Shoot Program

Waco Gun Club
Waco, Texas
21-25 May 2012

I am pleased to join with the Manager and members of the Waco Gun Club in welcoming you to the 52nd Armed Services Skeet Championships.

Much is planned for your shooting and social enjoyment during the week. The following schedule should aid you in planning your time.

      Sat     1200     Registration Open
      Sun    1200     Registration Open
      Mon    0830    Opening ceremony and Honor Guard Salute- Please attend.
     Tues    1730     General Membership meeting (after 28 gauge shootoffs)
      Wed   1730     Director's meeting (after 410 and Doubles shootoffs).
     Thu    1730     Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet. Tickets are $10.00 per person. Cash bar 1730-1830.  Dinner will be served at 1830. Dress is casual, however, attendees are encouraged to wear coat and tie or dress Alpha (or equivalent) uniform. Location is Waco VFW Hall.

As in the past, we are grateful for the support provided by all of our volunteers and referees. Awards will consist of the following:

            Custom Shop Remington 1100 to HOA Champion
            Remington 1100s to HOA Champions (12 gauge shotguns)
           Remington 1100s to Gauge Champions (matching gauge guns)
            Remington 1100 to the D Class HOA Champion (Donated by Joe Pierce and Don Snyder)
            Engraved presentation knives
            One ounce and half ounce 99% pure AFSA Silver Coins
            Shell pouches with ASSC logo

Entry fees this year will be $40.00 per hundred targets, including daily fees. Concurrent event entry fees are shown in the program with the event description. As always, AFSA reserves the right to change any portion of the program as unforeseen conditions dictate.

Please contact your AFSA director with any ideas for improving the awards and/or procedures for future Championships. If you are interested in refereeing, please contact the Chief Referee. Points of contact for this shoot are:

Club Manager	Jared Jones (jared.j.jones@usmc.mil) 254-465-4589
AFSA Manager	Pat Knutson (afsatreas@aol.com)
Chief Referee	Joe Pierce (pierces@restel.net)
Banquet Coordinator	Rich Menhart (richskeet25@hotmail.com)
Local Military Coordinator	Jared Jones (jared.j.jones@usmc.mil) 254-465-4589
Club Shoot POC	Jared Jones (jared.j.jones@usmc.mil) 254-465-4589
Shoot-Offs	Joe and Referees
Computer Operations	Brad Felton (bradley.felton@us.army.mil)
Protest Committee	AFSA Officers

Good Shooting to Each of You,

Richard Menhart
LTC, US Army
President

SUMMARY OF MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES FOR 2012:

1. Entry fees will be $40 per hundred. (Subject to go down when participation is known.)
2. All military shooters (active, reserve/NG, cadets, and military retirees) are eligible to shoot.
3. Dependents allowed in all gauges on a space available basis for targets only.
4. Any shooter (except retired or dependent) is eligible to shoot on an interservice team.
5. Credit cards are never accepted at the ASSC - cash or check only please.
6. Note: The host club shoot is not the ASSC preliminary so you have to reaverage/reclassify for the ASSC if you shoot the host club shoot.
7. The awards matrix changed considerably this year because of the increase in silver coin cost.
8. Concurrent event and HOA average tables have been updated.

GENERAL INFORMATION

SHOOTER ELIGIBILITY: Participation is open to all active duty U.S. military personnel, foreign military personnel, all reservists, ROTC and service academy cadets, national guard personnel, retired personnel from all military services, and their dependents. NOAA and PHS personnel, both active and retired, are also eligible. MILITARY ID CARDS FOR ALL ENTRANTS MAY BE CHECKED TO VERIFY ELIGIBILITY. PLEASE HAVE AVERAGE CARDS UP TO DATE INCLUDING YOUR AVERAGES AT THE LAST RECLASSIFICATION. Dependents with valid ID cards may shoot all gauge events for targets only on a space available basis.

HOA CLASSIFICATION: In no case will a shooter be classified lower than his/her lowest class in any one gun for HOA.

REGISTRATION: Shooters are to pick up their entry sheet at the registration desk; and indicate their current averages, events to be entered (including concurrent and team events), and partner(s) names for team events. Those who did not pre-register on line should anticipate some delay in completing their registration at the shoot and paying for their entry. Be sure to come back to the registration area if your classes/averages change as a result of shooting the club shoot that precedes this shoot.

SHOOTER RESPONSIBILITIES: Each shooter is responsible for assuring that he or she is posted properly, including events entered, grouping, classification, and scores. No squad or team will be delayed by an individual's failure to show at the scheduled range and time. Individuals failing to report within 10 minutes of the scheduled starting time will be squadded following the last scheduled squad, if possible and time permitting. Winners must arrange for the pickup of their awards at the shoot. No awards will be mailed.

RULES: The shoot will be conducted in accordance with the rules and procedures of the National Skeet Shooting Association.

