This was an interesting target to shoot... (Video)

[ecmills]

The Desoto Rifle & Pistol Club (just south of Memphis, in Mississippi) started up an IDPA chapter a couple of months back. So there's some fairly new shooters in the video.

One of their guys came up with this target. He took an old conveyor-belt roller and welded 4 spokes to it, which hold IDPA targets. Then he built a swinger with a very heavy weight. There's a rope wrapped around the roller 3 or 4 times, and it's then hooked to the swinger.

Instead of swinging like usual, shooting the leg out from under it causes it to drop more slowly, pulling on the rope and spinning the "Desoto Star", as the creator called it.

Here's a short video of a couple of shooters running through that stage. I have some pictures of the actual target if anyone would like to see them. :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3717730984062522949&hl=en

[freeidaho]

Clever target. Stage looks like IPSC not IDPA, no matter what they called it.

kr

[Aristotle13]

Originally posted by freeidaho
Clever target. Stage looks like IPSC not IDPA, no matter what they called it.

kr

Agreed. It looks fun, but just a smidge too "circusy" for me.

[Hunterjbb]

Looked like a lot of fun :banana: The only thing that bothered me was the competitors seemed to be shooting at an upward angle and the berm in the background did not appear that high.. Where were the rounds going ?

Jeff.

[Yar]

looks like a standard windmill target to me.

[ecmills]

As I mentioned in the first post, this club is just starting up, and they have issues with things like barricades, barrels, etc for use as cover. The guy designing the stages is new at it, too.

We've all gotta start somewhere, and they're learning.

The berm is decieving, because it's so overgrown. They built a 20' high berm behind that pond about a decade ago, and it's so overgrown back there that it just looks like you're shooting into the woods at first. However, there's nothing behind their range for about 3 miles, either.

Ray, you get to shoot at all those fancy targets out your way, but some of us hadn't shot a windmill before. ;)

[Yar]

it's still looks like a pretty fun windmill.

If you want to get real evil put a bunch of no shoots on the windmill and spin it in front of a bunch of steel targets.

[ecmills]

I like this idea. :supergrin:

What really sucked for me was shooting after all of the really new guys. I watched everyone else shoot it, and their timing looked great. But the hits weren't there (Only 1 per target was required). Most everyone had a mike on at least one target... and they shot each target twice (two revolutions of the swinger).

So I started really watching, and everyone was target-focused pretty much the whole time. If you watch the video, you'll see it from a couple of the shooters - they're looking over their sights. When I shot it, it was the first time in a long time I sucessfully stayed glued to the front sight... But I shot 3 complete revolutions, just in case, instead of 2 like everyone else.

I had 8 zeros, and one -1 hit... Talk about a waste of time. If I had just trusted my sights, I would have smoked everyone on that stage by about 15 seconds. :sad:

Live and learn. That whole "front sight" thing really does work. :supergrin:

[Hunterjbb]

Live and learn. That whole "front sight" thing really does work.

Continually amazed at how much better things work if you remember that it's out there on the end of the gun :)

Jeff.

[ki4dmh]

Looks fun to me!!
Scott