I understand your point here buckeye, and I like the way you are thinking, but here is the issue with that.

In order to make that sort of thing viable, it would have to be uniform. I don't think I have ever shot two 3D tournys exactly alike. Even at the clubs I shoot at every month, the stakes are always moved, even if the targets never are. Then you get the oh so fun aspect of the weather. Make it cold, make it raining....and your scores will drop an average of 20 points (in bowhunter class).

I'll bounce this off you too....an average of 8 makes a 30 target score of 240. the tournament I shot last week had 80+ shooters in bowhunter class...and only 30 or so of those shooters had over 240. Weather was as perfect as can be...hardly any wind. No bugs to speak of. Now, there are times when dang near everybody shoots above 240...and the winner will have around 315 (which is pretty dang hot shooting). But here is the kicker....if you completely MISS a target (which in my mind is a best case scenario in hunting for a bad shot), you get a score of zero....you have toshoot tens on the next four targets in order to get back on par. And even if you clip a couple of fives, it still takes a pair of tens to get back to one up.

I digress. I don't want to discourage anyone from hunting. I don't think anyone does. Hunter Education is a good thing. We can teach and educate there. Leave the shooting skills for personal improvement. Just like driving tests, its all a test on knowing the laws, safe practices, and procedures....there is no part of the driving test where you have to run a pole setting qualifying lap. They don't care how fast you can drive, as long as you can drive safely and follow the laws.Same applies with hunting.