I am not the father that JGC referred to but I shot both days with his son and the other young man that he spoke of and I can personally attest to what was said by the "pros" and by those shooting behind us. What was the most disheartening about the entire situation is that some of the comments were directed at us [myself and the 2 boys]. Not all of the comments that were made have been quoted in this thread nor will I post them but they have been given to the person that needed to know what was said and by whom it was said. I find it sad that our "pros" are no different that the so called pros in other athletic orginizations and that others who compete at lower levels are no better in that they would purposely make rude and vulgar comments to 2 young boys who were simply caught in the middle of something that they had absolutely no control over. And on another note, my wife walked the course with me this weekend so that she could be involved in somethig that I love to do but at this point I am not sure that I can convince her that this was an isolated incident and be able to get her back out with me again.

Well Mr. IBO Shoot Director. I think the remedy to this situation is a no brainer for future tournaments.

Let the Pro's shoot with the pro's, and only with the pro's,all forty targets. They could take two weeks to shoot all forty targets if that is what they need. The only ones they would holding up is themselves. Then you could change their rules to a 20 minute time and not affect the mass, which you have done.

Thankfully this did not happen on myrange. I finished late Saturday afternoon. But if the weather was inclement and I needed to get 10 or 20 targets in on Sunday and had to go through what these poor fellow archers had to, it would be me raising the BIG FUSS.

I am wondering, I keep reading about how nasty the pros were to some of other groups, and I keep reading that "there is a radio at each tent". Now lets say for example you don't know the names of these shooters, and they are 2 groups in front of you, how in the world are you supposed to get someone at the tents to contact an IBO official for you when you are on the course? Are you supposed to leave the course and go tell them? If you get held up at the end for some reason, bathroom break or something, and they are in front of you and they check in at the tent before you get there, how are you supposed to file a protest against someone when you don't know there name? Even if they are there they may not tell you their name, for example if it is the first day of the shoot and they keep their cards, now what do you do? I don't think an official is going to follow this person and badger them to get their name. So now what are your options?

BTW. ELK_Huntr, I totally agree, give them their own course, they pay enough to shoot to get their own anyway.

sorry, wrong thread, I'll take this over to the right thread now.....

You guys think you got it bad waiting people to shoot. Try shooting in a recurve or longbow class. It took us 7-8 hours to shoot 40 targets on Friday. Saturday we went to the indiana state traditional championship and shot 60 targets in 3 hours on a course filled with shooters. And we took our time doing it too. 2 minutes per person is way to long.