There is much discussion on this subject which is good if everyone is thinking about the overall class and not just what will benifit their own position. The MBO and Hunter Class big as they are at a few shoots are very small if you consider all the facts and potential. In the 2003 year book there are over 100 shoots for people to qualify at and they are still authorizing shoots to qualify at. Only the top 20 shooters in each class qualify to shoot at the world in the amatuer class and the trophy shoot has no qualifying shoots. At the World this year in W Virginia the total shooters in both the rounds MBO AND HC. Trophy and ametuer was approximately 500 shooters. This gives an average of approximately 5 shooters for each qualifier. At the Indoor World the top 20 shooters is less than 10% of the shooters who tried to qualify. With some kind of division in these classes many more people could qualify without having to travel or spend additional monies to qualify. There are many more advantages and reasons that these classes should be looked at and some kind of solution be studied to try to satisfy the majority.
The two classes that we are discussing made up a large percentage of the total shooters at the world. Of the approximately 30 classes represented these two classes represented about 35%. These figures can all be verified very easily.
The IBO is aware of all the facts and figures and if it is possible to make changes easily it will be done. For this year no further changes can be made. At the end of the year there will be another year of facts and figures to use in future changes.
There is no way that everyone can have things just exactly the way they would like them so let us try to put together some things that we will learn this year and help the people in charge look at possible changes that will benefit the IBO and all the members.