Paper target scoring?

[brew]

Can anyone tell me how to officially score hits on a paper target? If the hit is clearly within a ring without touching any lines, that's obvious, but what happens when a portion of the ball partially hits an upper ring? Does this count as a hit for the higher score even if a majority of the ball landed in the lower ring?
How does the NMLA do it?

 

[Deadeye]

Some places use the 1/2 ball rule, that is ,1/2 the ball must be in the ring to be scored, others use the , touch the ring and you get that score.
Touch the ring is a lot easier to score but shooting a larger caliber gives an advantage where with 1/2 the ball there is no advantage to shooting a larger caliber.

 

[Java Man]

NMLRA rules say that the center of the ball must cut the ring. That way, caliber is irrelavent (sp) as far as scoring a target.

Java Man

 

[roundball]

I'll bet all the various discussions about establishing scoring regulations were without any controversy at all.

 

[brew]

Thanks for all the help.

 

[CrackStock]

Oak,

The concern is that a guy shooting a .62 no have an advantage over someone shooting a .32 by virtue of the larger ball clipping the score zone which is what traditional NRA scoring would cause.

We try to figure where the center passed.

There is a plastic card that most scoring officials in the NMLRA use that is helpful for this purpose. It is a series of circles of the various common calibers with center markings that give you an good idea of the center of the hole made by the ball.

Another trick is to match an unshot target behind the target that you are scoring to get an idea of where the center passed while placing the card on the top. This does not eliminate some complaints, but it does lessen them and provides an orderly process.

CS