Mo said:
Did we hammer out a format in the other thread?
Frank said:
The shamrock idea was cool, but I don't remember anybody coming up with a good way to score it.
Johnmcl and I tossed around a few ideas via PM.
We didn't completely arrive at any idea ready for prime time, but were mostly considering the idea of using a shamrock for a target (for the complexity of target, as opposed to a single dot or circle, just to make aim point more challenging), but then going for tightest group.
We agreed that trying to put one shot in each subleaf of a shamrock might prove ... difficult and even more difficult (read time consuming and technically challenging) to score.
I'm good with anything. It's more about the fun and comradeship than the target.
I'm also fine with Mo doing it again (great job on the last one, as for Jag in the first one), or letting someone else step up.
I'll not volunteer to honcho this one... still too busy at work ... but will participate in this one come hell or high water.
Having said that, once I get a little time (work continues to eat my lunch), I'm planning to develop a new contest: a contest about designing targets for shooting matches.
Basic idea: each person will be encouraged to develop one or more odd ball, alternative (more than a dot or bulls eye) target(s) for the mighty 3x5 (or other formats), along with rules for scoring at particular ranges, then take them to the range and try them out, and take them home and score them, then share the description of the process on line. (We'll do that in a separate thread.)
I, for example, still want to try out a "shamrock-like" target, perhaps composed of three to five quarter- or half-dollar sized (coins) circles with one shot per circle at x yards (range to be determined), scored in a way that center-most hits in each circle are 0. Lowest score wins.
I think it could be fun, and help get us away from the same kinds of targets that we mostly always use.
Nem