World Shoot 10 Video
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Why? Because of the imposter with the black hair using my name?
It was definitely a prop intensive match with many memorable stages (helicopter, double decker bus, hanging from a telephone pole, a boat really floating in water, etc). I remember fun stages, bad weather, great people, frightening driving and terrible food.
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Ivan:
About what time on video can we see your performance?
Too bad we'll never see another IPSC match in England...
About what time on video can we see your performance?
Too bad we'll never see another IPSC match in England...
Comparing individual stages from various World Shoots is like comparing individual people in one crowd to another: you'll find similarities if you look for them. Every World Shoot had memorable stages.
The difference comes when you compare the matches as a whole. It's very difficult (nay: impossible?) to build a World Shoot match now that compares in shooting challenges to "the good old days". The two reasons that spring to mind are:
1) The number of competitors. While I don't recall the number of shooters in Bisley, it was no where near the size attending recently (presently it's 1100'ish competitors, plus hundreds of pre-match shooters). The smaller attendance at Bisley meant we shot every day, all day for 5 days. Presently the algorithm is to shoot 5 half days out of 6 full days. With less shooters you can shoot more stages... more stages = more fun.
2) The round counts were higher. Again: I'm working from memory, so I can't give the exact round count, but there wasn't the stringent 3 small to 2 medium to 1 large stage format that is written in stone now. While there were big stages and small stages, it wasn't as rigid and I believe there was therefore more rounds going down range. Presently the Open shooters do 1 reload per day (since there is only 1 32 round course per day at a modern World Shoot). Of course at Bisley, while high-cap race guns did exist, they were in their infancy and (from memory) we were running around 20'ish rounds max per mag, and therefore: more reloading.
Long story short: the old matches were better, but we are currently damned by success and with the popularity of these matches, it simply isn't feasible to get as many rounds downrange as we used to.
On the other hand, there are probably less problems/arbitrations at modern matches, because: a) the officiating is more consistent and b) rule loopholes have been closed and c) we've learned from our mistakes and stage problems that caused us grief in the past have been eliminated.
-ivan-
The difference comes when you compare the matches as a whole. It's very difficult (nay: impossible?) to build a World Shoot match now that compares in shooting challenges to "the good old days". The two reasons that spring to mind are:
1) The number of competitors. While I don't recall the number of shooters in Bisley, it was no where near the size attending recently (presently it's 1100'ish competitors, plus hundreds of pre-match shooters). The smaller attendance at Bisley meant we shot every day, all day for 5 days. Presently the algorithm is to shoot 5 half days out of 6 full days. With less shooters you can shoot more stages... more stages = more fun.
2) The round counts were higher. Again: I'm working from memory, so I can't give the exact round count, but there wasn't the stringent 3 small to 2 medium to 1 large stage format that is written in stone now. While there were big stages and small stages, it wasn't as rigid and I believe there was therefore more rounds going down range. Presently the Open shooters do 1 reload per day (since there is only 1 32 round course per day at a modern World Shoot). Of course at Bisley, while high-cap race guns did exist, they were in their infancy and (from memory) we were running around 20'ish rounds max per mag, and therefore: more reloading.
Long story short: the old matches were better, but we are currently damned by success and with the popularity of these matches, it simply isn't feasible to get as many rounds downrange as we used to.
On the other hand, there are probably less problems/arbitrations at modern matches, because: a) the officiating is more consistent and b) rule loopholes have been closed and c) we've learned from our mistakes and stage problems that caused us grief in the past have been eliminated.
-ivan-
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That was '92. While there were lots of people videotaping the shooting back then (video cameras were reasonable new and it was a fad for everyone to videotape), I don't recall anyone packaging and selling a tape of this match. The World Shoot Video above was professionally (?) done and sold after the match. To find footage of '92 North American Championships would require finding one/some of the individual shooters and seeing if they put anything online.
I do recall a video of Brad Hertz (the previous year's IPSC Canada Champ) shooting a stage with a rubber snake caught in the grip of his shooting hand... the snake dangling and bouncing around as Brad shot the stage... and he shot it very badly (he gave the laughing videographer a VERY nasty look on "Unload and Show Clear"... I wonder if he sees the humour in it now?)
ivan-
So that's where that came from...
Mr Clean set up a stage like that at EOHC...about 8 years ago.
Bloody hell...I pulled out...one mag...3 snakes...
It was a fun stage...to watch
Mr Clean set up a stage like that at EOHC...about 8 years ago.
Bloody hell...I pulled out...one mag...3 snakes...
It was a fun stage...to watch
Not true. IIRC, when IPSC Canada put in a bid for the 2005 World Shoot, the CFC was willing to allow foreign visitors to temporarily import and use full capacity mags. Freedom Ventures can probably provide details.
Again, not true. Exemptions were allowed under C-17 (passed in 1992) but C-68 (the current 'Firearms Act - introduced in 1995) eliminated them.
The bid for the 2005 World Shoot would've been made in 2002; seven years after C-68 was introduced. Again, Freedom Ventures can probably provide accurate details since he and/or his father were the ones behind the bid.
Don't know. Hopefully Freedom Ventures will chime in.
