oldkim wrote:
Nothing like that is around these parts... Formal shotgun action shoots.
Every club has their members that have specific interests. If enough are grouped together with some proper guidance and/or leadership...
The best you could hope for are side matches in an established IDPA match or sporting clay or 3-Gun matches.
Was the club you shot the match organized as a national organization or was it most likely a homegrown match?
Did they have official rules or did they just follow the basics of other action matches?
No national organization just a homegrown thing.
The club had monthly IDPA, USPSA and rimfire steel matches and they tried doing 3-gun but the furthest distance of that range was 30 yards for the action matches so rifle wasn't challenging or terribly interesting.
So someone had the idea of let's have a 2 gun match, shotgun and pistol and because attendance was low someone decided let's just have a shotgun only match.
I can't remember if equipment rules were based on some IDPA or USPSA multigun but they basically boiled down to 3 classes; pump, limited, and open
Pump was any pump
open was any semi with a detachable magazine like a Saiga 12 or MKA 1919 or whatever and pump and limited
Limited was any other semi and limited and pump were something like 8 or 9 shells starting in the gun
I think having a red dot pushed into open but hardly anyone had an optic on their shotgun anyway.
Most stages were 12+ targets so you had to reload at least once.
In that part of Maryland you couldn't hunt with a rifle so you had some people that only owned a shotgun no pistol or rifle and generally had no interest in IDPA or USPA show up with their 50 year old 4 shell pumps and skeet bags on their hip and having fun knocking over steel plates and clays giggling when they left. One guy showed up with a side by side and sure he was slow but he was having fun. Pretty much everyone was having tons of fun.
I have a video of the match somewhere.
I was asking because I saw in the Washington USPSA Facebook group that someone in Eastern Washington is doing one in April and while part of me wants to get a shotgun ready for it if it's only the one match I might just wait. If it was quarterly even I'd get a gun ready for the next one.