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From: hes@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Target shooting discussion group?
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Date: 10 Jun 91 22:09:49 GMT
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  Everybody - please post target shooting material in rec.guns.
If there gets to be some much of it that it interupts the
"real" business of rec.guns (whatever that is :-) then we can
split the groups.  However starting a new group is generally
a bad idea until there is a body of traffic for it - otherwise
the same people who don't post in rec.guns will not post in the
new group.  I'd love to read more about bullseye and other
types of target shooting.

  Perhaps someone could start out by explaining scoring, and
how the "plugs" are used, and why.  (Personally I think that
all target shooting should be done with wadcutters because it
would make scoring easier. :-)

--henry schaffer  n c state univ

[MODERATOR:  I'd like to jump in to the discussion by concurring
with Henry's observations above.  I don't think we yet have the
traffic to warrant a separate group -- moreover, I think that
*most* of the reloading/sighting/equipment issues are relevent
across types of shooting, so postings here should benefit all.
I hope that lack of a `special' group has not inhibited people
from posting here in rec.guns, in fact I'd like to take this 
opportunity to invite more discussion on target activities as a
way to get us all knit together a little more closely.  ``Surely
we must hang together else we shall hang separately....'']