That's what I'm looking for. We do similar type shoots with airguns and smaller targets. Ranges are normally 10-55 yards. Animal silhouettes that fall when hit in the kill zone. I was going to set up a Woods Walk with airguns to mimic the ML matches.Our woods walks have various targets at ranges from 15 yards to 125 yards depending on the size of the target and the customary ranges that they are usually shot. (many of our targets are 3/8" steel plates cut in the shape of various animals like squirrels, rabbits, fox/coyote, deer & buffalo) Our rules are that no gun is loaded until at the firing point, and your foot must touch the station marker. All of our shots are standing off hand shots.
For clarity, "loaded" often means powder, ball, and primed/capped. Putting the powder and ball down the barrell can be done at any time, but the final priming is done at the firing point.Our woods walks have various targets at ranges from 15 yards to 125 yards depending on the size of the target and the customary ranges that they are usually shot. (many of our targets are 3/8" steel plates cut in the shape of various animals like squirrels, rabbits, fox/coyote, deer & buffalo) Our rules are that no gun is loaded until at the firing point, and your foot must touch the station marker. All of our shots are standing off hand shots.
Generally I see random rangers. To give hunting or forest warfare scenarios so everything is spread outThat's what I'm looking for. We do similar type shoots with airguns and smaller targets. Ranges are normally 10-55 yards. Animal silhouettes that fall when hit in the kill zone. I was going to set up a Woods Walk with airguns to mimic the ML matches.
Question, all the distances are unknown, correct?
That's what I'm looking for. We do similar type shoots with airguns and smaller targets. Ranges are normally 10-55 yards. Animal silhouettes that fall when hit in the kill zone. I was going to set up a Woods Walk with airguns to mimic the ML matches.
Question, all the distances are unknown, correct?
They are reset with a string that leads back to the shooting position.Not sure if this is for a large group shoot or only a few people, but using targets that have to be reset tends to really slow things down for a large group as the range has to be shutdown to do the reset. Hanging steel targets work without resetting. For "one shot" targets like potatoes we make sure to put out a whole bunch so the range doesn't have to shutdown. Your fallers would work if you have enough set out at each station so that resetting is avoided or at least minimized.
We also like to do "old timey" targets, like string cut, splitting a ball, cutting a card or driving tacks. Again, setting up a large number of these targets at once so as not to shut down the range.
I've seen this type used on ML woods walks.They are reset with a string that leads back to the shooting position.
This is not for a ML woods walk but for practice with airguns.
Steel gongs should not be closer than about 20 yards, due to lead splatter. If the gongs start to deform and concave from use, the targets need to taken down and reshaped. If the steel targets have a slight downward angle, while hanging, that is a bonus, as it directs the projectiles into the ground, (it doesn't need to be a drastic angle). Pay particular attention to layout of the woods walk so that people can be at any station at any time and not have fear of being inline with shooting from another station...I hope that makes sense.I’m looking to set up a practice range at or local airgun club. Are there minimum/maximum distances, forced shooting positions, etc. Thanks,
Paul
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