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Jay Worden

No-shoot vs. hard cover in stage design

July 21, 2022 by Jay Worden

Over the years I have designed over a hundred courses of fire shot at all levels of our sport. Many people have made a comment that I seem to use a lot of hard cover targets rather than no-shoots. A good friend of mine Ray Hirst once told me, “A hard cover target is the waste of a perfectly good no-shoot.”

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Filed Under: Stage Design

Why no love for Single Stack major?

June 24, 2021 by Jay Worden

One of the glaring issues is the recent trend of shooters going to Single Stack minor instead of shooting major. While some would say this is caused by the proliferation of high round count courses at all levels of matches especially Level II and Level III matches as the primary factor I think they are incorrect. Instead, I see course designs where Single Stack major are at a strong disadvantage.

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Filed Under: Stage Design

Truncation: Words don’t cost money!

June 17, 2021 by Jay Worden

As I go around shooting and working matches and teaching Range Officer classes I see a common issue that really bugs me. That is the common practice of truncation of range commands and called hits while scoring targets.

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Filed Under: RO Best Practices

Popper left up, now what?

November 19, 2020 by Jay Worden

This situation really depends on where this occurs. At a major match, the Range Master is going to be using tested calibration ammo. However, for most clubs in the country they do not have calibration ammo that meets the requirements. So, what happens at a local club match?

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Filed Under: Rules Insights Tagged With: popper calibration

I Don’t Think That’s Right!

August 20, 2020 by Jay Worden

So, what are you going to do about it, eh? One of the things I like about our sport is if you feel that a decision other than target scoring is not right or unfair the rules give you options. Per 9.6.6 once the Range Master rules on a target scoring dispute it is over. However, almost any other decision can be disputed.

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Filed Under: Rules Insights Tagged With: Appeals, Rules

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