Current F-Class National Records

[Kings X]

Ya know, all of you can be high masters. Just add a remote control and wind activated servo motors to your already rested, highly magnified rifles. Easy peasy, right... 8)

JS

I am a HM in Open.
Entered TX State in F/TR. Had to shoot HM. Came in DSL. Missed my servo motor.
Just being HM does not guarantee winning.
Them other guys can shoot.
But I bet if you flipped it and a HM in F/TR shot my Open gun he would find out the same thing - "Them other guys can shoot."

 

[M14AMU]

You guys are really screwing up! NO WONDER you can't get more folks to come out and shoot! You're giving these poor 'newbie's' inferiority complexes and what you should do is just go shoot and not keep score because after all....we're letting our kids/grandkids play baseball without keeping score because TO WIN.....might hurt someone's feelings!! ;D

 

[Bob Sebold]

Gentlemen, I think the reason we have classifications is so all or most of the best shooters get stuck on the same relay. That way we can only bitch about shooting on the tough end and not that somebody got stuck on the "easy relay". After the first day of a big match everybody gets squaded by score anyway and the classifications go out the window. If you are an expert and get a really easy relay, next day you shoot with high masters. If there are 10 high masters in FTR they get squaded with the master class. If there are 68 high masters they get squaded together. Doesn't make a bit of difference what your classification is the 2nd or 3rd day. If you can't shoot you get pushed down the line, if you can you pushed up, very simple. It is just the NRA's way of trying to make the best shooters shoot against each other at the same time. As shooters we can come up with a lot of reasons why we had a bad relay but the score card really doesn't care.

 

[DieNarrin]

The classification do help encourage shooters to keep shooting and to increase our skills. They have little meaning other than that. But after shooting in last year's world competition - the wind conditions were radically different between relays and on that first day, there were shooters that were able to stay in the hunt from the start and others that had to catch up. But, a competition is not won (but it can be lost) on a single relay.

It is nice to shoot with your "peers" on each relay to see how well you are doing. I like to win, and haven't had the chance to do that against the "big boys" ---- yet. Shooting with those in my skill set helps keep the climb in sight without making it seem like an impossible goal.

 

[DieNarrin]

Oh and by the way...

Working in Houston for two weeks - can't help but think about all the texas guys and realize how bummed I am that I don't have anything to shoot with down here.

 

[noload]

Hell I'm Hm in Mid and LR f/open , my son beats me with his 308 TR rig anytime he puts his mind to it. As they say in Manatee..... IT'S the INDIAN not the ARROW. Pat