RE: UMBRELLAS?????
Well, like I said, if 3-d isn't hunting practice (unknown yardages, at an animals vitals....unless you make NEW scoring rings on 1/4ing away targets, you just use what you have) why not just put out a Vegas target at unmarked yardages. Then the 36" stab,umbrella girls, and 6x scope wouldn't seem so out of place....at least vs. shooting a gator :-)
The rules seem to try to get as many as possible happy....so we end up with a dozen classes or so, and some of these classes start to take away from the original idea of 3-d shooting....unfortunately, these are the same classes that get the money (Not that I care about the money) and hence the attention, and press.
PERSONALLY, I'd like to see a pro HUNTER class, I'd like THAT to be the premire class. No umbrellas, no big stabs, no optics just guys shooting bows that at least mechanically would not be out of place in the woods (Yes, I do hunt with a 39" ATA bow).