AboveNBeyond
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Hello all,
I was wondering, how long would a typical USPSA take? Maybe 12-20 people competing?
I was wondering, how long would a typical USPSA take? Maybe 12-20 people competing?
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USPSA Match (Duration)
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Hi. It really depends on how well organized the match directors are and how much help they have/get from the shooters. Setting up or taking down. Some matches, with 20 shooters, can take half a Saturday. Some will take the whole day. However, once you've shot, nobody will chain you down. Helping, even for an hour, before or after you shoot, is a good thing. Every little bit helps. Mind you, if you're in a rush to be some place, you won't shoot as well. Throws off your concentration.
Match results will be posted somewhere at your club.
Match results will be posted somewhere at your club.
Depends on a lot of things. How many stages, how many strings in a stage (this can be the killer), how many squads/ROs.
So if you figure six stages, and 60 seconds of shooting each stage, you are actually shooting 6 minutes max. The rest of the time you are picking brass, pasteing, waiting to shoot, etc. So, its up to how organized the match is. I have seen only a four sage matce take six hours. And, have saw a six stage match take just an hour and a half. The latter was in Dorr, MI, I couldn't believe how they could do it. I haven't shot there in a few years, this kind of jarred my memory and I should make a point to make it down there next season.
So if you figure six stages, and 60 seconds of shooting each stage, you are actually shooting 6 minutes max. The rest of the time you are picking brass, pasteing, waiting to shoot, etc. So, its up to how organized the match is. I have seen only a four sage matce take six hours. And, have saw a six stage match take just an hour and a half. The latter was in Dorr, MI, I couldn't believe how they could do it. I haven't shot there in a few years, this kind of jarred my memory and I should make a point to make it down there next season.
We start at 8 am and are there until between 3 and 6 pm. We only run 3 stages, but we have had upwards of 35-40 shooters at a time. In Iowa weather also plays a part. In the winter we have short stages and in the summer we have longer stages. It also depends on how many "workers" are at a particular match; nothing slows the action like one person taping targets, setting steel and picking up brass.
So to make a long story short, it depends on the how the club operates(squads or single shooter), how many stages, how many shooters are involved, how many people are re-setting stages and just how cold it gets in Feburary.
So to make a long story short, it depends on the how the club operates(squads or single shooter), how many stages, how many shooters are involved, how many people are re-setting stages and just how cold it gets in Feburary.