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agent-smith
01-23-2012, 07:42 PM
Does anyone here participate in formal "bullseye" competition?

I'm considering doing so, mainly because, well, I'm an "accuracy" guy and I think it would be fun.

Any thoughts on how training for bullseye competition would impact "speed" shooting?

Ptrlcop
01-23-2012, 09:36 PM
In December I shot 1500 rounds. 1000+ was SHO on a B8 target. My shooting improved dramatically. Particularly shooting "rapid fire" 5rds in 10 sec was a big help, you still need to be quick from the holster for this.

ToddG
01-23-2012, 09:54 PM
When I first started shooting, bullseye was about the only thing allowed at the range and I got involved in a league. It was tremendously helpful. There's a league that shoots at the NRA Range now and if my scheduled allowed for it, I'd join. You can never be too accurate.

jetfire
01-23-2012, 10:11 PM
My introduction to formal pistol shooting was through NRA Collegiate Pistol, which is all bullseye shooting. Shooting free pistol, 10m air pistol, and standard pistol all created a superb foundation of accuracy for me as a shooter. No sport has taught me as much about the importance of sight alignment and trigger control as trying to press an 8 ounce trigger on my free pistol without messing up my sights.

agent-smith
01-23-2012, 10:39 PM
Wow, pretty hard to argue with the comments/experiences so far.

Looks like I'll be adding "bullseye" into the mix.

LittleLebowski
01-23-2012, 10:39 PM
And here I have an S&W Model 41 doing nothing......

agent-smith
01-23-2012, 10:47 PM
And here I have an S&W Model 41 doing nothing......

I picked one up after putting some rounds through The Chad's; I'd LOVE a Hammerli or Pardini but the S&W 41 should do me for awhile.

Corey
01-24-2012, 12:02 AM
I shot 3 position rifle in college and ISU rifle after that. Did one year of small bore pistol in college just because they needed to fill out the team. Great experience and tough to beat for getting your sight alignment and trigger control burned into your brain.

My son just started shooting with a local club in their junior rifle program. He is 11 so he is doing 3 position rifle and loves it. If he is interested he will be able to start doing pistol in another year.

Mr_White
01-25-2012, 03:27 PM
I'll answer from a different point of view.

Never shot any bullseye competition, pistol or otherwise (GSSF is closest but is not bullseye.)

Other people here seem to routinely kick my ass badly at, you guessed it, bullseye shooting - like on the 300.

So maybe it's a good idea!

DonovanM
01-25-2012, 05:08 PM
Reading Brian Enos' book has imparted me with the doctrine that accuracy is the ultimate fundamental. Everything else builds off of your ability to hit stuff.

I don't think it would help pure speed shooting, like at say 8" targets at 7 yards or closer, but I think it would help just about everything else, especially speed at distant or small targets.

I would kill to be on a collegiate pistol team. I'll try to find a university with one once I'm out of community college.

Nate
01-25-2012, 06:28 PM
Bullseye is wonderful practice for my rifle shooting (HP and smallbore), I can't imagine it wouldn't be even more helpful to the much more closely-related-to-bullseye skill "speed" pistol shooting. If you can shoot well one handed at 50 yards at a 3" 10 ring, or 5 shots in 10 seconds at 25 yards at a 3" 10 ring, I would expect you could pretty easily adapt to just about any rifle/pistol skill.

The bullseye shooters that I've seen give High Power (position rifle shooting) pick it up much faster than most of the rifle guys like me pick up bullseye.

jetfire
01-25-2012, 07:34 PM
Reading Brian Enos' book has imparted me with the doctrine that accuracy is the ultimate fundamental. Everything else builds off of your ability to hit stuff.

I don't think it would help pure speed shooting, like at say 8" targets at 7 yards or closer, but I think it would help just about everything else, especially speed at distant or small targets.

I would kill to be on a collegiate pistol team. I'll try to find a university with one once I'm out of community college.

Looks like Seattle University might have a pistol team. http://www.nrahq.org/compete/college_lookup.asp?State=WA&Disc=

DonovanM
01-25-2012, 08:05 PM
Looks like Seattle University might have a pistol team. http://www.nrahq.org/compete/college_lookup.asp?State=WA&Disc=

http://sumarksmanship.org/

Awesome.

steelhawk
01-29-2012, 09:30 PM
Up until recently, all my shooting had been bullseye. Two years ago, I started some self defense shooting with a group. Sadly, we don't do it anymore, but that got me interested in this aspect of shooting. I still believe that accuracy is important.

Yesterday, for the first time, I was in a USPSA shoot. My scores were good, but my times were long. As I started shooting, and began to put them all in the 'A' area, I heard a few comments about "bullseye shooter".

It was interesting. I hadn't shot at steel before, and one was quite tricky. It pivoted back and forth at different speeds when you knocked plates off. I got them all, but took 20 shots for 10 plates.

When I do it again, accuracy will still be more important to me than speed. At the new shooter class for the match, the presenter said this: "You can't miss fast enough".

Jeff22
02-13-2012, 03:03 AM
The local sportsman's club used to have a bulleye league every Monday night. I competed regularly in the winter months and irregularly the rest of the time.

We shot the National Gallery Course at 50 feet with .22 target pistols. The first season I competed (1984 I think) I shot my Ruger Standard Auto. Then I bought a used High Standard Citation target pistol (with the fluted 7-1/4 inch barrel) and I used that until the club closed in 2006.

If I was shooting on a regular basis, which meant competing on Monday and shooting through the course 3 or 4 times in practice on Thursday evening, my average was 255 to 263 (I keep a log on EVERYTHING)

I enjoyed the precision of shooting bullseye and I wouldn't mind getting back to it again sometime.

The Army Marksmanship Unit Manual on bullseye shooting is really good.

The Pistol Shooter's Treasury by Gil Hebard also has LOTS of good information for formal target shooting (and also PPC) and you should be able to find a used copy from Amazon.com for pretty cheap.

www.bulleyepistol.com is THE internet resource on formal target shooting