@solo1 - I'm thinking along the same lines as you are, and as many are. Having only been in the AAFTA game for a little over a year, the decision makes zero sense, from a physics or ballistic point of view, or any other view for that matter. However, the decision has been made, albeit with little or no research or common sense, but its in the books. I've also noticed watching the matches that winning seems to always boil down to the forced position lanes. So we have 90% of the shots taken but at the highest levels they mean little, and the 10% mean everything? It the objective who is the best SHOOTER, or who is the best OFF HAND Shooter? When I play golf there isn't one hole on each 9 that I HAVE to hit with a specific club or from a specific position, I can hit whatever I want on every hole...Things that make you go hmmm...
So that being said, the Extreme FT game is growing quickly in the USA for that very reason of too many rules in AAFTA, plus the shooters get to use guns that they can also use for hunting. Up to 100FPE, pellets or slugs, 25 to 100 yards, bucket and sticks position, there you are. Good to go. No specialized rifles or scopes, just shoot what you have. Having talked to a few that are VERY good in the AAFTA game, given the choice, they would shoot EFT rather than FT. I'm in the same camp. We already have EFT in Arizona, Texas, Oregon and Utah, and its growing quickly enough that we plan to have a GP series is 2022.