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Looking some more, I think 5.5.2 is actually the applicable rule here: 5.5.2 Spare magazines, speed loading devices or ammunition dropped or discarded by a competitor after the start signal may be retrieved, however, their retrieval is, at all times, subject to all safety rules. No mention of the course of fire, just the start signal. This reads to me like "the start signal for the current string", which would mean any magazines on the ground when the start signal for string 2 goes off become ineligible for the competitor to retrieve.

The OP's "which start signal?" question is crucial to answering this question correctly. 5.2.4 says "During the course of fire, after the start signal..." The question is, on a multi-string COF, what does "the start signal" mean in the context of rule 5.2.4? Does it mean A) "the first start signal of the COF" or does it mean B) "the start signal of the current string the competitor is shooting"? If it's A, then yes the competitor should be allowed to pick up the magazine they dropped during string 1 during string 2, and the RO interefered with them by picking up the magazine, so it's a re-shoot. However, if it's B, then the moment the start signal for string 2 goes off, the competitor isn't allowed to pick up the magazine if they dropped it during string 1. They would have to pick it up and return it to their belt before starting string 2.

I have a tablet that we've been using for a while to register shooters, so it's got a nice database of shooter info stored in it which makes registration go very smoothly. I'd like to transition to a new tablet and bring that database over - is there any way to transfer the data over to the new tablet? Both tablets are Androids.