Steve Koski wrote:

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

So what do you do with a gun that is jammed up so bad it can't be cleared during the CoF. Or the shooter has to have help from the SO or another to get it cleared. See it happen occasionally. I see 1911s do some crazy stuff.

How does that stage get scored out if you don't say that is a broken gun. It is just a malfunction b/c it can be cleared, even though it might take tools.

Where is the line, and what is the line?


 Jimmy
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