You need a good Bullseye gun. A rimfire firearm is good to start with because you need a rimfire firearm for most matches. The ammo can be inexpensive and you don’t have to reload. Buying a used target gun is usually a good idea. Buying equipment is a vicious cycle until you learn from your mistakes or learn from someone that’s been there before. This is what usually happens:

1. New shooter buys a $250+ firearm. . Next they need a trigger job $75+ and firearm is at the gunsmith for three months. Grips $50, magazines, $20 each times 4 = $80. So far the total is easily reaching $455.

2. New shooter now looks around and sees the other shooters shooting the "plasma Smorf fantastic racing shooting machines, and the new shooter wants one.

3. New shooter puts their perfectly good firearm on the market so the they can upgrade to the perceived better firearm.

4. Educated new shooter finds "built" firearms for great prices. You can only sell your firearm for blue book or going rates in the area. You might have sunk $200 dollars into a $300 gun. Don’t think your going to sell that firearm for $500 dollars.

5. New Shooter finds the new "Plasma smorf fantastic racing shooting machine" shoots as well as their last firearm.

6. Another option is to save and shell out the $475 or less and buy a used;

Smith and Wesson 41, or a

High Standard Victor, Supermatic, or other High Standard 107 Frame built in the Hamden CT. plant, or a

Ruger Bull barrel firearm that’s been already "built". Rugers are hard to disassemble.

6. If you can afford the fancy smancy guns and are serious about Bullseye Shooting Pardini, Hammerly 208S and Walther are the usual choices but once you own one you can’t use the excuse "must be something wrong with the gun".

7. Gun box so you can keep all shooting equipment in one place.

8. One mistake that many shooters make is that they need a long barrel to make the firearm more accurate. The bullet accelerates fastest in the first inch and a half. The longer the bullet stays in the barrel the more likely you can move the firearm away from the point you "broke" the shot. Don’t forget the gases leaving the barrel still effect the shot passing around and behind the bullet. This can cause tumbling bullets. Follow through is important.

Screwdriver, Allen wrenches, cleaning rod, shooting dairy, pen, extra batteries for red dots scopes, scoring overlays, scoring plugs, rule book, shooting glasses (indoor and outdoor), earmuffs ( I use earplugs and earmuffs, called double plugging.), magazines, polarizer, one inch surgical tape, garbage bag (it rains outside and you place the bag over your box.), wooden or brass rod in case bullet takes a nap in your barrel. (push the bullet out the way it came in.), spare parts, I take it back ,you don’t need a gun box, you need a pick up truck to carry all this stuff around. Did I remember AMMO?