BRNO_Bigot wrote:Dressing up is part of the fun - why else would anyone want to mess around with firearms that are not exactly bleeding edge?
And if you can say that all Western action shoots look the same, then imagine how similar IPSC shoots must look - shoot at steel, reload, shoot at steel, move 10 paces, shoot at steel.
We've had clays shoots before. Also had some devices built that would throw an aerial target up when hit, so again the shotgun has a go. Had a championship based on one of the Clint Eastwood westerns (Pale rider), where you had to shoot a target on a dunny. That one also had the device throw a dunny roll into the air, for shotgun.
I think if they all looked the same, it was a case of the course being set with no imagination.
I mess around with firearms that are not modern because I enjoy shooting them, I don't need to wear fancy dress to enjoy them more
IPSC must've changed a lot since my time then. We rarely shot steel, we shot on the run, through and from inside vehicles and structures, while clambering across scaffolding, while kicking in doors and climbing through windows, at moving targets, from all possible positions, and crawling under barriers. It was as much physical exercise as it was speed and accuracy.
I meant that that week after week the shooting always seems to follow the same scheme, like they probably don't even need to rearrange the courses of fire, just leave them permanently set up. Have they never heard of reloading rifles or revolvers in Western Action? In IPSC there were a few courses of fire that would come around again now and then, but generally every time I arrived at the range I knew every course would be something I'd not seen before.
Do you have any video of modern Western Action here in Oz?