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svartkruttgris#369 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2980 Location: Colorado, Norway, Sweden Joined: Oct 28^th, 2014	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #15 - Jun 28^th, 2018 at 8:39pm	Print Post
	JS47 wrote on Jun 28^th, 2018 at 8:25pm: I'm in the same boat. 71 in October. I shoot rimfire off my front porch with a CPA 52. On a good day I can hit my 6" gong at 100 yds more often that not. What's scary is how fast I'm going down hill physically in spite of weight lifting etc. The time to get a grip on it is going by pretty fast. JS The speed only gets faster as you go down the actuarial slope which just keeps getting steeper. I can sense the increase in speed as I approach 80. The good news is that once you get far enough along on the actuarial tables the competition lessens.


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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #16 - Jun 28^th, 2018 at 9:48pm	Print Post
	CW wrote on Jun 28^th, 2018 at 5:37pm: Here you go... It is in the Schuetzen section. You have all of each month and the first week into the next month to post a picture of the targets. So you have plenty of time for June still. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) It is a match ALL about getting you out to shoot and NOT about rules. So Go Shoot! Thanks CW, RF or CF OK?

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #17 - Jun 28^th, 2018 at 9:54pm	Print Post
	JS47 wrote on Jun 28^th, 2018 at 8:25pm: I'm in the same boat. 71 in October. I shoot rimfire off my front porch with a CPA 52 and an MVA B5 or aperture sights. On a good day I can hit my 6" gong at 100 yds more often than not. What's scary is how fast I'm going down hill physically in spite of weight lifting etc. The time to get a grip on it is going by pretty fast. One of the main reasons I decided to spend the winter in AZ is so that I can participate in some of the sanctioned matches before I get to the point that I forget why I'm at a shooting range. JS I think the problem is retiring My grand dad was milking 80 head and irrigating an 80 acre farm 2 weeks before he passed away from heat stroke at 89. He was 87 the last time I help him buck hay bales But he didn't do much shooting except for hunting season occasionally.

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CW Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 495 Joined: Feb 20^th, 2018	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #18 - Jun 28^th, 2018 at 10:45pm	Print Post
	Yes, rim fire or center fire with leading edge scoring. Score your own. They are giving away a new diesel truck


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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #19 - Jun 28^th, 2018 at 11:46pm	Print Post
	CW wrote on Jun 28^th, 2018 at 10:45pm: Yes, rim fire or center fire with leading edge scoring. Score your own. They are giving away a new diesel truck I'll get a parking spot ready

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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #20 - Jun 29^th, 2018 at 1:35am	Print Post
	Schuetzenmiester wrote on Jun 28^th, 2018 at 11:46pm: CW wrote on Jun 28^th, 2018 at 10:45pm: Yes, rim fire or center fire with leading edge scoring. Score your own. They are giving away a new diesel truck I'll get a parking spot ready Does it leak like a Harley?

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Marlene Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 272 Joined: Oct 30^th, 2015	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #21 - Jul 1^st, 2018 at 11:55am	Print Post
	Putting effort in offhand is new to me, in my late forties. I've done a bunch of bench shooting both with modern guns and singleshots with cast bullets. I like long distance. I've also been (to varying degrees over time) serious about pistol shooting, which seems more relevant experience than rifles from the bench. I decided that offhand rifle was something I wanted to be better at, and when threads on the subject come up here, I read them closely. I get to shoot on a 50 yard range pretty regularly, but less so at longer distances. Shorter range is excellent practice for holding but very different for my eyes with iron sights. I might feel like that difference is less as I get better, or I might have to give up and stick to scopes. I've recently had to give up on older style open sights and limit myself to peeps and only the most square-edged modern opens. I should dry fire more. There are too many things I want to do in this life. I decided, a dozen years ago, that I wanted to get good at pistol shooting and I managed to. Now, I've decided the same with offhand rifle and I'm working on it.


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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #22 - Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 5:47pm	Print Post
	Some get lucky and can still see them at 70, some don't. Just like my mom's aunts living to 104 and 105, some don't make 50

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: How many put in the effort to improve offhand? Reply #23 - Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 7:54pm	Print Post
	Actually genes, but they are the luck of the draw My great granddaddy that died in 1927 at 98 when the average was 49. Now the average is 75. Suppose I'll make 150? EDIT: BTW, he was almost blind.. He could just tell day from night. Suppose that is why I had early cataracts?

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