[June 21] IPSC Level II comp. in Wexford

packas

All,

Please click on link for details

http://www.ipscireland.org/castlebridge_ipc_level_ii_21st_june_2008.html

regards,
Pat

Bananaman

IPSC Level II comp. 21st June in Wexford

'Fraid I won't make this one - doing a course that weekend.

B'Man

packas

packas wrote: »

All,

Please click on link for details

http://www.ipscireland.org/castlebridge_ipc_level_ii_21st_june_2008.html

regards,
Pat

Entries will be closing today & will be strictly limited to 35 competitors. If you're late entering you may not get a slot in the match.

regards,
Pat

les45

Lads .

Squad list will be published on IPSA web site mid week , please check all details and e.mail any corrections to pistol@iol.ie , we have a waiting list of nearly 30 so if you are squadded and cant make it on SATURDAY let us know . Registration opens at 9.00 with briefing at 09.45 and first round down range at 10.00 .

John:D

packas

All,

I've put the stages up on www.ipscireland.org for the competition this weekend. 5 stages in total. 1 long, 1 medium & 3 shorts.

enjoy


regards,
Pat

packas

squad list now on www.ipscireland.org

Double-Alpha

What happened at Castlebridge, Wexford last weekend?
I heard that the competition went ahead with only 2 or 3 stages due to the very bad weather and that no one was helping to patch and score, except for the same 2 or 3 lads and that the same 2 RO’s on the stages were like wet rags by the time they were finished.
The few times that I have attended IPSA shoots, I have noticed that it is the same people RO’ing the stages and the very same people helping to patch, pick up brass and score despite requests from the RO’s for help.
Where has all this so called Comradery and Sportsmanship gone to.
It looks like most people just want to shoot and couldn’t give a dam about who organises the event, designs the stages, takes time off work to build the stages, who breaks down the stages and cleans up afterwards, not to mention the prep work in organising squads and scoring, the list goes on and on.
A little help and recognition goes a hell of a long way lads.
If you want your sport to develope and LAST, then get your finger out and help. I say well done to all those who RO, patched etc, etc.

packas

Double-Alpha wrote: »

What happened at Castlebridge, Wexford last weekend?
I heard that the competition went ahead with only 2 or 3 stages due to the very bad weather and that no one was helping to patch and score, except for the same 2 or 3 lads and that the same 2 RO’s on the stages were like wet rags by the time they were finished.
The few times that I have attended IPSA shoots, I have noticed that it is the same people RO’ing the stages and the very same people helping to patch, pick up brass and score despite requests from the RO’s for help.
Where has all this so called Comradery and Sportsmanship gone to.
It looks like most people just want to shoot and couldn’t give a dam about who organises the event, designs the stages, takes time off work to build the stages, who breaks down the stages and cleans up afterwards, not to mention the prep work in organising squads and scoring, the list goes on and on.
A little help and recognition goes a hell of a long way lads.
If you want your sport to develope and LAST, then get your finger out and help. I say well done to all those who RO, patched etc, etc.

I agree DA. Saturday was heart breaking. After designing the stages, helping to build the stages for 5-6 hours on Friday & then to turn up Saturday & try run a match in that weather with only a few helping is not good. Currently we've a competition committee but it's the same couple of lads the whole time that are running the show. The last shoot that I didn't help organise or work the entire match was well over a year ago. We need to draft in more people to assist. I would propose that we have 2 or 3 working committees who organise matches. We need to rotate the work around or people will get p**ed off. We need a fair system. Also the fact that we have the Euro 2010 selection shoots coming up. The guys who build & work the matches will be trying for a place on the teams but they'll be competing against people who just turn up & shoot. Not a very fair system I think. Now that the organisation is getting bigger we need more people lending a hand.

Pat.

Sparks

The pattern of 1% of the people doing 99% of the work is an old one in the shooting sports, alas

packas

Sparks wrote: »

The pattern of 1% of the people doing 99% of the work is an old one in the shooting sports, alas

I'm sure shooting sports don't hold the monopoly on it either. All sprots/activities where people are asked to give up their spare time would suffer the same way.

