You know what, just tell me what range you are the match director at, so I can be sure not to shoot there."The area of contact between the front bag and the rifle’s fore-end will not exceed 76mm x 76mm (2.99
inches x 2.99 inches)."
Let's go by the rule first, then somebodies written memories of the process second.
The phrases don't match in an important way.
The maximum area of contact (between the bag and fore-end) does not include the sides. Fine.
The fore-end is still the entire fore-end as in common use.
The foreend is certainly not only 3 inches of length of the fore-end.
Happy to abide by the guidelines that Aaron Farmer sent Keith Glasscock Remove the rollers, felt is fine, and everything below the bag is fine. You can have at it with anybody else.