Stage designs for Nordic Rifle in Finland

slemmo · Aug 19, 2014

For those of you that are interested in what a big rifle match looks like over here:

http://www.koumas.fi/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/nrm14_stages.pdf

There's alot of square paper targets which is something I'm not used to, and I've never shot a match in Finland, so it's going to be exciting. The stages look like fun.

jtischauser · Aug 19, 2014

Does Ipsc rifle rules require a certain number of short, medium and long courses?

slemmo · Aug 19, 2014

Yep

1.2.1.4 The recommended balance for an IPSC sanctioned match is a ratio of 3 Short Courses to 2
Medium Courses to 1 Long Course. Significant variance from this ratio will not be approved by
IPSC.
1.2.1.5 The recommended balance for an IPSC Rifle match with regards to target distance is: 30% of all
targets to be less than 60 meters, 50% to be between 60 and 150 meters and 20% to be between
150 and 300 meters.

jtischauser · Aug 19, 2014

Short courses are a buzz kill. If I were president I'd flip short and long courses in the rules.

slemmo · Aug 19, 2014

I would probably want to balance things a bit, the way it is now is that you might have a match with 10-11 stages, and if two of those are 40 rounds stages and you screw up even one of them you've ruined the match, so short courses could have more rounds and long courses less rounds.

jtischauser · Aug 19, 2014

I just like shooting more rather then less.

slemmo · Aug 19, 2014

Me too, but I don't like to shoot 1/4 of the match in one stage. I guess it depends on the stage design too, long courses over here tend to be mind games, so it's not more fun, it's just awkward puzzle shooting where you have to memorize what targets to shoot where so you either don forget any, or shoot some of them twice. Nothing takes the fun out of a stage more than that.

jtischauser · Aug 19, 2014

slemmo said:
Me too, but I don't like to shoot 1/4 of the match in one stage. I guess it depends on the stage design too, long courses over here tend to be mind games, so it's not more fun, it's just awkward puzzle shooting where you have to memorize what targets to shoot where so you either don forget any, or shoot some of them twice. Nothing takes the fun out of a stage more than that.

I agree! Big stages should test all the skills not just the memory.

slemmo · Aug 26, 2014

It was a rough match, I had to change strategies 3 times. Started out not as good as I wanted, and started day two by trying to make up which resulted in crash and burn on a couple stages. Pulled back a bit and made decent result on the rest of the stages. came in 14th overall, I did beat most of the Swedish national team though, so that felt good

As expected the Finns filled alot of the top spots. and Raine Peltokoski won. That guy is a machine.
As far as the americans, Kurt Miller came in 7th overall SAS and best senior SAS, so he got a presidents medal for the senior win. 7th overall in Finland is a good result.

The new rifle was great, and the 20" barrel didn't bother me anything.