Keystone and everyone else, thanks for putting up with the experiment.
For those wondering, we shot stage 1 at typical modern SASS distances. The pistol targets were large and 5 yards away and the rifle were small circles at 11 yards. SG were in-between. Then for stage 2 we just moved the table back to make those 11 yard pistol targets, 17 yard rifle targets and 13-ish yard SG.
Results: Generally the raw stage times ran about 6-7 seconds slower on stage 2 - some of that due to SG makeups. (I left two shooters out of the calculations due to problems not related to the stage). Half of the shooters were clean on both stages. The other half went from clean to 1 or more miss.
Those who were there can tell you what they thought of the two. I'll just tell you that I promise not to do it again...
AM
