Yet another PH question

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Craig
I feel your pain. Does anyone besides me feel it is ironic that we created another class to make it easy for new shooters, and the rules are so hard to interpret that no-one can understand them?? :-s
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I will ask Dell Taylor about it since he is the rules chairman. I have to call him anyway about some other stuff.
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I was really hoping PH would be a category for real world true hunting handguns and not bogged down with rules. In the real world a handgun hunter is going to tailor his/her hunting gun to suit his/her needs not build it to comply with some sporting organization rules. If a hunter has a ATF legal handgun he/she should be able to shoot it in PH. NO RULES!!!! I thought this new category was supposed to entice handgun hunters to try silhouettes not make them change their handguns to meet our needs/rules. PH really should be an Unlimited/Unlimited category. We could expect to see any ATF legal handgun from bone stockers to really tricked out overweight guns with modified stocks and high powered scopes. Sounds like we should have named this RS for restricted hunter. Can't we just have a class where anything goes as long as the Feds don't care? Rules are like traffic laws, we want everyone to drive the same speed limit but I still see Ferarris on the road a Prius. Let PH shooters shoot what they actually hunt with!!!!!!
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From the little I know about it------wouldn't it be better to allow Standing only and limit the distances to 50m and 100m ? Shoot open sights or shoot it scoped. Shoot Production guns with up to 12'' barrels-----that is what comes from the factory now. Maybe you want to divide out the Revolvers. Few hunters are going to shoot animals past 50m. from a standing position. Richard
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I don't use no stinking rest.
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Just me and the gun.

When hunting the day usaually starts out with me standing with a tree at my back to lean on. once that gets old I find a stump or log to sit on. You never know where the animal will come from. You may have an idea by sign or the lay of the woods but it would take too much moving around (rustling leaves, breaking twigs, etc.) to get a tree as a rest in the direction you will need to shoot and you will get busted.

This is how it is for me in Western PA woods. Other areas I'm sure are different.

This is why I like silhouette standing disciplines so much.
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TD just shoot what ever it is that you won't to shoot
If someone has a problem with it tell them to show you in the rule book :-o
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Practical Hunter should be "practical". You must wear the blaze orange requirements. Have a flask of Jack Daniels in your hunting jacket. Also, there must be a Marlboro red hanging out of your mouth.
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And we wonder why match directors roll their eyes when something like this is proposed. I thought it was just kind of a dumping ground category for hunting handguns, intended to lure non-IHMSA shooters. A scoped 44 mag from a guy who knows he will never shoot a deer from creedmore, but may take a shot from a sandbag on a 2x10 while sitting in a ground blind.

We are our worst enemy. Do away with all the PH classes. Tell anyone that wants to shoot anything "Yes, bring your gun, pay your money, shoot from any safe position, have fun."
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