Indoor Matches
- Thread starter hungrybeagle
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I my [limited] experience: 4-6 stages, 60-90 rounds, 10 shooters and 2 hours per squad.
- Location
- Halifax - NS
In NS, everyone works the match, so you're there all day. Start is 9:30. Everyone leaves when the shooting's done - (usually 3)
In a 2 bay range - (Halifax) - 7 - 8 stages. 110-130 rounds. squad sizes divided by whoever shows; usually 10-20.
For our big 2-day indoor match in the spring; we schedule two squads; one AM and one PM each day - starting at 8, finishing at 1, then the new squads come in and shoot until 5. We do approx. 120 rounds a day, 7 stages each day. Squad sizes are around 13-14 (for the 4 squads) then. Like you folks in BC, everyone works. No one just shoots and no one just officiates.
Poppers are sandbagged in place and shrouded. Plates are shrouded.
I run ODPL matches in a tight indoor range. I run 4 stages roughly between 8-18 rounds per stage and 6 shooter per squad. The squad takes roughly 40-60 mins per squad to shoot and score the group. I get around 20-35 shooters and I start at 0830 and the range is torn down and we are out the doors usually by 1530 hrs.
yup steel with shrouds around it. the shrouds are typically removable, so you don't need to put them on if you're outside (and you don't need them outside). all held in place by the same pin that the popper pivots on.
They are made of magical, non-ricocheting mushy-steel; lovingly forged by mystical fairies in the factory of kinder wishes and soft pillowy dreams . We have the same ones here in Bantario. They're just awesome.
There is few videos from Ontario indoor matches on http://youtube.com/ekipsc/
In most cases targets are put down to the backstop, unless portable backstop is used. L1 and L2 matches here are usually 4-5 stages and 40-50 shooters. You can also see some matches on ipsc-matches web site.
Level 3 Triangle match at the end of November - 3 clubs (20 minutes drive apart), 11 stages, 145 shooters.
Does Alberta qualify as back east?
The indoor matches here are 1-day events; everybody shoots and works. We split the matches into a 4 time periods:
Morning early
Morning late
Afternoon early
Afternoon late
Each competitor will either work and shoot in the morning or the afternoon. So a competitor who is shooting in the morning late shift, will be working in the morning early shift. Likewise a competitor who is working in the afternoon early shift will be shooting in the afternoon late shift.
This shift sequence was adopted when we had to deal with 90+ shooters at a 1-day indoor match. For a travelling competitor it also has the advantage that you can drive for 3 hours to a match, shoot the match in the afternoon, then drive home in the evening.
Set-up is done the night before usually by the local club; tear-down is done by the competitors/workers from the afternoon shift while waiting for stats/awards to be finalized.
Typically a match will be 5 or 6 stages using 2 bays. Round count from 90 - 130. Commonly 2 short-med stages per bay which are then combined into a long stage, for 3 stages per bay.
Squad sizes will range from 5 to 12 shooters. Timings can be extended to accommodate larger number of shooters, but typical times would be 0800 to 1230 for morning and 1300 to 1730 for afternoon.
Steel targets are placed close to the backstop, shrouded and sandbagged.
Mostly the same in Saskatoon too.
Here's an example of what we did with the right range in the last match. There were some revisions before it was implemented but this shows the general idea. No steel on this side but we had 5 or 6 poppers and a B zone on the left side.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_HSXg6by6-c0/S1DxCsXyNkI/AAAAAAAAAHg/JkVLsYfC288/evan final design1.jpg
well, that video from MIC is at the extreme end of the indoor match scale, haha, most matches are far less ambitious, re stage design 
Most of the indoor winter matches around the Toronto area seem to have 4-5 stages, with squad times running 2h, maybe 6-8 people per squad. Typically there are a couple of short courses, couple of medium, and 1 long - the squad is split into two, with the short/medium ones shot "together", and then everyone shoots the long one - most of the time, that's the setup I've seen...
There are exceptions, Wentworth spring match tends to be bigger, and sometimes there is a bigger indoor match at Burlington...
Most of the indoor winter matches around the Toronto area seem to have 4-5 stages, with squad times running 2h, maybe 6-8 people per squad. Typically there are a couple of short courses, couple of medium, and 1 long - the squad is split into two, with the short/medium ones shot "together", and then everyone shoots the long one - most of the time, that's the setup I've seen...
There are exceptions, Wentworth spring match tends to be bigger, and sometimes there is a bigger indoor match at Burlington...
