richc
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Come out of an outhouse with your pants down and engage threat targets with a shot gun
Just some ideas
Ummmm.... any women in this competition???
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Come out of an outhouse with your pants down and engage threat targets with a shot gun
Just some ideas
Ummmm.... any women in this competition???
Went to my first action shoot(bowling pins) today. My wife tagged along and by the time we left she wanted to shoot too. So yea she would be in, but no chance for her dropping her pants for part of the stage. Sorry!
So far I've counted 12 folks as stating "in" or "do this".
I believe this could be a sufficient number of participitants to begin with as once the details are hashed out others will join in.
What say you all ?
From the Club's perspective, a dozen is certainly enough. Afterall, this is not really a money-maker so participant count is not crucial for those reasons. Recompense comes with the laughter and the agony. It's just planning/scheduling, insurance/waivers and the like that have to be figured. I've been digging through parts and pices of some old Club trophies, piecing together the 1st Annual Excruciathalon Winner's Award ...or somesuch.
EXCRUCIATION
noun
Definition: severe mental and physical distress/torment/torture
Suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering
I've been watching this thread. Though I am not in the best physical shape of my life, I am interested in it.
In that case... maybe in. Still working on weight training and cardio to get my fat arse in shape. Might be ready to go after winter...I'm really hoping to do this during the peak of mud season, so you have the rest of Road Repair season and Winter to get in shape
In that case... maybe in.
Tough runs/obstacles in between relatively tame action stages. Especially for the "1st annual", keeping everything as simple as possible (ie no breaching, no outhouse stages, etc) will be key.
The club will likely have an opinion on people running with slung or partially slung rifles.slung guns
I'm really hoping to do this during the peak of mud season,
I'd be in, depending on total distance. I'd be in for running in winter, too. I don't mind being cold.
If I can make a suggestion? In biathlon, getting the desired balance between shooting and skiing is difficult. I've seen competitors win by skiing their hearts out, then just blowing the shooting portion and taking the penalties. Put some extra planning into making the shoot potentially consume time, unless you're mostly interested in running.
If there are good-sized pits there, you can do an awful lot of sprinting in 70 yards of pit by zig-zaging a course of fire. I've watched a competition where a stage called for going back and forth all the way down a 300-yard pit (with about 500 yards of actual running), and it wasn't a picnic. Even with that, it's really hard to get more than two minutes or so of shooting out of a regular 50-70 yard pit. Compare that to likely running times .
Alternately, you can make the shooting sufficiently hard and numerous (small targets at 300+ yards or so) that shooting takes some serious time instead of 30-60 seconds.
It's your show, but unless shooting is seriously challenging and eats time, you'll mostly be measuring running speed.
The club will likely have an opinion on people running with slung or partially slung rifles.
Not to be a downer, but muddy trails will make it a big advantage to go first. You can see the time difference between going first and last in an IDPA match, where you're running maybe 30 feet.
I don't think I know who you are behind the screen-name, or if we've met. Do you have someone on board who's setup or run action stages before? Does Monadnock have pits?
Snowshoe Excruciathalon then?
Ya ya ya. [bs1]
We will be interested in this, but we are not running. Would be more interested if done in the colder weather .
What if my shooting score is better than everyone else's?
And I walk fast?
Nicole says she would love an excuse to buy snowshoes.
a) If you get through the shooting part really fast, that'll make up for not running/walking as fast
b) That's better than walking slowly, I suppose.
c) If it means Nicole will be able to justify buying snowshoes, I'll do my damnedest to run one of these in the show
c) If it means Nicole will be able to justify buying snowshoes, I'll do my damnedest to run one of these in the show
what?
i just subscribed to this thread....
but again, what?
who? what? when? where? how? why?