Shotgun competitions in BC?

Jim Rock

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Hey guys, I am interested in doing some fun run and gun shooting with my shotgun! I usually have some fun shoot outs with my buds in the woods but I want to try my hand for real on a course.

Any advice? Where can I try this around the lower mainland?

I think what I'm looking for is 3 gun? But I only want to use one gun, my shotgun.
 
There is a 3-gun match this weekend in Kamloops. I went last year and had an absolute gas!! This year it's two days of blasting fun. July 16th-17th.
 
For some time I've thought that it would be fun to have a shotgun action event. Something where there's some movement and enough targets that reloading is a must. And where the majority of the shots would be with target loads but each stage would also have more distant targets that required two or three shots of buck and one slug that would be loaded into the gun once the rest of the targets are all done. The targets would be situated in stages that were designed much like IPSC and IDPA stages but with steel fallers or swingers at the proper safe distance suitable for shotgun. Otherwise the cost of cardboard targets would be unwieldy... :D

Ideally the targets would be all steel and either knockdowns or swingers where the shots all need to hit well enough to swing them to the opposite side.

But we'd need to find a club with sufficient targets that would work with shotgun target loads to do something like this and get enough folks together to run the event.

It would definetly be a blast to shoot such an event.
 
BCRider said:
For some time I've thought that it would be fun to have a shotgun action event. Something where there's some movement and enough targets that reloading is a must. And where the majority of the shots would be with target loads but each stage would also have more distant targets that required two or three shots of buck and one slug that would be loaded into the gun once the rest of the targets are all done. The targets would be situated in stages that were designed much like IPSC and IDPA stages but with steel fallers or swingers at the proper safe distance suitable for shotgun. Otherwise the cost of cardboard targets would be unwieldy... :D

Ideally the targets would be all steel and either knockdowns or swingers where the shots all need to hit well enough to swing them to the opposite side.

But we'd need to find a club with sufficient targets that would work with shotgun target loads to do something like this and get enough folks together to run the event.

It would definetly be a blast to shoot such an event.
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I would be a part of that... definitely!
 
Well, that's three of us. But I don't think the numbers will be small for long.

Any matches that we were to run would have to be done with the same sort of safety and handling rules as IPSC or IDPA. That's a given and I, for one, would not have it any other way.

The need for copious numbers of steel fallers and a few gongs that stay upright as well as "walls" to make up some stages means that there's a limited number of clubs where we could hold such a match. Two that come to mind right away are PoCo and Thompson Mountain since I know that both clubs are big into IPSC and have lots of the fallers and walls that would be needed.

As well I know that Abbotsford is trying to get together an IPSC program but I'm not sure how well set up they are for steel faller targets and staging walls.

My own club at Chilliwack is running IDPA so they have walls but only a very few fallers.

So what we need is someone or a few folks from one of the "have" clubs to get on board and volunteer to put forward a plan for this to their executive and see if the idea can hatch and take wing.
 
Shooting clay birds is fun too. And they're cheap. You can hang them or rest them on berms.

Just steal the 3-gun rules and regs minus the rifle and handgun.

You could also have a 2-gun event. Rifle/shotgun. I've got non-restricted rifles and shotguns so I'm gonna head to the woods in Squamish and put on a mini 2-gun event with a few friends.
 
Well a couple of things about shooting at clay birds. First is that it would raise the cost of running such a match. Second is that it takes only a couple of pellets to down them. The nice thing about the steel fallers or side ot side flippers is that they can be set so that the core of the shot column needs to hit somewhere on, or at least mostly on the target to get a valid hit as shown by a fall or a good flip to the other side.
 
Gentlemen,
I don't know if I have a solution or not. Our club has every kind of steel target you can imagine and lots of them: Pepper poppers, mini poppers, fallers. dropping targets, Texas Stars,, bobbers etc. We also have a number of bays for stages. We even have a number of props left from some IPSC shoots including an enclosure with three "rooms" to shoot in and from as well as stairs to shoot from above. We also have a bridge to shoot from and to move across.

