Some darn good D Class shooters

Just looked at the Winners lists for the Ohio St shoot and man what great scores by the D Class winners. Three 98s, two 97s, a 192 and a 193. Wow! They must have had great days. Odd though, and I don't have my program to confirm this, I thought D class was shooters with avgs below 88%. Must be wrong because when you go to ATA and check avgs on these shooters only one of them met that criteria - all the others were higher. Rain,wind, and this bunch of D class shooters were able to hunker down and shoot in upper 90s. Wow, just wow!

 

Looks like every squirrel finds a nut someday.

 

bitching about a Class D trophy a young kid won fair and square with a 192. Learn to break a score or find something better to do with your time.

 

Columbus,
The Ohio State shoot used a six class (AAA) system this year. D class is 90% and below. One of many reasons that that we never went to AAA while I was on the Board. There are some on this forum that have the mistaken belief that having AAA is all about keeping the top shooters away from everyone else's money. Those that believe that are simply wrong or they refuse to comprehend that there are only FOUR money options all week that separate money by class. AAA is all about awarding more trophies and AA points, period. Using a six class system (AAA) is also a sandbaggers dream, as you have discovered and pointed out in your original post.

 

The key word is average.
Some days we hit hit 90s and some days we hit mid to low 80s (class D)
Competition can really help to get some people focused.

 

Some people could previously be in higher class and drop down to D because of effects of age or a prolonged layoff from shooting trap. It is easy for some of these people to shoot a good score on a good day in a competitive environment. I am talking from experience after being in D after a long lay off and shooting a 194 one day. I am not a sandbagger and I don't play options in singles. I am in B now.

 

This was 20 years ago, but I convinced a buddy of mine to start shooting trap. He got hooked, and wanted to shoot it all singles, caps, doubles. He probably had less than 1500 double targets and his average was probably mid 70s - D class. We went to the Ohio State shoot and he shot doubles - he came back to the truck giddy because he broke a 89 - 11 birds above D class. Somebody told him he might win something with an 89 in D class doubles. We went to the board and there were like 6 or 7 - 96s in D class doubles that day. Now I fully expected somebody to shoot 18 birds better than their average, but 6 or 7?????? And I thought - "And the Ohio shooters bitch about Kentuckians?". LOL

 

The ATA still uses a D-Classification to sucker the unknowing out of their lunch money ..... But, there hasn't been an honest D-Class competition at a State or not-so-grand shoot for many, many, many years .....

Maybe the great crayon eater can do a chart/graph, showing the times in the past 20 years where a D-Class winning score was acceptable for their D-Classification at a State or not-so-grand shoot .....