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Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge 2025

shooting gallery target logo highlighted author books Today's highlighted author:

Baynard Kendrick

writer of the Duncan Maclain mystery novels.

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Welcome to the Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge for 2025! Your goal is simple: shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author). That gives you a notch on your gun, and a perfect 1.000 score; and you can call it done. But wait, there's more! You get bonus points for each additional notch. Unlike many reading challenges, reading more books may not necessarily help your score. Scores are not based upon quantity, but rather focus in completing your target(s). No advance signup needed. Just read the General Information page and then submit your shot to begin.
R I C O C H E T S from the S H O O T I N G   G A L L E R Y:
updated bang! Feb 10: YalondaReads (Germany) scores notch #1 with author Terri Reid ! One notch with only five shots raises her score above 1.000, earning Sharpshooter level!
bang! Feb 7: Avid Series Reader (New Mexico) scores notch #4 with author Nicci French !
bang! Feb 7: Sanacrow (Tennessee) scores notch #2 with author Tamora Pierce!
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Who else took a shot at my book? Enter Author or Title:

SHOOTING GALLERY updated MON FEB 10 2025 @ 12.00 pm EST convert
Gunslingers
2 3
Shots
1 3 6
Notches
1 6
TCP
chart
+ bonus = score Targets FMI
Beth M
North Carolina
6 3 3.000 0.200 3.200
Avid Series Reader
New Mexico
9 4 2.666 0.300 2.966 tracker page
Sanacrow
Tennessee
10 2 1.200 0.100 1.300 tracker page Blog
Goodreads librarian Rick Mills
Maine
10 2 1.200
0.100 1.300 tracker page
moved up updated YalondaReads
Germany
5 1 1.200 0 1.200 tracker page
SueC
Utah
5 1 1.200 0 1.200 tracker page Blog
Traci L.
Illinois
5 1 1.200 0 1.200 tracker page
OutsmartYourShelf
The United Kingdom
9 1 0.666 0 0.666
Linda B
Kentucky
10 1 0.600 0 0.600
Vallery
Louisiana
15 0 0 0 0 Goodreads profile
Gunslinger Shots Notches TCP + bonus = score Targets FMI
Karen A
New Mexico
11 0 0 0 0
Tina Hilbert
Ohio
10 0 0 0 0 ? tracker page
Jjean
Texas
7 0 0 0 0
Goodreads librarian Colleen
Illinois
5 0 0 0 0
JenneB
Pennsylvania
4 0 0 0 0 Goodreads profile Storygraph profile Instagram
Scott Nickels
Georgia
4 0 0 0 0
Erika Morris
California
3 0 0 0 0 Goodreads profile Instagram
Shannon
The Netherlands
3 0 0 0 0 Goodreads profile Instagram
batkat
West Virginia
3 0 0 0 0 tracker page
Lynn
Pennsylvania
1 0 0 0 0
Gunslinger Shots Notches TCP + bonus = score Targets FMI
Morgan H
Australia
1 0 0 0 0 tracker page Goodreads profile
Karen Baroness
Texas
0 0 0 0 0 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile Instagram
Jen McFarren
Texas
0 0 0 0 0 Goodreads profile
Gunslinger Shots Notches TCP + bonus = score Targets FMI

    Ambiguous instructions and arbitrary rules are found on the General Information page.

Key to symbols
Notch Sets of six books by one author completed
TCP Target Completion Percentage. This is similar to a baseball batting average. Ratio of notches achieved to the number of shots taken. The formula is (notches/shots)*6. See the chart (PDF). Shots which complete a target will increase your TCP. Shots which do not complete a target will decrease your TCP. A perfect TCP is 1.000 or any multiple.
Shots Number of books read
Bonus Each notch (beyond the first one) directly adds a 0.100 bonus
Score TCP + bonus
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Perfect (1.000 or multiple)
bullet Sharpshooter level (score 1.000+ at some point)
bulletbullet Booksniper level (score 2.000+ at some point)
bulletbulletbullet Ammonuensis level (score 3.000+ at some point)
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