Comments on: Tech Nightmare: CMP Electronic Target Problem at Camp Perry

By: TB

TB — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:06:05 +0000

Reading the article it seems untrained personel gets the blame.
The cabling and the electrical installation , looks like it has been made by complete amateurs, and installed the same way.
Can hardly blame the people operating in the pit for that.

By: Michael Gomes

Michael Gomes — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 05:51:00 +0000

I was a little disturbed (or maybe disappointed) by some of the content of the article. The writer exhibits a martyr like tone in one paragraph then subsequently places the blame on the volunteer pit crew for being untrained and overly enthusiastic about moving the targets. It was hardly the pit crews fault for not having been properly trained or supervised.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:55:39 +0000

If there were only 100 competitors, the turn out was really poor!

By: Monte Milanuk

Monte Milanuk — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:18:23 +0000

Ouch! We had a similar (but much smaller scale) experience with the e-targets at our range. After placing the target frame in the carrier, one of the sensor cables got snagged as the carrier was raised into position, pulling it apart. We managed to find a replacement cable locally for the weekend match, and the vendor rep (Stallings Machine / Silver Mountain) sent us a new cable as well.

Definitely a learning curve as to the ‘care and feeding’ of the new target systems!