Get, Set, Shoot: Target Shooting Games

Competitive team sports are a healthy exercise that nurtures bonding and gets adrenaline pumping at the same time. Be it having fun at a laser tag party or shooting clay targets with a rifle, target shooting has numerous boons.

Target Shooting Games

Get Set Shoot Target Shooting Games

It is a well-known fact that Australia is a popular nation for its expertise in target shooting. Shooting ranks seventh in the Olympic tally of Australia’s most successful sport. Although the beginning of shooting targets for sport can be traced back to the 14th century, it now garners mainstream attention.

Digitization has many benefits, including playing free, convenient games online. But this has bred a generation of couch potatoes who are yearning for a change. One of the ways to get out of the digital rut is to get out and play.

The most popular team shooting games that one could go for are:

Laser tag

The name is a misnomer as it does not make use of an actual laser. Due to safety concerns, infrared light guns, sensors, and bodysuits are used to play the game. It was born in 1979 and since then has been on the fore of shooting for sport.

It is preferred over paintball and Airsoft as there are no pellets involved. Therefore all physical pain is absent. There is no projectile shooting, and it is less physically demanding when done indoors. So, a laser tag party is a fun, healthy way to shoot some. The games played using these guns range from annihilation, capture the flag, domination, etc.

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Paintball

Paintball uses balls or pellets filled with a gelatinous mixture that breaks when it hits a target. It makes use of air guns called HPA/CO2. The game is played both indoors or outdoors on fields and obstacle courses. The terrain is suitably designed for tactical cover.

Airsoft guns

Airsoft is similar to paintball as it is a team shooting sport that uses plastic pellets for shooting members of the opposite team. The marked difference is that Airsoft does not use paint to mark the victims. It works on an honor system that expects the victim to call oneself out when one is hit.

Archery- Bows and Crossbows

 A combat Archery sport is called an Archery Tag. The players shoot each other with foam-tipped arrows. Like dodgeball, the players rush to collect arrows at the center of the arena at the sound of a whistle. They fire at players. The one that hit is immediately eliminated from the game.

Protective masks for the face and low weight arrows prevent injury. An eliminated player can be brought back into the game when a team’s player catches the arrow. Archery has become famous after the Hunger Games trilogy release, where the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, is a skilled archer.

Rifle and Handgun Shooting

Bulls-eye shooting is a famous sport for attack weapons. Handguns, rifles, and snipers are some of the guns used to shoot targets at a distance. There are both indoor and outdoor field opportunities for this kind of shooting.

Clay targets and metal stoppers are used as field shooting targets. Moving targets also heighten the bragging rights associated with this sport. Plinking, muzzle-loading, and bench-rest are some of the various styles for field shooting.

Conclusion

Although competitive shooting games are for recreational purposes, its scope is not limited to that. It can serve as training for competitive professional shooting. It helps the players by enhancing cognitive function, motor skills, and team building.