Square Range Techniques?

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What's this mean? I just found out about this PPS stuff. Looks damn fun! Another question, why do some competitors have chest rigs and the next guy has a tee shirt and cargo pants in some vids I just watched?
I'm thinking all you need to carry is a few extra mags?
 
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Some competitor choose to compete with what they work with (LEO/MIL), some just like to "operate" or prefer the vest to a loaded belt. And some go "high speed/low drag" with race gear t-shirts/cargo pants.
 
Square range ( or actually more like rectangular) is exactly what it sounds like. For civvies, you can only point and discharge firearms in generally one direction. Behind you is the safe zone where people stand and watch, without touching/handling firearms, when you run the course of fire. Some ranges, where safe berms are built up, will allow a slight leeway of some lateral shooting but NEVER breaking 90. You cannot turn with your firearm and point it back from where you came from during a live run. Only when the RO declares the range safe and your firearm is rendered safe can you return to the starting point facing it, obviously with the muzzle controlled in a safe direction.


This does not apply to specific LE or Mil ranges such as Fun House scenarios.
 
People use what they feel the most comfortable with. What you need to carry depends on the match and the venue. Some matches are held on range facilities where everything is close together, so you don't have to carry much to the line. Some matches are held in places where it's hundreds of yards between stages and they make you carry all of your gear on you through the stage. Many people have the philosophy to always do things the same way so that it isn't different so that that you develop things like muscle memory with your equipment.

Square range techniques are techniques that work well on a square range because you have distances that are evenly divisible by 100 and targets that are of a know size, and situations that are always repeated at every match (stuff movers at the same speed and distance every time or a modified prone stage that is always at the same distance). You're also often only shooting at one distance at a time on a square range and often have things like shot markers to show you where your bullet is going. Many of the things that people do when shooting on a square range will not work well in PRS type shooting. People tend to memorize solutions to the problems instead of learning how to solve them. In PRS, the CoF is always different. so memorizing something like a mover lead for a specific speed of mover at a specific distance is not useful.
 
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