georgia, what this all stems from is the availability of money in the southern triple crown and the need to have the team members in different classes. not all teams are taking advantage of this, and had it not been for the addition of the money this topic would not have come up, but, there is money involved and people will use whatever angle they can to achieve the goal, and that is to get paid to shoot.

there is no way for the ibo to guage a shooters ability, off season injury, failing eyesight, change of heart, realization of competition etc....so the rules are put in place to attempt to cover all angles. we all know what rules are really for, no not breaking, changing. as long as there are humans involved there will be disparity. we have the ability as humans reason and think. that one day will be our downfall....greed and competition will fail us as well. until you see someone on tv shooting for millions of dollars will a real system be put in place to control money and people.

i would love to see the pro shooters shooting down for hundreds of thousands of dollars, because they have put in the time to become that good. the amatures have an achievable goal to move up, naturally the money. without the money from corperate sponsors, the sport will never get to that point, so people will compete for whatever money is out there.