Captain Bill Burt

My thoughts? If two spotters call a miss and one spotter calls two misses, it's one miss period. I don't really care what inspection of the targets yields, it's one miss unless the spotters change it to clean. If two spotters call two misses one spotter calls a single miss and after examining the targets I get two spotters saying one miss, then it's one miss. As TO I will never try to change a spotter's mind to increase the called penalties, but if I'm sure the shooter got a hit, but isn't getting credit for it, I'm going to point out what I saw, and then live with whatever the spotters report after that. Essentially, if examination of the target introduces doubt, then the shooter gets the benefit. I will not accept examination of the target removing doubt.

Shoot fast and don’t miss.

I'm going to hazard a wild guess and say it was pointed at the mag tube the bullet struck.

10-4 Rubber Duck. Looks like we got us a convoy.

The Burt Bunch will be there. At least three of us and likely four. TN State will be the final match of the South East Open Magnificent 7. https://southeastopenmagnificentseven.com

And, of course, The Last Stand will be the kickoff for the 2025 South East Open Magnificent 7. https://southeastopenmagnificentseven.com/

I reserved an AirBnB about two minutes after I heard this match was coming back. Now the only question is whether it will be just me, or whether I can drag some other Georgia cowboys with me.

I was thinking (I know, dangerous habit) along the same lines as Larsen. If the primer isn’t seated deep enough or the pocket is loose you can get ftf as the first hit ends up reseating the primer rather than setting it off.

Even better! You only need three of the seven state matches to compete in the MAG 7 and there's your three.

It looks like you need to come down to the South and shoot the Magnificent 7 next year! That would allow you to pick up at least two states you haven't shot in yet, Georgia and South Carolina. https://southeastopenmagnificentseven.com/

I've never asked a shooter for a doctor's note, even when I was an MD and an RO Instructor. If a shooter tells me they have a foot problem their word is good enough for me. If they're willing to lie to gain an advantage then they have to live with that. When I broke a bone in my right foot and had to skip the boots for a while nobody asked me for a note, but the limp probably made that unnecessary. Having said that, if a shooter is out there wearing sneakers and sprinting around from station to station significantly faster than I am (and for 61 I'm pretty light on my feet) I will probably conclude that they aren't having any significant issues with their feet, they're just cheating.

Angle? He may have meant to say closer to 45 vice '30'.

I think for many it's simply conflict avoidance.

Just a guess on my part since I'm kinda skinny, but I suspect some wear them up high because they have trouble accessing them when they're where they're supposed to be due to dunlap syndrome.

I really appreciate what our black pins do for us. It can be a thankless job and one that costs you relationships. I know several shooters who to this day hold a grudge against me for calls I made that I really wished at the time I hadn’t had to make. Calling 10 misses rather than a P for shooting the wrong targets. That was a state match and everyone on the posse argued the call should be a P, but no, I’m the hardass for sticking with 10 misses. Telling a shooter he couldn’t stage his rifle with the entire trigger guard hanging off the table. That got me the middle finger at a state match. Telling a shooter that just because the instructions said to start with one hand pointing at the targets didn’t mean he could put the other hand on his gun got me into a ‘debate’ with plenty of unpleasantness that ended with him telling me how much better a shooter he was than me. I’ve seen 3 spotters all call a miss and yet the shooter wants to appeal the call to the MD. Shotgun bras are everywhere and plenty of perfectly healthy shooters routinely wear sneakers. Shooters need to RTM, follow the rules and take their earned penalties with dignity.