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Tres Banditos is standing and teams are divided up by blind draw. Two teams of three are shooting identical arrays and the first team to clean their array then engages the Mastodon. First team to knock down mastodon advances to next bracket. Usually your teammates put their heads together and decide who is shooting which targets first. Usually one engages the close, another takes the middle and the last takes the far targets. If teammate 1 gets all the close ones he then helps out whoever needs the most help.
One team advances. The other team is out. Typically we have 15-18 shooters so 5 or six teams. We almost always do it twice so yes you do need a ton of ammo. If you were on the winning team all the way through twice, you might blow up 2-300 rounds of ammo.


I don’t know if Merit apertures were legal when you shot before but sounds like you need one. Merit is no longer in business but Gehmann makes one that sticks on your glasses . They are available through Champion Choice in Tenn. or you can look for a used merit.

Jim Kesser

Actually, I have a merit aperture in my bullseye box but the problem is the suction cup is toasted. I've thought about devising a way to attach it to my old Knobloch shooting frames, maybe with a lens to help focus the front sight. I've dealt with bad eyes all my life. I've been meaning to give Art Needgaard at shooting sights a call for a lens or two.

Tres Banditos sounds fun but the only gun I have that much extra ammo for would be my Kimber 45. Could work for chickens and maybe pigs with the 44 mag for further out.

I've never pulled the trigger during the Tres Banditos part of the match. But I can't wait to go. Love seeing the people and watching them shoot the big guns. See you in October.

hockeyref wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:09 am Actually, I have a merit aperture in my bullseye box but the problem is the suction cup is toasted. I've thought about devising a way to attach it to my old Knobloch shooting frames, maybe with a lens to help focus the front sight. I've dealt with bad eyes all my life. I've been meaning to give Art Needgaard at shooting sights a call for a lens or two.

Tres Banditos sounds fun but the only gun I have that much extra ammo for would be my Kimber 45. Could work for chickens and maybe pigs with the 44 mag for further out.

if you have knobloch frames, you are set! champions choice carries the Knobloch frames and all the accessories along with lenses and an Iris. this is what I use and they work great!

http://www.champchoice.com/store/Main.a ... y&c=OPEYKN

I dug out the old rusted 7 TCU barrel the outside wasn't as bad as I though, but the bore still looked scary. Figured I got noting to lose but time and I soaked the bore with Kroil and brushed it out really good.... lots of ugly brown stuff dripped from the muzzle. Rinsed it with oil and punched it out with a couple tight patches. The quick peek down the pipe looked promising so I put some NECO fire lapping compound on a snug oiled patched and carefully worked over the bore. Rinsed out the mess, punched the bore and ran the scope down the pipe. The corners of the rifling are still pretty good but there is pitting. The bore always was a copper fouling SOB but it would alsways maintain its accuracy past 100 rounds w\o a cleaning and was accurate enough to take the 200 meter shoot off targets after a bunch of sighters and 80 record shots.

I found the dies, brass, a few left over 150gr bullets and ten rounds still loaded from 1994 - with the load written on the box Unfortunately I didn't have any WW748 left to load up the last of the bullets with th original load so I loaded ten with 26.5 Gr AA2520. Took it out to the range tonight to see what it can tell me. I shot two 3 inch ten shot iron sight groups at 100 yards in poor light with really fuzzy sights. I have no illusions that it will be as accurate as it was before, but who knows. I think that shows some promise to at least be usable. I'm gonna pick up more bullets and powder tomorrow morning and give it a more thorough testing.