Okay, GMMAT, you kinda skimmed right over what I consider an important point and didn't even acknowledge it.

I'd like to hear your explanation of why the scores I shot in the 80's - with no pin guard at all - would put me in the top 5 in the NFAA outdoor nationals today. Distances haven't changed. Targets haven't changed. Some of the rules have even been relaxed to to allow updated equipment. I mean, if the technology and methods are so superior to the antiquated methods we used and the equipment we had to shoot with back then, wouldn't you expect a huge leap in average scores?

By the way, I am the one saying there's more than one way to skin this cat. You guys are saying round pin guards are THE way and everything else is obsolete or ridiculously inferior.