"What does breaking the 180 mean?" Or: how to get DQ'ed from a handgun match

[Fishingted]

I shot a match with gun in box on table. Opened box and swept my hand. Got DQd. Took it like a man and was even more carefull in thr Future. Glad he took it well. And you should be proud Dad for not overlooking it.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

Most of our DQ'ed folks stick around. As an aside, an issue we've seen is as members age, their gun handling starts to get a bit sketchy. It is a shame to DQ an older person. The SOs try to keep close to them to guide them to avoid such. These are club matches. However, some are scary. Since I've known some of them for 20 years, when they get into the 80's, it's a problem for some, not all.

There certainly are unsafe younger folks.

The good thing about us 75+shooters is we are slower!

 

[Crazy Horse]

Being left handed, I feel discriminated against by all the right handed friendly stages. So I designed a stage that was primarily left handed and you had to drag a dummy to safety. That was a conundrum for the righties. Ha. Anyway, a good friend of mine and an excellent shooter, Nationals competitor, got all confused and ended up facing us. He just silently packed up and drove away.

Yep. I totally get what you mean. I've had good instructors indicate that I've come close on some stages to breaking the 180. Afterwards looking at the stage, I notice the difficulty lies in being left handed. Which can be frustrating, but nothing new if you are left handed. Funny on how to engage the targets right to left comes to play-this one always makes me raise an eyebrow. I always think, why does it matter how one engages the targets. Left to right would work just as well (depending on the setup). But I get it, it's a competition so, just suck it up. I'd like to see a stage where targets have to be engaged left to right. LoL

CH

 

[GEM]

The good thing about us 75+shooters is we are slower!

At 73, I see the young folks run at speed between targets and I just saunter. So I won't 'win'. So what. Chasing milliseconds isn't for me anymore. I shoot my EDC or a variant of it as I want to keep my skills up for SD and have some fun shooting.

 

[waktasz]

Yep. I totally get what you mean. I've had good instructors indicate that I've come close on some stages to breaking the 180. Afterwards looking at the stage, I notice the difficulty lies in being left handed. Which can be frustrating, but nothing new if you are left handed. Funny on how to engage the targets right to left comes to play-this one always makes me raise an eyebrow. I always think, why does it matter how one engages the targets. Left to right would work just as well (depending on the setup). But I get it, it's a competition so, just suck it up. I'd like to see a stage where targets have to be engaged left to right. LoL

CH

If you're only ever seeing stages being build left to right that's really just a failure of the MD to have any creativity. It's certainly not always like this.