Thread: Long range shooting course

ive never done paint ball but it sounds like fun if not potentially painful if your not good -R93 my be the wrong guy to paint ball against!

We usually run competition for 50-60 with three people. 7-8 to take on 3-400 shooters.

... Shooting competitions is a big thing in Norway. The nationals attract 5-7000 shooters...

It is not hard to pull off a well organized shoot.

Originally Posted by Norway

We usually run competition for 50-60 with three people. 7-8 to take on 3-400 shooters.

... Shooting competitions is a big thing in Norway. The nationals attract 5-7000 shooters...

It is not hard to pull off a well organized shoot.

Norway with your shoots what format do they take that you can utilize a small amount of range officers ? At an fclass shoot we have 1 range officer for the whole shoot which is on a square range .
One an open country type shoot where competitors are scattered over the hills there is one for each firing point -to brief and keep things safe as shooters "often "make errors as we all can when we forget to perform a safety requirement .
One of the guys I shoot fclass with -no names- he has discharged his pistol in an unsafe direction more than once because he forgot something ,if not everything !!!

its funny Norway as I remember the late Ron Dent from a well know shop here in Auckland complaining how long it takes to shoot Fclass matches here compared to his old club in Sydney - I dont know what it is but were slow! I love the fact your country has such a great shooting tradition and passion !

I was talking with a couple of competitors at the last long range event I ran and they thought the idea of a biathlon type event would be a bit of fun. The competitor moves through the course shooting at each stage and an overall time is recorded for them. You would either have a RO at each stage scoring for people that come through or a RO that accompanies each competitor.

At the last shoot I ran the competitors basically RO’d for themselves i.e. you shot a stage, cleared your gear away and then RO’d for the next competitor. Once you have scored the guy after you, you picked up your gear and moved onto the next stage. Worked well I thought, we ran the whole shoot with just two people, and i competed as well as organised it!

I always thought if you had a NZDA branch (or any group of people) running the shoot they could use the event as a fundraiser. At least then you would have guys there who can run the shoot without worrying about competing as well. I am yet to convince a branch that it would be a good idea though. Shane’s Gunslinger events add credibility to the idea though. If he can get 30+ competitors to an event paying a couple of hundred dollars each, that would be a serious fundraising event for our North Taranaki branch. Better than chopping firewood that for sure!

Your Idea is good Simon but the time thing gives the youngest and fastest an advantage through speed rather than pure shooting ability one thinks ? Kinda like Matt Ryan on the jungle lane -hes a freak for running and shooting and winning

Originally Posted by el borracho

Your Idea is good Simon but the time thing gives the youngest and fastest an advantage through speed rather than pure shooting ability one thinks ? Kinda like Matt Ryan on the jungle lane -hes a freak for running and shooting and winning

yes but skill in quick shots may overcome speed between stations if the coarse isn't too long.....and you can allways get fitter

hahah yeah lethal I am trying mate 16kgs off now and no boozing for 6 months less last weekend which was a real blow out but now back on the wagon !

I would always try to prioritise hits over speed. Even on a long course the weighting of time vs hits can be such that speed is good but not that much of an advantage. Say a course that takes about 1 hour to go through with 20 shots would have say a 3 minute penalty for a missed shot.

There will always be people who have "advantages" over someone else at a competition shoot. He has a bigger gun, he has a better scope, he practices more than me, he spent more money, etc ... Why should "he is fitter than me" be any different an excuse? Not to mention as soon as you are thinking about how he is shooting and not how you are shooting you have already lost! I prefer the shoots i run to reflect hunting conditions and as such they are not a test of simple shooting ability - that is what I use F-Class for.

Obviously there are many ways one can present a shoot Gillie -speed is generally based around a military type shoot one thinks -how does it translate to hunting ? And is pure speed going to be a condition of a potential win or is it to just get the crowd moving at a sensible rate ?

Sometime when you see an animal on the hill you are best to shift to a suitable shooting location. If the animal is moving in and out of sight you will need to move to that location, set up and shoot before it goes out of sight. And if you can do this efficiently under this type of pressure you should find "ambush" type long range shooting from a set location easy!

Originally Posted by Tussock

Forcing people to walk a decent distance between targets is a good match for hunting. That hunting especially. Get into position and your hearts probably trying to bounce out of your chest.

It also influences rifle choice. Big 338 accuracy intrrnationals are built soldiers can abuse hell out of them. Unless you planning on dragging it around by it's barrel and using it to club things, you probably don't need one.

Monstrous cannons become a disadvantage and the smaller, lighter more practical guns come out. Then you need to learn how to shoot!

im 6ft8 and 200kgs of muscle I can handle the AI no probs tussock

Originally Posted by el borracho

im 6ft8 and 200kgs of muscle I can handle the AI no probs tussock

And here we have proof

LOVE IT Cyclist

You added 2 ft to your height....
Wheres that pic I have with the shell cases in your ears as earplugs... makes you look like Shrek