2013 6 yard MPL Rankings and First Series Overview.

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I will show the final rankings gained by all of the competitors that took part in the first series of the 6 yard MPL Postal Competition here along with an overview of the event that may encourage a few more to take part in the second series that will start in January 2014 and run until the end of June.

Due to us still being in the middle of the Christmas and New Year holidays I will have to come back and keep adding to this thread until I get it all done, but here at least is a start.

The MPL series was devised to encourage people to take part in an air pistol competition that was fun and enjoyable as well as being very affordable as we restricted the types of air pistol that could be used to those that needed some effort ( muscle power) to cock them and so this included spring powered air pistols as well as single stroke pneumatic air pistols but ruled out the use of the (often much more expensive) PCP and CO2 powered pistols that required no effort to cock and already dominated all of the other existing air pistol competitions.

The original series was for 10 meter shooting and so it was intended to be shot on club ranges. This worked well but I became aware of a number of shooters that would like to have a go at a competition like this, but they were not able to get to a club that was local to them or they did not have a 10 meter facility to use.

My thoughts immediately returned to the time when I started shooting air pistol ( many many years ago!) and how much I enjoyed shooting from home at 6 yard targets and later entering postal competitions with the NSRA and NARPA ( also at 6 yards) so the idea started to emerge that the MPL could easily be adapted to form another type of competition that could firstly be shot at 6 yards and secondly be made into a postal series!

This now made it possible for anyone to take part as it would always be possible to find somewhere at home (or close to home) to shoot at the shorter 6 yard distance and due to the MPL air pistol choice it would be one of the least expensive competitions to take part in and there was little fear that those with more cash could buy any significant advantage with the purchase of an expensive PCP or CO2 match pistol as these are banned form the MPL competitions.

Another huge benefit was (like the 10 meter MPL series) that it was used by many as an excuse to dust-off that long forgotten old "collectable" air pistol (or even to buy one of a type that had been sold and later missed many years ago). The diversity of type and age of air pistols that were used in this competition from Webleys to Feinwerkbaus gave me a lot of pleasure to see as I also took full advantage of the rules's to use a different classic air pistol in every round. - not too good for the best possible scores - but by far the best choice to give the biggest grin!

To some of the us the results were not the most important thing, but taking part in a competition like this most definitely was!

Checking the results from time to time was also very interesting as competitors were asked to include details of the air pistol and pellet type they used in every round and the ever increasing diversity of air pistol and pellet combinations exceeded all expectations - well done to all those that made this such an enjoyable event.

For anyone that is interested in finding an excuse to shoot a classic spring powered or SSP air pistol I cannot think of a better one than to use it by entering the 2014 6 yard MPL Postal Competition.