Not the airgun type.
I talked about this at the THR get together at Whittington earlier this year, and I promised to post some info about it when I got home. I just realised that I never got around to it... until now.
This is one of the most popular forms of handgun competition in the summer season over here. It's also quite popular in Sweden and Denmark, maybe with some slight variations in the rules. I'm going to Denmark in a few weeks for an annual university match for example (alumnis are included, I'm twice as old as the youngest participants, and the oldest "regular" is more than twice my age
).
The course of fire differs from match to match. Basically the shooters go from one firing line or station to the next, spread out in the terrain, IIRC the rules say ten stations in a match, six shots per station. The shooters go in a group/squad of usually five or six, each having his own "target group" to shoot at, all shooting at the same time. Not shooting at someone else's targets is part of the game. The targets differ in size and shape, from IPSC-sized ones to "postage stamps", and the number of targets differ from stage to stage. The range officer will tell you what the targets are and how far away they are as you prepare for each stage, as well as the time limit for the stage, anything from six seconds to maybe 15 seconds for a six shot string depending on size and number targets and what the range is. Range can be anything from, again if I recall correctly, 7 to 70 meters, usually with a mix of targets at different distances at the same station. Targets may include various types of "swingers", bowling pins, water filled balloons etc, at least in local matches where Shooting Federation rules may be open to interpretation.
Different types of guns compete in different classes - small bore, center fire, revolver, "military" (9mm to .45), in some matches we also have classes for snub revolver and "pocket" pistol, as well as magnum 1 and 2 (minimum full power .357 and .44 mag respectively, or similar muzzle energy).
This shooting is usually not done at regular shooting ranges. Typically in the forest, around a quarry or in a farmer's fields after harvest. How a match is set up will depend on the local terrain and possibilities inside the general rules.
I don't know about any English language web pages, but if you follow this link http://www.feltskyting.com/ you can click on the pictures, they lead to galleries of pictures from a couple of different matches. As you can see, hot dogs, waffles and coffee are mandatory ingredients, as is lyin... I mean story telling.
Rifle shooters have something very similar, also called "feltskyting", organized by the Norwegian Rifle Association (which is different from the Sports Shooting Federation). Quite similar to American "high power". The rifle field shooting is basically carried out in the same way as with handguns, targets of different shape and size etc, but at ranges from 100 to 600 meters - so you need a bigger farm. Also, the season for rifle feltskyting is in the winter. You don't know what fun is until you've tried to shoot rapid fire at what looks like postage stamps far, far away, prone on a mat in the snow in sub zero Fahrenheit weather.
I talked about this at the THR get together at Whittington earlier this year, and I promised to post some info about it when I got home. I just realised that I never got around to it... until now.
This is one of the most popular forms of handgun competition in the summer season over here. It's also quite popular in Sweden and Denmark, maybe with some slight variations in the rules. I'm going to Denmark in a few weeks for an annual university match for example (alumnis are included, I'm twice as old as the youngest participants, and the oldest "regular" is more than twice my age
).The course of fire differs from match to match. Basically the shooters go from one firing line or station to the next, spread out in the terrain, IIRC the rules say ten stations in a match, six shots per station. The shooters go in a group/squad of usually five or six, each having his own "target group" to shoot at, all shooting at the same time. Not shooting at someone else's targets is part of the game. The targets differ in size and shape, from IPSC-sized ones to "postage stamps", and the number of targets differ from stage to stage. The range officer will tell you what the targets are and how far away they are as you prepare for each stage, as well as the time limit for the stage, anything from six seconds to maybe 15 seconds for a six shot string depending on size and number targets and what the range is. Range can be anything from, again if I recall correctly, 7 to 70 meters, usually with a mix of targets at different distances at the same station. Targets may include various types of "swingers", bowling pins, water filled balloons etc, at least in local matches where Shooting Federation rules may be open to interpretation.
Different types of guns compete in different classes - small bore, center fire, revolver, "military" (9mm to .45), in some matches we also have classes for snub revolver and "pocket" pistol, as well as magnum 1 and 2 (minimum full power .357 and .44 mag respectively, or similar muzzle energy).
This shooting is usually not done at regular shooting ranges. Typically in the forest, around a quarry or in a farmer's fields after harvest. How a match is set up will depend on the local terrain and possibilities inside the general rules.
I don't know about any English language web pages, but if you follow this link http://www.feltskyting.com/ you can click on the pictures, they lead to galleries of pictures from a couple of different matches. As you can see, hot dogs, waffles and coffee are mandatory ingredients, as is lyin... I mean story telling.
Rifle shooters have something very similar, also called "feltskyting", organized by the Norwegian Rifle Association (which is different from the Sports Shooting Federation). Quite similar to American "high power". The rifle field shooting is basically carried out in the same way as with handguns, targets of different shape and size etc, but at ranges from 100 to 600 meters - so you need a bigger farm. Also, the season for rifle feltskyting is in the winter. You don't know what fun is until you've tried to shoot rapid fire at what looks like postage stamps far, far away, prone on a mat in the snow in sub zero Fahrenheit weather.
