Max no-shoot penalty?

[bbbean]

Short and simple Q: Comstock stage, paper target with no-shoot, best two hits to score. Shooter gets one scoring hit, and puts three in the no-shoot.

RO #1 says 3 hits on no shoot, 3 no-shoot penalties.

RO #2 says 2 no shoot penalties max, cites max of 2 scoring hits.

Cite the rule that makes this clearest.

[Tom D]

9.4.2

Each hit visible on the scoring area of a paper no-shoot will be penalized

the equivalent of twice the point value of a maximum scoring hit.

Tom

[Pat Miles]

9.4.2

Each hit visible on the scoring area of a paper no-shoot will be penalized

the equivalent of twice the point value of a maximum scoring hit.

Tom

Yep, you get each and every hit on no shoots but can do no worse than a zero score on a stage.

Pat

[walter hornby]

USPSA Rule is all of the hits on a no shoot counts, IPSC rule only two count.

[bayoupirate]

Yep, both correct.

[Nik Habicht]

R.O. #2 was most likely thinking of thew restriction in 10.2.3, but that only applies in some very narrow circumstances -- faulting, failing to comply with a procedure...

[Singlestack]

There was a point in time where R.O. #2 would have been correct.