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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdF7nKEjgg

3:30 in - one very lucky dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully I haven't seen many/any f the more extreme ones of these at the matches i've been to!

........So far so good eh

to be fair, almost all the fallers spent most of the fall controlling the muzzle. one got a bit flail-y as he stood back up, but one the whole, they fell and stayed safe.
with the unintentional firings, why were some stopped when the rounds were fired safely? like the guy with the rifle firing as he chambered after the beep.

bradaz11 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:29 pm to be fair, almost all the fallers spent most of the fall controlling the muzzle. one got a bit flail-y as he stood back up, but one the whole, they fell and stayed safe.
with the unintentional firings, why were some stopped when the rounds were fired safely? like the guy with the rifle firing as he chambered after the beep.

If you're referring to the guy in the red t-shirt with the drum mag on his gun; the muzzle was pointed above the backstop/berm when the gun went off Hopefully given the start condition he was allowed to adopt (muzzle up) and the minimal reaction to him doing it, it means he's on a range in the middle of nowhere and there's an adequate fall out zone beyond the backstop.

Even if that was the case though most rulebooks are going to say that shots must land in the backstop/berms to be considered in a safe direction so he'd be going home after a ticking off for having his finger inside the trigger guard when he wasn't engaging targets

Blackstuff wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 10:57 am

bradaz11 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:29 pm to be fair, almost all the fallers spent most of the fall controlling the muzzle. one got a bit flail-y as he stood back up, but one the whole, they fell and stayed safe.
with the unintentional firings, why were some stopped when the rounds were fired safely? like the guy with the rifle firing as he chambered after the beep.

If you're referring to the guy in the red t-shirt with the drum mag on his gun; the muzzle was pointed above the backstop/berm when the gun went off Hopefully given the start condition he was allowed to adopt (muzzle up) and the minimal reaction to him doing it, it means he's on a range in the middle of nowhere and there's an adequate fall out zone beyond the backstop.

Even if that was the case though most rulebooks are going to say that shots must land in the backstop/berms to be considered in a safe direction so he'd be going home after a ticking off for having his finger inside the trigger guard when he wasn't engaging targets

yeah thats the guy, round looks like it went into the bank, same as guy at 3.20 who transitions to weak hand and lets one go just beside a target and is told to stop. why is it not just a miss? I can understand the dairyqueen DQ as he shoots the barricade, but then guy after running up to the barrels and the door, isn't stoped for ND'ing into a barrel.

The camera from the other side would be be the better angle to say definitively but if looks like a flyer to me. He certainly wasn't aiming at a target either way.

The transition guy (that sounds wrong), yeah the gun is level and they have a decent backstop so no idea why that was called. Some ranges operate their own rules on top of IPSC etc rulebooks and his lack of control of the gun might have been enough.

The white guy with the wide brim hat was 100% an unintentional shot but there was a target available (between the green barricade and white barrels) and not only was the gun level/shot contained by the big backstop it was actually still pointing at the target, so that isn't a DQ (in IPSC rules any way) as you're allowed to shoot one handed if you wish