Texas Star Target - REALLY FUN...!!!

[AJMD429]

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I got one of these - https://www.challengetargets.com/produc ... AR-R6.html - it has five target plates, and they start moving as soon as you hit the first one.

I really would love to get one of these - https://www.challengetargets.com/produc ... -STAR.html

...but until I can handle the first one, what I should spend money on is more ammo and not the fancier 11-plate target...



...the COOL thing is that you can get 'rimfire' plates to swap out, too, so you can use them with your 22 LR's...

This young lady does a good job of encouraging interest in 'shooting steel' for even beginners -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvj_B4D1dPQ

I think the 'moving' targets are more fun though.

[Griff]

While not exceedingly common, you'll often see them in use at either a cowboy action or Wild Bunch match. I LIKE 'em! Not that they're not a challenge to clear quickly, 'cause they are! Other folks dread seeing them, and I think that hinders their appreciation of 'em.

[Bill in Oregon]

They are popular with the practical pistol crowd. I once watched a realy fine shooter from Fort Bliss clean the star with five shots in seconds at the Otero County shooting range in La Luz, NM.

[AJMD429]

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One thing though - I think that if you have one, you can use it two totally different ways (like other 'games' with the pistol and rifle)...

1 - you can practice with the 'system' to beat that particular target (i.e. wait for the 'start' to change direction and strike when it pauses) or use a specific game-gun to 'win' (i.e. a flared-well, very-specific-sighted, tuned-for rapidity vs reliability pistol), or

2 - you can use your regular CCW gun, and shoot just to try to improve your OVERALL shooting skills, versus hone specific skills that a particular target or scoring system or game will favor.

I think for me the latter is the only option that makes sense, and unless you're really into the prizes and rewards of competitive shooting matches, you should be wary of just 'gaming the system' with a particular skill-set and type of firearm.

[JBowen]

Those Texas Stars are fun. I used to shoot CAS 2000 -2004 and would get to shoot one occasionally. I cleaned it with five shots with my Uberti 73 carbine in .45 Colt nearly every time. With my revolvers I seldom ever cleaned it. It would be fun to own one.

JBowen

[Scott Tschirhart]

They had one at the Gunsite Alumni shoot a couple of years ago. Very challenging.

[Griff]

I've cleaned one several times. The fastest was with a 1911. The one at our cowboy club has five targets, and it's dead, at rest position has the top target slightly off center to the left, the clear fast way is the shoot the discs in a "walking" pattern, from to to bottom working from the left to right. Done quickly enough, there is actually very slight movement of the balance as each disc falls. However, much more challenging is to try to empty the posts in a circular pattern. If done very quickly, this is the fastest way as the rotating discs actually move into your sight picture.