G17

I would, COUGH, like to, BLEURGH, help, HACK, at the next, ACHOO, match - waiting for the water to clear off the lungs.

I was wet to the skin on Saturday and me hands were like prunes by the time I got to shoot; STANDBY, beep, click, me magazine wasn't in, no feeling in me poooooorrrr hands (that's this competition's excuse!).

I had rain gear on and I was still soaked through in about 30 minutes. The members in the club were bitterly disappointed with the wash out.

I often wondered why the ROs/officials often don't bother to shoot when they're working, now I understand. I used to not shoot at clay events when I was working, it's really quite stressful and usually an early morning following a late evening setting up.

How about a monetary incentive, workers get a discount for the sh1t and non workers pay a premium to sit on their holes, that's how the rest of society works!

......the workers will save their money, week by week, year by year they'll practice in the sewers while foraging for food, then one day, one, glorious day, they'll arise and overthrow their cruel, can't be bothered to go out and put on a few stickers, overlords.....I can't resist a bit of drama. I bags the rights on any musical if you're reading this Sir Lloyd Webber. We'll call it - The Phantoms of the Poppera (geddit, eh?):D:D:D:D

IrishArmy1

Love the last bit of your post G17.

Was down there myself on Saturday, dispite the rain i still had a good laugh if not a good shoot lol.

To get rid of the problem of people not patching use an age old army system.

Play the game or not at all

Shooter one has finished and moves forward and checks his scores with the RO.
Shooter two is in the hole, getting himself ready.
Shooter three picks up the brass
Shooters four and five patch targets and reset the stage.

This rotates through the list of shooter for that stage so everyone has had a turn at patching, brass picking and your not patching a target, then having to run back and get ready to shoot (which happened to me a few times and pisses me off).

The list is controled by the RO and is not to hard for the shooters to figure out themselfs and should not need to be told!!!!HA.

Again if you dont play the game you dont get to shoot.


McGoogie

packas

IrishArmy1 wrote: »

Love the last bit of your post G17.

Was down there myself on Saturday, dispite the rain i still had a good laugh if not a good shoot lol.

To get rid of the problem of people not patching use an age old army system.

Play the game or not at all

Shooter one has finished and moves forward and checks his scores with the RO.
Shooter two is in the hole, getting himself ready.
Shooter three picks up the brass
Shooters four and five patch targets and reset the stage.

This rotates through the list of shooter for that stage so everyone has had a turn at patching, brass picking and your not patching a target, then having to run back and get ready to shoot (which happened to me a few times and pisses me off).

The list is controled by the RO and is not to hard for the shooters to figure out themselfs and should not need to be told!!!!HA.

Again if you dont play the game you dont get to shoot.


McGoogie

agreed we need to get tough. We also badly need more RO's too. No IPSC organisation can survive without RO's.

G17

IrishArmy1 wrote: »

Shooter one has finished and moves forward and checks his scores with the RO.
Shooter two is in the hole, getting himself ready.
Shooter three picks up the brass
Shooters four and five patch targets and reset the stage.

Again if you dont play the game you dont get to shoot.


McGoogie

Good system and fair too.

I'm also reeeeally disappointed we didn't get to shoot the later stages, let's just say that P and A are, quite possibly, the most sadistic stage setters this side o' Mississippi.

We'll order some good weather for the next one, we promise!

:o:o

Bananaman

Any ideas when/where the next one is?

Just don't want to clash with Chris De Burgh's latest tour

Wasn't there talk of the first of the Euro qualifiers in September

(I'm on Holidays in September - vive le france - and have a couple of courses that month so just want to be sure I'm available)

B'Man

les45

Match calander for the rest of 2008 will be published next week . With a further Range Officers Course held prior to any further IPSC/IPSA matches .

John

packas

G17 wrote: »

Good system and fair too.

I'm also reeeeally disappointed we didn't get to shoot the later stages, let's just say that P and A are, quite possibly, the most sadistic stage setters this side o' Mississippi.

We'll order some good weather for the next one, we promise!

:o:o

With regard to stage designs all I can say the best is yet to come :D:D

G17

packas wrote: »

With regard to stage designs all I can say the best is yet to come :D:D

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