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i've only shot ir 50-50. just for the heck of it i clicked on the ara site and then clicked on the "target". when i looked at it the 100 ring looked really big. is the target i'm looking at actual size? i've never shot at an ara target and so i don't know how hard it is but it just looks like it would be pretty easy to shoot a 2500. i'm sure it not as easy as it looks or everybody would be shooting 2500's all the time. i am going to get some of these targets and give it a try. maybe i'll find it ain't as easy as it looks.

any comments would be appriciated.
 
here is a comment............................ Will you be going to the range in a covered wagon? You wouldn't want to get there on the sweat of others and use a car........... joe
 
joe. went over my head. lol. please let me know what you meant.
 
geb;
The 100 ring on the ARA target measures .500 on an official target. The scoring is what is different. They use negative scoring. That is where the difference is. As for shooting 2500 every time, dream on.
 
that answers my question. thanks fred. i went back an measured the 100 ring on the ara page and it measures 11/16 to outside edge so it not actual size. now i understand that its really .500 which would make it a real challange to shoot 2500. i'm still going to get some of the ara targets and give it a try. looks like fun.
 
here is a comment............................ Will you be going to the range in a covered wagon? You wouldn't want to get there on the sweat of others and use a car........... joe
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WTF? geb posts a simple question and you give a idiotic answer. Great way to promote the sport, pal.
 
hey there dupont.

looked at your profile. see you fly duel line stunt kites. me to. thinking of getting a quad. you ever fly one before?
 
geb,
ARA is worst edge scoring, meaning that if you plug the bullet hole and there's no blue showing outside the plug you drop 50 points. I've only shot one ARA match in my life, but I shoot the targets in practice now and then. A 2350 on an ARA target is similar to a 250-22X IR target. It is possible to miss the dot a wee bit on an ARA target and still score a 100, but it better be real close. Kinda like shooting a bullet inside the 9 ring on an IR target and it not plugging as an X. If you're shooting 250's regularly with 20-22X's you should do ok in ARA. Hope this helps, and good luck. It is a good target to shoot.
 
Dupont Spinner said:
No kite building or flying since last summer. Seems as though all my mad money goes to weekend shooting. As for quads; I've never had the chance to fly one. Have fun. Here's a link to kites I've built - most of them anyway.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/555371400PEMKTZ
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Looks like a fair amount of light wind stuff. I used to fly a fair amount, light wind[3-5mph] stuff and some real rippers in the winter where we'd try to get right to the edge of the wind and then rip back right through the fluffy snow, there were some real loud kites in that winter wind, broke a lot of carbon,.....even some stacked stuff until I scared the crap out of myself when I got carried a good 50 feet in the air until I could bleed off wind. The kites were a real blast, moved largely on the eletric RC stuff now
 
It's always nice to have more than one hobby. I've built several more kites since I posted those photos in Webshots. For now though, .22LR target shooting has taken over much of my time. My wife and I still get out to the coast several times a year for relaxation and a good wind.

Ken
 
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