Rapid Fire Pit Procedures and Scoring.

 

Before the shooting begins you must inspect the target. Remove all spotting and scoring disks and repair all bullet holes present by pasting with the appropriate color paster or refacing the center. Carefully look for holes out in the miss area and mark any existing holes in the frame.    After inspecting and repairing the target it is ready to be used.
The shooter will now fire 2 sighter shots, single loaded, slow fire. Each shot will be marked and scored one at a time. Once firing has commenced, watch carefully for your shooters shot. At ranges with a berm for a backstop watch the impact area. Also feel the target frame and listen for your shot. Have spotters and scoring disc ready. As soon as you have a shot, pull the target down. The target on the right shows a shot hole in the 7 ring at about 8 o'clock.
The hit was in the 7 ring so it scores 7 points. The red scoring disk is placed in the 7 position on the target. The spotting disk is placed in the bullet hole, black side out to indicate the hit location. Then the target is run up. Target has shot hole marked with a spotter and scored with red disc for a value of 7 points. Now have a white paster ready to repair the current hole when the next shot comes down.
The next shot fell in the X ring. The Spotter is moved from the old hole to the new hit, white side out. The old hole gets the white paster that you have ready and the scoring disk is moved from the 7 to the X position. The target is ran up and you get pasters ready for the next cycle. This should be completed in 10-12 seconds. Target has shot hole pasted, new shot hole marked with a spotter and scored with red disc as an X.

At the Pit Officer's command "Targets Down" the targets are pulled down. At this time you will remove spotters and scoring disks and paste all bullet holes. Then your target will be raised to the half mast position to show that it is ready for the rapid string. The target has been repaired after sighter shots and is in the half mast position. When the Pit Officer gives the "Targets up" command you immediately put your target all the way up and leave it there until you are given the command  "Targets down." Remember to count your shots as they impact your target..
At the command "Targets down", immediately pull your target down regardless of the number of shots you have counted. Before putting any spotters in the target, be sure you have 10 distinct holes. Sometimes two shots will be so close to each other that it looks like a single hole. Most times these can be detected by carefull examination, but if you put a spotter spindle in one of these "doubles" you ruin the hole and it cannot be resolved. In the case of "doubles",  "excessive hits" or "insufficient hits", immediately make the Pit Officer aware before placing spotters on target or scoring.
This target has ten distinct hits. These hits are recorded by quantity on the scoreboard. The scoreboard is hung on the left side of the target. The hits are spotted with 1" disks and the target is run up. All hits are marked with contrasting spotters.               This shooter has a score of 87-1X.              Scored is one X,one 10,four 9's, three 8's and one 7.

Scoring and Pit Procedures

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