Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I saw a club on Facebook that was going to have a no miss shoot. You can make up your misses with your shotgun. It didn’t give details. Have any of you done this? There’s a lot of questions that I’m thinking about. What targets do you use to make up the misses? Do you have to shoot the actual targets you missed? Will you remember what targets you missed? Maybe there’s designated targets for the misses? 🤔 It sounds like it could be fun. They said bring lots of shotgun rounds! Quote
Boggus Deal #64218 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Typically, what I have seen is a stationary “makeup” target. When you’re done with the stage, someone will yell “X makeups”! You shoot the stationary with the shotgun that many times. 3 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 1 minute ago, Boggus Deal #64218 said: Typically, what I have seen is a stationary “makeup” target. When you’re done with the stage, someone will yell “X makeups”! You shoot the stationary with the shotgun that many times. That’s what I was thinking, makes sense! 👍🤠 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Just now, Boggus Deal #64218 said: Typically, what I have seen is a stationary “makeup” target. When you’re done with the stage, someone will yell “X makeups”! You shoot the stationary with the shotgun that many times. That's been my experience and not a lot of emphasis on actually hitting it. 3 1 Quote
Boggus Deal #64218 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 26 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said: That's been my experience and not a lot of emphasis on actually hitting it. Yeah, just burning time. 1 1 Quote
Prairie Dawg, SASS #50329 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 The shotgun make-up target is typically just an "aiming point", and hitting it is optional. At least, that has been my experience. --Dawg Quote
wyliefoxEsquire Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Battle Born Rangers had a "Blast from the Past" match in 2023. They allowed both pistol and rifle make ups. Shoot until you hit!!! The spotters were critical. The spotters had to let the shooter know where was the miss. The members had a GREAT time. IT WORKED. The only not clean shooter ran out of ammo, nuts!!! Shooters were allowed to stage ammo as they wish. They will do it again. (Once they get the range back, but that is another story) 2 Quote
Blackwater 53393 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 We used to do this once in a while at Possum Trot on our Sunday, 5th weekend shoots. We always had two regular two day shoots a month and would also do a fifth weekend shoot if even one day of that weekend was in the month! Those months, we’d have six matches!! I would often spend a week at the range between matches. We had nice cabins and a laundry and bath house on site! DAMN! I MISS THAT PLACE!! 5 Quote
Matthew Duncan Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Wolff’s Rowdy Rangers have a no miss super stage at their annual match. Two stages plus combined into one. 4 revolvers, 2 rifles and a shotgun (box of shells). Rangers provided a 3rd rifle (22) and a 5th revolver (22). Misses are not counted only bonuses. Example. One section of the stage maybe 2 stationary targets plus Texas star (5 targets) with two revolvers (loaded with 10). Texas star must be engaged until a 5 targets are down. Any remaining shots on a dump target (maximum of 3) for a 3 second bonus for each shot. Only bonuses are counted. You run out of ammo before getting to the dump target, no misses counted and no bonuses either. Cowpokes love competing for bragging rights of the most bonuses received. 2 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 I’m thinking maybe 2 or 3 stages with sg makeups and see what everyone thinks! 1 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted January 22 Posted January 22 11 hours ago, wyliefoxEsquire said: Battle Born Rangers had a "Blast from the Past" match in 2023. They allowed both pistol and rifle make ups. Shoot until you hit!!! The spotters were critical. The spotters had to let the shooter know where was the miss. The members had a GREAT time. IT WORKED. The only not clean shooter ran out of ammo, nuts!!! Shooters were allowed to stage ammo as they wish. They will do it again. (Once they get the range back, but that is another story) One club I shoot with here does the same thing. Make up Rifle and Pistol misses as they happen. Each shooter has the option to shoot the match as a no miss or a regular match. Match is shot with old school SASS distances so those of us that participate have to bring plenty of ammo. 1 Quote
Totes Magoats Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Around here, I've seen individual stages setup like this, but almost all were based on knockdown targets that didn't go down. Removes the inconstancy of 3 spotters not agreeing on the number of misses that need to be made up. Just count the standing plates. Hosting a full match of this would need some good spotters. Totes 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 1 hour ago, Totes Magoats said: Around here, I've seen individual stages setup like this, but almost all were based on knockdown targets that didn't go down. Removes the inconstancy of 3 spotters not agreeing on the number of misses that need to be made up. Just count the standing plates. Hosting a full match of this would need some good spotters. Totes Good point ! Quote
