Cheats

[Weevie]

Here's one for you, though. I shot Basingstoke this year with a bloke who plated the wrong target - I didn't realise he was aiming off. He wasn't in the running for a top spot so I gave him a point - he was happy, and I was happy. I shot Basingstoke last year (second HFT shoot, a nightmare) and saw someone watch their partner take aim at the wrong target, take the shot and drop the target, then instantly say; "that's a zero, I'm afraid". I figured that was pretty unsporting. What say you?

Cheers,

Absolutely bloody awful. In fact there was a thread, oh last year I think, from Sparky about just this very thing. The spirit of HFT is to prevent someone's silly mistake from losing them a point. Of course, that's not coaching that's just giving someone the best chance to avoid obscuring their talent with a silly mistake.

I saw what looked like a heated - or perhaps more appropriately frank - discussion on one of the pegs where 'the-peg-was-touching-the-tree-therefore-the-tree-was-the-peg'. It seemed straightforward, but someone was adamant that that wasn't the case. I didn't catch it all, but I did wonder in passing; "does it really matter that much?" "is it really that important?"

Well, what they should have done is ask a marshal.

If it was Mr Haas then I can just imagine the scene. For all his...um...eccentricities, Tony is a decent fellow at heart.

He just doesn't realise how close sometimes his entirely well meant banter gets to having his rifle put somwhere he'd have trouble getting the three point kneeling stance from!

Don't worry Tony, I'll always shoot with you!