sbo76 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 At Tuesday night Steel (Rio Salado az) they had a swinging plate rack? (4 plates up 4 down) Has anyone seen one of these before? I was fortunate enough to make my hits, but i saw a lot of people who had a hard time. (they put a texas star on the next stage hidden by 2 barrels so you could only shoot at one side just to make it fun) I asked a few seasoned shoots about the rack. No one had ever seen one before? I talked with a GM on an approach to shoot it. He told me to start from the downward canted side (in our case left to right) and take the bottom targets from the right to left. It seemed to work, but the rack went vertical on me, so I went from left to right to vertical top to bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neomet Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Darn, I knew I should have gone out last night! Its called a Polish plate rack. There is some vid of one around here someplace. They are promising one out at HDC in New Mexico this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMor Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Darn, I knew I should have gone out last night! Its called a Polish plate rack. There is some vid of one around here someplace. They are promising one out at HDC in New Mexico this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sargenv Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 The Golden Bullet is going to have one of these evil beasties... and there may be a twist to it.. (insert evil laugh here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjb45 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Shot one a few times. Once you learn the trick it is pretty straight forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbo76 Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Shot one a few times. Once you learn the trick it is pretty straight forward. I don't know if I just got lucky, but shooting the away from the cant seemed to work. Once the end weight falls off that bad Billy is going vertical, so just be ready to go from L/R to Top/Bottom. This was a cool stage though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THM7 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 (edited) The trick was to make all your hits fast. Edited March 12, 2010 by THM7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbo76 Posted March 13, 2010 Author Share Posted March 13, 2010 The trick was to make all your hits fast. I think this is the trick for every stage...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixinch Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 Just don't Miss!............sixinch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Egan Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 Just don't Miss!............sixinch Easy enough for you to say.... You've had several more years of shooting at it than anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuck in C Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 I shot the one at Area 1 last year slow but sure: kept it balanced by alternating left/right from the inside out. The end plates went last. Spun like a propeller when I was finished but didn't move at all while I was shooting. I even had a miss in there. Much easier than a Texas Star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN13 Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 That looks interesting indeed. I kinda like steel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokshwn Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 (edited) Shot one a few times. Once you learn the trick it is pretty straight forward. Bingo! The PPR is much more about psyching you out than it is about being too difficult. Unless of course you use one of the funky looking guns with a cylinder Edited March 15, 2010 by smokshwn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjb45 Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 You do not have to shoot it fast. Shoot inside then outside, top or bottom. The key is to keep it balanced as much as possible. I think I heard there is a YouTube on it. I have seen C class shooters clear with very little movement and M class swing it. Again, Learn the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixinch Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) Shot one a few times. Once you learn the trick it is pretty straight forward. Bingo! The PPR is much more about psyching you out than it is about being too difficult. Unless of course you use one of the funky looking guns with a cylinder Careful there Buckwheat! It's harder to miss with a wheelgun.... Edited March 16, 2010 by sixinch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Miles Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Darn, I knew I should have gone out last night! Its called a Polish plate rack. There is some vid of one around here someplace. They are promising one out at HDC in New Mexico this year. Yup, everybody will get to shoot a PPR at this years High Desert Classic. Fun times await! CYa, Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B_Ayers Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 (edited) I am trying to get our local club to build in....think it would be very intersting to shoot.... Edited March 20, 2010 by B_Ayers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny4523 Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Who makes this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B_Ayers Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 I have had one of these things built by www.ar15targets.com. I am picking it up this sat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve J Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Who makes this? North Salt Lake Welding. There are two threads now on the forum. Perhaps the Mod will see fit to merge them. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96279 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrankyCrash Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Who makes this? North Salt Lake Welding. There are two threads now on the forum. Perhaps the Mod will see fit to merge them. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96279 We need one of these .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el pres Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 (edited) Ya the PPR is just a phsych out. The trick is to shoot it real fast and dont miss or it will get away from you !! The real devil target is North Salt Lake's Winger, see at bottom of first page. Farley has some evil target ideas, it's essentially a swinger on a swinger that does anything it wants .. your trying to shoot one of those rear window bobble heads.. Who the hell is sixinch ?? Edited June 3, 2010 by P.Pres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokshwn Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Who the hell is sixinch ?? Maybe its Farley....times 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve J Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Does anyone know how the plates mount on Farley's PPR? Is it a paddle base and single spring like on MGM's "whirly gig" or double tits and spring loaded lever like the Texas Star? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha Robert Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I have seen them twice at big matches now. I was very lucky and cleared it acceptably fast so I am not whining about myself but I HATE those kind of props. I saw even excellent shooters have a bad time with them because the sometimes very rapid swing is unpredictable. There is a sliding weight in back that makes it even screwier. And it depends on where on the plate your bullet hits. And there were quite a few range failures due to that prop that really backed up the squads. And it does not behave the same with all PF either. I saw excellent center hits on plates from those shooting minor and the plate might or might not come off or worse goes partially askew. And how in the heck do you calibrate them? Or add some wind and you are also screwed. I think it is a very bad prop because 1) It violates the prinicipal of USPSA that the course should present the same challenge for every shooter. If a prop is unpredicatable, is it the same challenge for every shooter? 2) You can have a great match and get totally reamed by a bad behavior (thru no predictable fault of your own) by one prop. 3) There are plenty of other ways to test accuracy or moving targets. Now I see folks are putting hard cover in front of part of rotation making it even worse. To me it's just one of those "gotcha" props that dont belong in USPSA. Actually I'm surprised they are even considered legal as rules (4.3.4) says metal targets must be as described in Appendix B5 and those in B5 are nothing like the attachments on Texas Stars or Polish Plate racks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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