Whats your range called? Website? Where can people sign up?It’s simply because my match difficulty or ease doesn’t hinge on how close or far away people shoot a KYL while prone. Why is that hard to understand?
You made an incorrect assumption that since I don’t do that, then my matches are meatball matches.
My invitation to come shoot still stands if you ever wander down in this direction.
It’s simply because my match difficulty or ease doesn’t hinge on how close or far away people shoot a KYL while prone. Why is that hard to understand?
You made an incorrect assumption that since I don’t do that, then my matches are meatball matches.
My invitation to come shoot still stands if you ever wander down in this direction.
Again, all this started because someone above talked about shooting 1/4” at 50-100 yards. I took exception to that and ever since, you’ve been worrying that point to death. If that’s all you care about and you find that all your matches have that stage, maybe you should change things up a bit and shoot some different matches.
Not exactly, shoot one two weeks ago. Outlaw match at Altus. Last year, center hit the first rack, easy for the second right, I’m surprized the round landed on the planet Earth. Points “0” Shot it two weeks ago, got a score and quit.
II agree. Pushing the envelope. Apparently from the opinions being expressed here, it needs to be pushed.Keyword “outlaw”.
I’ve just accepted that I will only be just average when shooting PRS. I don’t practice enough to get any better or faster. I actually just sold my MPA chassis because it wasn’t making me any better and due to the weight it sure wasn’t making me any faster. I went back to my original stock which is lighter. It’s just easier to move with on those stages that require moving. And then there are just some stages that I’m just not good at, that I def need more reps with. Again, I don’t practice enough. Our club actually offers practice days before matches which I would def benefit from, but spending 3-4 hours on Saturday before the 3-4 hour match on Sunday just doesn’t bode well. Matches are already too long, with too much time between shooting. Can’t get into any groove. If only they had someone shooting each stage could they speed things up. But they don’t.
I’ve got a group mostly drawn from a rural church congregation that shoots on one of the farmers’ land. The kids and their parents are constantly asking when the next shoot is. A lot more rewarding that most far away match weekends.
I’ve been thinking about starting something similar up here. The local range just started hosting NRL22 so I might go poach some people there one of these days.
The biggest challenge is convincing folks to pay $400+ for an FFP optic. Lots of hunters in my crowd who have hunting opportunities out to 600+ regularly; but they need to be “born again” as precision shooters for full buy in. Watching my 12 yr old banging steel at 300 with a Savage 22 using my verbal holdovers helps.
I have a 15 year old daughter to help with that. She’s pretty good with the Ruger precision rimfire on a 2” steel at 200 yards. Planning on pushing her out to 300 soon. Got her milling targets now too.
This exactly. Timing out sucks and takes a way from being able to shoot all your ammo. As for mentioning golf, shooters need to have handicaps. And this handicap is to allow for more time to shoot stages, so there are less time outs. 90 seconds for some of the more difficult stages when moving and only getting off 3-4 shots is awful.
I time out on a lot of stages, getting up and down just does not work like it used to 30 years ago. but there are ways to help. My biggest time saver is the Grayops mini plate, shemedicum bag and bra. My gamechanger is the most stable bag I hae ever shot off of. However, picking up myself, picking up the rifle and then stabilizing it and then picking up the gamechanger takes time. then getting to the next shooting area, the gamechanger has to be placed and basically flattened to properly support the rifle. With the mini plate and the Shemedium bag, most of this is eliminated. Get up, get the rifle, move to the next area, plop the rifle down aimed in the general direction fo the target and get to shooting.
Agreed. It would help if my bag was affixed to my plate so it all moves as one. But like you, some of the getting up and down sucks. Mostly because I don’t practice to know what movements work best for me.
Yea I get that. And it’s become more natural to do so as you shoot more. But at first it was just natural to move after that shot, get set then open and close the bolt.
No, I was saying as I’ve shot more matches, opening the bolt has become more natural before moving. But that wasn’t what felt natural to begin with. It’s like anything, repetition is required. Can’t think any newbie felt natural in opening the bolt before movement. It’s a learned repetition.
My one advantage in this world. Being retired and having the time available, I can practice fire and movement. I’m not without errors. But practice helps. I take videos and actually showed one to my med professional last year. Being somewhat embarrassed, I pronounced that I looked like a seventy-five year old man. To which he replied…YOU ARE A SEVENTY-FIVE YEAR OLD MAN! Everyone but me, got a good chuckle out of it. I’ve since gained an actual year and I refuse to be Old.
).This has become a big problem for me. My knees just keep getting worse and I can get down in the positions somewhat ok, but getting up from them takes a whole lot of time and effort now.
This is the most out of touch boomer answer I’ve ever read. “Look at me, I’m so smart” hahahaha
I would either time out or rush through a stage and end with 30 seconds on the clock. The two best investments I made were the MDT crush it timer and send it level. I setup the timer to give me alerts at certain time points and it really helped tell me to speed up or slow down. I saw 20% increase in hits utilizing both items.
Myself, as a first season shooter who is in the open class, It would be nice to have a bracket that i actually feel like i could win. Trophies always go to the top 3, top senior, lady, junior, etc....but most matches don't do anything for the real armatures who are the 80% that feed the sport. Why would an amateur like myself ever go and play in a golf tournament with 10-20 pros? I know i have no chance to win. I feel like the sport should include Amateurs and first year un-classed shooters just like they do others groups.
Using your golf tournament analogy, I’ll ask you, how do you think that those who get to be pros get where they are? By shooting against those that they know they can beat or by playing with the best? Therefore they learn from and get to know the best. If they want to.
haha! That is funny, and coincidental.
