You make rules for the lowest common denominator
Since we don't vet the shooters, there is no qualifier, and we are clearly not enforcing even the most basic rules, changes have to be made. If you are unwilling to acknowledge violations are on the rise, you have no business commenting.
It's not a rule to punish, it' s a guideline for safety and to give you a baseline to work with. As an example, if you are saying 1LBS is the lightest, and then a person has an ND, you can check the trigger weight and enforce the rules. If they have the trigger set to 12 oz vs being set to 16oz (as an example) you now have 2 violations to enforce and it's no longer grey. Clearly, it was lighter than the guideline and the shooter demonstrated the inability to control the weapon. You can do a Match DQ because 2 rules were broken, vs one. It's clear to all involved.
The Series should also be taxing people points. A shooter can have a Stage DQ in clear violation of the rules and the series does nothing the only Punishment or Tax is at the Match. When you start hitting them on both ends you ramp up the drive to make no mistakes. If mistakes are painful and cost you points, the next match you'll think twice about it. Today the guys who blatantly violate the rules only have to sweat the match and not the series. There is no drive to fix it because the series defaults to the MD, if they can bully an RO, no punish happens, which is what we see.
Hell, even Candice Horner spoke on FB on her ND and how she could have easily bullied the RO and moved past it if she was that kinda person. Clearly, there are plenty of THOSE GUYS out there who will do whatever they can to move past a mistake in order to sweep it under the rug. The series needs to enforce its own rules. How many times must we suffer the NASCAR comparisons only to have the series be nothing like NASCAR, as Series who taxes the teams and drivers?
If a match director wants to check a trigger before the match, the shooter can easily adjust it, if they are found under the guideline weight, no harm, no foul. Hey Shooter, your trigger is 12oz, go change it to 16oz and come back. Pretty easy to have a pull gauge and run down the line to check. In fact, it's easier than trying to check 100 shooters for a speed limit violation. (How many complaints do we read about guys cheating the speed rules)
I have not been to one in a while, but Competition Dynamics used to drop test the rifles to make sure the triggers don't fire on a 1ft drop or whatever distance off the ground. That is a good and easy test, hold the rifle X Inches over the ground, drop it and if it fires, unsafe, go back and try again.
Right now there is next to no enforcement unless it is blatant and even then enforcement is restricted to the individual event. You all want to be a Sport so bad but refuse to do the most basic officiating found in just about every other sport on the planet.
Sports are defined by their rules and the enforcement of said rules. Any less you are a disorganized bunch of guys hanging out and shooting stuff to stroke your ego.
PS, I shot this rifle, it's a comp gun with a 2oz trigger clearly they are out there. Too many risk safety in order to have the least amount of contact with rifle as possible. And as we have seen, it's pretty easy when an RO has their face in a Spotter to sweep it under the rug, until something unintentional gets hit and the shit hits the fan, which is coming.
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