American Shooting Association Rules: For Inanimate Target Shooting, Live Bird Shooting, and London Gun Club Rules and Revised Game Laws for Western States and Territories (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Rule 1. Judges and Referee. - Two judges and a referee, or a referee alone, shall be selected by the management, or the contestants, whose decision shall be final.

Rule 2. Duties of the Referee. - The referee shall see that the traps are properly set at the beginning of the match and kept in order to the finish. He shall endeavor to make the targets conform to the flight and direction indicated in Rule No. 7. He shall test any trap upon application of the shooter at any time by throwing a trial target therefrom. He may at any time, and must when so requested by a contestant, select one or more cartridges from those of a shooter at the score, and publicly test the same for proper loading. If the cartridge, or cartridges, are found to be improperly loaded, the shooter shall suffer the penalty as provided for in Rule 11.

Rule 3. Scorer - A scorer shall be appointed by the management, whose score shall be the official one. All scoring shall be done with ink, or indelible pencil. The scoring of a lost target shall be indicated by a "0," and a broken target by the figure "1."

Rule 4. Puller. - A puller, or pullers, shall be appointed by the management, whose duty it shall be to see that the trap or traps shall be instantly sprung when the shooter calls "Pull," and shall be placed in such a position that the shooter will have no means of knowing by his actions which trap is to be pulled. In single target shooting he shall pull the traps as decided by a trap-pulling indicator, or other means that may have been provided by the management, so that the shooter will have no means of knowing which trap the target is to be thrown from.

Rule 5. Pulling the Traps. - Section 1. Traps may be pulled in regular order from 1 to 3, or 1 to 5, or vice versa, if so decided by the management.

Sec. 2. If the shooting is from traps to be pulled in regular order, the shooter may refuse the target from the trap not so pulled; but if he shoots, the result must be scored.

Sec. 3. If the trap is sprung before, or at any noticeable interval after the shooter calls "Pull," he can accept or refuse the target; but if he shoots, the result must be scored.

Sec. 4. If the puller, or pullers, do not pull in accordance to the indicator, or other means provided, they shall be removed and others substituted.

Rule 6. Arrangement of Traps. - All matches shall be shot from three to five traps, set level, three or five yards apart, in the segment of a circle (see Diagrams A and B), or in a straight line (see Diagram C). When in the segment of a circle, the radius of the circle shall be eighteen yards. In all cases the shooter's position shall not be less from each trap than the rises provided for in Rule 7. The traps shall be numbered from 1, on the left, to No. 3 or No. 5, on the right, consecutively, according to the number used, as shown in the diagram.

Rule 7. Adjusting Traps. - Section 1. All traps must be adjusted to throw the targets a distance not less than 40 yards, nor more than 60 yards. If any trap be found too weak to throw the required distance, a new trap or spring that will, must be substituted.

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