RE: beating a dead horse
Keith
To keep it brief, we should consider that shooting 3D is a game and treat it as such. If binos are legal there should be no restrictions limiting power. This power is available to everyone and is used to check arrow placements on spent arrows and ll rings. The exact placement of the arrow can not be seen with the naked eye for many people that is why they may need to use binos. Very few if any tournaments are decided by who had the best binos because you still must shoot the arrow. If using them to get the range is the problem then we should take time to weed out the suspected individuals based on complaints and not restrict everyone for what a few people could be doing.
In view of the reacent history of shooting problems, every organization should be doing everything it can to encourage all archers to come out and participate.
The number of shooters at a given shoot are in decline in many areas, so to become more of a restricting organization based on a few complaints serves no one but the few people complaining. This is water over the dam but their may be no need for a dam if the real silent majority is not heard. Restricting a persons ability to give definition to a target is the only real loss to the majority of the shooters.
Enough beating a dead horse by people who never helped kill the horse.
PS Our league has averaged over 85 shooters for the past 5 weeks out doors and we have a range finder class. The scores for the range finder class are lower for most people and they choose not to shoot this class as it does not help the majority.