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Info needed for the ATA problems of today

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#1 ·
1. Who was ATA president and on the BOD when shell rules were changed to 1250fps 1 1/8th.?

2. Who was ATA President and on the BOD when targets were changed to 2 hole and target angles were reduced?

This is where the problems started with membership declines.

Put the blame where it belongs.

The 30 yard line would be a mute point.

Quit nagging at Brad Dysinger, Ask Leo, Kay, Ray, Britt, and other early Grand Slam Shooters for their opinions on this issue

Gary Bryant
Dr.longshot
 
#6 ·
Looks at the numbers and the years...

Post WW1... @50% decline in participation...

Late Roaring 20s after post WW1 recovery flat - 15% bump...

Post WW2... 100% bump with returning GIs and available ammo...

Growth during the Eisenhower Recession Era

Growth during Oil Embargo until Jimmy Carter

Flat during Reagan

Growth during Bush #1

Clinton Era Retraction

Bush #2 Freefall

Martin $$$ bump

I don't know... seems historically, the ATA experienced growth during period of less than ideal economics with flat or retracting participation in better times... if you take out the bump after WW2 under Truman...

Jay
 
#7 ·
Longshot, you are darn near the most frustrating poster on TS.com. The fact that the shotspeed rule is 1200 fps according to ANSI/SAAMI definitions - and therefore allows a maximum of 1290 fps, has been explained to you, in detail and with documentation at least ten times, as well as the FACT that never, ever, not once has the ATA rule read 1200 fps. When are you going to quit claiming otherwise? When are you going to listen?

But still, your question, if you had asked it correctly, "When did the ATA accept SAAMI standards for shot speed?" can't be answered. It's not in any minutes of the meetings of the BOD. There is a sidelong reference naming a participant (not me!) but otherwise, nothing.

When Phil Kiner proposed a lower number at a recent BOD meeting and I advised the Delegates not to do it, I asked the person who made the original SAAMI motion (by my and an Iowa Delegate's memory) and he didn't remember it all. So you question can't be answered. I don't remember what year and the guy we think did can't even remember doing it. So, sadly, you came up dry on this one.

So why did I advise the BOD not to vote for Mr. Kiner's proposal?

Several reasons. Speed is not a problem now (see reference later). That's the best answer for not doing anything I know of.

The ATA is not capable of enforcing a speed rule because they are not capable of measuring shot speed. Believe me.

But the biggest reason is that the whole thing about raising the shot-speeds and all that is just a bunch of hooey promoted by people who simply don't know what they are talking about.

The first Handicap Shells I was aware of showed up at the Spring Grand in about (correction here from 1992) 1990. I've still got a box or two and I just tested a couple and they (after correction) are about 1275 fps, measured by SAAMI-like equipment which had been calibrated second-hand and only first-hand really counts. But they were killers in the recoil department and were soon toned down.

There were plenty of 3-dram-labeled shells which were well over 1200 fps and right in the sweet-spot for handicap shells being sold today.




So the higher scores being shot today are _not_ caused by "handicap speed" shells which we'd never seen before. We were shooting them all along, but didn't know it. Top long-yardage handicap shooters are firing today shells about like they did 25 years ago. So that's not the cause of the higher scores they are shooting today. The big difference is that today there are so many more of them.

Neil
 
#8 ·
Post the names of the ATA presidents and the BOD during those times of the changes, do some research, put in some effort. Guys do it and find out for yourselves.

That is when INTEGRITY was lost. If you don't have INTEGRITY you have nothing.

Gary Bryant
Dr.longshot
 
#10 ·
I don't think you got the message from that graph, u r 2. All that happened when named "Handicap" shells showed up was that the span of speeds people shot were divided into four layers instead of the three layers that were used before. Look at the WW shells on the right side of the graph. The range that is three for the others is four for WW. They are just closer together, that's all.

I checked and I did those tests in 1990. The top shooters were shooting "2013 Handicap-speed" shells then, but they were labeled "3-dram." Nothing has changed on the trap field except 3-dram has been toned down some, sometimes, depending on the particular lot number you bought by the luck of the draw. And so on down the line.

