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Offline Pookee

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Two targets down with one shot!
« on: August 24, 2004, 01:35:24 AM »
Here is a question for you rule wizzards...

I went to a Silhouette Shoot this weekend and a shooter knocked down 2 chickens with one bullet.

I do not know how it happened, but I think a fragment of the bullet hit the target next to the target that was shot and took down the next target.

What happens with the score?

This shooter got the score for both.

Was that correct?

Thanks,

George
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Two targets down with one shot!
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2004, 03:21:07 AM »
I did the same thing last week in a NRA Hunter pistol match.  I informed the match director and since I had hits on all of the rest of my chickens, he told me to shoot one of the standing chickens of the guy next to me.  I did and got that one too.  

At this club we have an upper row and a lower row.  We shoot the lower row first and then the upper row.  Since all of my hits were low, I think I must have hit the stand on the one that I shot at and it vibrated the next chicken right off of his stand.

I was shooting a 22 hornet with a RCBS 55gr cast bullet at about 1700fps.

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You can only hit the target if the barrel is pointed in the right direction when the bullet leaves the barrel.

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Two targets down with one shot!
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2004, 07:38:06 AM »
The correct answer ( for IHMSA) is that he gets to count the target that he was shooting at but does not get to count the one that also fell. He gets to shoot at another target after shooting his 5 targets, either one he has already missed in his bank or one in an nearby bank. He could also get to shoot an alibi target after his bank is over if there were no targets available.
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Re: Two targets down with one shot!
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2004, 07:07:51 AM »
HI George

One target per shot!  If he got an X for a target he wasn't shooting at he recieved a gift that wasn't earned.  

These things happen for many reasons.  A lightweight rail will sometimes have the target above it fall to a rail hit and sometimes other targets on the rail will fall as well.  Most shooters will not take an X for a target they didn't earn.  It probably isn't a big deal but if you have anew match director holding a private conversation on the rules is better than making a mountain out of a mole hill.  Keep it fun and keep it real  :D

We have had a debate on the rail hit that takes the target at our club.  The rules state that a ricochet that then hits the target is a legal hit.  I have witnessed this as a spotter twice.  A hit on the rail that takes the target is not a ricochet and I won't take the X but it is open for debate.  Which ever way you go don't lose a shooter over the issue.  
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Here is a question for you rule wizzards...

I went to a Silhouette Shoot this weekend and a shooter knocked down 2 chickens with one bullet.

I do not know how it happened, but I think a fragment of the bullet hit the target next to the target that was shot and took down the next target.

What happens with the score?

This shooter got the score for both.

Was that correct?

Thanks,

George
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