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  1. It also won't let you record a zero time (it has to be at least 00.01, ie you'd be making one up) so DNF is the only option.
  2. This is it full stop. It was about ensuring a sense of legitimacy in a fledgling division. There might not be justification for it now, but then again... all rules are arbitrary.
  3. 4.2.2 Cardboard targets must have scoring lines and non-scoring borders clearly marked on the face of the target. The scoring zones reward power in USPSA matches. Tape creates a non scoring border.
  4. The tape is your new perf. If it isn't being maintained then the target should be swapped with a fresh one.
  5. Picking a foot up an inch off the ground right before the start signal is not going to meaningfully benefit your run, but it is still creeping. Quantifying the benefit isn't really germane. The competitor is making some physical action that moves them out of the start position and towards shooting something.
  6. Your thumb is part of your body. You're physically moving out of the start position in the interest of it being advantageous to your score.
  7. 10.2.6 Though if you as the RO noticed that the shooter turned off the safety (especially merely after "are you ready") it is a false start and you should ask the competitor to re-assume the start position. If he flipped it off right before you beeped, it would be creeping.
  8. If the gun is in the competitor's hands, 8.1.2.1 applies. The RO is to instruct the competitor to assume the start position by placing his safety on. If the competitor was already started, 8.2.2 applies: 8.2.2 The competitor assumes the start position as specified in the written stage briefing. A competitor who attempts or completes a course of fire where an incorrect start position was used must be required by a Range Official to reshoot the course of fire. If the gun is placed on a table, or otherwise no longer in the competitor's hands with the safety off, it is a DQ under 10.5.3 same as a handgun.
  9. Since the justification there is arguable, just use the rule- 9.9.3 Moving scoring targets will always incur failure to shoot at and miss penalties if a competitor fails to activate the mechanism which initiates the target movement before the last shot is fired in a course of fire. This includes no- shoot targets that must be activated when in front of scoring targets to expose them. Penalties are based on number of shots required for the moving scoring target or the scoring target(s) behind the no-shoot. You get a FTSA regardless of whether you shot at it or not and mikes regardless of whether you hit it or not (say it's visible when set and you put rounds on it but don't activate it, for example).
  10. Yeah. There's no lockup on a blowback gun so once the bolt clears the hammer it will drop regardless if the gun's in battery or not.
  11. Appendix A3 Course of fire (Also “course” and “COF”) An expression used interchangeably with “Stage”. :)
  12. You do score certain penalties by string because the rulebook says to, like extra shots, or mandatory reload failures. The exception for FTSA is written into the FTSA rule. 9.5.7 A competitor who fails to shoot at the face of each scoring target in a course of fire with at least one round will incur one procedural penalty per target for failure to shoot at the target, as well as appropriate penalties for misses (see Rule 10.2.7). As the COF is not over till all strings are completed, you do not tally FTSAs per string.
  13. All you really need for this logic chain is - 1.2.2.1 Standard Exercises – Courses of fire consisting of two or more separately timed component strings. 9.5.7 A competitor who fails to shoot at the face of each scoring target in a course of fire with at least one round will incur one procedural penalty per target for failure to shoot at the target, as well as appropriate penalties for misses (see Rule 10.2.7). 8.3.1 “Make Ready” – This command signifies the start of “the Course of Fire”. 8.3.8 “Range Is Clear” – This declaration signifies the end of the Course of fire. The COF begins with the first string and ends after the last string with RIC. Since FTSA is only considered for any targets unshot after the course of fire, it only matters that they were engaged during any of the component strings.
  14. You receive a general procedural for violating "general regulations", or section 10.1, and is the procedural you give a competitor for failing to comply with a written stage brief. It's also what you're giving when you hit the "general procedural" button in Practiscore while scoring. Do you understand now?
  15. You can't give people a general procedural for engaging or not engaging targets. The rule is telling you that there are other procedurals for non-engagement, or under, or over-engagement of targets, and to use those in place of a general procedural. "String 2 - engage array 2 with 2 rounds each" is WSB procedure. If they do not engage the targets in that string you do not give them a general procedural, you pick from the procedurals related to engaging targets. If they engaged them in string 1, and failed to engage them in string 2, all they can really get are mikes. Additionally, think of it like this - the most common procedure on a field course is "engage targets as visible from inside the fault lines". If I do not engage a target do you give me both a general procedural (for not engaging a target according to the WSB) and a FTSA? No, you cannot give me the general procedural because of 10.2.2.1, you can only use the FTSA.
  16. Troy's opinion isn't a rule, if he wants a ruling that is completely the opposite of the language in the rulebook he should have written it that way.
  17. The correct call is no procedurals and 4 mikes for the unfired shots.
  18. 10.2.2.1 still applies, since it tells you that you can't give stage procedurals for number of shots fired, including insufficient shots, and "zero" is a number of insufficient shots. You have to use a different procedural.
  19. A barrel isn't a wall support, so you could gain support from it, you would just receive a procedural for shooting while doing so.
  20. I know, I'm just playin'. I didn't look at the stage before the match started, or else I'd have fixed it for Bruce. He is learning though, I don't think he'll make the same mistake again.
  21. Haven't I taught you anything? You should have arbitrated based on the stage being illegal and had it thrown out.
  22. This is personally how I interpret it, I can cut a nice square or rectangle out of the middle of the metric target and have it be legal, so my steel rectangle is the general shape of a legal target. "General" is a very generous word that you could, without clarification, use to justify almost anything.
  23. It's been converted to single action at some point, it's more or less the same as converting a CZ to single action. Makes it illegal for production, he can shoot Limited cocked and locked.
  24. As in most cases the WSB is the stick, you can usually get what you want with the stage design carrot. You could just design it so they pass the barrel anyway on the way to each position so stuffing pouches is slower.
  25. I have seen such stages too. Prohibiting stowing of magazines is fine because the rule does not specifically allow you to stow magazines. Nor does it disallow it, so conceivably on a mags on barrel start you could stuff your pouches, but as you note, it would be fine for the WSB to prohibit it. However as carrying a magazine in the hand is specifically allowed, it does not seem to logically follow that you could disallow it via WSB.
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