Posted by Peter Merriman on Mar 16, 2017; 1:31am
URL: http://oldforum.flyshooter.com.au/Proposed-rule-change-for-discussion-tp5709168p5709178.html

Hi All,

I witnessed first hand competitors telling each other when to fire by the spotter taping the shooter on the shoulder and the shooter fires. (To be honest it really pissed me off to see what I believed to be unsportsman like conduct.)
When i brought this up at the time on the line with the range officer i was advised that there was nothing that could be done as there was nothing in the rule book to stop it.

Grey areas will always come back to the way a shooter, range officer ect interperates the grey area.

I understand we cant capture every single thing that a shooter might do either intentionally or by accident.

Unacceptable
A rule that states "a spotter must not intentionally touch the shooter or the shooters equipment including rifle or scope.
As a spotter at no time are you to tell the shooter when to fire"

Acceptable
A spotter advising the shooter on where the shot landed, tails of flags or sudden wind change should in my opinion all be allowed.

I F we have a rule such as above in the rule book and we have the newbie shooter situation, the range officer should be advised before a relay that (Dave Grovesas an example) is going to help someone get on target, which means Dave may need to turn a turret or advise the shooter to turn the turret. The management of that situation should be up to the range officer to manage.

In my opinion the range officer should be able to interperate a situation and then use the rule book to decide if there has been a breach. If a breach is determined then a warning should be issued if the shooter or spotter do not recognise the range officers authority the 3 member protest committee should be notified and the shooter should be advise that the target he or she are shooting at will score zero. Give the shooter the option to protest but keep the shoot going. If there are further breaches by that shooter the target that the shooter is on at that time will also be marked as zero.

Just some ideas that have been floating around in my head since the shoulder tapping incident.

Peter