Kevin Baker of The Smallest Minority hosted a Bowling Pin Shoot today at the Tucson Rifle Club Three Points Shooting Range outside of Tucson, AZ. Looking for a good way to disassemble ammunition on my Birthday, Mz. VRWC and I made the trek to Tucson to give bowling with bullets a try.
What is a Bowling Pin Shoot? I’m glad you asked. A Bowling Pin Shoot is a race to shoot all of the bowling pins off of your table, before your competitor clears his or her table. Think of it as a mixture of drag racing, bowling, and shooting, where you race with guns and bowl with bullets. There were three “classes” of shooting; “Minor” (9mm or .38 caliber), “Major” (.40 to .45 caliber), and .22 Rimfire.
Shooting this match was a blast!
This was not my cleanest run at all, but the shooting was so much fun, that I didn’t want to bother with trying to film the other 9 or 10 runs I shot.
Perforated Pins
A big thank you to Kevin for setting up and running the match, as well as lugging the pins and tables to the range. Thanks to all of the other competitors too, whose hospitality and camaraderie truly make the shooting sports rewarding.
What a great day of shooting!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Kevin Baker // Dec 13, 2010 at 6:26 am
I didn’t even notice you were wearing camera glasses! I remember that run, because you came from behind to win. Thanks for driving all the way down for the match. Next month’s is the 9th!
2 Larry // Dec 13, 2010 at 10:12 am
I agree, what a blast. It is a great way to meet new shooters and have fun. Some of us even got to practice our malfunction skills during the match.
3 Capitalist Pig // Dec 13, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Just about everyone had a chance to practice a malfunction drill of the equipment, or operator variety. I had some practice with both!
I only wore the video glasses on one run. The arms on the glasses push the earmuffs open, so I wore plugs with them too, which worked so well I couldn’t hear the start timer. This made my reaction times very slow.
4 Larry // Dec 13, 2010 at 6:05 pm
I got to practice both also. Once I didn’t get the magazine seated properly in my MK II and got dusted quickly, then my MK II started stovepiping casings. That is also my fault as the MK II is a 2001 model and has been shot a lot since then with the original extractor. I will install a new extractor this week.