Slow Mo Dern Posted January 22 Posted January 22 18 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: I saw a club on Facebook that was going to have a no miss shoot. You can make up your misses with your shotgun. It didn’t give details. Have any of you done this? There’s a lot of questions that I’m thinking about. What targets do you use to make up the misses? Do you have to shoot the actual targets you missed? Will you remember what targets you missed? Maybe there’s designated targets for the misses? 🤔 It sounds like it could be fun. They said bring lots of shotgun rounds! Hi Rye, We have a make-up target at Brookfield. You must hit the steel water bottle launcher target with the first shot, hit the water bottle or pop can while it's in the air with the second shot. If you miss, reload the shotgun and hit a bottle-shaped knock down target. We used to have a shotgun makeup target with our plate rack, but the shotgun rounds caused too much damage. We had to repair the plate rack every week because of the heavy shotgun loads. Now, all our shotgun targets are knock downs. We do allow pistol reloads on the plate racks if you miss. Mo 1 Quote
Nutmeg Ryder, SASS # 74966 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Our October/Halloween Shoot is often a no miss match. We use a static make up target, which is golden bb, as long as a round goes in the general direction of the target it's a hit. Yes, spotters have to pay attention, but it is also usually very close to the end of our shooting season in New England, and I bring candy, which distracts everyone anyway. Just something a little different, mixes it up and it seems to go over well. We also do a September 3 or 4 stage match and then a team shoot off, double elimination, random draw and the team that wins gets a free shoot. We use the scores from the 4 stages to quickly make teams, top with bottom shooter is a team and so on. Easily the largest attended shoot we do. Next best is an Ironman match the weekend of Thanksgiving, 4 stages, with 4 pistols, 2 rifles and nearly double the shotgun. Surprisingly good turnout, folks must want to get away from the family! 3 Quote
Branchwater Jack SASS #88854 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 I remember setting one of these up at a Christmas shoot many years ago. We did have a static target that you engaged with the shotgun to make up any pistol or rifle misses. Magic BB rule applied. Liberally. We promoted the heck out of it ahead of time, even told folks that they could stage a box of ammo if they wanted to! Man, I was surprised to look at the score sheet and see the number of misses that we had overall! So much for no miss shoot! 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 17 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Rye, do it! I brought up the idea and we’re discussing it. I’m not in charge but I have a say. We’ll see, we’re talking about a couple stages to try it out. We don’t shoot until April.🤠 1 Quote
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted January 23 Posted January 23 37 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: I brought up the idea and we’re discussing it. I’m not in charge but I have a say. We’ll see, we’re talking about a couple stages to try it out. We don’t shoot until April.🤠 Just try a stage or 2 with in your match. Then, include a on the clock reload....... 1 Quote
J.S. Sooner, SASS #73526 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 I have shot stages with shotgun make up targets. Sometimes it's just a stationary dump plate, other times a reactive target, spring or spinner. Many times it's to make up plates left standing on a plate rack and the club wants to avoid shotgun loads beating up their rack. One club we do kd's with popper clay bird and let shooters make up a missed bird by hitting a stationary clay bird placed on a steel stand, looks like a lolly pop target. Quote
J.S. Sooner, SASS #73526 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 If you have plenty of younger flexible shooters, a no miss, all knockdown stage is a hoot. 24 knockdowns, bring plenty of ammo. Quote
Don Jorge Posted January 23 Posted January 23 How about a Comstock stage, where you correct any MISSES by reloading the particular firearm and shooting the missed target? No static make-up target. You miss with a rifle, reload the rifle; miss with the revolver, reload the revolver., etc. Quote
Jeb Stuart #65654 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 We've done it for years. You can make up a miss with a reload from which ever gun, rifle or pistol, or make up all misses with the shotgun on a designated target. if doing the make up with the rifle or pistol, just shoot any rifle or pistol target, but all make up shots must be hits, or you don't really have a no miss match. Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 The one big problem I see is how do you know how many misses you had. Spotters don’t always agree and the TO isn’t supposed to spot. 1 Quote
Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L Posted January 23 Posted January 23 (edited) I’ve only see that done for knock down targets so that it is easy to tell the shooter how many makeups they need to shoot. Then the makeups are done with the shotgun on a stationary target. Edited January 23 by Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 4 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said: I’ve only see that done for knock down targets so that it is easy to tell the shooter how many makeups they need to shoot. Then the makeups are done with the shotgun on a stationary target. Yep me too! 1 Quote
Tom Bullweed Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Depends on how I am shooting that day, but I might have to wear more than one shotshell belt..... Quote
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