Jeff, I know I tapped out, but I want you to know I do respect you and appreciate all you do and have done to further Airgun competitions in the USA.
Same goes for Garrett K.
Thank you both.
Same goes for Garrett K.
Thank you both.
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Oh so LAME, just lame…. No technical reason, just change and change can be painful for narrow minds. Maybe we should go back to points and plugs in our cars also? Yup, let’s try and hold back progress as much as possible. That’ll only work until us old guys are replaced by the youngsters. It’s inevitable, but if it makes them feel better for a couple of years more power to them.
Thanks for the update Jim.
A rulebook is no place for providing reasoning, that would just add noise. But I am happy to shed some light on the reason the decision was made.
The board received a lot of feedback directly on this as well as reading through the opinions shared here and on other forums. At the end of the day, it comes down to a number of venues/clubs being concerned about what happens if a shooter misses a target completely with a slug or that slug ricochets off of the target when hit. A number of MD's stated that their venues (many of them gun clubs) would not allow slug use, that really forced the decision. If the rules allow the use of slugs, then they need to be allowed everywhere. Can't have folks practicing with one ammo type only to have to use something else for one or two matches a year at a specific venue.
Yes, there were also concerns about the "spirit of the game" and a few others that chimed in, but at the end of the day, specific venues not being able to allow slug use was the driving factor in the decision.
Do you want to organize EFT into a club structure under AATFA? If that's the thing, the BOG can probably find a way to do that with a slug carve-out for EFT
Knobs
Do you want to organize EFT into a club structure under AATFA?
Knobs
As the match director for the SVFTC here in California, Be it for reasons of ballistic "Fairness" across ALL competitors i feel the ballistic advantage of slugs over a pellet while small at our 55 and under ranges, it is still present never the less. If a VOTE were to be cast on if or not Slugs could be used in our FT game ... personally feel they should NOT.
Slugs are here to stay and that I have no doubt, but lets try and keep the FT game we play on a foundation using the projectiles ( Diablo pellets ) it has sense day one the game began.
JMO.
Scott S