equivalent has worked well at our local sportsman's club with  (non-single-shot) pee-wee rifles and also with bows and arrows. 
  they've been doing it for 15 or 20 years,  mostly granddads and grand kids,  and there has been a LOT of carry over into the adult sports.

Sendaro,

Great idea!
Bring a boy along to shoot the Boys rifle match, and the young ladies get first dibs on using Lady/Ladies model rifles.

We very seldom have a young shooter show up at Tacoma, but I make sure to give them a TRRC medal when ever they do.  A little encouragement to came back an win one   

We have CF, RF, BP, military musket matches.  Not many shoot it all, but there is something for any type of SS rifle. I allow any 22 to shoot the RF matches, but not included in ASSRA scores.

IMO, ASSRA should allow muzzle loading BP target rifles to be eligible.

ron,

I like your idea of the mini buffalo targets. Sometime could you post a few photos of them? We really do need to get the young involved.

                       Sendaro

bpjack wrote on Jan 1^st, 2015 at 7:18pm:


If you take over you can add all the matches you want    I'd have to have a 125# weight limit on the boy's match 

You probably remember my grandson John used to shoot with us a little.  One time when he was scoring, he got 2nd on the King target with my 33-47.  I won it, so you can guess where it went    When he was 13, he won 2nd in the 100 yd 20 shot RF bench. There were some very good shooters there that day that had done well in the inside the ring shoots.  I suppose his best shot was at the White Buffalo.  He was only 9 and we were shooting BPCR at 600 and 200.  The White Buffalo was a White Buffalo head at 200 yds for a king target.  I told him he could shoot it with his Chipmunk 22 that was sighted for 50 yds.  Told him to take a few warm up shots off to the side and hold about 2 feet over when he was ready. He hit 13" from center at 4 o'clock!  Too bad he is too busy with school, work and Navy Reserves to  play now.  Maybe he'll be back when he finishes school?