Match Report: Day 3 at Spirit of America in Raton
Report by Bryan Litz
Day 3 of the Spirit of America Individual Aggregate (Thursday, 9/13/2012) started out cold and misty. Everyone was pretty much wearing every shred of clothing they had to get thru the morning, but the afternoon warmed up nicely. Short range was typical; constant and relatively calm at 300 and 500, but the wind kicked up about the time we started shooting 600 and some points started falling. After lunch we shot 900 yards and the points really started falling! As expected, the chaos shook up the standings quite a bit.
Controversy in Sling Class
In the sling class, Noma Mayo was the high shooter at 4 points down. Noma shot a miss at 600 yards, challenged it, and lost the challenge. She finished the range, then later went to the stat house and had the miss removed from her score card. A formal protest was filed, but her amended score stood (without a miss). Needless to say, the result is somewhat controversial, especially considering that Noma is in contention to win the tournament. The current standings in the individual sling aggregate are: Nancy Tompkins at 6 points down, Noma Mayo at 8 points down, and Bryan Litz at 9 points down.
Trudie Fay Continues to Lead F-TR
In F-TR, Trudie Fay continues her dominant performance at 13 points down to win the day. Trudie is also leading the F-TR aggregate with one day to go. Tomorrow is the Raton 8-man team match.
Larry Bartholome won the F-Open class at 7 points down for the day (Aggregate standings were not posted as of when we left the range so it’s difficult to calculate those full standings).
Click Links for Day 3 Full Results: F-Class Individual | Sling Individual
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Tags: Bryan Litz, New Mexico, Raton, Spirit of America
I don’t understand how after the challenge is issued and lost the competitor is then able to make any other effort to have the miss removed from their score. Granted, I’m new to highpower and have an immense amount to learn but this situation seems more than controversial.
I, for one, can’t fathom Noma missing the target at 600 yards – even in a 20mph wind.
I’m curious to know the procedure for having the stat office remove a miss from a score card. What do you put in its place?
Okay, Nancy, tear this match up, then get with it and get the second edition of your book published so’s the rest of us can start to get a clue about how you do it!
Let me see if I have this right. Immediately following the call of the shot by the scorer, the shot is challenged by the shooter. A challenge requires the pit/target officer to personally inspect the target. The pit officer, seeing no visible hit within the scoring lines, denies the challenge. Then, the stat office not only changes the score to what the shooter wants, but also rules negatively on a protest based upon the word of the pit officer?
Wow!