I could probably arrange for campers to stay there to keep costs down. I am willing to talk to our executive and book a date if there is interest. Our club is located in Lone Butte, BC. It is just out of 100 Mile House which is 2 hours from Kamloops and 4 hours from Chilliwack.

I don't know if this appeals to anyone because of the distance but am willing to get things rolling here this summer (July) if there are enough numbers interested.

Stages could be planned online. Just shoot me a PM if you think it would work at this location and if you want it over one day or two.

:cheers:
 
Mercury0_0 said:
....head to the woods in Squamish and put on a mini 2-gun event with a few friends.
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Yeah....not really the best way to go.

Too many safety issues around this kind of setup.

If you want to put something together do it at the range.

You don't have to worry about someone wandering onto your "down range"
or someone hearing the noise and calling the cops.

John
 
Rugerman,

Sounds like this could be fun.

Lone Butte defintely has the steel to make this work. Might want to look into some clay flipppers :)

I will defintely be watching this with interest.

John
 
Rugerman said:
Gentlemen,
I don't know if I have a solution or not. Our club has every kind of steel target you can imagine and lots of them: Pepper poppers, mini poppers, fallers. dropping targets, Texas Stars,, bobbers etc. We also have a number of bays for stages. We even have a number of props left from some IPSC shoots including an enclosure with three "rooms" to shoot in and from as well as stairs to shoot from above. We also have a bridge to shoot from and to move across.

I could probably arrange for campers to stay there to keep costs down. I am willing to talk to our executive and book a date if there is interest. Our club is located in Lone Butte, BC. It is just out of 100 Mile House which is 2 hours from Kamloops and 4 hours from Chilliwack.

I don't know if this appeals to anyone because of the distance but am willing to get things rolling here this summer (July) if there are enough numbers interested.

Stages could be planned online. Just shoot me a PM if you think it would work at this location and if you want it over one day or two.

:cheers:
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YES PLEASE!

I know I can get at least a couple buds to come!
 
Rugerman, I'd drive up in a heart beat if it's on a date when I'm not otherwise commited with my other intrests. Even if it were I'd beg off and drive up if at all possible. And I'm sure there would be others so car pooling would be an option. Having said this I'm not seeing a lot of names showing up in this thread so I suspect if a half dozen of us rolled in from the LM then we'd be doing well. So there should likely be a good core of folks from your own area that like the idea and sign up as well.

If you get this going I'll see if I can borrow the pop can popper from my Cowboy Action folks. It's a low to the ground plate that falls and tosses a pop can up about 3 feet. It's not as easy to hit as one may think. But it's superb fun.

I brought up this idea with a couple of shooting buddies the other night. They immediately got stuck on the idea of 3 gun. They didn't seem to see that the whole point is to keep it simple with one gun only instead of getting into all the extra work needed to properley and safely run a full on 3 gun. It's funny that they don't see anything wrong with handgun only IDPA or even with the recent AR only shoot held at the club. But the idea of shotgun seems to be stuck in a rut with 3 gun as the venue. I just don't understand it.
 
Need some names! Please PM

BCRider said:
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I brought up this idea with a couple of shooting buddies the other night. They immediately got stuck on the idea of 3 gun. They didn't seem to see that the whole point is to keep it simple with one gun only instead of getting into all the extra work needed to properley and safely run a full on 3 gun. It's funny that they don't see anything wrong with handgun only IDPA or even with the recent AR only shoot held at the club. But the idea of shotgun seems to be stuck in a rut with 3 gun as the venue. I just don't understand it.
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Pop can device sounds cool. I like 3 gun and I like shotgun. I just like to shoot! Don't care which one it is.
At the moment the weekend of the 9th, 16th or 23rd of July works for me. After that it would have to be in the latter part of August.
Anyone who is serious about this please PM me and I will start a list and send info and updates to those who PMed me. Please give me for sure date commitments or I am planning for nothing.

If this moves forward I will post some tentative stages. Your input is welcome also. I am assuming you will want lots of action with movement and, of course, reactive targets. :D:D
 
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