Notes from the Shoot Office: Starting the Season Off Right!

The shoot office welcomes you to another year of fun with guns. We work very hard to make yours an enjoyable experience and as always, if a shooter has any questions, please come in and see one of us and we will help you the best we can.

As we start a new season, we want to remind you/update you on several items:

• At the beginning of each season, we remove any declared minimums that a shooter requested be set on their shooter record for last season. This means that if you told us last year that you wanted to shoot no lower than 24 yards so you can stay on your squad, that notation has been removed from your record so the auto-handicapper can recalculate where each shooter "should be" shooting. If you would like us to place a new minimum on your record, please let us know and we will be happy to oblige.


• Please check your starting handicap classes and yardage closely. For continuing shooters, the first time that you shoot is the bucket that you will be competing in for the yearend awards. For new and new-ish shooters, the handicapping of your 6th ever shoot will be the classes/yardage that you will compete in for the yearend awards. If anyone has questions, please see Warren FAY.


• The ATA has made a significant modification to the Doubles Failure to Fire (DF2F) Rule this year. Shooters are still permitted only two legal F2F’ s for each doubles sub-event, however the shooter will no longer automatically lose a pair if they have an F2F on the second bird after missing the first bird.
  
  Under the old rule, a shooter who had what would be a legitimate F2F on the second target of a pair after missing the first target, was scored "Lost Pair" and no F2F was charged. Under the new rule, a shooter who misses the first target of a pair and has an F2F on the second bird will be charged with an F2F AND will be allowed another "repeat" pair. The shooter will be required to shoot at both targets and no matter the new results on the first target, it will be scored "Lost" and the second target will be scored as-shot. In other words, while there is a "do-over" for the "pair" there is no "do-over" for that first target. The formal version of the ATA rule can be found on the ATA website. Oh, also remember that it is illegal to shoot at the same target twice. One cannot ignore the first bird of the pair and just shoot at the second bird.


• The ATA has offered a special one-time-only 2-yard reduction to some of their shooters. This "might" affect an SBTL shooter if the SBTL auto-handicapper is pegging it’s yardage on that shooter’s ATA yardage.
  
  The SBTL rules dictate that each shooter shoot at their longest yardage. One of the most confusing things for new and seasoned SBTL shooters alike is how the SBTL calculates their handicap yardage. While the SBTL "takes into account" the shooter’ s ATA/P ITA yardages, the SBTL yardage is calculated differently and SEPARATLY from the ATA/P ITA. It is possible that the shooter’s SBTL yardage is calculated as longer than the shooter’s ATA/P ITA yardages.
  
  If you are shooting ATA and/or PITA, you need to make sure that we have your ATA/PITA shooter ids on file with the SBTL. In addition, when you earn advancements or reductions with the ATA/PITA, please be sure to let the handicapper know each time you shoot at an SBTL tournament.
  
  If the SBTL shooter has shot an ATA and/or PITA event in the last two years, the SBTL auto-handicapper will take their ATA and/or PITA yardage into account when it handicaps that shooter. Since the ATA is revising its yardage, it is particularly important that the shooter lets our handicapper know what their "proper" ATA yardage is be fore they shoot at each SBTL tournament. A shooter found to be shooting at the wrong yardage will have his/her scores disqualified and any monies and/or trophies won will be forfeit.
  
  If the ATA shooter accepts an ATA yardage reduction and that shooter's SBTL handicap is based on their ATA yardage (as their "longest" yardage), the SBTL will be happy to re-handicap the shooter. Please note that the shooter can have their SBTL yardage reduced by only ONE YARD from the last yardage that they shot.
  
  Again, the SBTL calculates a shooter's yardage separately from the ATA. It is possible that the shooter's SBTL yardage is longer than the shooter's ATA/PITA yardage and a reduction in the shooter's ATA yardage will have no impact on the shooter's SBTL yardage.

Handicap Purses

Directions

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Pre-squad List

For those shooters that are pre-squadded and have an email address on file with us, you will receive a Pre-Squad Reminder Email several days before each shoot. Please use this email to report an absence for that shoot.

If you have no email address on file, please call (408) 409-6103 or use this online form to pre-squad, to notify us of changes, or to report absences.

For the current pre-squad list, please click here.

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