Free Pistol at Nationals???

[coker]

Hello All
Good job for the MAP guys,,,, but I didn't see their names on the FP P4 (what is P4 btw?)
only some foreigners names at FP
what happened? I am missing something?
cheers,

[adair]

It's there, just scroll up to the top (for some reason the spreadsheet defaults to lower down).

Sadly, participation was down this year, only 19 competitors. I assume from free pistol losing it's olympic status.

P4 is a paralympic designation for free pistol.

[coker]

Thanks Adair,
my bad, I guess I was prone to too quickly jumping to conclusions,
participation low yes, no big names shooting either,
cheers,

[BEA]

It is hard to believe what USA Shooting has reduced the pistol nationals to...an almost meaningless, over priced, overly complicated competition. I remember a time when the NRA ran the program when there were 2 relays on an 80 point line for FP. Perhaps they have accomplished exactly what they wanted to.

[sparky]

Perhaps it's partly because the matches were close to, or overlapping the CMP and NRA matches at Camp Perry?

[Marc Orvin]

In addition, some folks were in Europe competing.

[Ricardo]

Some of those 'foreign' names are Americans of non-European ancestry. And while no big names were there, I suspect a few future big names were.