Under IBS rules a person draws a bench and 2 (or maybe its 3) additional shooters may request the same bench for equipment sharing purposes.
I would assume NBRSA has something similar.
So why was that not allowed at the last three IBS 1000 yard national events? You could request to not be on the same relay, but you may end up shooting 7 benches down, three relays later. You had to move your equipment.
The reason I have some concern about this ruling is that I have a 12 year old that is becoming VERY interested in shooting. I have taken him to three mid range f class shoots. He is a wind reader (musta got that from his mom
) and I'm guessing spanked about 75% of the adult's ass's in some tough , switchy conditions. He is just not big enough and experianced enough to move and set up his own equipment, and my range is still under water, so we can't even get to my benches to practice. He is able to do pit duty, which was why I didn't bring him last year...the last thing I wanted to happen is to have him pulling for one of the top shooters gunning for a record and messing up. Knowing him, that would end his shooting career on the spot.
Mike,
As far as flags....I say the more the marrier....just down below the bench to target level. And while you are setting them up that way, set a couple up for me to. At my range I have set up flags every 100 yards up to and including 1200 yards...could see every one of them. Ok...my flags are nothing more than survayors tape on a piece of lath, but I can get a sence of what is going on. The problem was that more times than not I had at least 6 differant readings at the same time, as my range is east and west and runs through two differant north - south shelterbelts and along another that has some holes in it. After while I just put one up at the bench and one at the target....maybe one mid range. It is just to much info for me to soak in durring battle. My brother, who was a fighter pilot explained..."your mind has the ability to process millions of bits of info a second, but when the fights on, that million gets reduced down to one or two.....kind of a mental tunnel vision". That is why the big push for simpler and simpler cockpits. My "heat of battle" is the last 30 seconds of the sighter period till the ceace fire command after the match. I start the 6 min sighter period thinking about my gear setup, wind, bag technique, more wind, comfort, checking ammo...ect,ect....lots of stuff. As the sighter period clock counts down I start thinking about less and less things. People complain about shooting next to loud, obnoxious ,breaked magnums.....after about the first 4 min of the sigher period they just plain cease to exist to me. The last 30 seconds is ALL ABOUT THE WIND...PERIOD. I may shoot 5 sighters in the last 30 seconds. When the "fire when ready" command is givin there is only one thought.......smoothspeed. Now if a MAJOR WIND CHANGE HAPPENS I will take notice. But at least half of the time i actualy HURT my self by trying to outsmart the change......
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The reason for all of this "tunnel vision" is because I am very compeditive...and I want to win, so I get a little nervous. My thoughts are you will be too, and there is a HUGE differance between sitting behind the line watching conditions and being behind the gun watching conditions. Try and actualy SHOOT a match...get to know how things go while at the bench, weather or not you get nervous or not, weather that switch you saw (or think you saw) actually happened based on what is on your target.
Anyway...like what was stated above...not trying to be an ass...just trying to give some real world perspective based on actual experiance.
Good luck.
