Recommendations for shotgun/pistol mini stages?

[Solscud007]

So someone on my shooting club forums asked if we could do Shotgun/Pistol multigun stages. Quite possibly we could open it up to pistol caliber carbines as well.

I have not tried designing stages but I am interested in learning and trying out some recommended stages.

The biggest issue is the size constraint of our shooting range. It is a local county police shooting bay. 25 yds tops. We dont do high power due to safety. And we have limited shooting angles.

Here is a video of yesterday's shotgun match.

Here is July's USPSA pistol match.

I am thinking of utilizing the depth of the shooting bays to get more targets per stage. Kinda like the Pistol stages in the video above.

The issues I am concerned about are safety and balancing shotgun targets and pistol targets.

As you can see in the video, there are concrete paths that run across the range. So we cant do too much low shooting. I am thinking steel must be engaged 25 feet or more with bird shot, for safety or use some clays staged on stands. Then you dump the shotgun and transition to handgun.

So with those considerations in mind, can anyone recommend some stage designs that could fit our criteria?

thanks

Nick

[Benelli Chick]

You can arrange a few clays, some steel near the back and a few paper (small and large).

You can have them stay near the back and start on one side and shoot all the paper and at least a third of the steel with their pistol while they walk to the other side. Put their pistol in a bucket, muzzle down, get their shotgun out of a barrel (empty chamber) and then walk back shooting the rest of the steel (at least a third with shotgun) and the clays with birdshot.

If you don't have pistol dump buckets, you can start with shotgun and dump that in a barrel and draw empty pistol from holster.

You can put a couple walls, barrels and/or no-shoots to make sure they have to move a bit with each gun.

Just and easy way to add some thinking and give them some options.

If you don't have any buckets, you can use tables as long as you don't go forward!

Just an idea!

Denise

[StealthyBlagga]

Designate steel as "shotgun only" and paper as "pistol only". Set up targets so the shooter has to move around the bay to engage the shotgun steels first, then dump the shotgun muzzle down in a barrel (stake it to the ground), then draw pistol and move back through the same shooting area to engage pistol papers. Lots of shooting using the full width of the bay, easy for everyone to understand, no safety issues if folks shoot the wrong targets.

If you want extra shooting, you can run the exact same stage again, but this time using shotgun slugs on the paper only, and then taking out the steel with pistol. You could even start with pistol then switch to shotgun (less chance of someone shooting steel with a slug). Lots of permutations are possible without having the rebuild the stage.

There is no safety reason that the pistol needs to be unloaded at the start as long as nobody is going prone.

One important recommendation on setup: make sure the splatter from the steel won't chew up the paper. The best solution is to locate the steel slightly behind the plane of the paper.

Edited August 28, 2012 by StealthyBlagga

[Solscud007]

Thanks!

[HOA]

Take a look at the stages for our Labor Day Multigun match. They are on 25 or 50 yard bays.

http://www.actionpistol.org/

[Solscud007]

Take a look at the stages for our Labor Day Multigun match. They are on 25 or 50 yard bays.

http://www.actionpistol.org/

Those look like fun. But sadly our shooting bays do not allow for 180 degree shooting. We can only shoot at the back stop infront of us. The concrete walls are for safety but not for repeated use.

[ClutchUSMC]

I have 2 bays that are similar that I use for 3 gun. Luckily we have other places with better berms and more freedom, but I have 30+ stages designed for pistol and shotgun in them. Shoot me an email and I can send them to you to look at, modify, use, whatever.

wtmccutcheon@gmail.com