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SemperFiGuy:
Steel Challenge match coming up, as discussed elsewhere on this excellent Forum.

Now, I've never shot a Steel Challenge in any caliber at all.   Whatsoever.

But....Some folks on this Forum are gleefully looking forward to shooting it in .22LR.   Of all the many calibers possible to use.

Can someone please explain to me (and any one else who wonders) just how this works??   My assumption about Steel Challenge is that hard and heavy steel plates are shot at and knocked down by bullets.   How can the puny .22LR bullet, even Velocitors and Stingers, knock down a heavy steel plate?

Or does the sound of Ping! count as a hit, without knocking down the steel plate.   Or just What??   Or does the .2LR shooter shoot at those whirly-spin targets and set them spinning.   And that spinning counts same as a falling plate??

[Yes.... I could Google-video to do original research, but am (a) too lazy at the moment and (b) into some other stuff right now.   Besides, Forum sources are good sources.] 

Any information would be appreciated.   Thinking about Lovely Daughter and I shooting in the coming SC match.

[BTW:  I have seen a guy use a Beretta 21-A Bobcat in .22lr to shoot a bowling pin match.  And he was actually knocking them off the back of the table. Truth.] 

sfg

OnTheFly:

--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on July 20, 2014, 05:26:58 PM ---My assumption about Steel Challenge is that hard and heavy steel plates are shot at and knocked down by bullets.
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No.  They don't get knocked down.  The targets are painted in between shooters and hits are measured by visual/audible means.

Fly

SemperFiGuy:
Aha..........

Pieces now falling in proper place.

Same as the Big Dogs, except slightly different scoring technique.

Thanks, Fly.

sfg

OnTheFly:
Of course, knowing if you got hits is not the most difficult part in my opinion. The difficult part is when you have to carry the 1/2" thick 2' x 2' piece of AR 500 steel coated in bacon grease that 100 yards before you shoot…THAT is the most difficult part.  ;D

Fly

JTH:

--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on July 20, 2014, 05:41:04 PM ---
Same as the Big Dogs, except slightly different scoring technique.


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In Steel Challenge, all scoring is done the same.  The targets are static steel---none of them fall for any caliber.

(Well, not unless people miss SO MUCH that they eventually shoot through one of the wooden posts holding up the steel, which has happened before.)

I direct folk's attention to this link which is pinned to the top of the Shooting Sports sub-forum:
http://nebraskafirearms.org/forum/index.php/topic,6854.0.html

...which pretty much explains everything about Steel Challenge, including a video on equipment needed, and a video that shows several people shooting various SC stages.

That would be this video:

:)

None of the steel falls.  And you have five strings, so at the end of your course of fire, there should be five hits shown on each steel target.  Hopefully.  We paint steel between each shooter.

Centerfire handguns start from the holster, with your hands beginning above respective shoulders.  .22 pistols and rifles start with the firearm held in both hands, pointed downrange at a specified spot, safety off, finger out of the trigger guard.

Tons of fun for everybody.

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