dletsch

The system worked fine at Blue Ridge 3 Gun. Most shooters (although not all) that I spoke with thought the new scoring was an improvement. My only concern is that long shots with double penalties need to be presented in a consistent way to iron sight shooters to be anything like fair. On my last stage at blue ridge, one of the target backers was damaged after the walkthrough but before I shot. As it was late in the day, I had no choice but to engage the target based on the backer's position (I have reasonably good eyesight, and can normally engage a 300 or 400 meter target with ironsights without too much difficulty.) In this case that did not work, the RO did not bother to tell me it had moved, and it was not possible to see the target without glass. I don't mean impossible to hit - it was simply invisible. This can be taken care of in several ways: Squadding iron sight shooters together so there is no problem with inconsistent lighting. Backers and painting before each squad, having iron sight shooters go first if it looks like the targets on that stage will be an issue. ROs informing shooters of problems (or repairing backers) before an iron sighted shooter shoots. I realize that shooters using optics have the same issues, but not to the same degree. With a scope the condition of this target would have slowed me down by a couple of seconds at most. With iron sights, I wasted a bunch of time on a target that had moved (well, actually the backer had moved) and there was no way to hit the target. The scoring on the paper targets is a big improvement. Rewarding two-A shooting is a great idea, IMO.

This is what I like for a 1300 for competition - $29 youth speedfeed Pre-shortened speedfeed for $29 - hard to beat. But I like the way they pump but not the way they load - a Supernova or BPS is in my future.