mattjoe
Member
Having been forced to make the decision between church and shooting for many years, i think the reason clubs hold sunday morning matches is primarily for the set up crew. The elaborate matches held by Uspsa/ipsc, 3gun, CAS/SASS and to a slightly lesser extent, idpa, really aren't something you can just throw up and be ready to shoot in an hour with limited help.
I've done set up and run matches now for 3 yrs and am about to start the 4th yr.
Set up used to take place on saturday with props and courses of fire laid out, and checked and rechecked and adjusted over and over again looking for shoot throughs and the like. That stuff takes time. I was not a fan of losing both weekend days to the match, so lobbied for us to move everything to Sunday. The set up crew now arrives very early on sundays, we set up, and what was once a huge lack of help began to be supplemented by early arriving competitors who pitched in to lend a hand so the match could be both better, and get all set up on time.
I think you don't see many saturday matches because, like was mentioned earlier, there are many who work saturdays, and for the big clubs who set up intricate matches, the staff generally cant be taking off friday's so they can go set up for the match, they need the saturday set up.
Our matches have gone from one of the most elaborate set up stages to probably the least prop intensive matches in the uspsa circuit in the northeast section of area 7.
Other reasons are probably yard work and errands that need to get done on saturday if you want to go play sunday.
I've done set up and run matches now for 3 yrs and am about to start the 4th yr.
Set up used to take place on saturday with props and courses of fire laid out, and checked and rechecked and adjusted over and over again looking for shoot throughs and the like. That stuff takes time. I was not a fan of losing both weekend days to the match, so lobbied for us to move everything to Sunday. The set up crew now arrives very early on sundays, we set up, and what was once a huge lack of help began to be supplemented by early arriving competitors who pitched in to lend a hand so the match could be both better, and get all set up on time.
I think you don't see many saturday matches because, like was mentioned earlier, there are many who work saturdays, and for the big clubs who set up intricate matches, the staff generally cant be taking off friday's so they can go set up for the match, they need the saturday set up.
Our matches have gone from one of the most elaborate set up stages to probably the least prop intensive matches in the uspsa circuit in the northeast section of area 7.
Other reasons are probably yard work and errands that need to get done on saturday if you want to go play sunday.