Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:06:56 -0500 (EST)
From: bi249@freenet.carleton.ca (Steve Kelly)
Subject: Free Pistol in the OVPL?

What is Free Pistol?

It sounds like an attractive offer, don't you think?

Free Pistol is one of the oldest handgun events, and it's PURE BULLSEYE.
Officially, it is shot at 50 metres, outdoors, with a .22. Got it? Put up
your target, back up until you can no longer see it, then open fire with
the smallest thing you've got.

Free Pistols are specialized handguns that are almost free of restrictions
by the competition rules. It has to be .22 rimfire and have open sights.
It must be fired with one hand(the same hand the holds it(so no remote
control ideas). It can have any barrel length, and any grip that supports
only the hand. Glove grips are common. There is no minimum trigger weight.

Indoors, we shoot Free Pistol on 20 yard targets that have a 10 ring about
the size of a finger tip. Ten shots to a target and about 15 minutes for
each of six targets. It takes a couple of hours to shoot 60 competition shots.

On Wednesday, January 20, a Free Pistol match will be run for OVPL clubs.
The RA is the host range. Mike Taylor is the organizer. His notice of the
shoot follows.

                                FREE PISTOL

Under the auspices of the Ottawa Valley Pistol League, a series of monthly
matches will be held to stimulate interest in and to provide a local venue
for this ISU discipline.

The inaugural match will be held at the RA range

                        Wednesday, 20 January 1999
                           commencing at 7:15pm

Each OVPL club is invited to submit a team. A team may consist of up to
four members. The aggregate of the three highest scores from each team
will be the team score.

Since time and space are limited, it may be necessary to shoot an
abbreviated course of fire if participation is such as to require two relays.
 Such a `short' course would be 40 shots for record, fired in 5 periods of
12 minutes each (not including target changing). With this format, a
complete relay should take about an hour and a half; and two relays could
be accommodated in an evening.

Michael Taylor (RA Gun Club) will act as series coordinator. Please advise
him if your club will be sending a team to the inaugural match.
                          Ph: 613-831-0143 (home)
                          Ph: 613-592-5851 (work)
                             FAX 613-836-3266
                       e-mail: fmtaylor@compmore.net