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WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN...?
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Co.....Col....Wut??...Colle....Collective..............Hey! Look, a squirrel!!!!! ericm
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...because prime rail estate is always desirable and is guaranteed to appreciate. ericm
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United Multi-Gun League?
ericm replied to timawa's topic in Multi-gun Rules / Stage Design / Match Administration
90 shooters / 5 stages = 18 shooters per squad 5 stages in 4 hours = 48 minutes per stage 48 minutes per stage / 18 shooters = 2 minutes 40 seconds per shooter NONSTOP for 4 hours. It took me longer than 2:40 to type this.... Hyperbole will not sell this UML that you speak of... mi dos centavos ericm -
I believe your statement actually supports the 1 on / 1 off argument more than it supports the half day argument. You attribute Ft. Benning's success to " lots of voluntolds helping reset...". If Ft. Benning DID NOT have the help resetting that you mention, how much time would it take an 11 man squad to shoot a stage with everyone on the squad working? I'm guessing just over an hour. Do you want to shoot your 4 stages per day back to back with no break and no time to reconfigure gear, get ammo or a drink from the car??? (and I mean, the MOMENT your squad is done with a stage, the next stage is calling everyone for the stage briefing & walkthrough while they finish shooting the last couple of shooters from the previous squad - TIME IS TIGHT! GO GO GO!) Or, do you want to shoot your 4 stages using 1 on / 1 off and still be finished around the 2:30 - 3:30 mark, and have time between stages to reconfigure, etc. I know what I would choose. ericm
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Let's try attaching this .pdf. This is an example of scheduling an 8 stage two day three gun match, one on / one off format. Note how the match is finished at 1:30 PM on Sunday. 1/2 of the match has an "early" start of 7:00 AM on one day and a "late" start of 8:00 AM on one day. MD's: this is easy to do in excel or other spreadsheet and you can play around with scheduling all you want. ericm 8 STAGE FD FORMAT.pdf
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Another "hybrid" option: Let those who absolutely cannot or do not wish to attend the full match shoot the entire match on say Wednesday and Thursday (or just Thursday if the match allows) with the RO's and then have what I consider and have considered historically the main match be a regular full day one on - one off format for Friday - Sunday (probably ending around 1 PM Sunday). I believe SMM3G has used this type of scheduling to allow for a huge match, giving vendors and sponsors and others the chance to shoot the match at the same time as the RO's when the main match is full. My attempt at a "reductio ad absurdum" argument bringing up the postal match format was apparently embraced by at least one person. ....keep it going.... ericm
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I suppose if you actually wanted minimal time spent at 3 gun matches, eliminating most travel and expenses, and giving all shooters as much "down time" as possible, you could organize and administer what they used to call postal matches. Match director would send out detailed drawings of the stages, you would replicate those stages at your local club, shoot them for score, send those scores to the match director who would tally the results and declare the winners. I wonder how many sponsors would be in on something like this??? After all, we live in a digital world now.... ericm
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Nope. You've got the full day squads still shooting stages back to back with no break except at lunch and then back to back after lunch. AND...It would be a one day match for the full day shooters, that disconnect factor again....Saturday's full day folks would still have to come back Sunday evening for awards and prize table. And again, talking about 3 gun here, 3 times the gear, reconfigure between stages, to have any rest and refit at all would again require you to walk away from your squad. As the British Sailors used to say: " one hand for the ship, one hand for you." ericm