Garry,

The term "equipment failure" doesn't appear in the rule book.  I don't think it's a good idea to develop "extra-rule book" terms and then rules for these terms.  Let's just apply rules in the book.

Can you quote a rule from the book that allows someone who has had a malfunction to not reload and/or complete a COF?  The only exception surrounding "malfunctions" I can see are:

1) re-shoots for the classifier if the shooter has a malfunction
2) re-shoots for stage equipment malfunctions

Neither of these apply here.

Koski