Many times it is more important to find out what does not work than what does. I was somewhat dishearten how poorly Arizona Bigs worked but the sun came up this morning anyway.
Color: Neither the red nor the green allowed the shooters to consistently see their hits which was the point of the target. I think if we do this again we will have to go with all black targets with some sort of inscribed circle
Overall Results: We shot four rounds. In rounds one and two, the hit percentage was 45% and 40% which is no better than the CFDA average for titled events. The targets completely failed to allow the shooters to improve during a match. I attribute this in part to the color of the targets. I was so disappointed that I moved the shooters to 10 feet for rounds 3 and 4 and the hit percentage improved to 57% and 55%, better, but not what you would expect.
Fundamental Error: When I moved the shooters to 10 feet I did not adjust the target height. I should have adjusted the target height to 44 inches which would be the standard for a typical CFDA shooter but did not do so. This probably accounts for the poor shooting. A clear example was the poster shooter, who hit 75% at 15 feet but hit 0% at 10 feet. Having the targets at the incorrect target height is going to hurt the shooter with the more finalized draw more.
Individual Results: The current National Champion crushed these targets hitting 80% with 25% of his hits in the black. You would expect these results because he has been using this training technique for years on blocker targets. Only one shooter had a higher in the black percentage than his hit percentage. Half of the shooters had a hit percentage above the CFDA average.
Grumblings: There were several instances where a quicker shooter lost to a "in the black" shooter. The point of the match is to train the shooter to stay focus and put them "in the black." Looking at the fastest time report, there was no lollygagging. Nine out of ten shooters had in the black times.
I will post the results on the mountain.
A thought here, but since you say they couldn't see the hits it may not matter and this is totally mindset. You set it up with the scoring to give a bonus for the black. In my mind that says, I can do what I always do and be fine, but I can get a little bonus if I do better. I would score it by time is time in the black(if distance is adjusted to make the target size proportional as in this case 10 feet) and a hit off the black is doubled since in a CFDA match that would have been a miss and no score. Tell the grumblers it would have been a zero under normal conditions and all they had to do was "hit the target"--the black.
ReplyDeleteOh and remember, those folks you say missed because you didn't lower the center of the target 2 1/2 inches(10 feet is actually 44 1/2 because the center only moves 1/2 inch per foot) I call BS. Because of the change in diameter of the CFDA target as the distance changes the bottom edge barely moves. There is no reason to miss the bottom edge of a bigger target because you are closer. The target moves down 0.5 inch per foot closer. The radius of the target reduces 0.57 per foot closer. The bottom edge of the target moves UP 0.07 inch per foot closer.
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