Electronic targets in clubs

[Hemmers]

I use a Meyton with 22 rifle, wizzers with paper on 10m AP.
I’ll be honest, I’d rather keep iPads & printers away from shooting.
Yes, it’s helpful seeing where every shot goes, but it’s another step away from the simplicity I enjoy.

There's something to be said for that. The main driver is competition and preparing for competition. If you're competing on electronics, then its nice to train on the same thing. For sure, you can train on paper - that works and I've done it. But fort hose competing seriously you want to train how you compete. Also, for decimal scoring events you can't easily estimate your decimal performance on paper targets.

At competitions, it chops hours out the schedule if you can post a list of results a minute after the last shot is fired, compared with having to collect targets, score them by hand, compile results, entertain challenges, etc. This lets you get on with finals sooner. Of course electronics do add organisational complexity, so having a bod who knows how to drive them is vital.

But by the same token I've been stood for 40minues at small open meetings (<50 people) where scoring was finished and three people were clustered round a badly-formatted spreadsheet trying to work out who had won the ancillary matches (Ladies/Veterans/Juniors, who had the highest 100yd score from the Double Dewar, etc).

And they still got the presentation wrong and a couple of trophies had to be relinquished and handed to the right person... simplicity ain't all it's cracked up to be sometimes!