Here is Ken's reply from last year

RE: IBO Binocular rule


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Sorry I have not been able to respond to all this mis-information sooner! I've been gone and when I got back my computer no longer functioned with the old pass words.
As a point of reference, in many of the rules there is a margin of grace. 280-288, 4" will allow 3.75, etc.
In this instance the 8.5's are allowed.
I had an opportunity two years ago to have a demonstration of equipment that measures magnification. It was at the Springnationals in Fla. Pretty neat. They wanted to bring it to the World's to check equipment.Now that would make a line to stand in. But I suppose we could do random checks and all the finalists.
Suffice all this to say the tolerences held for magnification on many optics are not exceptionally close.

The company was there to preview an upscale line of optics they were bringing out. That was Pentax. Not one pair was 8.5x.
This past fall we were told that if we changed the rules by the logic of a particular company they would give a Diamond level sponsorship. The board did not consider it.
The same as when the rule was originally changed. Much of the info provided was by several optics makers. They agreed with the problem for our game. BUT, when the board made the change we DID lose a major sponsor. Other organisations did not make the change and kept the sponsor. That was their choice.
But the IBO board made a decision based upon the information that they had available to curtail a way to measure distance to a point that a significant advantage was gained by the person with the optics capable of this process.
ken12




1/28/2003 10:04:57 AM