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"If a bullet goes through it, it ain't hard cover."
Frank Glover

The easiest and best call there is.

Everything else is just a lack of opportunity to use props and imagination.

Painted on hard cover is often used as a crutch by designers to complicate what is otherwise simple. Painted on hard cover really needs to make sense within the scenario as if it were real and not just a lack of imagination. Three targets with only heads available are not really threat targets.

Indoor matches do have fewer options and need to use devices to raise the difficulty you can not acheive through props and distance.

Bob

Steve

You miss the point.

Hard cover is certainly a part of the rule book. It also requires interpretation if a target down range from the painted "hard cover" is hit. Did it go through the "hard cover" or did it go through the unpainted portion of the threat target? It matters. It also requires lining up holes. It requires more judgement calls to a greater or lesser degree depending on how the targets are arranged.

Frank uses clearly hard cover, apparently hard cover, and surprisingly hard cover. Pay your money, take your chances, it might go through.

The problem is really in the way the IDPA target is manipulated to be something other than described in the rule book. I am really tired of seeing diagonal painted hard cover on vertical targets. It is lazy. Paint realistic cover on a threat target and make it make sense. When the largest zero zone on the target is the head and it is at a greater distance than described in the rule book for a head shot, it is wrong. I have seen instances of less than half a body zero at 15 yards or more. I have no complaint with the requirement of a down one or better to avoid a FTN, but you have to give the competitor an opportunity that is at least as available as is required of the shooter to maintain cover.

I guess I am spoiled.

Bob