ORIGINAL: Arthur P
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 You guys are saying round pin guards are THE way and everything else is obsolete or ridiculously inferior.
Arthur,
Were your scores from the 80's shot on the same range under national competition pressure?
If not, you and I both know that comparison of equipment doesn't apply, too many other factors. Hell, last year my highest field score would have put me in the top 8 in PMFS class in Yankton NFAA Nationals beating Dietmar Trillus, George Ryals, and Dave Barnsdale. However if you would have put me on the same course on the same day under the same pressure, I am sure I would have gotten a spanking from those guys.
Apples and oranges unless the scores were shot the same day on the same course.
And for the record, a ton of great scores
were turned in on the field course before pin guards were legal which does proveyour method does work. Of course one can be proficient with this method, and I won't argue that with you. With that said, I do think with the same amount of work and preperation that one can becomemeasurably more consistent centering the pin guard.