buddy44403

Last year I kept hearing how the shoot officials were going to try and do a better job of busting groups. I guess know one told the guys at Parma Archery about it. While I was standing in line waiting for my group to be called, I saw 3 groups of guys all with the same archery club and / or shop shoot together. Two of the groups had one guy hand the official all 8 score cards and asked to shoot together.
Now I'm not saying anyone is cheating but for the 99.8% of us who are honest,the other .2% make it harder to win.
I hope we all start doing a better job of watching out for this and bust the groups are selves if need be.

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Shooting groups shall not consist solely of friends and relatives. Such groups shall be “busted” by including at least one outsider who will keep score, whenever possible. A group of friends and or relatives must be aware that good sportsmanship requires an additional competitor /scorekeeper be added to their group. The archers in a group of team-mates, friends, and or relatives are required to make range officials aware of this situation. Failing to do so is un-sportsmanlike conduct.

This is the updated section of the rule book that pertains to this situation. It will be released this week. In the past this has been a situation that had a sometimes poor chanceof a correctresolution, if questions concerning the problem are answered with less than a complete answer.
ken12