Local matches are the first step in the USPSA shooting experience. New competitors arrive knowing only what they may have seen online or what a friend has told them. They bring whatever firearm they might have and enter the match with some trepidation, hoping to learn as they go. Wonderful! But what about the match staff? How do they prepare or deal with these new competitors?
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No-shoot vs. hard cover in stage design
Over the years I have designed over a hundred courses of fire shot at all levels of our sport. Many people have made a comment that I seem to use a lot of hard cover targets rather than no-shoots. A good friend of mine Ray Hirst once told me, “A hard cover target is the waste of a perfectly good no-shoot.”
[Read more…] about No-shoot vs. hard cover in stage designNROI Tips – Significant Advantage
Want to learn more about what constitutes significant advantage when using props for support and foot faults? Check out this NROI Tips video:
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Outer Limits is the only SCSA stage with movement on the clock and plate engagement requirements from each box. But what happens if the competitor doesn’t follow the stage procedure? In this Question of the Month we asked: In a SCSA match on the Outer Limits stage, a competitor shoots all plates from the left side shooting box during one string. How many penalties did the competitor earn?
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