New prizes and awards for the Open Piston Class FT have been announced for the 2018 Field Target Nationals to be shot on October 5, 6, and 7 at Pleasant Hill, in North Carolina!
These new Open Piston Class FT prizes will be Pyramyd Air gift cards as follows: $500 for the 1st place, $250 for the 2nd and $125 for the 3rd.
DIANA and Connecticut Custom Airguns will sponsor the awards and prizes for Open Piston Class FT at the Field Target Nationals.
Hector Medina, the owner of Connecticut Custom Airguns and a noted Open Piston Class FT competitor wants to encourage newcomers to experience Field Target shooting. That’s Hector shooting with his Diana 54 in the photographs above and below – he always has a great time!
What’s FT like? Hector explains the challenge like this…
1. Can you determine the range to the quarry by sight, and then place an accurate pellet where you want to?
2. Can you do this in different positions, under varying light conditions and wind patterns?
3. Can you do this time and time and time again?
4. Is your gun is absolutely consistent over a day of shooting and that it can go through a full day of shooting without changing POI?
The few things you REALLY need to know are these, Hector says:
1. No rangefinders. Use your scope or your eyes.
2. Under 20 Ft/Lbs at the muzzle, you will be chronographed to establish that you are legit.
3. No x-pods (where x may be 1, 2, or 3), no resting the gun on anything but your good old self. There will be some forced positions (standing, kneeling). If you have ever hunted with a Price Harness, bring it over, it is legit.
4. You will shoot about 120 times over two days, rain or shine. No changing guns unless it is a catastrophic failure and you are not allowed to re-sight in if the failure is mid-match. Take a RELIABLE gun.
5. You are expected to be a good sportsman and a nice person.
6. You will meet some fantastic people, eat well, and you will have a lot of fun!
There will be awards for the first, second and third-placed shooters in the Open Piston Class FT at the 2018 Field Target Nationals. There may be further awards by AAFTA (American Airgun Field Target Association) if enough shooters register for the competition, says Hector.
To find out more about Field Target shooting in the series published by HAM Field target Editor Greg Shirhall:
https://hardairmagazine.com/category/ham-columns/field-target-ham/
You can register for the the 2018 Field Target Nationals from this link:
http://www.thagc.com/2018-us-field-target-nationals/
To read the full rules for Field Target competition, check out these links:
http://aafta.org/Assets/handbook/2018/AAFTA_Handbook_2018.pdf#page=19
http://aafta.org/Assets/handbook/2018/AAFTA_Handbook_2018.pdf#page=25
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