Shooting Scenarios

[FENWICK7]

where is a good place to get scenario ideas for setting up a match.

[zombywoof]

https://uspsa.org/stages

[pskys2]

The newspaper, tv, nightmares.

[barry]

A truly great stage is made when set up on the ground.  Other that a classifier that is a simple stage with precise measurements the movement of 1 or 2 targets a foot or so  can be the difference between a great stage and a dog.

[MikeBurgess]

not so much scenarios, what I do is try to start with an idea of what skill/skills I want to test, then I work out from that, if you need ideas for that watch peoples match videos on FB/Instagram etc and when you see something that seems cool try to figure out what it was that made it cool and how you could work that into one of your stages.

For inspiration or better yet just using as is there are thousands stages easily found by googling USPSA or IPSC stages. 

 

A couple pieces of advice for anyone new to stage design

1) its a learned skill, your fist stages may suck, dont let it stop you, learn and get better.

2) stages cant and shouldn't attempt to be everything to everyone all the time, balance comes from several stages testing different aspects of the sport when viewed as a group.

3) stages do not have "INTENT" there is just what is on the wsb and how the stage was built, it will get gammed and thats ok.

4) how stages actually get set up makes more difference than how its drawn.  moving props and targets during setup, often an inch or two one way or another makes a huge difference.

5) when looking for shoot throughs don't look from where YOU would shoot a target look from look from everywhere a target could be shot from, as in bullet grazes edge of wall on left side of port and just breaks the perf on the right side of the target  and vise versa on every possible place to shoot said target. 

5b) remember all shooters are not your height, so look at targets as if your 4' tall and 7' tall does this cause any issues, the big one is the junior shooter shooting a head box and the bullet going over the berm, remember the head is part of the target even if there is not hard cover. 

Edited January 26, 2023 by MikeBurgess
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