Ken_Bird Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Good Day ! I am a match director at our club, and have been thinking for several weeks about starting a Steel Challenge for the 22 Lr Pistol, and Revolver. We have quite a number of shooter who shoot 22 for both practice and just fun. Its cheaper to shoot and we have had a class in our regular matches for those to shoot 22. We set it up with a 2 groups, Stock , and Open. We get anywhere from 9 to 20 shooters show up and many have ask about a separate match for just the 22 shooters. Has anyone on here set a match up like this already? If you have would you share the how and why of what you did. Any help would be appreciated. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Ruger rimfire steel challenge type match? Started one at our club got it down to limited and unlimited. Did away with all the special classes (cowboy /cowgirl ). A blend of USPSA and SC but all steel and no running around. A old fat guy friendly match. Works well with new shooters also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimitz Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Just run a Steel Challenge match with only rimfire iron sight and rimfire optic divisions. Use the 8 normal SC stages and you're god to go. It just won't be a US SC sanctioned match .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimitz Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 You could also allow 22 carbine rifles which we do as well in our monthly SC matches ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkCO Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Ruger Rimfire allows for greater variety in stage design. The same 8 stages of SC can get real boring. If you have any questions on RRC, drop me a note. I know some peoples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukduk Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 The RO REALLY has to hover near the 22 shooters. Not sure what timers the ENGC uses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 ced 7000 will pick up 22 rifle 6 feet away on 7 on 9 it will pick up behind the shooter 8 to10 foot away. at least the two that I have will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EkuJustice Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Just adjust the sensativity up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Ruger Rimfire allows for greater variety in stage design. The same 8 stages of SC can get real boring. If you have any questions on RRC, drop me a note. I know some peoples. What??!!? There is no requirement to run the basic 8 stages when running a Steel Challenge match. Our local club has a thick 3-ring binder full of stages for Steel Challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 At the local level, with Steel Challenge, you are free to run most any specialized division that you and your shooters like. At our local, we tend to run Open and Limited...and J-frame...and Rimfire Open and Limited, as well as Rimfire Rifle. Oh, and sometimes Pistol Caliber Carbine. We also break out Revo and Revo Open, but those can fit into regular Open and Limited, as capacity isn't as much of an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkCO Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 There is a recommendation for local matches, required for State and above. 5 plates is also a requirement. No such restriction in Ruger Rimfire. The people who prefer one versus the other just have different takes on it. Both are fine, just tossing out an alternative Kyle, since all trigger time is good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Bird Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Thanks Mark, we are looking for this match to be mostly a fun match, nothing so serious. Many wanted to use it for trigger time, some just because its cheaper, while others at our club only have a 22. We are just looking at making it close to the big boys matches, and add some challenge to the match. Every one who has made suggestions are great. Keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motosapiens Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Ruger Rimfire allows for greater variety in stage design. The same 8 stages of SC can get real boring. If you have any questions on RRC, drop me a note. I know some peoples. What??!!? There is no requirement to run the basic 8 stages when running a Steel Challenge match. Our local club has a thick 3-ring binder full of stages for Steel Challenge. I think it would be fun to run different stages occasionally, but I also enjoy shooting the same stages because I can track my improvement. Our club does a monday night steel shoot (4 stages) from april through september that draws 35-50 shooter. We get juniors and rimfire specialists showing up, and we also get our regular uspsa/idpa crowd. Some of them shoot their normal centerfire guns, and some of them shoot .22. I kinda like .22 because starting from low-ready it allows to focus *only* on the sights and transitions and trigger press, and not get caught up in draws and recoil stuff. I think it is good training for any kind of action shooting. We have limited and open divisions for 22 and centerfire pistol, and also an open .22 rifle division. We have a week A set and a week B set that we alternate between. Occasionally we'll throw in a 5th stage that is a little different and score it separately so we can still track the total times for each week's set of stages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thermobollocks Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 If you do a steel challenge type match, you need only handle pistol ammo -- no need to splurge on rifle steel (yet...) Do you have steel targets available at your club already, or would you have to make a purchase? Steel challenge recognizes basically every division -- centerfire irons, centerfire open, rimfire open, irons, probably a rimfire revo, too. You can even run shotgun if you've got plenty of spray paint. One of my favorite matches is 4 steel stages (5-6 plates each), self-squadding from 1530 to a half hour before sundown, largely because it's very much a "come as you are" affair. ced 7000 will pick up 22 rifle 6 feet away on 7 on 9 it will pick up behind the shooter 8 to10 foot away. at least the two that I have will. The one I have won't. You really have to be up in the .22 rifle guys' ejection ports, same for many of the club CED 8000s I've used, including with the sensitivity jacked up. The best solution I've heard of is to use the Airsoft ones, which can't be used for centerfire evidently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviesterno Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Ken, sign Tracy and I to help set up and shoot these, depending on what you get all figured out. I would suggest a bunch of static steel so there are no resets between runs. I bet we already have all the required equipment. Don't limit it to 22s, let anything allowed at the club play so we can practice transitions with our 22 carbines and stuff. Set up the divisions simply: Open/Open Rimfire--anything goes limited/Limited rimfire--- Anything minus a dot or comp Revo/Revo open if needed Carbine Open-- any optics Carbine limited the steel challenge stages are fun to shoot, quick to score, found online, would help draws and transitions, and would be practice for when we go to "real" SC events or the ruger rimfire championship next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikerburgess Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Our local club runs a steel chalenge type match monthly and we have divisions for 22 open, 22 limited, 22 carbine open, 22 carbine limited, center fire open, center fire limited and pistol caliber carbine. at the one large match we run every year we will make a division for pretty much anything that gets 6 entrys like revolver ect. the entrys are normaly about 60-80% 22 of on sort or another and those that start with a center fire often change to a 22 oncew they see the cost savings, 22's are also a great entry to action pistol shooting as there is no holster or draws required. I usualy shoot a 617 in 22 limited and noraly beat the autos there, steel chalange realy levels the field with the autos. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Bird Posted August 14, 2013 Author Share Posted August 14, 2013 Thanks to all who have replied, you have presented some very good and valuable information. We are now going to send out to our members and see how many would shoot a match like this. They all ask for stuff, but when you spend time in the heat sitting up the stages, you would at least like to see 10 - 15 shooters. We will give it a try and see. Probably not start till late Sept or Oct. Much cooler then. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy kemlo Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 At our local club we let 22lr shoot in any of the icore, Idpa, uspsa, 3 gun, and steel challenge matches. We give them their own class and have a lot of fun. I started out shooting a 22lr pistol (the only pistol I owned at that time) in our local uspsa. I was hooked, and now have several different pistol for different types of matches. My kids just switched from 22lr to 9mm. It's a great way to get jr or new shooters or someone with a small budget to come out and have fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M118LR Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Our club joined steel challenge about two years ago. This month they will be running there second state match. We have many shooter that shoot both rifle and pistol 22 in the matches. I myself shoot 22 rifle optic and 22 pistol optic. I will be shooting the state match this month. I hope to win either pistol or rifle or maybe both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitty79 Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Just shot our match today. In my 12 person squad, only 3 people shot center fire. www.orss.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Bird Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 Ken, sign Tracy and I to help set up and shoot these, depending on what you get all figured out. I would suggest a bunch of static steel so there are no resets between runs. I bet we already have all the required equipment. Don't limit it to 22s, let anything allowed at the club play so we can practice transitions with our 22 carbines and stuff. Set up the divisions simply: Open/Open Rimfire--anything goes limited/Limited rimfire--- Anything minus a dot or comp Revo/Revo open if needed Carbine Open-- any optics Carbine limited the steel challenge stages are fun to shoot, quick to score, found online, would help draws and transitions, and would be practice for when we go to "real" SC events or the ruger rimfire championship next year. Ok, got you and Tracy down as helpers. I think as we get closer to spring we will have a planning meeting and work out the how and why. Thanks for getting involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgulley Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) Our local club hosts a monthly rimfire only match loosely based on Steel Challenge that was so well attended we even held Thursday night matches every week through the summer. Sadly, the scarcity of ammo has put a damper on those but there's light at the end of the tunnel. Walmart had 5 boxes last week. Edited October 8, 2013 by macgulley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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