Is there a purpose to this other than running thru a cave with a flashlight and shooting targets? I mean really what’s the purpose?
Granted for the majority this maybe a different experience but what’s the application other than being different?
This is a competition stage from a 3-gun match.
In the practical or "action" shooting disciplines, the match director comes up with lots of different challenges for the shooters to tackle. A wide variety of such challenges might let him test shooters' abilities to shoot around obstacles, shoot while moving across broken ground, shoot in/around/from vehicles or buildings, engage moving targets, and lots of other skill sets.
The shooters' runs are timed and then their accuracy is combined with that time to determine a score. Fast is good. Accurate is great. But you have to balance the two to place well in competition. (...and in real life too!
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This one happened to combine low-light shooting/flashlight manipulation and movement in one stage, with the added benefits of the weird audio and visual orientation distortions of being in a cave. Having shot and run lots of low-light stages, with and without hand-held lights, I can promise that not very many shooters put them all in the "A" zone.
Not sure what "purpose" you're looking for. I mean, there weren't any real bad guys in the cave. No animals were being hunted. They weren't eliminating hunger or bringing about world peace. The purpose is simply to test shooters' skills and produce a score.