Ojai Valley Gun Club

Short-Range Silhouette
All pistol events are sanctioned by the NRA and IHMSA. We follow their RULES.
The cowboy and smallbore rifle events are Club events only.
We welcome and encourage new shooters, and all events are open to the public.

Short-Range Silhouette allows a number of firearms, chambered in various calibres, fired at targets of varying sizes,
from one of two accepted positions -- all at the same time. Compared to other disciplines fired at stationary targets,
the firing line of a Short-Range Silhouette match bears a perilous resemblance to firearms anarchy.

In the interests of fairness, IHMSA and the NRA have established rules for governing:

  • Firearms, particularly with regard to barrel length
  • Sights (iron vs. optics)
  • Shooting positions (Creedmoor vs. standing)
  • Shooter classifications, based on prior success
  • Target size (Full-Size or Half-Size)

    In an effort to open Short-Range competition to more shooters, our Club shoots have gradually come to include,
    as one former Shoot Chair puts it, "Just about anything that'll sling lead 100 yards or better."
    Cowboy Rifle Silhouette (originally limited to lever-action rifles firing cast-lead bullets) is now being fired with an assortment
    of firearms ranging from the mundane to the arcane.
    Following the lead of IHMSA and the NRA, recent Short-Range Silhouette Shoot Chairs have attempted to even out the competition
    by classifying rifle action/sight/bullet combinations into various categories. The system works quite well -- for the Stat Shack.
    The shooters, however, have remained somewhat baffled. So -- drum roll, maestro, please! -- our previous Shoot Chair wrote
    it all down -- Big Bore Pistol, Cowboy Silhouette, Cast Bullet Silhouette, .22 Rimfire Rifle, .22 Rimfire Pistol -- and had it put into a PDF file
    that you can download and study at your leisure. (And then, even though I did the typing and wrote this explanation, you
    can explain it all to me! -Your Primary Rangemaster)

    • The .17HMR has found a home on the Smallbore side of the range.

    If you plan to use a .17HMR, please check with the Match Director or Stat Shack personnel
    when you buy your scorecard. That way, you will be given the proper card, correctly marked.
    Also, It is very important that you fire only at the white targets (usually set as the last bank
    of animals): the test-firing done in February proved that the .17HMR round DOES damage the smallbore targets!
    E-mails should be addressed to the Shoot Chair
    Click to read Current Shoot Report
     

    A Note from the Shoot Chair: