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June 13, 2008
First things first.
I called the City of Phoenix Police Department and asked if it was OK to shoot air pistols within the city limits.
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June 10, 2008
Where does evil come from?
“The devil made me do it,” is sometimes heard. The comedian Flip Wilson made it one of his catch-phrases.
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May 29, 2008
I’m cheap.
The less I spend on other things, the more I have for bullets. And as any Bullseye shooter will tell you, to get good, you have to push a lot of lead downrange and, as most of you know, lead is not cheap anymore. Gone are the days of three or four cent heads. Today, you’re probably looking at eight to nine cents for a 200 grain LSWC, and if you buy in 5000 unit quantities, that’s not small change.
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May 26, 2008
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May 25, 2008
Steve Reiter, national champion Bullseye shooter many times over, is a stack of rocks.
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May 16, 2008
Shiney brass makes for more Xs.
It works like this. A shiney piece of brass will press a smoother surface onto the sides of the bullet. When such a bullet is then fired, it becomes subject to external forces and one of those is the impact of photons being reflected from the target face.
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May 1, 2008

Shooters learn Bullseye much the same way they do any other sport. They study, they experiment, they practice, they talk to others, they get coaching directly and indirectly. They commit things first to memory and then to body actions and, if everything goes well, they become as proficient at the sport as their abilities permit.
