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<blockquote data-quote="B Gordon" data-source="post: 2223391" data-attributes="member: 29719"><p>An extremely naive and flatly incorrect response.</p><p>I put on local tactical matches for two years at Red Castle and know for a fact that it takes a huge amount of work and money and time to set up and run even a small 20 person tactical rifle match. Even with the availability of a well maintained range facility, there are props & targets & course of fire to set up and test out. Unless you want to shoot exclusively at paper, there are steel targets to be located along with frames to be built that can withstand hundreds of hits from high power rounds without breaking.</p><p>The list goes on and on and on.</p><p>You have to come up with a course of fire that is interesting, challenging, and safe with appropriate safety zones for richochets. The course of fire for well trained experienced marksmen must be different than for a new person just getting in to the game unless you want the new guy to try it once and then give it up.</p><p>Test shoot the stages and decide on equitable scoring to ensure that equal difficulty accounts for an equal score.</p><p>You can't have the match participants setting up the course of fire and working out all the details because that advance knowledge gives a real big advantage.</p><p>Setting up a rifle match in open country pasture land is 10x more difficult than setting up a pistol or shotgun match.</p><p>Last year I helped set them up out in western OK as well as being range officer for some of the stages at the Heat Stroke Open so I have experience with both types of tactical rifle match formats.</p><p>Last but not least, as the Range Officer in charge of the match you are the ultimate safety officer and have to be hyper aware of what all the various participants are doing with their rifle. Unloaded, magazine out, bolt to the rear, pointed in a safe direction, no rounds "accidentally" discharged amongst the other shooters or over the hill where it could travel for miles and hit livestock or a person on the adjoining farm. Same concerns you have with a pistol match but magnified 10x due to the greater range and lethality contained within the rifle bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="B Gordon, post: 2223391, member: 29719"] An extremely naive and flatly incorrect response. I put on local tactical matches for two years at Red Castle and know for a fact that it takes a huge amount of work and money and time to set up and run even a small 20 person tactical rifle match. Even with the availability of a well maintained range facility, there are props & targets & course of fire to set up and test out. Unless you want to shoot exclusively at paper, there are steel targets to be located along with frames to be built that can withstand hundreds of hits from high power rounds without breaking. The list goes on and on and on. You have to come up with a course of fire that is interesting, challenging, and safe with appropriate safety zones for richochets. The course of fire for well trained experienced marksmen must be different than for a new person just getting in to the game unless you want the new guy to try it once and then give it up. Test shoot the stages and decide on equitable scoring to ensure that equal difficulty accounts for an equal score. You can't have the match participants setting up the course of fire and working out all the details because that advance knowledge gives a real big advantage. Setting up a rifle match in open country pasture land is 10x more difficult than setting up a pistol or shotgun match. Last year I helped set them up out in western OK as well as being range officer for some of the stages at the Heat Stroke Open so I have experience with both types of tactical rifle match formats. Last but not least, as the Range Officer in charge of the match you are the ultimate safety officer and have to be hyper aware of what all the various participants are doing with their rifle. Unloaded, magazine out, bolt to the rear, pointed in a safe direction, no rounds "accidentally" discharged amongst the other shooters or over the hill where it could travel for miles and hit livestock or a person on the adjoining farm. Same concerns you have with a pistol match but magnified 10x due to the greater range and lethality contained within the rifle bullet. [/QUOTE]
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