Well that was an AWESOME shoot!
The Rod & Gun Club of New Bedford ran an experimental match tonight - a night shoot. It was run as a USPSA Pistol match, consisting of 4 stages. There was NO classifier stage. The match started exactly at 5pm with the requirement to be done by 7:30pm (out of courtesy to our neighbors), which is why it was kept to a small match. Match attendees were either committee members or folks who are involved in running matches at other clubs. We wanted experienced shooters who also had experience running stages. This is why it was not published before hand - please do not take offence if you were not invited - we needed to keep this small for the first time.
We setup a generator for some minimal lighting around the safe tables, which also provided some ambient light around the walkways behind the pits. Everyone had some sort of personal illumination device (besides the light used during the COF) so they some light to load mags by, paste and reset targets, scoring, etc. These extra lights were NOT allowed during the course of fire.
We allowed two options for illumination during the COF:
1) gun-mounted lights
Example: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/71...picatinny-or-glock-style-rails-aluminum-matte
2) Hand-held lights
Example: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/10...ith-batteries-2-cr123a-lithium-aluminum-black
To address differences in equipment (guns and whether or not you can mount a light to it or not, and holsters that are compatible or not with a gun w/ mounted light), we balanced it out in the following manor:
1) Gun mounted lights allowed and handguns start from a holster that can properly hold the firearm/light combo - no penalty
2) Gun mounted lights allowed, if no compatible holster for gun/light combo, start at the low-ready with light already mounted - 1 penalty per stage that has a 'holster' start.
3) Hand-held lights allowed, light can start in the weak hand, but gun starts from the holster - no penalty
*** The light is always 'OFF' at the start signal***
Not-allowed: In no way did we allow a gun to start from the holster, be drawn, and then attach a gun-mounted light after the draw while on the clock.
The only rule that we deviated from was allowing the attachment of lights to the gun (though that it allowed for Open division, per the rule book), which also impacted the 2 ounce over weight for Production.
We recognized all USPSA divisions, though we only had Open, Limited, Limited 10 and Production. Yes, there were a couple of folks who shoot an open gun with a red-dot. They were very cool to watch in the dark, with the muzzle blast that comes out of a compensator - very cool!
Things ran really well and we were done well before 7:30pm.
Results posted: http://www.rodgun-nb.org/ap/results/RGNB_2011_11_26.txt
Hopefully this will become an annual event.
The Rod & Gun Club of New Bedford ran an experimental match tonight - a night shoot. It was run as a USPSA Pistol match, consisting of 4 stages. There was NO classifier stage. The match started exactly at 5pm with the requirement to be done by 7:30pm (out of courtesy to our neighbors), which is why it was kept to a small match. Match attendees were either committee members or folks who are involved in running matches at other clubs. We wanted experienced shooters who also had experience running stages. This is why it was not published before hand - please do not take offence if you were not invited - we needed to keep this small for the first time.
We setup a generator for some minimal lighting around the safe tables, which also provided some ambient light around the walkways behind the pits. Everyone had some sort of personal illumination device (besides the light used during the COF) so they some light to load mags by, paste and reset targets, scoring, etc. These extra lights were NOT allowed during the course of fire.
We allowed two options for illumination during the COF:
1) gun-mounted lights
Example: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/71...picatinny-or-glock-style-rails-aluminum-matte
2) Hand-held lights
Example: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/10...ith-batteries-2-cr123a-lithium-aluminum-black
To address differences in equipment (guns and whether or not you can mount a light to it or not, and holsters that are compatible or not with a gun w/ mounted light), we balanced it out in the following manor:
1) Gun mounted lights allowed and handguns start from a holster that can properly hold the firearm/light combo - no penalty
2) Gun mounted lights allowed, if no compatible holster for gun/light combo, start at the low-ready with light already mounted - 1 penalty per stage that has a 'holster' start.
3) Hand-held lights allowed, light can start in the weak hand, but gun starts from the holster - no penalty
*** The light is always 'OFF' at the start signal***
Not-allowed: In no way did we allow a gun to start from the holster, be drawn, and then attach a gun-mounted light after the draw while on the clock.
The only rule that we deviated from was allowing the attachment of lights to the gun (though that it allowed for Open division, per the rule book), which also impacted the 2 ounce over weight for Production.
We recognized all USPSA divisions, though we only had Open, Limited, Limited 10 and Production. Yes, there were a couple of folks who shoot an open gun with a red-dot. They were very cool to watch in the dark, with the muzzle blast that comes out of a compensator - very cool!
Things ran really well and we were done well before 7:30pm.
Results posted: http://www.rodgun-nb.org/ap/results/RGNB_2011_11_26.txt
Hopefully this will become an annual event.
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