What are the strangest, stupidest, goofiest things you know of that caused someone to be disqualified from a competitive match? I'll start with one, sorry for the length.
I didn't actually see this - I was on the arbitration committee after the shooter appealed his DQ.
This was a national match so there were 4 RO's on the stage. The committee heard 3 of them who all told the same story............
The shooter was engaging targets from underneath a table when his 1911 would not go into battery. He racked the slide, ejecting a round & chambering a new one, and it still would not go into battery.
He then dropped the mag, inserted a new one, chambered a round and the gun still would not go into battery. By this time, given the struggle he was having, the CRO and the scorekeeper had moved up and joined the RO and all 3 of them were looking over the guy's shoulder.
Thinking he might have had a squib lodged in the barrel, the RO told him to STOP and then told him to unload and show clear. The shooter dropped the mag, locked the slide to the rear, then immediately turned the gun & looked down the barrel.
STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!
His reasons for feeling he should be reinstated were..........
#1 - It didn't happen.......... and the 3 staff members who said he looked down the barrel were simply mistaken.
#2 - If it did happen it was the RO's fault for not preventing him from doing the thing he didn't do.
and the one he seemed pretty confident would convince the committee.........
#3 - It not only didn't happen it could NOT have happened because he had been trained in shooting and safe gun handling by the government agency in which he was employed as a special agent and he would never do such a thing.
I didn't actually see this - I was on the arbitration committee after the shooter appealed his DQ.
This was a national match so there were 4 RO's on the stage. The committee heard 3 of them who all told the same story............
The shooter was engaging targets from underneath a table when his 1911 would not go into battery. He racked the slide, ejecting a round & chambering a new one, and it still would not go into battery.
He then dropped the mag, inserted a new one, chambered a round and the gun still would not go into battery. By this time, given the struggle he was having, the CRO and the scorekeeper had moved up and joined the RO and all 3 of them were looking over the guy's shoulder.
Thinking he might have had a squib lodged in the barrel, the RO told him to STOP and then told him to unload and show clear. The shooter dropped the mag, locked the slide to the rear, then immediately turned the gun & looked down the barrel.
STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!
His reasons for feeling he should be reinstated were..........
#1 - It didn't happen.......... and the 3 staff members who said he looked down the barrel were simply mistaken.
#2 - If it did happen it was the RO's fault for not preventing him from doing the thing he didn't do.
and the one he seemed pretty confident would convince the committee.........
#3 - It not only didn't happen it could NOT have happened because he had been trained in shooting and safe gun handling by the government agency in which he was employed as a special agent and he would never do such a thing.
