First Electronic Target Match at Perry

[Ham_Chu]

Last weekend, CMP hosted their first JC Garand/Modern Military match using the electronic target system. The computer did all the scoring, and automated the pit staff right out a job (+1).

The shooter has a screen off their shoulder that records each hit, as it is made.

Overall, a system like this, while expensive, would reduce the range staff requirements, and time of both each course of fire (no waiting for target to drop, score and pop up) and the overall match (pit changes). I could see an additional relay shooting each day with this system.

It is also safer, given the pit accident a few years ago.

Also reduces the complains about pit crews mis-scoring hits and the pit setup/teardown nightmare of handling 6ft square cardboard sheets between the carriers.

Most of all, the extreme cost of pasters, in both black and buff .


The video (what is an HR Funk?) details the systems use (once you FF past the monologue).

[usmcveteran]

Wow that's really cool. So why are matches moving away from Camp Perry?

[WARFAB]

I doubt they have enough money to put electronic targets at all of Perry's firing points, but if they do nobody will really care about the NRA matches being held at another venue.

[usmcveteran]

What are the targets themselves made out of?

[Ham_Chu]

The ones I have seen up close (at the Olympic-tryout airgun range at Perry) use paper. There are acoustic sensors mounted behind the target paper, that listen for the tear in the paper. Based upon how loud each of the four sensors register, it is able to triangulate (quadangulate?) the precise position of that tear. Seeing how this a 10 meter target , the bullseye is about the size of a quarter, so the sensors are fairly close to the impact/tear. Then, after registering each shot and sending the feedback to the monitor (the shooter's screen), an automatic feeder then scrolls a new target in place (as tearing a hole where one already exists would affect the sensor reading) ready for the next shot.

I have heard that the same system is in place for the big bore targets, but instead of using paper, it is using some 'rubber-like' substance (self-healing, I am sure) that doesn't scroll a new sheet after each hit. That would make the rapid strings quite the game, waiting for the new sheet to replace itself after each shot.

I was also just told (a buddy just back from Anniston) that the targets score to the CENTER of the strike, not the full diameter of the bullet. So, if you were to just tear the edge of the X ring, cutting clean into the ring, it is scored as a 10. Center point of the impact. That should do a damn-damn on next years scores.


One of the big hits everyone is throwing around about the NRA moving to a cheaper facility, is...

...at least CMP is investing millions of dollars into the shooting sports (Anniston, and these new targets). NRA seems to be doing ....err .....uhhhh ....well ......nutin.


EDIT: Why did NRA leave the National Matches with 7 months notice, leaving CMP and OHNG in the lurch?...see thread