Recent content by acorneau

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    Congrats again to Giovanni Atzeni and Carmen Papaleo….this time in 50m Unlimited

    What sport/discipline was this? Some kind of benchrest?
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    Preferred magnification when shooting offhand.

    I shoot Metallic Silhouette as my main hobby, so I shoot standing/off-hand every weekend. Just got back from the NRA Nationals with three days of Smallbore competition and three days of high power. Air rifle is shot at 20 to 45 yards, Smallbore is 40m to 100m, and high power is 200m to 500m...
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    Houston area Forum member

    Howdy from Houston! I don't spend much time on this forum but just happen to come across this thread. There is a group of us that shoot air rifle silhouette almost every Wednesday evening and hold club matches every first Sunday of the month at the Bayou Rifles Addicks range (I-10 and...
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    Results Boerne TX, May 2023

    Have you guys tried out Field Target Silhouette or Benchrest Silhouette yet? Those of us that shoot NRA Air Rifle Silhouette are working hard to expand the umbrella of Silhouette so we can get more folks to the same matches (more people = bigger sponsorships, bigger prizes). We've had both...
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    Favorite Air Gun Competition?

    About a dozen of us here in Houston shoot air rifle silhouette. About a dozen more of our friends in Louisiana do the same. We go to each other's big matches including The Coop Shoot in Jonesboro, LA; the Shamrock Silhouette Shootout in Baton Rouge; the Spindletop Silhouette Regional in...
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    🚨NEW RETICLES🚨 - Element Optics

    You could sell a bunch of scopes to the Silhouette shooters if you offered a simple crosshair with a 1/2 or 3/8 MOA dot. Currently no scope manufacturer makes a simple crosshair/dot reticle anymore so the entire Silhouette community is at a loss for an appropriate scope to purchase. If you guys...
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    "Best?" PCP for offhand shooting...

    Pulling this one back up... I'm a silhouette shooter as well so this is what is used most by the people I compete with... My Open gun is an Air Arms HFT500 with a few minor mods. Replaced the forearm rail, end cap, cheek riser post, and added a 1/2" buttpad spacer all made out of steel to add...
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    Winners Circle - EBR 2021 - Speed Silhouette

    No, I mean air rifle silhouette, just like smallbore silhouette, high-power silhouette, and lever-action silhouette. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_silhouette_shooting "Speed silhouette" and "benchrest silhouette" are recent spin-offs of metallic silhouette which has been around...
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    Winners Circle - EBR 2021 - Speed Silhouette

    I mean original air rifle silhouette, you know... shooting standing and off-hand. It's a thing.
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    Winners Circle - EBR 2021 - Speed Silhouette

    Any news for regular air rifle silhouette?!?