Vintage JGA 1400 - scores high at 50 meters

Last Sunday, Oct. 3rd, 2010, despite heavy rain and wind, I took my .22 LR J.G. ANSCHÜTZ Model 1400 "vintage" rifle (from the early 1970s), iron sights only, for a test trial on pistol 25 meters ISSF targets held at 50 meters - and, standing, I managed to score 206 / 250 using Lapua "trainning" ammo.

ISSF 25 meter pistol target at 50 meters - hits highlighted on yellow - 206 / 250

This setup is intended for the "Standard Rifle" match to be held by the Portuguese Shooting Federarion next Oct, 9th. Let's see how I will handle it under competition stress.

My "vintage" JGA 1400 with "Waffen-Heim Filderstadt" engraved on top of barrel

Detail on the adjustable sight

Detail on the front sight tunnel

Personal record - ISSF 10 meter air pistol

This last Sunday, Oct. 3rd, 2010, with 528 / 600 points, I broke my personal record on ISSF air pistol 10 meter shooting. The match, part of the Portuguese Shooting Federation official ranking, was held at the CDA ("Clube Desportivo do Arneiro") shooting range and was part of the VIII Cascais Cup. My previous record was 525 points.

Overall score of 528 / 600

I competed with my Morini CM 162 EI pistol, using H&N Finale Match 4,5mm pellets and Varga ISSF shooting glasses with front and side blinds and adjustable iris by MEC.

CDA 10 meter shooting range - I competed at line # 2

My "kit" at line # 2 - Varga glasses, H&N pellets and Morini CM 162 EI pistol

Personal record and dual same hole 10 pointers - break barrel air rifle

Just broke my personal record, this morning, at the CDA ("Clube Desportivo do Arneiro") Break Barrel Air Rifle 10 meter match with a score of 334 / 400 - and with a "mouth opening" two targets with "one hole" dual 10 point impacts. The match, the VIII Cascais Cup, is part of the official set of Break Barrel Air Rifle competitions of the Portuguese Shooting Federation (FPT, "Federação Portuguesa de Tiro").

Target #  46819 - "Low" Dual 10 points "same hole"

Target #  46814 - "Mid" Dual 10 points "same hole"

With only 5 shoots (out of a total of 40) to end the match I faced one of those "dramatic yet makes you want to laugh" incident - the front sight kit (sight and tunnel)... just fell on the ground. Furthermore - I had left my tool kit home. With the prompt help of a fellow shooter I quickly re-attached the sights and got back to the match  and, to great surprise, and despite the increased heart beat - those last 5 shoots were the best sequence on the entire match - a 10-10-10-10-9 !

Overall score of 334 / 400

My HW35 4,5mm with custom Ginb stock at line # 7 of CDA 10 meter range

11 positions - CDAs 10 meter air rifle / pistol range. I competed at line # 7

2 at the center - fellow CPTPP shooters - F. Lopes Neto and M. Miranda

310 - 400 on Break Barrel Air Rifle

Just broke my personal record, this morning, at the CDA ("Clube Desportivo do Arneiro") Break Barrel Air Rifle 10 meter match with a score of 310 / 400 (on the previous 2 matches, this year, my scores were 279 and 309). 

2 consecutive impacts (scored 2 x 8) on one of the match practice targets

My score notes on the 40 shoot match ( 4 x 10 shoot series) - overall 310 / 400 points

I competed at 09h00 AM on Line # 2, using a German HW ("Weihrauch") Model 35 4,5mm break barrel (springer) air rifle mounted on a custom made Ginb tropical wood stock with metal engraved buttstock and metal engraved  trigger guard, and, my vanity treat, a silver side plaque, with my name and Ginb "seal" engraved. Pellets used where my all time favourites - the German H&N Finale Match 4,5mm .

My "kit" on the match table - rifle is a 4,5mm HW 35
with a custom made tropical wood Ginb stock

" Pedro Mateus | Hand Crafted by Ginb "
The silver plaque on the stock side

Fellow shooters during the 1 hour, 40 shoot match - targets at 10 meters

"Sleepy race" to 503 points

Just arrived from the SREF ("Sociedade Recreativa Estrelas do Feijó") 40th Anniversary ISSF 10 meter air pistol (60 shoot) tournament. After a "troubled" night with less then 2 hours sleep I managed to pass the mythical "minimum" barrier score of 500 points - reaching 503 / 600 points. The effect of lack of sleep on the brain sometimes help precision shooting competitors on a "perverted" way - making you less permeable to anxiety due to what I like to call "rational numbness". My overall result on today's match as "not that bad" - although  it was far from my personal record (525 points) and bellow my last 3 years average score (514 points) . Nevertheless, with my 2 other fellow CPTPP shooters (M. Miranda and F. Lopes Neto), we manage to get 2nd place by teams on this official match for the Portuguese Shooting Federation ranking.

My setup on line # 5 ready for the match
to begin at 8h30 AM, Sep. 25th 2010

I competed with my Swiss-Italian Morini CM 162 EI using German H&N Finale Match pellets, and after a troublesome (and tottaly embarrasing!) 2 point hit on the 2nd series (perfectly aligned on the vertical axis, but on the very top - a miss trigger "hit", mea culpa), I "raced" my best up until the last series - where I standed with a high pressure challenge: the sum of the the 5 previous series was 414, and the top best series was 85 (the 1st and the 5th) - thereby the only chance to reach the mytical barrier of 500 points was that the last series would be better then any of the previous others, a minimum of 86 points would be required. I gained that nice edge of pressure, made my best to keep focused... and exceeded the goal with a 89 points series. It was like a race inside a sleepy mind - but I succeeded!

Score details - overall of 503 / 600

... I competed on Line #5, at the center

National medalist J. Marracho shooting on Line #4
with his red cylinder Morini