Thread: Gong shooting matches/stages

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Looks more like what you get when people substitute mild steel for proper hardened plate. If it isn't then you have some serious artillery.

You dont need a behemoth. My 22/250 would easily punch thru the discs we had in the early days. 308s etc mostly made a crater.
We were being naughty though and shooting at discs intended for lead only BP rifles.

Edge of disc hits or hits on the hanging chains (BP or smokeless jacketed) in some circumstances resulted in nice winie ricochets.

Then of course there is the several positions shooting within a time limit. To avoid discussions about what kneeling or sitti g and what variants are allowed these are best done by shooting over or under a a specified barrier - just a piece of cord that the barrel has to be over or under is enough.

Of course, you will want at least one bipod high accuracy long range stage out to where wind comes into play.

Then you have trick shots like through plywood loopholes, spinners and swingers if you can arrange them and “hostage setups”.
Shooting left and right handed is good if youve got a large target but a lot of sporting rifles have asymmetric cheekpieces so do t have too much points on that.

There should be one standing snap shot stage.
This is starting with rifle at waist level pointing down and shoot on command with a loud timer set. If already loaded, 3 seconds is quite difficult and 5 seconds is beginner-easy.