I was wrong, I should have stopped the recording and corrected. I didn't see the first bolt close because I was looking through my phone and where I was, might have blocked the others from seeing. If I would have noticed the very first bolt closing, I would either have stopped him from closing by yelling a reminder, asked him to re-start if I felt strongly enough to completely interrupt his COF, or called the MD on the radio.
However, I did notice the others and he was told as soon as he finished. I even texted him after the match to have a better post match debrief on the why's etc. I saw the issues in this video too, before I posted it, I think I was hopeful that people see the post for what it was, rather than a newbie shooter fucking up and an old fucker not busting his balls immediately.
It was
his FIRST Positional match, His first was a prone match where you do NOT need to have bolt back to transition to another target
. I was the
shooting RO & corrected him earlier and he made all the adjustments each time. Other than his lifting of the head and bolt manipulation once on the obstacle but before on glass, his gun handling skills where safe and never had the other typical first match issues. He alway remembered bolt back mag out when he moved, ECI in before leaving the stage, etc...
I understand this does NOT make it correct, but some of the stages (not all) have hundreds of mils of safety built in because target package is nested in the canyon. This was another target package with the targets in a canyon; so once I noticed,
I decided to let him finish then talk to him hoping it would be more fruitful.
Everyone in the squad, included 2 MDs for another club enjoyed him and helped, he was not in contention to be disruptive to the PRO shooter or top spots. Everyone stepped back and tried not to mess with the video
I was taking with my phone. I wanted to get one video of him hitting targets, you can even hear one of the guys calling an impact before he even starts, in fun. We tried this on another stage and I stopped the video and corrected him.
Should I have changed things on this one stage? yep.
Was I wrong? yep.
Nobody else in that squad is to blame for my decision to take a video, choose to stand where I did or
I let him finish the COF and choice to correct at the end.
Jim T
Here are the Practiscore results for the PRS division / Open class.. if it was anyone other than a first time positional shooter, a dangerous shooter, or top contender, I would NOT have have made the same decision. I cropped the result page long before the shooter in question.
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PS: Bolt Open and Back is a rule for transitions 1.3.3; Bolt sequence on target, is best practices; there is a HUGE difference. Anybody readying this hopefully, gets the distinction.