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I have a dumb question. At the start of your match day, do you start with one shooter on the line shooting at chickens and then add more shooters as they progress through the stations? Or does someone line up at all stations and progress through from there, (ie) if someone starts at rams, then chickens, pigs and finally turkeys.

kg4tyr wrote:do you start with one shooter on the line shooting at chickens and then add more shooters as they progress through the stations?

Yep. That is the way that it is done. At our matches anyway.


Mike

Rodent wrote:

kg4tyr wrote:do you start with one shooter on the line shooting at chickens and then add more shooters as they progress through the stations?

Yep. That is the way that it is done. At our matches anyway.


Mike

Thanks Mike

You can do it that way, but if you have a lot of shooters, you can start them on other animals. It's called a shot gun start and the NRA use to use it. I can't see letting the other targets just waiting to be used and have people in line to shoot. I'd start the next shooters on the pigs and go on from there. Well that's my 2 cents and you get what you paid for.

We always start a shooter on the chickens, both big bore and .22, and they work their way thru the match....hogs next, then turkeys and rams. It doesn't take that long to fill the line. Don't particularly like shotgun starts shooting IHMSA Matches. My local club has been doing this for 33 seasons now.

We can start 2 BB, 3 FP, 1 SB and 1 FS, all on chickens. The rest of the day its a open line. Everyone starts on chickens.
Mugs
IHMSA 5940L

Shotgun starts work with limited shooters as you can just rotate around and dont use 3 relays to fill the line but once it is full you have to wait for all to finish before you can start another person/relay. We always start on chickens and work through.
Bret

Thanks for all of the replies.

Most people have limited opportunity to get solid sight settings for four distances with multiple guns. Starting everyone on chickens allows all to work the short distance and go out. If you have folks who are very competent at any distance you could ''load the line'', let one shoot then the spotter, rotate to the next target and all finish simultaneously. Then the next squad goes to the line.

Shotgun starts really jack things up--everybody gets a quicker start, but then you have some people moving up in distance, some moving down or coming back in on chickens and then everything is totally messed up.