Lee Satterfield
Well-Known Member
Anyone shooting the Cheytac match in Chesterfield this Saturday?
Anyone shooting the Cheytac match in Chesterfield this Saturday?
I'm shooting the Panteo DMR match the weekend before, not sure I can get away with 2 weekends in a row during Spring Break.
What are y’all shooting? Open or TAC?
I shot Tac last time and we would have cleaned the course of fire but my team mate wimped out and didn’t shoot the 5th KYL target.
It was a bad idea from the start. Made for sandbagging.
I understand what you’re saying but it was destined to fail. People will lie cheat and steal to get a plaque or recognition at a local match.
Put some prizes on the table and all bets are off.
The only way it would have worked was no prize table for the beginners division. No incentive to cheat.
PRS, USPSA IDPA, 3GN, none have a beginners division. There is a reason.
There is no way to determine who is actually a beginner. It was honor system only. Destined to fail. If you want to compete, go compete. Best shooter wins. No participation prizes.
There is no way to determine who is actually a beginner. It was honor system only. Destined to fail. If you want to compete, go compete. Best shooter wins. No participation prizes.
The guys at the top of the leader board probably sucked when they started. Go shoot and have fun. A year from now only the guy that took home the trophy will remember who won. Nobody else will care.The requirements for a beginner was less than a year of competitive shooting. I’ve been shooting on flat and two way ranges for quite a while and my first couple matches I REALLY sucked. Despite being able to shoot tiny groups that translated to exactly jack when the stage requirements were put into play. Now I only marginally suck and can recognize my mistakes as I’m making them.
And maybe some other shooting sports SHOULD have beginner/intro classes. Might get a lot of people involved who normally are too intimidated or whatever to get in the game. Crawl walk run so to speak. The last thing I want to do is get paired with a guy who’s in the running for points, drag him down, and ruin his chance at actually being competitive on the leaderboard when I’m the furthest thing from it in those divisions
Go shoot and have fun.
As long as they let your buddy score while you shoot, there will be cheating in F-class. F-class scoring needs to be by the target puller and the shooter needs to be anonymous to the puller. BR group matches had to incorporate moving target backers to reduce cheating. BR score would be hard to cheat but I'm sure as the sun rises and sets that its been done and is being done. Cheating is human nature.Its hard to cheat in BR or F-Class. It's you and the paper and there are multiple shooters on the line. But it can be done.
Changing after folks have a paid is bad policy IMO. Let it ride, learn from it and make changes next season. That match is still going thru some growing pains. I am very impressed with the flow. They’ve got that figured out well.That’s been the plan the whole time. Nothing wrong with commenting on changes to the match that affect me, however.
The difference in a game and a sport I guess. It's a bit harder to cheat in a sport since you are basically competing against yourself. Like mountain climbing or scuba. When you compete against others (generally referred to as "games") is when human nature takes over and you have to have referees and judges and such.
Changing after folks have a paid is bad policy IMO. Let it ride, learn from it and make changes next season. That match is still going thru some growing pains. I am very impressed with the flow. They’ve got that figured out well.
Anyone going to the range clinic day they're having on May 23?
Yeah I was just looking to get my feet wet in the precision rifle competition world. I've shot several comps but nothing in the PRS type stuff. It's about a 2.5 hr ride for me but I'm thinking of doing it. I might try to shoot the May 30 competition not sure yet as I would be getting off work that morningI’ve done one before which was nice to chronograph certain rounds I was shooting, etc
I was debating this one because additional practice from a tripod and learning to shoot from a piece of rope off the clock might be handy for the match