Calling JCN

[feudist]

@JCN, or anyone who cares to comment.
My range used to host USPSA and I had access to swingers. In an attempt to create a more irregular movement pattern I would attach a short rope with a dumbbell weight to the bottom of the pendulum.
This worked okay...but still resulted in a very narrow window of movement.
Today I watched a video on scientific efforts at describing and controlling Chaos. And I saw something that looked promising.
A Double Pendulum.
If someone with too much time on their hands and access to a well equipped private range(hint) were to make a steel target as the second pendulum...



Where the colored circles would be a steel target of TBD size.

Versus this.



I think that the DP(no porn intended) would allow practice on an erratically moving target that provided immediate feedback on visual tracking control, trigger control and shooting at assessment speed.
Thoughts?

[JCN]

@feudist thanks for tagging me!

There is this:



But ultimately it would have to be something self powered (like the range robot activators) so that it’s really unpredictable like something self powered like a human.

It’s like the simplification of sporting clays versus a bird that could change direction and accelerate rather than just lose power.

[JCN]

I almost bought one of these but decided resetting plates was a PITA haha

https://www.challengetargets.com/pro...ERNOVA-R8.html

[bofe954]

My range has something like that "holy monkey".

I think at some point, like a level II or III match, props like that start running into competitive equity issues where one guy gets a good swing and the next guy gets a bad one. Range lawyering and stage tossing follow...

[CleverNickname]

I think at some point, like a level II or III match, props like that start running into competitive equity issues where one guy gets a good swing and the next guy gets a bad one. Range lawyering and stage tossing follow...

Yeah, looks like a great idea for practice. Matches not so much.

[Clusterfrack]

Yeah, looks like a great idea for practice. Matches not so much.

Yes. This. Area1 last year had a double Mike Monkey stage that was competitively fucked up. After the first presentation, targets appeared chaotically making it very different for each shooter. So, if you were trying for a podium spot you had to swing for the bleachers and try to get them both on the first presentation. Hero or zero. Screw that. Terrible stage prop.