How many shooters does it affect.  WE don't have enough shooters to have a separate class.  It must be at least 10 years since they had separate T  class at Spokane unless they snuck it back when I wasn't there. 

BobZ the majority of our ISSA Regional competitors are in the traditional class and there is still a separate award associated to it.

JLouis

Here you go Joe.  Enjoy.

Jack

Bob,

I would say well over half were traditional by ISSA rules.  I shot 4.  32-40 HW bench, 32-40 Ballard OH, 25 LW, Stevens 44 .22 OH.

Jack

Jack, That is a lot more than I thought there would be.   

Frank, If they would have thought of it, I'm sure they would have 

Joe, AS I recall with my foggy memory, I think they had 2 sets of medals when they did the T.  Seems like about 10 years ago Sue said they were just going to do one agg with everyone together. I remember getting a ISSA T bar too. I have missed too many years due to conflicts of interest 

Blindeye had allot of good information to share and he was very passionate about it and rightfully so. I also believe what Randy Wright was trying to say is there is a need to ease up on the rules to make them more user friendly and not to make them more difficult. He realizes the big decline in this sport as we all do and the need to encourage more participation and I think his intentions might have been taken wrongly. It was the charm of the traditional by design rifles that brought me into this sport and those I also helped to get into it. The only complaint I have had over the years is they should have remained the main focus with the modern class being secondary soley based on each organization's mission statement to keep the history itself alive. But as most of us realize the traditional rifles have now taken a back seat and really no longer even recognized all though they were the real roots to this sport. But that's just my own opinion for what it's worth and probably really quite meaningless to most. I also noticed quite a bit of new interest in Steve Barber's new action design and I can find no fault in it but could only hope it could somehow and someday fit into the traditional rifle class not soley based on the action itself but by the overal traditional design of the rifle itself being the qualifier. Most like myself just cannot afford a new MVA HiWall bare action at $1500.00 and then to start building around it. Steve's on the other hand being under 600.00 makes it allot more doable for both the young adults and the old living and both really living on fixed incomes. 

JLouis

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One day I was asked if I said, "It is more important to shoot a flintlock than to win matches."  I had to be truthful, of course I said that    Fishing is about casting a dry fly, not catching fish. If you need fish, use a net