These three stages are all equally balanced in terms of time, round count and level of difficulty. Stage #1 (The Mind Bender) is easy to set up but will take some time to shoot because of the two strings.
Stages #2 and #3 are more difficult to set up and that is why we are sticking to three stages instead of 4 as has been the case.
This Match design also allows us to expand the participant roster to 15 from its current 12. (Three Squads of 5 each.) As of August 12, there are 11 participants pre-registered. Participants must be IDPA members or Action Pistol participants with documented match experience. We are not set up to introduce new shooters to IDPA in the context of this Senior Summer Short Series of matches.
Remember, in IDPA, your first match is OK if you are not a member but by your second match, you MUST be a dues paying member. All IDPA rules apply for this match.
We will also expand into three bays instead of two. (Bays 1, 2 and 3) It is simply too difficult to set up a complex stage and interface with with yet another complex stage in the same bay. Simple stages can co-exist in the same bay but complex stages cannot.
There are a total of 26 targets in this match and the round count is a minimum of 50. Since Stages #2 and #3 are Unlimited, your round count may vary (YRCMV).
Moving right along to the September 1st Match--it will be a "Best Of" Match. The Stages erected on September 1st will be YOUR collective choices from your favorite stages of the three matches in August. And the choice is yours. I do not vote.
OK, without any further commentary, here are the three stages for August 18th.
The Mind Bender
Back by popular demand for Stage #1 is the infamous "Mind Bender." In honor of the original Stage Designer, we have renamed it "The Mind Messer." Dear Friend Larry Messer is delighted to know that we will be shooting this Stage on August 18. Here is the graphic we used to show the Stage when it was last shot by The Montezuma Marksmen in March 2015.
John and Sue Smith and myself also shot it in January 2015 at an IDPA Tier 1 match staged by the Prescott Action Shoots at their range near Wilhoit, Arizona. Note that the graphic below is included here "original size" because it is MUCH easier to read than various other small alternatives available on Google Blogger.
The Powerball
The Powerball is one of our more popular stages that we do in Arizona. We do The Powerball faithfully each and every Arizona Season. So, we're going to renew that tradition here in Idaho, too, and do The Powerball once a Senior Summer Short Series, rain or shine!
In deference to some of our Senior Summer Short Series who have "touchy" knees, we're not going to require that you kneel beside your bed. Instead, you will obtain your pistol while seated beside the bed and engage T1-T3 while seated beside the bed. Then you will grab your Powerball ticket and proceed to your bedroom door to engage T4, the perp who is setting your house on fire.
You run down the hallway to your front door to get out of your burning home. It's then that you realize the Gang Leader is coming to get you and he is totally unfazed by being shot several times. Yes, he is tweaked out on meth and can't even feel your bullets.
This is a classic combination of timeless "Meth Head" Stage with other elements thrown in.
So, in "The Meth Head," you only see the farthermost target first...and then the next most farthest target, etc. and you shoot the closest target LAST--with a head shot, of course, since the body shots were having NO affect on the advancing perp.
Bear in mind that we use a REAL, active, live Powerball ticket for this Stage and, yes, it "Could" be a winner. Who knows? SO, you are required to take good care of the Powerball ticket It's a live ticket. Mess up the Powerball ticket and you get a 20-second FTDR penalty! We're talking potentially millions of dollars here, folks, so messing up a possible winning ticket is worth WAY more than a 3-second Procedural. It's a total FTDR!
Escape & Evade
This is our rendition of the popular Parma IDPA Stage by the same name. We did a separate blog post just for this stage and you can see it at this link:
What made the Parma rendition so danged difficult was the Line Runner. Shooting a Line Runner from prone is a real trick, trust me. Well, Line Runners are very difficult to set up so that the Runner is the same speed for everyone. Frankly, it's not worth the effort. Although we do have a Line Runner in Arizona, we consider it to be WAAAAY more effort than it is worth in a stage.
So the Line runner is G-O-N-E. Toast. In its place will be the swinger. The swinger will be the last target you shoot in this stage. It will be manually activated by a Squad Member as was the case on Match #2. The "Activator" will carefully watch the shooter engage the targets. As the shooter engages the last target, the Squad Member will activate the swinger so that it is fully moving when the shooter adjusts their sight picture for that target. All-in-all, we feel this is a fair trade off that retains the Spirit and Intent of the Parma IDPA Stage design. We include the 2014 Parma rendition here with the caveat that our rendition August 18 will be slightly different.
There will be NO popper. The Stage will feature a FIVE man team chasing you with three dogs instead of a six man team. It will be a 16 round Unlimited Stage. Note that the Swinger will be a "normal" swinger--that means FTN's will apply if you miss it. We will explain that in more detail on the Walk Through.
So, anywhere, here ya go. Good Luck!
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| Please refer to the separate blog post for additional details on how Parma IDPA shot this stage in 2014. Note also that this diagram states "2013". The Stage was originally debuted by Parma in 2013 and brought back as a highlighter in the club's 2014 Match---which was the 10th Anniversary of their Sanctioned Matched. So, each stage in their Match Booklet was annotated with the year it was first shot by the club. Hence the discrepancy. http://montezumamarkmen.blogspot.com/2015/08/escape-evade.html |
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