Rules Insights

Almost every Monday we get emails with questions pertaining to things that happened at local matches over the weekend. The questions range from “did we call this right” to “I believe I was penalized incorrectly” to the very occasional “the RO treated me unfairly”. We always respond explaining which rules apply, and we also ask if the appeal process was followed and if the Range Master was called. If you are saying to yourself that “only big matches have RMs,” then this post is for you!

Recently, Troy wrote a post about the Certified Ammunition Program which was very informative. However, as I work matches around this country I find what is a fairly straight forward program is misunderstood by some competitors. So, let’s go through the steps and comment on how it occasionally fails.

We don’t see a lot of disappearing targets in matches, but when you see one do you understand the rules about them? Let’s discuss what ROs and competitors need to know about disappearing targets.

This post is not going to cover all the things we do at chrono, because I like to keep these blog posts short and to the point. But I want to explain, to competitors, about the process used at chronograph to determine power factor. Why? Because if everything goes normally, the competitor doesn’t have to answer any questions. If things don’t go well, the competitor will have to decide whether to have that last round fired or weighed. Let’s learn why!

I have been involved in several events recently involving rule 9.7.4 and the subject of mutual consent, and feel this deserves some attention (it has certainly gotten a lot of my attention at recent matches).