Metallic Silhouette Match | Any .22LR
2025-08-26 17:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Pistol Range, 177 Winstead Norfolk Road, Colebrook, CT, 06098, United States
‘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).
