A cheap way to set up a shoot course?

[Warren]

Need to know if this would be practical.


Materials:

PVC pipe

some sort of air blower

ping pong balls

cheap paint

some place outdoors to shoot

the ability to make berms and such.


Lay the pipe out in the pattern you want cover with dirt. At each shoot point have one pipe set vertically. Place this in a mound of dirt to protect it from misses.

Set up the pipes so that the air blower can push a ping-pong ball through the entire length of pipe.

The idea is as the shooter approches a shoot point a ping-pong ball will shoot out of the vertical pipe and then the shooter needs to determine if it is a shoot or no shoot ball.


This would be done by painting the balls different colors (or buying them that way) so that white is shoot but blue is no shoot etc.


Some other questions: Would this be good training? If not there is no reason to build such a thing.

Would there be a way for the RO to control which pipe the ping-pong ball is going to come out of without adding a lot of expense? Some sort of valve set up is what I am thinking. Can it be done? If so it would be good to have multiple pipes at one shoot point so that the shooter does not know where the ping-pong ball is coming from next.



Is this feasible?


Thanks,

H2L

 

[Jeff White]

I think it would be a fun game. But I don't see any training value as far as shoot no shoot situations go. Until the bad guys start throwing ping pong balls in front of you before they attack, I don't see how that will be a good cue for real world action. F.A.T.S., ROBEC, or properly done force on force training with airsoft or simunitions are some ways to do it. Realistic targets that show shoot/no shoot situations are another.

One question, do you shoot the ping pong ball or is that the cue to shoot a different target?

Jeff

 

[Warren]

You would shoot the ball, it is small and hopefully fast moving so it would be a bit of a challenge.

 

[Warren]

So no other opinons?

 

[Chris Rhines]

I'm gonna agree with Jeff on this one - fun, but probably not a great training method (especally when compared to supervised force-on-force training.) Also, hitting a flying ping-pong ball at any kind of distance is going to be hard. Unless you're using a shotgun, that is...

- Chris

 

[ZeroX]

I can just imagine it: A cop is searching for a couple suspects who've run in a warehouse. Suddenly, a man in a white shirt jumps out and brings his gun up. Just before you can shoot him, something in the back of your mind screams "White, don't shoot! Shoot blue!" and BLAM.