During a meet in which junior marksmen were shooting skeet a young man successfully knocked down his targets but at a post that had the wrong yardage. He thought he was fine because he was further back from the target. His results were contested and it came down that “wrong yardage is wrong yardage—it makes no difference if the targets are shot from too far back or too close”. The rules require all targets to be shot from a shooter’s assigned yardage.
Here is the rule in a nutshell:
- A shooter who shoots one posts from the wrong yardage may re shoot those targets scored “Dead”. It is probably best to do so after the squad has finished the trap, similar to the way in which an inadvertently skipped post is made up.
- When a whole target emerges from the trap on the contestant’s call accompanied by target debris, the call must be “No Target”, and the results of any shot taken will not be scored.
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