Spring Powered Air Pistol Shooters Wanted.

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We would like to find some owners of classic spring powered air pistols who would like an opportunity (or an excuse) to use them every month at home and at 6 yards!

The MPL postal competition was originally founded to give owners of these classic air pistols something to do with them - an excuse to shoot them - at least once a month!

This postal competition is shot over 6 yards (the classic traditional British distance for shooting with target airguns), and this can easily be shot at home, indoors, in the garage, in the shed, or in the garden perhaps?

Previous "home ranges" have been made in the most unlikely of places including:- down the hallway, from one bedroom to another, in the loft, standing in the garden and shooting into a shed etc - it seems that the only restriction has been the limit of ingenuity to find a clear 18 feet to safely shoot a pellet at a target!

When I first started the Exmouth Air Pistol Club in 1971, we stood in my drive and shot at our 6 yard NSRA competition targets that were inside my home garage.

The single car garage was too short (and had other things inside) to give us a full 18 feet between the target face and the shooting point - so an old table was placed outside on the drive at the correct distance Sometimes the weather was good - and sometimes it was not - but we always turned-out - even when we had the rarest of snow in sunny Exmouth!

Shooting classic air pistols is an enjoyable challenge, and exercising them does not do them any harm at all!

Most spring powered air pistols are .177 size, but if we have enough interest we could also have a separate class for .22 spring powered air pistols too!

Please contact myself or Paul SE if you have any questions or fancy having a go.

We would be pleased to help answer any questions you may have - or even discuss it here for the benefit of anyone else that could be curious enough to find out a little more about it .