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"THE DELEGATE's PAGE"

by SCOTT HOOVER

January 2012

In their December meeting, the ATA Executive Committee made two rule changes and created a handicap reduction “opportunity.”

The first change rule change was to the doubles failure to fire rule. Under the old rule, if you missed the first target of a pair and failed to fire at the second, the pair was scored “lost a pair.” Under the new rule, if you miss the first target and have a failure to fire at the second, you will be allowed to re-shoot the pair with the first target being scored as “lost” and the second target being scored as shot.

The second rule change created three new special categories. The Ladies category will now be split into Lady I (under 55 years of age) and Lady II (55 and over). There is now a Junior Gold category for shooters 18 – 22 years old, and a Sub Veteran category for shooters 55 – 64 years of age.

Both of these rule changes are effective January 1, 2012.

To aid classification personal in assigning you the proper special category, I urge you to inform the ATA of your birth date, if you haven’t already done so. If the ATA has your birth date it will appear on the front of your paper Average Card. You can email Shawna Johnson

(sjohnson@shootata.com) to get your data updated.

Sometime in January, shooters who have a handicap average below the Western Zone break point (90%) will receive the offer of a two-yard reduction. Shooters who are offered the reduction may refuse it, or have it changed to a 1-yard reduction.