NickBlasta

Sucks, but you were specifically allowed by the rulebook. Knowing your rules helps you in the match.

It's more like a clarification because the old rule was not clear enough, saying that basically you could carry a magazine and not get bumped to open as long as it remained in your hand. So it takes care of people asking if they can carry it in their teeth or under their arm or whatever. lol

5.2.4.2 When stipulations in the Written Stage Briefing require placement of magazines or speed loaders on a table or similar location and not in the retention devices prior to the start signal, retrieving them and using them from the hand is allowed. Further, spare ammunition,magazines and/or speed loading devices carried in the hand after the start signal are not subject to the equipment position restrictions of Appendix D, Item 12, as long as they remain in the hand. Magazines may never be held or carried in the mouth for Divisions with equipment position restrictions specified in Appendix D, Item 12.

Yes. "Last" 8 is the 8 most recent valid classifiers. Since the top two are valid scores, they bump out the oldest two valid scores. They become "E". The current two lowest, the "F"s are still your two lowest of the 8 and stay F.

You are basically replacing the bottom two scores (the 72s) with the top ones. It's a +2.02% difference to your average. They are the oldest scores so they drop off first to make way for the top two. The "F"s remain your lowest and stay dropped.

10.2.2.1, can't hit people with violating stage procedure for insufficient shots.

You should be able to do the math after and figure it out. You probably can figure roughly what your hit factor will be, which is the same as your points per second, and figure out how many seconds you trade for the 15 points for a mike. But if you want to develop a sense for it, generally the higher the HF is the harder it gets to make trading time for points worth it. So say like El Prez. Normally you can shoot it in 6 seconds. Say you light strike on the last shot and stop. 60 - 15 / 5.7 seconds = 7.89HF. At that pace, if you could make up the shot with an alpha, doing it under 1.9 seconds would make for a better hit factor. 60 / 7.6 = 7.89HF. If it takes you more than 1.9 seconds your hit factor starts going down again.

It literally says it in the text you quoted.

A replacement takedown lever is illegal already because the CO rules don't allow you to replace it. An aftermarket slide stop is allowed, so I'd have to assume it's legal until the rules say otherwise.

It's really not that difficult to ascertain if the shooter loaded their gun or not. You'll find out right after the beep. As for an actual consequence of "maybe" having to have the shooter comply with the ready condition, I can load my gun for an unloaded start, because it's not your responsibility, right?

Is there ammo somewhere in the gun? Then no. Is the gun completely unloaded? Then yes.

If you're going to nitpick language, the commas create a complete thought rather than separate conditions, that is "must" applies to everything subsequently as a list, including the shooter preparing his gun according to the WSB. It's true that it's black and white, you're just doing it wrong.

Sorry man but it does actually say that. Under the direct supervision of the Range Officer the competitor must face downrange, or in a safe direction as specified by the Range Officer, fit eye and hearing protection, and prepare the firearm in accordance with the written stage briefing. The competitor must then assume the specified start position. The Range Officer will not proceed with any further range commands until the competitor is still and is in the correct start position. You are supervising the competitor (ie, giving them instruction, which may not include only range commands) to prepare their firearm according to the WSB. If they do not ready their firearm the competitor cannot proceed to assuming the start position, and you cannot proceed to "are you ready".

Are you saying that the competitor is complying with "gun loaded and holstered" without the gun being loaded?

The rule is the same rule, the shooter is not complying with the start position, you are enforcing it for consistency's sake. Yes it would be disadvantageous to not have a magazine inserted however the rulebook says that this is an allowable start position and you are not his coach. You only have to consider advantageousness when the rulebook tells you to. The competitor would get one procedural for faulting and you would consider giving him per shot for significant advantage or not.

The gun must be loaded on a loaded start or the competitor is also not in the start position. You must have SOME ammo in the gun to be "loaded". A magazine must be inserted or a round must be chambered. 8.1 tells us to not instruct the competitor to rack the slide if they forget. A3 - Loaded - A firearm having a live round, empty case or dummy round in the chamber or cylinder or having a live or dummy round in a magazine inserted in the firearm. If someone forgets to insert a magazine or chamber a round at all, they must be instructed to comply with the start position.

8.3.1, the range officer will not proceed to "are you ready" until the competitor is in the correct start position.

You could game it a little by making oversized / heavy versions of the parts you're allowed to replace. Brass controls? Weighted slide stop? Extended guide rod?

Yes.

The rule used to permit you to use anything inside the shooting area for support. You could grip the snow fence and hang onto it, whatever the prop looked like it was game. Now it it muddied by the fact that only an edge is usable for support. The edges are narrow sides, a rectangle should have four. However, do the bottom and top edges technically exist since they go to the ground or are infinitely high?

The edge of the wall is what is it is allowing you to use if it's inside the shooting area. Not the entire wall if the edge is inside. Next sentence says you can't touch the wall supports anyway.

As far as I understand, yes. However I feel it's necessary to distinguish between "touching" (like where dipping a toe to the ground outside the shooting area will make you fault and get a procedural), and "gaining support from" where a toe touch is probably not worthy. But if you put your foot on a support to where you are putting some pressure on it while firing (so it is by definition supporting you) that would be a procedural.

Until they define edge I don't think you can do anything except touch the outer edge of a wall, no hooking (since that's beyond the edge). I imagine, logically, touching the inside of a port would be okay since it's an inside edge, but it's not specifically allowed either.

I definitely agree.

There's no need to be condescending, my man. If my foot wasn't touching something that didn't exist it'd be hovering in the air as far as I can imagine. Fwiw it's going to be useful for a lot of people to reference the new shooting area rules. It used to be everything in the shooting area was shooting area - now it's not everything.