‘Siluetas Metalicas’ is a shooting sport in which steel silhouettes in the shape of game animals are used as targets. It was introduced in the 1960’s from from Mexico and has evolved from high power rifle to include the pistol. The metal targets are shaped in the forms of chicken (gallina), wild boar (javelina), turkey (guajalote), and desert ram (borrego).

This is a small-bore match, restricted to .22 LR (Rifle or Pistol – revolver, single-shot, or semi-automatic). The use of scopes and red dot sights is allowed.

Overview

The objective is to hit and knock down a string of five animal silhouette targets (one shot per silhouette) before the timer (2 min 30 sec) runs out.

Course of Fire

• All shooting is done off-hand, standing
• A string of targets include five (5) silhouettes
• Engage each string from left to right
• Only fire one (1) round at each silhouette
• String Distances; chicken (15 yrds), boar (25 yds), turkey (35 yds), ram (45 yds)

Each shooter; engages their first string, a cease-fire is called, targets are reset, engages their second string.

Scoring

Each silhouette, completely knocked down is worth one (1) point. A hit without a complete knock down, is a counted as a miss!

The maximum score for a match = 40 points (5 targets, 2 strings, 4 animal silhouettes).