Phil Kiner may be - well, let's agree he is - right when he says that Handicap shells over 1200 fps are worth a bird in a hundred. The top shooters today are not winning by a bird over the rest of the field, they are winning by several. So it makes no difference as to who ends up where. People who think "If we just slow down the shells the big dogs shot I'll be more competitive" are dreaming.

The best shooters win so much because the are not twice as good as the rest of us; they are in a different galaxy. In terms of shooting a winning score they are at least ten times as likely to do so than someone with a 90 handicap average. That's just the way the math works. And why in the world do think that if slowing shells down a bit is going to reduce a likely winner's score by a bird that it won't do the same to yours?

Neil
 
#14 ·
Joe Potoski: Your succinct, spot-on post made me laugh. But laughs aside, isn't it sad how many people the Club Geezers and incessant crybabies have driven to Sporties (and away from shooting sports in general)? Just IMAGINE being 25-30 years old, finally having a little disposable income, and deciding whether you want to stay in a sport and deal with these people. What would you have told an old immune-to-facts bickering blowhard like LS when you were 25? Unfortunately, today, instead of telling him to his face to F-off like we'd have done, young shooters just go do something else. And, honestly, who could blame them?


Friendly reminder to one of our biggest assets, Mr. Winston...





-Gary
 
#16 ·
The real change in shot shells came with the introduction of the one pc. plastic wad. As for fast shells, I spent 20 yr.s on the 27 shooting 2 3/4 dram loads. No 100s but several 98 & 7 97s in 1 target yr.

Previous post by the MD was looking for a woman, if he would find one he might spend time away from TS.com trying to figure out what to do with her.
 
#17 ·
Maybe Sir Neil can draw a corresponding graph showing the decline in Registered Trap in reference to the growth in Sporting Clays. Most new shooters like to have some fun. Is Trap really more fun than Sporting? Is mindless blasting away at fluff targets hoping not to fall asleep and miss one what new shooters really want? Will enough new shooters be attracted to a game that offers flashlite and pickle dish trinket trophies along with the opportunity to see your target totals in a book?

We've lost the battle and can't help but lose the war. All other shooting sports-except Skeet-have a fun factor. Until we decide which group of shooter base we'll need to attract and focus our efforts on making 'em happy it's going nowhere. Sadly, I think we already have!!
 
#18 ·
When I started shooting (1975), I did so because I enjoyed the betting part of the game. Not necessarily at the big shoots but the local shoots. But, that has all gone by the wayside, at least where I shoot. No one bets anything. Kind of took the fun out of the game. Perhaps, shooting as a betting sport has become just to expensive.
 
#20 ·
All you have to do is compare the acquisition and retention of ATA members to see why registered shooting is in the crapper... it's not rocket science.

When the ATA doesn't ask enough people to join it's organization and then has a revolving door retention plan... you get what you've got...

Wasn't it Wagner who was entrusted to develop the "why did you leave?" retention tool... how is that working out?!

The ATA business model is dependent upon clubs to attract and retain members... and most clubs struggle to function... most NFP clubs (the majority of ATA clubs) do not run like a business, they operate on the "hobby/fun" premise...

A prescription for future failure...

Jay
 
#21 ·
NEIL, NEIL, NEIL, NEIL SAAMI rules were devised for the arms Mfgr. 3 Dram Loads are 1200 fps 1250 fps are 3 1/4 dram loads by SAAMI.

From 1968 when I started SHOOTING THE ATA RULE WAS 3 DRAM 1200 FPS SHELLS AND THE SHELL BOXES WERE MARKED 3 DRAM. and 2 3/4 Dram equivalent.

NEIL WHAT YEAR WERE SHELLS MARKED 1250 AND 1235 FPS?

Your Lies and Your Graphs are not true.

RULES were changed to allow 1250fps, and THE ATA Allowed it to happen just like the 2 hole targets.

NEIL do not respond to my posts if they offend you.

There was never a speed increase in the 1950s to 1970s on trap loads and no boxes of trap shells listed a speed only 3 dram and 2 3/4 dram PERIOD.

