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Anything long range when it is evident that everyone who had any input into stage design shoots with a magnified optic.
It's not much fun guessing where the gray target is in front of a graveled berm.
Otherwise.... offhand shots after a lot of running are always tough.
We use 8in Flash targets put to 350 in Indiana Multigun.
One of the clubs is a pistol club with a max distance on one of the bays of 40-50(I usually push it with stage design to get as much distance as possible). For that club I use the Newbold targets, 2in self healing rubber targets.
So the second part of this question, do the competitors know the distance/size prior to shooting the stage? If so, is it because they are directly told this information during walkthrough or in stage designs, or because they discuss it among themselves and agree on what they believe is the distance, or something else?
At the short range club it's left up to the competitor to figure it out, at the club that has out to 350, it's a CMP high power range that has every 50yds marked so it's just said in stage brief.
Shooters almost always know both the distance and size of targets. Most matches use fairly standardized steel targets: MGM swingers, Larues, R and Rs etc. so we know the size. Some matches straight up tell the shooters the distances. At others we simply laze the targets and then tell the other shooters. I will usually try to get the distances early on, pre-walkthough at major matches.Quote:
Originally Posted by rob_s
Locally in Phoenix, the shooters know all the distances at the ranges (Rio Salado and Phoenix Rod and Gun Club) so you can put a target anywhere on either range (which are also used for highpower and/or silhouette) and I can tell you what the distance is within 25 yards.