10.1Procedural Penalties – General Regulations

Procedural penalties are imposed when a competitor fails to comply with procedures specified in a Written Stage Briefing. The Range Officer imposing the procedural penalties must clearly record the number of penalties, and the reason why they were imposed, on the competitor’s score sheet.

Except as specified in Rule 9.4.6.2, procedural penalties are assessed at twice the value of a single maximum available scoring hit on a cardboard target as stated in Appendix B1. If the maximum available scoring hit on a cardboard target is 5 points, each procedural penalty will be minus 10 points.

A competitor disputing the application or number of procedural penalties may appeal to the Chief Range Officer and/or Range Master. A competitor who continues to be aggrieved may then lodge an appeal for arbitration.

Procedural penalties cannot be nullified by further competitor action. For example, a competitor who fires a shot at a target while faulting a line will still incur the applicable penalties even though he subsequently shoots at the same target while not faulting the line.