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PA Judges:
Assessor courses
Those
PA Judges who conduct and assess candidates for PA Officials courses will
need to gain Assessor Accreditation.
While many PA Judges already hold Assessor certification, for the
others, a series of 2-day courses has been arranged by AISL to enable
coaches and officials to gain Assessor accreditation through AIS registration.
Sample
presentation►
Presenter
information►
Course
locations and dates►
If you want to
attend one of these courses, contact Ray Andrews (Acting NCC Director) ASAP!
PA RO Guides
The
PA Range Officer Guides have been revised and are available for download
in pdf format – there are only tidy-up and format changes. The header panel has been mover from the
left margin to the top margin, so the ‘current’ version should be readily
identifiable.
Hardcopy version of the PA Black Powder
Rules
Following a number of requests from
our Black Powder shooters, the NRC is arranging for a hardcopy printing of
the PA Black Powder rules.
I know there are still typos, grammar
and spelling mistakes in the current on-line
version: these need to be corrected before
the print run. If you have picked up
any of these needed corrections, please e-mail ASAP.
PA Printing of the ISSF Pistol Rules
The
latest printing (2009 3rd printing) of the ISSF General and
Pistol Rules is available through the PA ordering or your PA
Affiliate. This PA 3rinting has all
the ISSF errata, etc. that will be used until the 2013 ISSF rules cycle
comes in.
If
you want a printed copy of the complete
ISSF Rulebook (all 449 pages) these can be ordered in, but the errata and
changes since the 1st printing come as a loose-leaf
addition. The ISSF only has the
revised version available as a pdf for zipped download.
About plug
gauges with a magnifying lens
History bit:
1. Many
decades ago a manufacturer produced a
batch of plug gauges that did not have concentricity between the spindle
(the bit that goes into the target) and the flange (the bit that we measure
with) with the result that these gauges gave a different result depending
on their rotation – this was not a good thing.
2. This
bad batch also incorporated a clear plastic magnifier.
3. These
particular gauges were rejected due to the lack of concentricity – not because they had the magnifier.
4. A
large number of shooters and officials assumed that all plug gauges with the magnifier were ‘dud’ – and some still
do.
The current
situation
Plug
gauges are approved (or not) on their dimensions and concentricity –
whether the gauge has a magnifier is immaterial: i.e. the situation re magnifiers
has not changed.
If
your gauges have a magnifier, it is the dimensions of the plug gauge bits
that are the critical thing, not whether it has a magnifier.
A
Universal Range Command
A
few times of late I have been asked about a standardised range command to
indicate that the range is clear for scoring and patching.
There
is no standardised ISSF/Service/Black Powder/1920/WA1500 verbal command for the Range
Officer to announce that the pistols have been checked (e.g. ISSF 6.9.1.2.2) and the target crew can
go to the targets – worse, the ‘signal’ specified in 6.9.1.2.2 (i.e. facing the targets) is not applicable for the
vast majority of timers for turning targets used in AUS.
So…
to some problems to consider:
1. I
would prefer to avoid any use of the word ‘clear’ in the command. To some it can indicate that the range is
clear to go forward to the targets and to others that the range is clear of
personnel and handling of firearms in the shooting station/s can
commence. If you don’t hear it used
variously for both applications, you don’t get to enough ranges.
2. “FORWARD,
SCORE AND PATCH” has a lot going for it and most PA shooters are familiar
with it; but it does not cover all situations – sometimes the target
personnel go forward to change or repair targets without any scoring or
patching.
3. Metallic
Silhouette has the command “RANGE IS CLEAR” (see #1 above: I have no problem with this as it is a
specific rule for the M/S matches and all the M/S shooters and officials
know its application in those matches).
Here is your
chance to become famous! Thinking caps on and come up with THE standardised command.
10m Bay
Markings
See note added
to the NRC’s
ISSF/IPC web news
2013 Easter Nationals
The 2013 Eater
Nationals have been awarded to WAPA and will be held at the Whiteman Park
venue 23-31 March.
WA1500
The 2013 WA1500
World Championships have been awarded to PA and will be held at Whiteman
Park.
Adoption of
WA1500 Rules
The WA1500 ‘international’ rules were adopted at
the 2011 AGM/ECM, subject (as normal for PA competitions) to the PA
Constitution and GTRs – see more on
this on the WA1500 page.
Until
supplies of the ‘arrow’ target become available clubs can continue to use
the PA Service Pistol target.
As
a reminder, the only
organisation authorised to conduct WA1500 in Australia is PA and
competitors mist be affiliated to PA and the only holster accreditation accepted is a current PA Holster
Accreditation.
ISSF
2011 Rule changes
There
have been a number of changes to the ISSF rules for 2011. While these will be transparent for most
of our members, they will slightly affect ISSF Finals and are noted on the ISSF information page.
For
RFP Finals at PA competitions on turning targets we will retain the
2009-2010 format of 20 shots scored decimally.
The
NRC RO Guides for our ISSF Finals will be updated during July
September (?) but clubs conducting competitions with Finals can continue to
use the 2010 RO guides.
Latest ISSF Rulebook – download
The complete
ISSF rulebook 3rd printing (05/2011) is available for download
as a zipped pdf
file.
Service
Pistol/Service Unrestricted
As
previously notified, there is no change to the trigger
weight for Service Pistol Unrestricted.
However,
there has been some discussion around the traps about changing the start
position for PA Service Pistol (only)
from the current ‘hands above the shoulder’ to the same as used for
WA1500. For background information,
when the holstered pistol was introduced to Service Pistol the only other
‘holster’ event we had was for the Bianchi Cup and quite naturally we
adopted those holster rules for Service Pistol.
We
now have WA1500 with its Start Position.
Given that Service Pistol and WA1500 are both part
of the Easter Nationals (a separate 1920 Nationals are held later each
year) and that these two events are very
similar and shot by the same competitors there is a logic in having the
same start position for both. At
least one shooter got ‘caught out’ at Adelaide (and I have nearly made the
same mistake myself more than once).
The
start position for Service Pistol remains ‘hands above the shoulder’ (rule
S/6.1.1) but a change is worth considering.
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