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Subject: Re: Target shooting & scoring question
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Date: 17 Jun 91 00:51:30 GMT
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In article <35675@mimsy.umd.edu>, newcomb@world.std.com (Donald R Newcomb) writes...
#Thanks to everyone who responded to my previous posting on the need
#for a target shooting discussion group. Several people have recommended
#that we NOT split off rec.guns. while still wishing for more target
#related content. I recommend that target related postings have the
#word "target" somewhere in the subject line. That way anyone just
#interested in those postings can use the subject scan feature to
#pick them out.
# 
#Here is a question for US highpower shooters.
# 
#In a 600 yd. Highpower match (U.S. National Match course) I was in
#the pits during 300 rapid. The shooter was firing an AR-15 (.223).
#One round hit at 12:00 O'clock _just_ outside the 9 ring. Between the
#bullet hole and 9 ring there was a very thin but distinct black line.
#My partner in the pit insisted that it was a legal 8 and we should not
#call for a plug. It was run as an 8. The shooter challenged for score
#on that shot. The pit officer asked us, "Can you see black between the
#bullet hole and ring?" I replied, "Yes, but its a .223 and close." He
#replied, "Well, if it doesn't touch and you see black, he lost his
#dollar." The challenge was denied. The pit officer never plugged
#the hole.
# 
#Is this the correct way to score a close .223 hit? Was proper
#procedure followed?
# 
#Donald Newcomb
#newcomb@world.std.com
# 
#[MODERATOR:  Its the pit officer's call, but I would have plugged it.
#In the case that the hole is clearly, cleanly punched through, then seeing
#black between the hole edge and any part of the *white* line (that itself
#constitutes the beginning of the next scoring region) means the lower score
#is used.  If that hole cuts any part of the white line (or black line, if 
#you are out of the black center) then the higher score is given.  Now, few
#hi power shooters use nice wadcutters.  So with typically-used bullets, like
#from the pea shooter you mention, the paper tears a little, the bullet passes
#through, but then the paper edge is still there over the hole.  This is why
#you use a plug, to precisely define the edge of what constitutes the "hole".
#Get 'hold of the NRA rule book for hi power, its makes interesting reading
#after you've already been out to the firing line (though to me it was a bit
#confusing to read before I'd actually been in a match...)]


Page 35 of the 1991 NRA Highpower Rifle Rules says:

"The .30 caliber gauge will be used to score all targets and calibers."

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  May all your scores be 'X's!
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