With all the lesson's learned here,,

[necchi]

,,anybody doing well shooting traditional style off hand or bench compition this season?
 I did ok in May at the local Mike Fink shoot,,it took 6 years but I finally got my name on that travelin trophy the 3rd time.
 I'm headed out this weekend to another history fest and rendezvous'. It's taken a full season to break in that GM .54 slow twist barrel, 'bout 200 rounds,,I know,I know, I could do it faster by lapping or such, but I think there is value in shooting it that much,,I got that thing dialed in "sweet". You guy's wouldn't believe me if I showed ya the pictures.
 Here's wishin luck to all,,aim small,,and may yer sights be true.

[longcaribiner]

I hung an old farm disc on a chain at 25 yds and let the kids shoot at it to hear it go "bong"    Well we tape a piece of paper to the back side and try to shoot through the 1.5 inch hole in the center of the disc.  I'm getting better.  I'm up to about 3 out of 4 with my flinter.   We may use this at a novelt shoot leter in the year.  We'll hang a bright clay bird on a post about twenty feet behind the disc, so the shooter will have to shoot through the hole and break the clay bird behind it.  Ought to test a persons ability to judge trajectory.  (Kind of like Odysseus shooting an arrow through the axe holes when he returned home)

[necchi]

gong's are fun. Good idea shooting through the hole. If ya wanna have a bit more fun with it, hang it so the hole is 44-45" off the ground,,most folks gotta squat a little to shoot through it then .
 Took 2nd in the aggregate and 1st in the "meat shoot" this weekend.