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Originally Posted by Miggy
The problem in that club is bad SOing and bad CoF design doing vanilla stages for the gamers. A shooters turns a corner without slicing, he gets a procedural for being stupid
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The problem is not that people don't slice the pie according to the IDPA rules, it's that the way the rules require you to slice the pie isn't very realistic. According to the rulebook, you only get a procedural for engaging two targets from the same position. One target increments is way too big a slice of the pie in real life. The rules also allow you to expose up to 50% of the upper body when shooting from behind cover, which is way too much.
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Originally Posted by Miggy
if he is willing to take the procedural because the math of going fast gives him a final advantage, then you nail him with a Failure to Do Right and that will kill his dream of a first place ending.
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The failure to do right penalty could be a powerful tool for getting people to shoot the stage more realistically, the problem seems to be that it is so draconian it hardly ever gets used except for the most blatant gaming.
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Originally Posted by Miggy
In the design front, a hallway stage can be designed to put the brakes on gamers by changing the no-shoots targets from shooter to shooter or simply placing no shoots in the worse possible angles to partially block the targets. We do this on a regular basis and it will make you slow down to scan which is which.
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Both of the last two pairs of targets I described had partially overlapping no-shoots between them. It didn't seem to slow people down at all.
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Originally Posted by Miggy
Again on design, Are stages designed to challenge the shooter by having them shoot in other than standing positions? Or facing irregular cover & concealment?
Strong Hand Weak Hand drills? Shooting from sitting, laying down (face up, face down, on the side, etc)
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Yep. One of the other stages we shot yesterday had you sitting at a picnic table with two no-shoots in front of you and six targets scattered beyond. You had to remain seated in the same spot and shoot all six targets. Basically this meant you were leaning over horizontally to shoot around the no-shoots and hit the target beyond it.
Didn't have any one-hand only or support hand drills this month, but they've had them in the past. Unfortunately, they never actually require drawing with the support hand (always starts with the gun on a table or in support hand at low ready) or require one hand or support hand only reloading.