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L.C. Smith vs. Parker Hammer Gun Challenge

Sunday, April 24, 2016

SHOOTER QUALIFICATIONS

1. Competition is open to all members in good standing of the Association represented (either the LCSCA or the PGCA). Membership applications for each Association are available at the LCSCA/PGCA registration booth inside the LC Smith/Parker Exhibition tent for those individuals wishing to join either Association and participate in the competition. For existing members, membership rosters will be on hand for membership verification in conjunction with Event sign up.

2. Those individuals with dual memberships (individuals holding active memberships in both the LCSCA and PGCA) can choose to represent only ONE Association. The scores of participants registering and shooting for both associations will be disqualified; HOWEVER, a dual membership holder may compete in the Hammer Gun Challenge for a different Association than the Association which that member represented in the Challenge Cup Event.

3. Participants are not required to own a shotgun of the make related to the Collectors Association they are representing, as qualifying shotguns are typically made available by other Association members as “loaners”; and participants are welcomed to make arrangement for a borrowed Smith or Parker shotgun to use in this Event (see equipment rules below).

4. Adult professional shooters (men and women), or an adult receiving sponsorship in any form from dealers, industry, or any other organization are not allowed to compete in this event (an adult is defined as anyone aged 18 years or older).

EQUIPMENT

1. Participants are required to use only those double shotguns manufactured by the maker represented by the Collectors Association to which they belong (i.e., L.C. Smith/Hunter Arms/Marlin for LCSCA; or Parker/Remington for the PGCA).

2. Participants may use any exposed-hammer model or grade, and gauge/bore size LC Smith or Parker shotgun originally manufactured by those respective companies. Reproductions or modern/imported guns marketed under these famous trade names are prohibited for use in this Event.

3. Modified and restored guns are allowed, including guns with a stock replacement or alterations, recoil pads, shortened or lined barrels, mono-blocked or sleeved barrels, screw-in chokes, etc. Guns used with relined barrels must be equipped with barrel liners of the same gauge in which the gun was originally shipped if the barrels of that gun, when manufactured, had been “fluid” steel.

4. Chamber inserts and gauge reducers (Chamber-Mates, etc.) and/or full-length barrel inserts with gauge reducers are acceptable only for use in those L.C. Smith and Parker hammer guns that were originally manufactured and shipped with Twist or Damascus barrels.

5. Participants using guns equipped with screw-in chokes may not change choke tubes once the competition has begun.

6. Eye and ear protection are required to be worn by all shooters participating in the Event.

Hammer Gun Challenge Event

1. Registration for members from both Associations will take place inside the LCSCA/PGCA Exhibition Tent at the same registration table used for the Challenge Event sign up. LCSCA and PGCA members will shoot and qualify utilizing the same mixed-squads format used in the Challenge Event, with the name of each participant’s Association noted on the registration form at the time of sign-up. Participants will be assigned to a squad based on the order of their registration at the table; and if an individual wishes to shoot with a partner or shoot with friends or as a group, all must be registered simultaneously. Again, participants must register to represent only one Association; and squadding and registration shall commence Friday morning in conjunction with Challenge Event sign-ups. Sign-ups will continue until the beginning of the Hammer Gun Challenge Sunday morning at 8:30 AM; the final day of the Southern Side x Side Championships. Given Event time constraints, all participants are STRONGLY encouraged to register as early as possible; and sign-ups will conclude when the last squad registered has completed shooting.

2. All Hammer Gun Challenge participants will pay an entry fee of $10 at registration and verification of Membership status; with all proceeds from those entry fees retained by the Associations and equally divided between the Organizations.

3. Hammer Gun Challenge target fees are $15.00 per 30 targets and may be paid directly to the shooting venue operator at the “Dove Field”; or purchased in advance at the Deep River operations office.

4. Participants will be squadded at registration for their approximate shooting time; and the first squad will begin shooting at 8:30 AM. Participants should be at the Dove Field venue 15-30 minutes prior to their scheduled shooting time or risk an alternative time slot being unavailable should they fail to report at their appointed time.

5. Practice shooting will be available (but limited by time constraints) at the Dove Field 5-stand venue beginning all day Thursday (for early arrivals) and Friday (April 21 & 22); and until approximately 10:30 AM Saturday (April 23). Practice rounds are always available on a first-come-first served basis. Shooters may sign up for ONLY ONE PRACTICE ROUND AT A TIME, and may not place their name in rotation for another practice round until after they have completed shooting their first time through the course. Tickets for practice targets may be purchased directly from the venue operator, or purchased at the Deep River operations office; and target fees for each practice round will be $10 for 25 clays. Target fees are NOT included within the $10 Hammer Gun Challenge entry fee.

6. Course of fire for the Hammer Gun Challenge will be as follows: THIRTY (30) TARGETS fired as One (1) Report Pair and Two (2) True Pair from each station. All traps will be thoroughly re-set prior to commencement of the Hammer Gun Challenge so that the “field of play” is leveled for all participants.

7. Participants are allowed one gun malfunction during the event with the opportunity to re-shoot any targets lost. Referees will verify any malfunction while the shooter maintains control of his gun and pointed in a safe direction; all referees decisions will be final. Any further gun malfunctions will result in a target/s scored as “Lost”; and failing to cock a gun prior to calling for targets does not qualify as a malfunction.

8. The winning Hammer Gun Team will be determined by calculating, and then totaling the top 10 individual shooter scores from each Association; and the team with the highest combined total score will be declared Winner of the 2016 Hammer Gun Challenge. In the event of a tie between the LCSCA and PGCA, the scores of the 11th place shooters from each Association will be compared to determine the winning Team. Should the Teams still be tied afterwards, those scores recorded by the 12th place shooters will be compared to determine the winning Team; and so on until the tie is broken.

TIE SCORES FOR HIGH GUN AWARDS

The Hammer Challenge (TOP GUN) Award will be presented to the shooter with the highest individual score in the Hammer Gun Challenge Event based on the 30 target presentation. In the event of a tie score, and weather and time constraints permitting; a shoot-off shall be held at station three to determine the Top Gun winner. Representatives from both the LCSCA and PGCA will confer with the 5-Stand operator to determine the course of fire; and all participants are strongly encouraged to wait for tabulation of final Hammer Gun Event scores to learn if their participation may be required in a tie-breaker shoot-off. In such event that time constraints and/or weather conditions be such that a shoot-off becomes impossible, ties will be resolved via the reverse long run method; the winner being determined by the longest consecutive streak of broken targets counted from the last target fired.

Ties for the Second Place award will be resolved based on the results of a shoot-off as described above; and should a shoot-off be required, said shoot off shall also be held at station three; and conducted under the same parameters as noted above for the Top Gun award.

AWARDS SCHEDULE

1. The Hammer Gun Challenge permanent Team award, and both individual shooter awards, will be presented to the winning Association at the conclusion of the Hammer Gun Challenge Event on April 24; and shall be presented at the LCSCA/PGCA Exhibition tent.