If the ATA specified 3 dram 1200 fps shells to the Mfgrs that is what they would get.

They are in the market to sell shells.

NEIL if what you say is true why do the 1250fps shells kick more than the 1950-1970 shells marked 3 Dram?

When you don't know the answer draw up more graphs and dazzle us w/BS.

I could draw up graphs, I will write a letter to Winchester, Federal, and Remington and ask them why are you making 1235-1250fps shells now Vs the 1200fps shells of 1950-1970 and post their reply here on TS.com for you to see.

Gary Bryant
Dr.longshot
 
#23 ·
You should have seen one of my All American Friends years ago shoot my little 2 3/4 Dram, 1150 FPS, 8 1/2 shot shells from the 27 and break them all...He told me it could be done, and I like a fool didn't believe him...

Cost me a Coke.

It's the Indian people, not always the arrow...
 
#24 ·
Gary, you either know or should no better, since I've shown you this stuff a dozen times.

The SAAMI specifications for 1200 fps allow for a variation in _average_ speed from 1110 to 1290. That's not a single shell, it's for the test average.



It's right there, bulleted, first line. You just have to accept some facts, Gary. That is a fact and no amount of ranting on you or others' part will change it.

You keep shouting that we "changed the rule." We did not change the rule. I've told you that over and over. What we did was accept SAAMI/ANSI specifications for ammunition, They are the experts. We are not. They know what they are doing. We do not.

My graphs are not lies. We've talked about this sort of thing before, Gary, and I think you should seriously consider that precedent.

I have no idea what went on in the 50's and 70's. But I do know what the speeds were in 1990.

OK, write to the manufactures with your question and post the answers here. I'd be interested and would read them. When will you have it to post? By next Sunday? By the way, I wouldn't call them liars in print on a public forum like this if I were you.

Neil
 
#26 ·
What part of NEIL says is BS the ATA had to allow Mfgrs shell speed limits.
The Mfgrs test shell speed on every batch of powder some will be faster or slower.

The 3 dram shells are loaded to 1200fps +or- a few FPS .

The Light Handicaps are loaded to approx 1200fps

The Heavy Handicaps are loaded to 1250fps +or- a few fps

The Rio 1 ounce target loads are approx 1210fps.

There is no dram equivalent on any 1250 fps shells, they are actually by SAAMI stds 3 1/4 dram shells, 3 1/4 dram 1 1/8th oz loads are 3 1/4 dram

Federal target loads say specifically 2 3/4 dr 1145 fps 1 1/8th oz shot.

You will see what the mfgrs say when I post their reply on shells.

Neil saying he/she/they don't remember is a cover up on shell limits.

On the Challenge shoot at Cardinal I proved the Winchester Super Handicaps
were superior to 1235 fps shells used by competetor, and the 1235 were superior to the 1200fps shells I used on the 25 yd line, both shooters averages were about the same, but the shells told the tale.

Mfgrs load shells to the specs of the sport, the sport has to approve the target speed not SAAMI.

The International Sporting Assoc approves shells and speeds that is no Bs

Is the Olympic Shooting held to a higher standard than the ATA? According to Neil they must be. Such a bad memory, what does the minutes of the meeting say who made the suggestion of 1250fps shells?

Was Neil the President when this all came about? Was he responsible for the 2 hole target setting allowance and his BOD? And the Target speed change to 3 1/4 dram 1 1/8th shells using SAAMI Mfgrs speed allowances, You can bet the US Olympic Committee does not allow this, nor does the OLYMPIC COMMITTEE allow this much variance in target speed.

There is corruption going on in the ATA and we asembers are allowing it by not standing up to the rules changes and our delegates not nstanding up for it's members that elected them, I will say some delegates opposed rules changes but others that want to stay in line for their free shotgun do not support the meembers that elected them.

We need delegates with INTEGRITY I support some who would be the best that happens to the ATA. The ATA Needs a complete overhaul.

Damn I wish I was a lot younger.

Gary Bryant
Dr.longshot
 
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