{"id":2826,"date":"2014-03-24T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2014-03-13T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:29:17","slug":"airguns-101-competition-air-pistol-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/airguns-101-competition-air-pistol-silhouette.html","title":{"rendered":"Airguns 101 \u2013 Competition \u2013 Air Pistol Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your Humble Correspondent demonstrating one version of the Creedmoor position which is used in many air pistol silhouette classes.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you would like to engage in some spirited competition at a very wallet-friendly price, let me recommend air pistol silhouette. All you need is an accurate air pistol, some pellets, and a place to shoot. You can get started for a total outlay of $100-400.<\/p>\n

Air pistol silhouette is one of those classic games that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. You shoot at metal cutouts of chickens, pigs, turkeys, and rams at various distances. If you knock one down, you get a point. If you miss, you don\u2019t. The person with the most points wins.<\/p>\n

Chickens, which measure just 3\/4 inch high and 1 inch wide, are shot at 10 yards, pigs at 12.5 yards, turkeys at 15 yards, and rams at 18 yards. A typical match involves shooting at 10 of each animal: 10 chickens, 10 pigs and so forth. In case of ties, additional targets are shot to determine the winner.<\/p>\n

IHMSA \u2013 the International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association \u00a0http:\/\/www.ihmsa.org\/<\/a> — \u00a0began sponsoring matches for air pistols in 2001. There are six categories of IHMSA air pistol silhouette competition.<\/p>\n

Three are generally shot from the Creedmoor position (although other positions are allowed). Creedmoor looks pretty strange: competitors typically lie on their backs and brace the pistol against their calf or thigh. Some competitors \u00a0in these classes shoot from the \u201cflop\u201d position, which involves lying on the ground facing forward and elevating the pistol off the ground with the hands.<\/p>\n

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Uncle Jock’s well loved and well used Daisy 747 match pistol with optional wooden grips.<\/p><\/div>\n

Creedmoor classes include: Production, for open-sight pistols costing $375 or less suggested retail price; Unlimited (open sights only), for pistols with open sights above $375 SRP; and Unlimited Any Sight, for pistols of any price using any type of optical sighting device such as a scope or red dot sight. There are also three standing classes: Standing, for $375 (or less SRP) open sight guns, Unlimited Standing for any gun with any sighting device, and Unlimited Standing Iron Sight.<\/p>\n

Competitors shooting in the Unlimited Any Sight class tend to shoot with long-eye-relief pistol scopes from the Creedmoor position. By contrast, Unlimited Standing competitors often equip their pistols with rifle scopes, shooting the air pistol close to their faces with one hand on the pistol grip and another on top of the scope.<\/p>\n

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The Crosman 2300S is a CO2-powered production class silhouette pistol.<\/p><\/div>\n

IHMSA\u2019s air pistol silhouette competition is unique in that it offers a \u201cproduction\u201d class \u00a0in which the price of the air pistol cannot exceed $375 suggested retail price. (This limit was recently raised to allow the inclusion of Crosman\u2019s 1701P precharged pneumatic silhouette pistol.) This upper price limit levels the playing field so people with less expensive pistols are not competing head-to-head against much more expensive match pistols that might cost a couple of thousand dollars. (An inexpensive pistol such as the Daisy Avanti<\/a> or the Crosman 2300S <\/a> is not necessarily a disadvantage. There are documented cases of shooters using these relatively inexpensive pistols to beat the high-buck pistols in the non-production classes.) At many matches, shooters are also classed based on their ability, so beginners aren\u2019t forced to compete against experts.<\/p>\n

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The Crosman 1701P is a precharged pneumatic production class silhouette pistol.<\/p><\/div>\n

I have even interviewed a shooter who participated successfully in IHMSA air pistol silhouette competition with a Crosman 1377\u00a0<\/a> . the only serious disadvantage of the 1377 (besides all the pumping) is that the sights are difficult to adjust. With the right pellets, it can be wickedly accurate.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This pellet trap has silhouettes that dangle from a center rod and make a satisfying “ting” when you hit them.<\/p><\/div>\n

You can print air pistol silhouette targets off the internet, but it is also useful to have a pellet trap with silhouette targets, and I can recommend this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Until next time, aim true and shoot straight.<\/p>\n

Jock Elliott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you would like to engage in some spirited competition at a very wallet-friendly price, let me recommend air pistol silhouette. All you need is an accurate air pistol, some pellets, and a place to shoot. You can get started for a total outlay of $100-400. Air pistol silhouette is one of those classic games…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,168],"tags":[8,211,177,11,36,74],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}