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B.L.E. · March 14, 2013, 09:43 PM

I do believe that 10 Ring precision out of San Antonio TX made a flinter also.

I wish I could shoot as good as your wife. I tend to aim and squeeze the trigger and suddenly the bullseye isn't in perfect position so I stop squeezing and then I get tired and the harder I try to squeeze, the more the gun shakes till I finally jerk the thing into the 5 ring.

This last weekend, I outshot both my 10 Ring percussion and my 10 Ring flinter with my 1860 Colt open top army, a third generation model with Sam's signature on the backstrap. I reckon the fact that I had to aim at an area under the target frame to hit the bullseye kind of made it easier to just focus on keeping the sights aligned while increasing pressure on the trigger 'till it fired. Not a single shot in the white part of the target, a ten and nine nines. I was amazed not at only how good I shot but at how easy it was, even with that hard trigger.
A lot of this game is psychological and I find that I beat myself.

March 14, 2013, 09:43 PM	#18
B.L.E. Senior Member Join Date: December 20, 2008 Location: Somewhere on the Southern shore of Lake Travis, TX Posts: 2,603	I do believe that 10 Ring precision out of San Antonio TX made a flinter also. I wish I could shoot as good as your wife. I tend to aim and squeeze the trigger and suddenly the bullseye isn't in perfect position so I stop squeezing and then I get tired and the harder I try to squeeze, the more the gun shakes till I finally jerk the thing into the 5 ring. This last weekend, I outshot both my 10 Ring percussion and my 10 Ring flinter with my 1860 Colt open top army, a third generation model with Sam's signature on the backstrap. I reckon the fact that I had to aim at an area under the target frame to hit the bullseye kind of made it easier to just focus on keeping the sights aligned while increasing pressure on the trigger 'till it fired. Not a single shot in the white part of the target, a ten and nine nines. I was amazed not at only how good I shot but at how easy it was, even with that hard trigger. A lot of this game is psychological and I find that I beat myself.