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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
That sounds awesome. What kinds of things were required in your oddball stages?

I didn't want to hijack the other thread, which I knew this wall of text would, so here we are.

There's quite possibly people here who shot my match. We referred to it as an "impractical shotgun match". Sadly there seems to be very little video of it and what there is is poor.

Some of the early matches were lots of rounds, 17-25 rounds each, 7-8 stages. That hurt the wallet and the shoulder. As years progressed the stages got smaller and smaller (mostly to speed things up).

Making people do things they weren't used to:
Hand tossing clays in the air themself and shooting them.
Point shooting from the hip, (gun went it a low port and you looked over the top to shoot. (shockingly hard for some people))
Shooting under walls, through very narrow ports, over fairly high walls, really leaning around walls and barrels, shooting prone, shooting weak shoulder, and always some shooting while sitting down.

Mostly bird shot on steel, some years a few slugs on paper targets or 70ish yard steel, buckshot on bowling pins a couple times. Lots of steel, stars, a spinner, clay flippers. A couple trap like thrown clays.

The "Hokey Pokey stages", shoot these three targets from this box with only your right foot on the ground. This box/targets, left foot only. This box/targets shoot from the right shoulder. That box left shoulder.

Stages with buried posts sticking a couple inches out of the ground, or laying down like a balance beam, you could only shoot from on the posts.

Stages with a plastic barrels set up for each target, with one shell on the barrel. No extra ammo on you or in your gun, you port loaded every round. "Virginia count" shotgun stage, don't miss.

Lots of "themed stages", some decoration. "Shop S Mart" zombie stage. Set up like a USPSA stage, with steel plate "heads" set on high posts that had torsos/shirts. You went through the course blasting their heads off, with all your ammo was loose in a plastic shopping basket you had to carry.

Always had one stage like that, loose ammo carried in something. A basket, a box, in a hard hat. Stages where you carried things, one year it was weighted tool boxes, another you had to pick up small random object at various points. All needing to end up on one certain barrel before the last round was fired.

Had a duck hunting stage with loose ammo in a bucket, you sat in a canoe that was rigged up to be extra wobbly. Shot steel and clay flippers. Penalty for not wearing the life jacket.

A "gophers" stage, shot from a golf cart, start with gun in a golf bag, small steel targets all over the course complete with golf flag.

Did one lots of people hated.. "market hunter", a large, 40-45 yard wide pit just filled with small animal silhouette targets. Probably 50-60 targets?, all of them all mixed together. At the beep you flipped over a card and it had a "shopping list" of what you needed to shoot. "Two rabbits, one ground hog, three pigs, 2 chickens, one ram, 3 crows, etc etc". You had to find them and shoot them and not shoot the wrong things.

"The terrible tube" 180 degree arc of steel post top targets, you in the middle with five foot long, 12" diameter section of corragated plastic pipe on a swivel, and you shot through it. Wow what a noise. And after a few shots the tube filled with smoke and made it hard to breath.

The last year was a "multi gun match". It was a static knock down steel match, but you could shoot as many guns as you liked. Your division was determined by how many rounds your guns held, up to a certain number. So you started with however many guns loaded on a table in front of you. Empty one, drop it and pick up another.

Almost hit "post now", but I found some stage descriptions. "More cowbell". There was a cow bell on a post in the middle of a pit, and steel targets in groups of two and three. In between every target group you had to ring the bell by shooting it. Steel targets, bell, steel targets bell.

A couple stage notes:

LOLOLOL these look amazing