But is the day coming to the norm will be where the man with the single Rifle, (a good shooting LG), can rule the day, much as in 100-200 yard Benchrest, where a good Sporter is the Rifle of choice for 90 percent of the shooters??.......jackie
It already is the case. However we are no where near the 80 or 90% range.
A 1K Heavy gun, especially one that's shooting good, is a true pleasure to sit behind and shoot. For that reason alone I don't see HG's leaving the sport anytime soon. In short range where the bullets generally weigh 1/3 as much as ours, yes I can see that, but in long range too many guys shoot big calibers and would not want to give up the comfort of the heavier gun.
Now where you talk of competitiveness, there you are correct and it parallels short range. If a person has a good shooting light gun and shoots it in both classes, they give up about nothing to the heavy guns. In my years of shooting one gun, I had more relay wins in HG class with a light gun and no brake, than I had in the light gun class with one.
In our World Open Agg Match, 3 of the last 6 years the two gun overall winner was shooting one light gun (Actually one shot 2 diff LG's, one three times one once). One of the years where a light gun did not win two gun overall, it won Heavy gun overall, And in our regular season 10 match aggs here in Williamsport, there has been a Two Gun Overall Winner shooting a light gun only, and they did it without winning Light gun overall.
In the past, statistically speaking, braked guns have shot worse than unbraked. It has been almost universally true that people who shot two classes with light guns shot better in the HG class than in the LG class (difference being no brakes then in HG).
SLW said:
So once again Pa. took 2 steps forward and1 back with the new changes. Allowing breaks in heavy gun class,when the IBS clubs voted NO! Now the Pa. shooters going to IBS clubs must remove their heavy gun breaks. Back to the three part vote:[1] 38voted for lightguns to be allowed to shoot in heavy gun[2]61 voted either gun with breaks[3] 32 voted no.I view this vote as 38 voted for light guns to be allowed in the heavy gun class , not as heavy guns being allowed. If you add 38+32 no=70 which is greater than 61 yes! One question I have for anyone is this. If a shooter sitting either side of you is shooting a 375 cytec (which is legal )with a break and fires, does the blast effect your bullets flight path as close as the benches are? The blast would throw percussion waves right into your line of fire.I do not think this was thought out to wisely.
Well, be glad that there was one net step forward I guess. As for "Removing" their brakes, I'd say that 10 years experience doing it should be enough that they don't complain.
On the 3 part vote, you could also say that 32 people were against, and that 93 were for allowing SOME brake. If you choose to look at it negatively, then yes you can. There were also 4 votes that checked 2 boxes which were not counted. Mine was one of them and I really don't care. I checked two boxes cause it doesn't mean a thing to me what guys do. Go put 10 brakes on the gun, I don't care. So, you could also say there were 4 more votes in each of those categories where the person has no problem with it.
As for the 375 affecting my bullets, well, I guess shooting beside Larry Wolfe with his braked 338 never bothered me so I'm not gonna ball-suck and cry if someone shoots a 375 now. Larry's 338 was probably about as much fun to shoot as Earl's 30-378 and I don't see anyone crying about Earl. He's shooting and having fun with the gun he likes, wins relays with it and I even see his name near the top of last years LG group Toplist as well. I say God Bless him. At least he shoots.
If anyone wants to know the truth, having these big guns on the line is a good thing for a lot of people. Now when I shoot bad and get beat, I can just cry the blues and complain that the person beside me is the reason I shot bad. It's a win win situation.
I say wait and see what it brings in real life. If a person feels so strongly enough against it, go get signatures from the 32 who voted no and start a petition, it's enough people to do so. Just remember that there were 97 people who didn't seem to care enough to vote no, and another gazillion who didn't care enough to waste 41 cents worth of gas money.
