Author Topic: Stage Writing (Read 416 times)

Cheyenne Ranger · « **on:** August 25, 2003, 12:02:57 PM »

I was asked to write the stages for next month's match, six in all. Been at it for 3 days and think I'm there. I now have a better appreciation for all the pards that do this month in and month out.
You want to make it interesting and one different from the others but not too much to remember in target order. Decided to take what we've been doing for the past couple of months and move around the order and location of where we shoot the different guns on each stage. Added to the number of shotgun over the normal 2 to 4 per stage. Even have one with 5 just to be different. Tried to make the descriptions clear, interesting and fun. Time will tell. Let you know how it goes.
Cheyenne

Flint · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2003, 02:31:44 PM »

One thing we always do in our stage writing is to always have either the shotgun or the handgun last, as the timer clock sometimes has trouble hearing 38 cal rifles for a time stop.

Cheyenne Ranger · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2003, 08:16:24 AM »

Many of ours ends with the scattergun so I had us start with it. CAS is fun but shooting the same or really close to the same stages each month starts to border on boring. Of course with my memory each day is a brand new one--wife tells me same joke and I think it's new everytime.
CR

Snake River Cowboy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 26, 2003, 12:42:15 PM »

I wrote 6 stages for The Shadow Rider's Sept 7 shoot. I hope everyone enjoys them. Since I love shooting, I wrote stages I want to shoot. Going to out of state shoots gave me lots of ideas. I have touble with the story lines though. I get ideas from books and movies or "steal" them from other shoots.

Cheyenne Ranger · « **Reply #4 on:** August 26, 2003, 02:46:30 PM »

Snake,
Think that's the way to do it--write it like you would like to shoot it. Always seems more fun that way. Then if others want it a bit different they can have a go at it.

Cheyenne

Peddler Parsons · « **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2003, 03:48:36 AM »

:cb1:
I have writen meny stages and try to make them fun and things to do a line to say shot the guns in differnt orders pistol, rifle, pistol, shotgun, reload a pistol just have fun with it but keep it safe and easy. Also try to make them all come out about the same shooting time so that you do not have a stage that is a lot faster to shot than another

Big Hext Finnigan · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2003, 04:15:02 AM »

Howdy,

About the only thing I'll add is think about the last posse shooting that stage. Tired, maybe hot, maybe ready to be done.

Keep the target orders simple and straightforward. If you're going to do some fancy stuff, make it simple and easy. If it's a reload, do just one. Move them around on the line, but make the targets easy to track.

Good for you, stepping up and sharing the load. Adios,

Dutch Limbach · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2003, 08:45:31 AM »

I've been writting the stages for my NCOWS posse's monthly shoots for almost 2 years now. I've been doing it at home from memory. Last month I had a camera with me and after the shoot it dawned on me that I should take pictures of the layout of each stage. Having pictures there to refresh my memory really helped when I went to write the scenarios for the September Shoot.

Dutch Limbach

Snake River Cowboy · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2003, 02:17:34 PM »

We shot the match today that I wrote the 6 stages for. Mostly positive reaction. I reallized halfway through that since I have been shooting a lot with some very good shooters, I tried to challenge the good shooters. The result was it was very hard and slow for the slower shooters. I like a challenge which is why I shoot Gunfighter instead of double duelist which I'm better at. There were lots of shotgun which I am not that good at either, but getting better.
Our club lost our Leader, Rusty Colt, who died last January. He was one of the pioneers of CAS in our area. He was made a SASS Regulator (posthumouly) at EOT this year. This was our club's first shoot since he died. We learned a lot today that I'm sure Rusty already knew.