<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Still if you look at the poll 65% of the tactical rifles out there have muzzle brakes or suppressors. With that majority why should they compromise.</div></div>
Last time I looked the number for those with brakes was at 365.
Just for comparison, the total number of shooters at:
2010 F Class National Championships - 110
2011 F class National Championships - 150
Granted, not everyone who shoots F Class goes to the FCNC, but even if just 10% of the people in the poll who had brakes went if brakes were allowed, that would be a significant percentage of the total.
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The average has maintained, you're talking a literal translation of a cross sectional "view" of the overall. this is a good measure of the percentage and not meant to say, "only 365 people have them" that is all that responded to the poll, yesterday 4100+ people were on this site in less than 1 hour. That was unique people so clearly a larger percentage of them didn't participate.
In the past the SH Matches have filled within 3 minutes or less with 60 to 100 shooters depending. For the last 7 years that required everyone to travel to South Texas, of which only about 5% where local, meaning within an 1 hour drive. So you have 95% of shooters coming from around the country. As well it should be noted we felt that this number was a reasonable number to hold people to a weekend. So we did not accommodate everyone who signed up. It was not uncommon to turn a significant amount of shooters away. In fact Matches like ASC have held multiple weekends to accommodate more shooters. If I said that the next Sniper's Hide Match was going to accommodate 200 shooters, I suspect depending on the venue and the distance from a reasonable jump off point, I could fill that match in 24 hours.
The Local Matches CWard / Zak spoke about here generally average 35 shooters or more. I believe the Raton Sporting Rifle Match sees as many as 70 local shooters and a few who travel in excess of 4 hours. That is a monthly "outlaw" as they put it, tactical match. As he stated there are no less than 5 tactical matches a month out here, multiple that by state, say, 20 diehard new or potential shooters per region coming to a worthwhile national match... you can figure even if 1/5 show in a 10 state block, that is minimum 50 new shooters, bare minimum, not even counting those who are local, that number can be anywhere from 50 to 200 alone.
Calculate the turnout at Sac Valley and say, if you had a gateway available in just 5 surrounding states what that would mean if you guys hosted a Tactical F Class Type Match, with the understanding those surrounding state shooters could work from the same course of fire locally before moving on. That is what the NRA is doing, calculating it down the numbers.
