CM 99-23

[Sarge]

For our local match today I was tasked by the MD with setting up the above mentioned classifier.

The set up notes at the bottom of the WSB say that T1 and T3 (the outer two targets on either side of the center target)will be angled towards shooting box. I angled them towards the box's outer front corners.

As is usual a more experienced local Super Squad member took acception to the set up and brought it up to the MD, Stating the targets should be lined up straight across and not angled. Once he was shown the fine print at the bottom of the page he then made a valid point. He asked, "who is to say what angle is correct"? and wondered how it is ever supposed to be set up exactly the same each time. These are good questions and I am posing them to you all here. One of his squadmates stated how many times he had shot this classifier(don't remember the exact quote but it was alot) and it has never been set up the way I did it.

So here are my questions

How do we make sure the targets are at the correct angles?

What are those angles?

Why did it take a noob wanna be CRO to actually read the set up instructions?

[The_Vigilante]

The degree of angle isn't mentioned in the set-up instructions. However, why anybody would quibble over the angle you used beats me. On a stage like this is it really going to make any difference?

[BayouSlide]

Why did it take a noob wanna be CRO to actually read the set up instructions?

Kevin, it seems everybody always "knows" the rules, until somebody actually reads the rules/instructions and points out they are mistaken. At that point, confronted with the words in black and white, they will still find a way to quibble. As Daniel Patrick Monihan once said: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."

More seriously, it seems as you've discovered that the instructions are not sufficiently detailed to ensure the stage will be set up exactly the same from club to club.

Curtis

[aztecdriver]

We have necessary info. Target is 45cm full width, so 22.5 cm or 8.86 inches to the center of the target + 7.5 ft is 8.24 ft. Center of the box is 23 ft. With some high school math that I used a web calculator to fill out with these two sides of a right triangle we get 19.7 degrees. Get out the protractor!

Seriously the setup guide says angle toward the shooting box. A relative angle to the box should suffice.

[Sarge]

One would think.

Thanks all.

[Skydiver]

Is that angled towards the front of the box, the center of the box, or the rear of the box. That would be a few minutes of a degree difference.

[Nik Habicht]

The first time I set that up correctly, I got the same question from a GM and a couple of masters.....

I didn't find the angle hard to set -- I set the outside targets so that they appear much like the center target, while standing centered in the box......

[Sarge]

Thanks Nik. That is essentially what I did. I pivoted to each target and they all looked the same. ie dead, head on from the center of the box.