Scoring Table

[Pete Wass]

I don't either Dave,

One of the biggest problems I see with forcing the use of a scoring "machine" (computer w/scanner) would be two fold: the cost, and the probability of not having a power soarce available.

At Pinnacle Mountain the cost in itself would have forced us out of the game as we were always a small Club which usually only had 4 or 5 shooters turning out, so there was no way to recover the costs. On top of that, whatever the system it would have had to be battery operated as there is no power source allowed at the range due to it sitting in the middle of a State controlled Flood Plain, and way too far away from the Clubhouse to run extention cords from. And believe me, when it floods the water can rise to 3 or more feet above the bench tops, which are already elevated as all the firing lines were built on top of berms because of this.

In fairness to all Clubs I feel allowing for manual scoring is essential, even if it means requiring manual scoring, as that way every Club is working under the same handicap.

I will mention no names, and I know some of you older rimfire shooters may figure this out, but years ago there were strong rumors about one of the larger Clubs in the country helping to persuade the results in favor of their own members over outsiders by "leaning" against the plug either toward the X for their members, or away from the X for the visitors. They were brazen enough to do this at a match in front of the organizations owners, so got caught and were immediately kicked out loosing their sanctioning. But for a couple of years they caused lots of frustration to some of the top shooters in the country, hence the visit from the owners.

Whatever the answer, there will have to be some leeway given to allow for special circumstances as I don't see going mechanical as being an absolute solution.

Just more food for thought.

As Pete said: Merry Christmas.

Dave.

Thinking about what you said and some of the stuff I have seen, the whole scoring thing has pushed a number of folks away from our Sport. Several of the folks who either use to shoot with us or were contemplating shooting with us do not because of the Scoring thing. Any manipulation of that area pushes back in ways that nobody sees. This is why I asked for the agenda item regarding being able only to protest one's own target. That would minimize some of the problems.

Pete

 

[Wilbur]

Dave told the whole story I think.