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    Scoring for BAMM

    in Wild Bunch Rules Forum

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    The mad minute gets long. A full minute sounds fast until you’re behind the gun ! We tried it one year in oklahoma  it was fun, entertaining, historical and the next year I think it changed to 30 seconds. It was a lot of shooting for some folks. Par time puts the pressure on to perform. Off the bench we allow shooters to go to their favored position. Shotgun games pretty much are all most hits. Trench sweep allows all makeups and is strictly time. Unless that guy that doesn’t have enough shells is shooting then he actually gets misses added in addition to time. 🤠 we are not trying to design a match so nobody knows won but if it takes 10 to win and one shooter does it ………I guess the way I think of it  accuracy and speed BOTH rule. A shooter that takes 2:00 minutes to shoot clean on a action combat stage that should take 25 seconds or a shooter that runs thru his rounds in 15 seconds but misses 8  is unimpressive on both accounts. Neither exhibited both speed and accuracy. TR and  DB   Are both great categories. They stand on their own but operate perfectly commingled into wild bunch stages. Thinking about those that’s two prime examples of scoring for total time right there. Folks are familiar with timing for main match already so it’s easy to hit the timer and count the misses. You should experiment with the mad minute and see what you think. It’s a good solid side match. Our answer to that was Texas 30   Featured 7 dancing dots,30 second par time ,1911 with plenty of mags at the beep sweep the targets only hits are counted most hits win. With a tie back the shooter up 5 yards.  What all side matches are y’all thinking about for your big New Mexico match? 

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    Model 12 - shells stuck from mag tube

    in The Wild Bunch Wire

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    Maybe take a bunch of measurements of the one that runs . I would only mess with the frame when everything else has failed. I have personally seen several mint brand new condition model 12 that were only mint because they never worked right and people didn’t use them .  Whatever it is it’s very close to working.  Hey is that a 3” gun? 

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    Scoring for BAMM

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    JFN, speed and accuracy have to balance but the scales always lean to accuracy. Folks have to have the pressure of the clock for speed and accuracy of the shot placement. If we had a shooter not trying to hit anything on going for broke to circumvent our match at the very least we would throw a couple of spirit of the game on him and a 10 yard penalty to boot! 🤠Anyone can set down off a bench and shoot a good group, that’s a fact. Getting into having to reposition the rifle thru movement, shooting around or thru barricade or offhand. Well now that adds a whole new level. One more thought if accuracy is above all then on a 10 shot course of fire 10 wins . All the other shooters  that shot 9 are out of the money right then when they dropped the one target. However scored as time and misses those 9 shooters still have a chance. Nobody actually knows who won until scores are tallied.  Now I do think for rifle games that aren’t focusing on a combat type match like a quigley type match with the big bores or long range lever accuracy should be king. When we thought of BAMM at its conception we wanted a match that showed the strengths of speed and accuracy as a combat style match using reloads on the clock with stripper clips.

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    Scoring for BAMM

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    We score  just like main  match time and misses and the reason is we are not just accuracy we also require speed. What we noticed scoring the other way was sand baggers would look down the score sheet and if no one was clean then they would take a long time ,throwing speed out  to win the match. 

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    Clearing Long Guns-possible change?

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    We are big proponents of clearing the long guns on the line.  
    SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY.  has NOTHING to do with moving guns to an unloading table. Think about it. 
    what it has to do with is the time consuming operation of unloading 2 single action pistols. CAS moving the guns off the line to facilitate posse speed is what the ULT is for.  We already show the 1911 clear on line ,extremely safe way to clear this pistol . So logically when the shooter picks up his rifle and shotgun shows clear of each safely on the line he should be free to travel  off the line. We also use blue barrels to stage long guns in when we are working a stage with down range movement. We will clear them in the barrel before they ever come out.  Absolutely safest of safe way to get the job done quickly and as a bonus no ULT to man freeing up posse members for other chores. My view anyway!  Dusty

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    We want to invite everyone to the Southwest Territorial and Texas state championship March 24,25,26,2023

    in Wild Bunch Matches

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    Morning sir!  Bowie actually has 3 motels.

    parks inn.  An old style  single story motel that’s been fully redone. You can back your truck in right at your door. I like this! 
    Best western. Fully redone and updated after a tornado hit it in 2020. Really nice but  thru lobby only access to rooms

    Americas best value inn. I looked at one of the rooms and it was clean. Multi story, outside access if I remember correctly. It and best western are close to the range. Parks is a couple of miles further. 

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