Indoor league ideas

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SVTCobra306

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I have been tasked with coming up with some winter leagues at the range I work at. I have shot competitions but never a league, and I am looking for ideas. I'd happily hand this one to someone else, but we are in the middle of nowhere and I'm it :)

What I'm working with:

-25 yard indoor range
-6 lanes
-dividers between shooting stations but not down range.

I'm open to entertaining any and all ideas, I am wanting to have probably a rimfire league of some form and a practical pistol style league also, I have a few ideas but I'm going to run out before the winter does LOL..

Thanks in advance!
 
It could pay to find out what the folks who show up want to do.
Unless you're absolutely sure about it, there's no sense spending time, effort and money for designing and setting up a league that no one wants to attend.
Do they want matches that emphasize accuracy or speed or multiple targets, or self defense scenarios, or something else?
Do they want static targets, reactive ones, ordinary and expected ones, unique and changing?
What you have in mind might be wildly successful or you could be the only one there.
Aren't you glad you asked? :confused:
 
That's enough space for an IDPA stage. With a little thought, you could design stages that are easy to setup and take down.
 
There is a little (mostly) police league that shoots out on the floor of an indoor range here after store hours and the lane renters have gone.
Format is IDPA with tweaks to suit LE perceptions.
You must be CAREFUL doing action shooting on an indoor range.

Maybe better to start with a .22 poker shoot or some such.

What is the shooting background of your likely clientele?
 
The average skill level will not be terribly high, the average pistol shooter around here knows how to handle the firearm but most of the shot groups are on the weak side. Most people I have talked to would simply like to see "anything" in their words, but I have a feeling bullseye shooting would lose interest fairly quickly.

I've been tossing around the idea of having the match type change, but I would need to keep it within the same firearm type so it doesn't become unaffordable, so they can all shoot it with the same pistol. That way I can start it out pretty straightforward and "simple", and assess the skill level of the partiipants a little bit better and move to harder stuff as the skill level progresses. I do have basically an open "bay" of sorts once you move in front of the shooting tables, I would have about a 15 yard wide bay to work with, and I am working on building some targetry for that, it all has to be breakable plate style targets that stand at chest level or so (so the bullet hits the trap) and the holder has to either be able to catch "misses" or be very small so that ricochets are not a danger.
 
Paper targets, .22RF, a few strings, time-plus penalties...there is a new sport being developed based on that basic formula. Rolls out SHOT2016. :D
 
Just remembered.
If you want reactionary targets and are content with .22 rimfires,
Make various shaped and size targets out of wood.
They react very much like steel without the dangers of ricochets.
Just make them thick enough to stop or slow down the bullets enough to cause suitable reactions.
1/2 inch usually does it.
They can probably be hung from the target supports that are already in place at the range.
 
Paper targets, .22RF, a few strings, time-plus penalties...there is a new sport being developed based on that basic formula. Rolls out SHOT2016.
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Will it include a source for still scarce .22 ammo?
 
"...have a feeling bullseye shooting would lose interest fairly quickly..." Not likely. There are bullseye leagues everywhere. Some of which are or can be postal leagues with trophies etc. Bullseye shooting is how one gets good before one gets fast. All about how you sell it.
Talk to the NRA and/or the ISSF(Olympic shooting).
http://www.issf-sports.org/
 
There's always the compromise game of NRA Action Pistol, Bianchi Cup style matches.
Kind of a cross between bullseye and action pistol.
While it doesn't require anywhere near the accuracy of bullseye, it still requires plenty, especially for new shooters.
And is very easy to set up and take down.
Discounting the fancy stages, like the mover and falling plates, that is.
But with over a dozen courses of fire to choose from, there's plenty of others plus the ones you can invent.
The competition section of the NRA web site has the rule book and stages for downloading, if you are interested, along with all their other types of competitions, including Bullseye:
http://competitions.nra.org/official-nra-rule-books.aspx
 
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