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jarelj:
That classifier was BRUTAL!   :o

JTH:

--- Quote from: jarelj on December 04, 2016, 09:55:00 PM ---That classifier was BRUTAL!   :o

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Many people tried to do exactly what we suggested NOT doing!

Simply getting 4 A-hits on the first string, 3 on the second, and 2 on the third would have been 45 points---a 50%.  And yet.....from the scores, SO MANY PEOPLE tried getting all 6 hits on all three strings, when that obviously wasn't going to work out. (7 out of 39 people got at least 45 points.)  Tell me that given 5 seconds, you couldn't have gotten 3 accurate shots SHO, or 2 WHO?

Fixed Time really takes a different mode of thinking.

Scarily enough, this is the ONLY Fixed Time classifier that doesn't have targets out to at least 25 yards.  (One has them out to 50.)  The others are (in various ways) worse.

People should have shot PCC.  This was a LOT easier in that division.  (And no, a PCC shooter did NOT choose this classifier. :) )

jarelj:
Yup, that's what I did for sure, tried to shoot the same speed on all 3 strings and apparently I'm not capable of doing that one-handed!  I guess I just wanted to "try", hoping for a miracle?  Ha ha!  I knew I was in trouble after watching Cody hit 4 no-shoots on his run.  ::)

JTH:

--- Quote from: jarelj on December 05, 2016, 10:43:34 AM ---Yup, that's what I did for sure, tried to shoot the same speed on all 3 strings and apparently I'm not capable of doing that one-handed!  I guess I just wanted to "try", hoping for a miracle?  Ha ha!  I knew I was in trouble after watching Cody hit 4 no-shoots on his run.  ::)

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I always think that "Fixed Time" should actually be called "Know Your Limits".

I ran this a couple of times using 8"x10" index cards for A-zones, with my Production rig, and I don't think I got above a 60 point score.  (Well, technically I did once, but "blind luck" is not a good way to bet in the shooting sports.  Twice when I pulled the trigger, all I knew was that the bullet was going to end up in the berm, but had NO IDEA where.  Just happened to be in the right spot by pure luck.)

I can pretty much get the 6 freestyle (5 definitely).  3, maybe 4 SHO.  2, maybe 3 WHO.   As such, if I get a good grip perfectly, and do the trigger like I'm capable, I'd probably get 13 A-hits.  If I'm really on, perhaps 5 SHO.  (Not four WHO at the moment.)   So for me, at my current level with a pistol, 14 A-hits tops.  That's about a 77% classifier score.

I'm pretty sure I can get at least 9 every time.  (That's just 4 freestyle, 3 SHO, and 2 WHO.  That's 45 points, or a 50%.)

....and if you look at the scores, you can see quite a few people who are better at SHO and WHO than I am who DIDN'T run it that way, and it killed them.  Several of those folks could shoot a 50% all day, if that was the requirement.  But since we are so used to trying to get all those shots in....well.

We probably won't run another Fixed Time classifier for a long time (cue the sighs of relief) but it is an interesting change of pace, and a useful check on whether or not you are really controlling your shooting and only pulling the trigger when the sights are on target, or whether you are just running on a timing autopilot.

Answer for most of us:  Autopilot.  Dang it.

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