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Know the Rule, Follow the Rule, Management

  I write the blog so that you will have direct knowledge as to what occurred  at the Western Territorial from the range officer's perspective. It is meant for your eyes only and those in scoring that you elect to share it with. Prior I have written for our club training a blog on this.  See "Know the Rule, Follow the Rule" at fastdraw.blogspot.com It is my understanding that this issue came up on Range D and Range B during the bracket match and it was handle in four different ways .   On Range D, the CFDA rule was followed and a forfeiture and a win by default occurred. There was no problem or delay.  On Range B, in the first set there were two no shows and the CFDA rule was followed.  Two wins by default occurred. Then, a non shooter called for the arbitration committee and part of the committee, the match director and the chief score keeper appeared. There was an extended discussion with no clear results.  Wild Shot instructed the range officer how it should have been
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Test of Main/Bracket

Yesterday we shot a 4x, 2x Main and at the same time a 2x 2nd Chance Bracket shoot with 10 shooters on 2 lanes. All CFDA rules were followed with the CFDA bye being used.  The match was advertised as a two winning shot format, but that was changed using CFDA Rule IV 11 to three winning shots in main match and two winning shots in 2nd chance shoot. I have concluded that this is not ready for prime time because of confusion and probably never will be because it would have to used a lot before the confusion would be overcome.  19.5 handles it well.  It is doable if you can keep the paperwork straight.   When I look over the score sheets this morning everything looks simple and orderly but in practice it is hard to keep everything straight. Best illustration of the problem:   Even though it was announced as three winning shots in the main match, two winning shots in the 2nd chance shoot, and even though the score sheets had the correct match format on them and the score keepers were t
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Perceptions

So that you know the lay of the land here in the Valley of the Sun, The Arizona Gunslingers have a 6 member board.  The club is a nonprofit corporation, a 501 (c) (7).  We have one "can't" on the board who will oppose anything that expands the club, expands CFDA, or is the least bit different.  He is married to another board member so he in effect has veto power. We have two or three breeze votes who generally do not want to put any effort in and they will vote with the breeze. We have one or two who will give any proposal fair and thoughtful consideration.  We have one "can" who believes success is only limited by the willingness to try.  Then, there are 3 or 4 who refuse to be on the board but they are the prevailing wind.  It is really a pretty typical nonprofit board.  The can't would prefer that everything be done informally so that his veto would control everything. I think we are right back to where we were 6 years ago.  I said at that time that I d
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