Hey everybody! You’re all bringing up a lot of the same concerns we’ve heard about this sport since the start. A lot of you have already worked out some of the reasoning amongst yourselves, but I’m happy to answer questions and explain things further. Keep in mind, there is a substantial video on the main page of the website that covers most of this.
This sport is not meant to represent the pinnacle of gear, the entire idea was to create a format that by its design remains accessible for the average Joe who hunts. By that virtue, it should act as a feeder for the other existing rifle sports (NRL, PRS) by getting more people’s foot in the door because the gear requirements and distances are far less daunting.
People tend to craft their opinion on a sport based on the gear they already use in another setting, and form their opinions around that. Bipods are a great tool to use in this game, and I build at least as many positions with a bipod NOT prone, as I do prone. That being said, people frequently use safari sticks, bog pods, trigger sticks, backpacks and improvised bags of all sorts.
When it comes to suppressors; I hunt with a suppressor, but a couple people hit the nail on the head with the suppressor sensitivity issue, as well as the inaccuracies of stop watches when scores are close; and when we’re paying out thousands of dollars based on placement at our upcoming invitational match in March, precision in scoring is going to be important.
Not allowing tripods is not to say that they aren’t a useful hunting tool, they absolutely are. But if you were good at using a tripod, you’d never need to be creative and improvise other types of positions in this game.
The targets are relatively large, relatively close, and we help you find them as much as we can while still maintaining blind stages. This is all by design. The game then becomes: who can creatively improvise positions that are steady enough for first round hits, faster than everybody else?
Someone mentioned the 6x6 squares at a maximum of 100 yards for rimfire. That is to cater to our abundant junior shooters rocking near-stock 10-22’s! Not everyone has a $3k rimfire rig, and not every game needs to necessitate that.
I understand that not every game is right for everyone, but please believe me when I say that there was no ego involved in developing this family of sports. We aren’t saying that our rules dictate what is right, or wrong, or best to use.
I think NRL and PRS are badass, and some incredible shooters use some incredible gear to pull off incredible shots. They absolutely drives advancement, and we see a lot of that advancement trickling down into the Ultimate Hunter sports as well.
This is the beer league of rifle sports. Anybody can come play with what they’ve got, and if they’re a good shooter, they have a reasonable chance at doing well.
Happy to answer questions and entertain reasonable discussions about solutions to the problems you see in this sport!
This sport is not meant to represent the pinnacle of gear, the entire idea was to create a format that by its design remains accessible for the average Joe who hunts. By that virtue, it should act as a feeder for the other existing rifle sports (NRL, PRS) by getting more people’s foot in the door because the gear requirements and distances are far less daunting.
People tend to craft their opinion on a sport based on the gear they already use in another setting, and form their opinions around that. Bipods are a great tool to use in this game, and I build at least as many positions with a bipod NOT prone, as I do prone. That being said, people frequently use safari sticks, bog pods, trigger sticks, backpacks and improvised bags of all sorts.
When it comes to suppressors; I hunt with a suppressor, but a couple people hit the nail on the head with the suppressor sensitivity issue, as well as the inaccuracies of stop watches when scores are close; and when we’re paying out thousands of dollars based on placement at our upcoming invitational match in March, precision in scoring is going to be important.
Not allowing tripods is not to say that they aren’t a useful hunting tool, they absolutely are. But if you were good at using a tripod, you’d never need to be creative and improvise other types of positions in this game.
The targets are relatively large, relatively close, and we help you find them as much as we can while still maintaining blind stages. This is all by design. The game then becomes: who can creatively improvise positions that are steady enough for first round hits, faster than everybody else?
Someone mentioned the 6x6 squares at a maximum of 100 yards for rimfire. That is to cater to our abundant junior shooters rocking near-stock 10-22’s! Not everyone has a $3k rimfire rig, and not every game needs to necessitate that.
I understand that not every game is right for everyone, but please believe me when I say that there was no ego involved in developing this family of sports. We aren’t saying that our rules dictate what is right, or wrong, or best to use.
I think NRL and PRS are badass, and some incredible shooters use some incredible gear to pull off incredible shots. They absolutely drives advancement, and we see a lot of that advancement trickling down into the Ultimate Hunter sports as well.
This is the beer league of rifle sports. Anybody can come play with what they’ve got, and if they’re a good shooter, they have a reasonable chance at doing well.
Happy to answer questions and entertain reasonable discussions about solutions to the problems you see in this sport!
