Design a perfect field target facility
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What's the info for Sherwood? Only thing I found was it mentioned on the NE Ohio club site. Do they have public FT events? I am occasionally in the area.
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Physically you cannot tell from looking at a lane if it is one shot per target or two, if it is to be shot Hunter or Open, or, WFTF. Only the DIVISION you signed up for delineated on the score card tells you.
You can set up a 60 target course and shoot a lane any way you signed up for. These are divisional differences not lane or target differences.
Every FT course in the USA today can be designated a 1 shot per target course or a 2 shot per target course OR BOTH!
It's just ink on a piece of paper that determines which it is!
There is no reason a non national or world's event should ever be set up for one shot per target only.
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Because it doubles the challenge put upon the shooter. Unlike 2 shot per target, doing 1 shot if you miss and spot where hit there is no follow up shot to gain a point from a lesson learned ( On That Target )
While i will agree 1 shot is not for beginners or those with lets say thin skin & easily frustrated.
Having shot in Hunter class on a 54 total shot 1 shot per format more than once, the challenge is real enough no doubt, but also a whole lot of fun
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SHERWOOD GP | Home
...if you click on REGISTRATION it will take you to the registration page. We have a Facebook group named SHERWOOD Airgunners of Steubenville Ohio where we post all our match info. We have 6 FT events and 4 bench rest events every year. We are a self supported Airgun/archery club with 50 acres of land and a club house.
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@cavedweller,
Purchase the land that looks good to you.
Choose lanes that are fun and challenging for you.
Set each lane up as a tee box and green. The greens should be 5 yards in length the tee boxes the same. Monday you move target positions, Tuesday through Sunday you move lane markers. Allowing 2 yards for the shooter that would give you 8 yards of variable distance and terrain per target.
Add potted plants, rock formations etc. as you like.
Set up this course as you want it and enjoy it and soon everyone who is anyone in FT will want to shoot the "Rudy 6 Day Invitational." ~ invite only people you enjoy shooting with, after all it is YOUR course ~
Purchase the land that looks good to you.
Choose lanes that are fun and challenging for you.
Set each lane up as a tee box and green. The greens should be 5 yards in length the tee boxes the same. Monday you move target positions, Tuesday through Sunday you move lane markers. Allowing 2 yards for the shooter that would give you 8 yards of variable distance and terrain per target.
Add potted plants, rock formations etc. as you like.
Set up this course as you want it and enjoy it and soon everyone who is anyone in FT will want to shoot the "Rudy 6 Day Invitational." ~ invite only people you enjoy shooting with, after all it is YOUR course ~
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If you want to shoot 1 shot per target then sign-up for 1 shot per target. If someone else wants two shots per target, then let them sign-up for 2 shots per target. They are different divisions so scores are not compared.Because it doubles the challenge put upon the shooter. Unlike 2 shot per target, doing 1 shot if you miss and spot where hit there is no follow up shot to gain a point from a lesson learned ( On That Target )
While i will agree 1 shot is not for beginners or those with lets say thin skin & easily frustrated.
Having shot in Hunter class on a 54 total shot 1 shot per format more than once, the challenge is real enough no doubt, but also a whole lot of fun
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Not that easy .... The pace & allotted time differ greatly for 2 or 1 shot formats. As does the number of target required ( Unless 1 shot runs the same course a second time ) Which is the SAME as just taking two shot while you there ... No ?
If shooting one shot everyone needs to do the same as well visa versa .... Mixing shooters or squads doing different formats on the same course at the same time Does NOT work.
Now if one wants a cluster f of chaos .. go for it and you'll learn soon enough.
Thats it ... just one's opinion
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60 targets, 30 lanes, 20 shooters, total cluster.Not that easy .... The pace & allotted time differ greatly for 2 or 1 shot formats. As does the number of target required ( Unless 1 shot runs the same course a second time ) Which is the SAME as just taking two shot while you there ... No ?
If shooting one shot everyone needs to do the same as well visa versa .... Mixing shooters or squads doing different formats on the same course at the same time Does NOT work.
Now if one wants a cluster f of chaos .. go for it and you'll learn soon enough.
Thats it ... just one's opinion
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Can you expand on this? Please include personal experience not only as a shooter, but also match director and course setter.
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Before my heart failure, I helped set the course at PSA. On match day I shot Hunter Class. @shootermeb designs a 3 loop course with 5 lanes per loop, two targets per lane. That is 30 targets total and we have enough additional lanes and targets to set up 20 more targets.
If you can squad Hunter, Open, and WFTF shooters together you can squad a single shot shooter with them. The single shot shooters shoot first. When the 3 two shot loops are completed the single shot shooters continue on to the 2 single shot loops. Those shooting 2 shots per target that want to improve their skills can shoot the single shot loops for free and their single shot scores don't count.
If you can physically set up 50 targets within AAFTA Gran Prix specified ranges you should/could also have enough lanes for pistol shooters.
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Alabama> Are you shooting at the Invecta Club?
Brad Troyer is a master at setting up courses! Along with David Slade and a few others simple the best course period.
Shot at his old TVA shoots, We ran both a "hunter" course , complete with large with grape vines blowing back & forth past a log you had to shoot over ..... and a more standard FT course.
Invecta , HIGH angle shots, DOWN the hill across the creek (interesting winds sometimes) at the bottom of the valley and just so much more.
The GOB couse at Roz's "Play Ground of Champions"was THE best, 3 different course set up for the last World's (again Brad, David, Roz designing and lot's helping clearing .... ). On any of the courses one could hold a 60 shot match on 10 lanes , 12 lanes or 60 lanes. Along with an excellent sight in range which one could shoot 3 different direction to get a handle on the wind. The ability to shoot fully tee lined, partial tree sheltered then full wind and perhaps back into a no wind zone before target. Over moving creeks which always make there own drafts .......
The (TN) Widder Stephens Club -'Govols" was flat yet fun and THE Windiest club in history! Sometime blowing closed Pelican cases out onto the range but FUN.
Naturally all the above were slightly changed most every shoot even subtle thing like moving a target just a few yards at some critical distance and so many other little interesting tricks.
If you are not already shooting there GO! So many of the best FT minds in the nation to glen from.
John
Brad Troyer is a master at setting up courses! Along with David Slade and a few others simple the best course period.
Shot at his old TVA shoots, We ran both a "hunter" course , complete with large with grape vines blowing back & forth past a log you had to shoot over ..... and a more standard FT course.
Invecta , HIGH angle shots, DOWN the hill across the creek (interesting winds sometimes) at the bottom of the valley and just so much more.
The GOB couse at Roz's "Play Ground of Champions"was THE best, 3 different course set up for the last World's (again Brad, David, Roz designing and lot's helping clearing .... ). On any of the courses one could hold a 60 shot match on 10 lanes , 12 lanes or 60 lanes. Along with an excellent sight in range which one could shoot 3 different direction to get a handle on the wind. The ability to shoot fully tee lined, partial tree sheltered then full wind and perhaps back into a no wind zone before target. Over moving creeks which always make there own drafts .......
The (TN) Widder Stephens Club -'Govols" was flat yet fun and THE Windiest club in history! Sometime blowing closed Pelican cases out onto the range but FUN.
Naturally all the above were slightly changed most every shoot even subtle thing like moving a target just a few yards at some critical distance and so many other little interesting tricks.
If you are not already shooting there GO! So many of the best FT minds in the nation to glen from.
John
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