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Is there any interest in an event that would combine motorcycling on a closed course with shooting a black powder (cap and ball) revolver at 5 stationary targets? I have in mind a piece of private property with a paved oval of slightly less than a quarter-mile, and am working out safety issues. But before I fill any sandbags, who else thinks this would be fun?

Sounds like a pretty high disaster potential, I'd totally be in if I lived closer.

But why just a cap and ball revolver?

/RM

What could possibly go wrong?

It can get you into trouble, but it can't get you out.

Just so happens I have a cap and ball revolver. I think it'd be hilarious.
This would be kinda like the competitions becoming popular once again in Japan, where they ride horses and shoot bows from horseback. The Mongols kicked ass doing this, too.

I'm totally in Skkot... Just a warning: I ride a scooter and I drink alot. Let me know when and I'll try and arrive sober so that I don't end up like any of your other clients.

One of the things that really breaks with plausibility in movies is when motorcyclists shoot while riding. How do you guys plan to do it: right or left handed, riding clockwise or counterclockwise, targets inside or outside the oval? How is the pistol carried when riding between targets? I think it sounds like fun but I'm not sure where it's going to be safe to stand...

I believe this has been thrown upon these boards before:

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Pattio wrote:One of the things that really breaks with plausibility in movies is when motorcyclists shoot while riding. How do you guys plan to do it: right or left handed, riding clockwise or counterclockwise, targets inside or outside the oval? How is the pistol carried when riding between targets? I think it sounds like fun but I'm not sure where it's going to be safe to stand...

Out of curiosity I may have attempted this, firing left handed at targets left, right and forward. Easier to deal with recoil than some people seem to think, harder to be remotely accurate than I had guessed. Worth fiddling with with a paintball gun if nothing else. Might be fun to have a little competition with one of those little eight round paintball pistols.

/RM

I'm killer with the left handed shot w/ this particular pistol. I have absolutely NO idea why, either.

Oooh... totally in if I can make it. Depending on circumstances I can bring my T/C sidelock rifle as well.

--Jaeger

The quirkiness of being black powder intrigues me. Im guessing there is a legal reason why this is allowed over regular cartridge style pistols. Still sounds like a nice challenge!

There are reasons I suggest black powder revolvers, and one is that in Maryland, they are not considered firearms and are easier to legally transport.

Single-action seems like it may be safer, relatively speaking, and I thought it would be best to have the 5 targets on the left, evenly spaced over @80 meters, riding clockwise around the oval.

A holster would be affixed to the left handlebar. Revolver is drawn forward of a designated line ahead of the firing line and re-holstered after the 5 targets and before the curve, so shooter/rider is not sweeping spectators who are behind firing line in safe area once they come back around.

One loaded revolver at a time, loaded in designated loading area adjacent to firing line immediately before beginning course of fire.

Nice video of the French police, by the way, and I hadn't seen that before. I thought that a sidearm would have to be in the left hand to be used with any degree of effectiveness from a motorcycle so that the throttle can be held. Cap and ball revolvers, although well balanced, are iffily accurate and the idea I had for this event was more inspired by the Japanese horseback-archery. The idea right now is that the score would be based on accuracy, rather than time.

Paintball guns are also a great idea, but maybe more like a joust, one-on-one

Holster?