I still don't see any club spending good money on a trap to fix something that is far from broken... in France at least. As you well know even for club events FU can gather up to 80 shooters and last years French championship saw almost six hundred shooters take part. I have never heard any complaint down here about the difficulty of FU in fact most clubs are going out of their way to lay on what is perceived to be the more challenging schemes even for training. I don't doubt that building a new layout will be cheaper for this new discipline... I just don't think it is going to happen anytime soon down here. In the three regions I shoot in there are over 100 well established member clubs why would they want to change their setup when there is no problem at all attracting shooters for the already very popular FU format ? As a matter of interest I have never heard of any club in either midi Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon or Aquitaine where a FEDECAT event has taken place... where do the FEDECAT events take place? I am by the way not just nit picking or trying to get at you Phil I just honestly do not see this taking off... Well not in the part of France I do my shooting anyway.
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To win a club FU competition around the clubs I shoot at you need to shoot at least 95 or 96 to win but very often higher ... just how much easier does Plonker want to make the game?
I'm not interested in shooting 'easy' fast trap, nor do I have any time for the whingers who want everything dumbed down to their ability level which is happening here.
However, DTL has taken a hold in France, and shock horror, in Italy too. Therefore, one could conclude there is a market for easier disciplines, where UT and OT dominate. Palinkas tried via me when I was President of BICTSF to get the previous CPSA CEO to meet and discuss FITASC taking over the management of DTL and holding pukka European and World championships, Mr Boakes attitude to him was go forth and multiply. Palinkas isn't particularly interested in the discipline per se but in the amount of entrants it would create and of course FITASC skim off their take of the entry fees plus the licence fees to hold such events.
When Ychoux BTC first opened I attended the French UT championships in 2007 I think it was, to vet it for the World Championships the following year. There was an entry in excess of 800 with a waiting list. However, although the WCH was very well attended, the attendance of French shooters was considerably lower that at the previous year's national championships. I would put that down to the extortionate entry fee charged by FITASC and nowt in return for it, in comparison to the FFBT championship entry fee.
FEDECAT events are largely held in Portugal and Spain and some events in South America too. We have a FEDECAT UK branch and it will be interesting to see if FFBT affiliate to FEDECAT, if that happens I expect Palinkas will choke on his morning cafe creme.
High gun at CPSA registered UT events here are usually in the order of 94 plus too.