Rapid Air Weapons TM1000

by Harold Rushton on December 26, 2011

I have been shooting pretty much all of my life. My obsession started when I was about knee high to a grasshopper, with a Red Rider BB gun. From there, I progressed into a .410 shotgun, .22 rimfire, 30-30 Winchester and so on. It seems that over the years, I can remember certain rifles that came along, only to prove that they were truely outstanding compared to others.  Some of those that have been special to me include; my Remington Model 700, USFT #19, Whiscombe JW-65, and Air Arms EV2.

When thinking about Field Target rifles, I think the same is true. We see a truely remarkable rifle come along once in a very long while.  With that in mind, we now have another of those memorable rifles that is being made in the good old USA! This time, my friend Martin Rutterford has hit the ball out of the park with his new RAW TM1000.

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United States Field Target National Match 2010

by Harold Rushton on October 20, 2010

Harold National MatchThis year the United States Field Target National Match was held just outside of Damascus, Maryland. If you’ve never been there, you’ve been missing a beautiful area! Since the match was held right in the middle of Fall, the weather was fantastic and the trees were just in the process of changing colors. It was just a beautiful setting for a National Match.

On Thursday the competitors started arriving at the range in anticipation of the big match that was set to begin on Saturday.  The wind was already blowing a bit on Thursday, so a precise sight in was not possible.  It was more a time of seeing old friends and getting ourselves comfortable with shooting at a new venue.  I took a few shots on the sight in range under the pavilion and noticed right away that wind was drifting my pellets up to several inches at 52 yards.  After taking time to look around a bit, I also realized that the first Field Target course was laid out near that sight in range and pretty well in the same direction that we were sighing in.  So, I kept that information in mind until Saturday morning.  [click to continue…]

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Improving your kneeling shots

October 19, 2010

Last week we discussed offhand practice and how it can improve your Field Target game. I think that some of us have began to realize that we have to improve at these “forced position” shots if we are going to improve our Field Target performance.  These days in the United States, most Field Target match [...]

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Offhand Shooting & Field Target

October 15, 2010

I think that offhand shooting is a very important part of the shooting discipline.  Especially since we now see at least one offhand lane on each Field Target course that we shoot in the U.S. these days. Given that offhand is popular among match directors, it should be a pretty important part of your practice routine [...]

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Steyr LG100ZM Testing

October 8, 2010

I’ve been shooting my USFT now for almost two years in competition. When I was setting it up I shot some groups testing different pellets to see what shot best in it. Once I narrowed it down to the right pellet, then I started working with sorting out the pellets for best fit and so [...]

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Northeast Regional Field Target Championship

August 17, 2010

I had the opportunity to attend the Northeast Regional Field Target match that was held at the Crosman factory in East Bloomfield, NY last weekend. Crosman went all out in hosting the event with the help of Ray, Hans and Laurie Apelles. The factory employees were very friendly and spared no expense in making this [...]

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Free Trajectory Program by Kevin Allen

August 14, 2010

This is a link to another great free trajectory program. It was developed by Kevin Allen and works great. Follow this link to the Airgunning Atlanta web site: http://airgunningatlanta.com/ and click on “Goodies”. It’s located under the “software” tab there.
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New Parts for my Steyr

May 4, 2010

I decided to make some new wood for my Steyr and replace the yellow/black bumble bee look. So, I ordered a chunk of gray laminate. It came in a week or so ago and I got started roughing out the new parts. I kept the same basic shape of the old Steyr parts, but changed [...]

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Good Ole Boys Championship Match June 2009

March 12, 2009

The Good Ole Boy’s Field Target Club in Pulaski, Tennessee will be hosting their Championship Match on June 13th and 14th, 2009.  The Championship match will be hosted by Roz Sumpter.  It will consist of two days with two separate courses.  Each course will be a 60 shot, standard field target course.  If you are interested [...]

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Good Ole Boys Match Report 01/17/2009

January 18, 2009

On January 17th, 2009, the Good Ole Boy’s Field Target Club in Pulaski, Tn held the first match of the new year. Roz and I were watching the weather forecasts all week hoping for the best for Saturday. All was looking good the first part of the week, but a cold weather front moved into [...]

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