LIABILITY RELEASE: The Armed Forces Skeet Association will not be responsible for accidental injury to any shooter or guest during these Championships. Attendance or payment of entry fee confirms your agreement to accept all risks.

SHOOTOFFS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH NSSA RULES II-B-8 & II-B-9: That is, when the same individuals are tied for event and concurrent titles, such as Gun Champion and Senior Champion, only one shoot-off will be held to determine both titles. All ties for awards will be shot-off with doubles at stations 3, 4, and 5, miss and out by station. If shootoffs for any event cannot be conducted due to weather, power failure, etc., all awards will be determined by long run.

REFEREES: Referees will be selected from qualified participants. Pay will be $5.00 per 100 targets. The Chief Referee will schedule referee assignments. Referees must fulfill their obligation by being at the assigned range at the scheduled time.

HOA GUN AWARDS: No shooter may win more than one gun for HOA, except a retired shooter may win the Retired HOA gun and an open HOA gun.

SHOOT REPORTING FOR ALL AMERICAN POINTS: For all gauge, concurrent events, and the 500 HOA: Champion, Runner-up, Third will be reported. Additional positions will be reported based on the number of entries for All-American points. All team events will be reported as stated in this program.

BASE/CLUB TEAMS: See NSSA rule II-D-3 for eligibility criteria. Ethics and honesty cannot be legislated by any rule book. Base/club team members must be active club shooters and participants in club activities. Shooting at a club once or twice a year does not earn eligibility. Please do what is right when you allow yourself to be entered on one of these teams. All base/clubs must be physically located on, or under the operational control, of a military installation. Shoot management shall make the final determination of base/club eligibility. Clubs must be located on or directly affiliated with a military installation.

SQUADDING: Shoot management retains the right to squad individual shooters on any squad that has a vacancy, or to combine less than full squads as necessary.

INTERSERVICE TEAMS: If a service does not have five eligible shooters present for the shoot they may include one retired service member to form a single service team. Retired members may not shoot on any service teams if there are five eligible members present at the shoot to form a service first team. All service shooters with an ID card are eligible to shoot on interservice teams.

GUN CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS

EVENT 1	20 GAUGE (100 TARGETS)	MONDAY
EVENT 2	28 GAUGE (100 TARGETS)	TUESDAY
EVENT 3	410 BORE (100 TARGETS)	WEDNESDAY
EVENT 4	12 GAUGE (200 TARGETS)	THURSDAY & FRIDAY
EVENT 5	DOUBLES (100 TARGETS)	MONDAY & TUESDAY

GUN CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS

CHAMPION	PRESENTATION SHOTGUN
RUNNER-UP	PRESENTATION KNIFE
THIRD	ONE OUNCE SILVER COIN
CLASS 1ST (AAA THRU D/E)	ONE OUNCE SILVER COIN
CLASS 2D (AAA THROUGH D/E)	HALF OUNCE SILVER COIN
CLASS 3RD (AAA THROUGH D/E)	HALF OUNCE SILVER COIN
NOTE: 12 GAUGE CLASSES D AND E COMBINED FOR AWARDS.	ALL 12 GAUGE CLASS 1ST (AAA-D/E) RECEIVE A PRESENTATION KNIFE

CONCURRENT EVENT AWARDS
($5 Entry Fee)

	CH	RU	3RD	GRP I 1ST	GRP 1 2D	GRP II 1ST	GRP II 2D	GRP III 1ST	GRP III 2D
MILITARY	KNIFE	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	-	-
RETIRED MILITARY	KNIFE	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.
TRI-SUB	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	-	-
SUB SUB SR.	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	-	-
SUB SR.	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	-	-
SENIOR	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	-	-
VETERAN	1 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	-	-	-	-	-	-
SR VETERAN	1/2 OZ.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
REFEREE	1 OZ.	-	-	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ..	1/2 OZ.	-	-
LADY	HONORS	HONORS	HONORS	-	-	-	-	-	-

You probably noticed that Group I is honors only. Why? Years ago we added RU and 3RD for concurrent All American points and took the awards from Group I to do so believing Group I shooters would win the RU and 3RD. This table of awards just makes it much more obvious. Runner Up and Third in the concurrent still get points. The difference is the concurrent multiplying factor. If you had 25 in class 1 and 20 in class 2 of the concurrent the multiplying factor was 25. Now it's everyone in the concurrent or 45. That's why Military had everyone in class 1 to get the increased multiplying factor. Now it doesn't matter.

The places that receive points to be multiplied by that factor are still CH(4), RU(3), 3rd(2) and Group 1-1st(1), 2nd(.9), 3rd(.8), 4th(.7), 5th(.6), and 6th(.5). So someone getting RM16 would get .5 x 45 or 22.5 All American points (assuming there were 45 in the concurrent). There are still no points in Group II of any concurrent so if your average puts you into Group II you will have to declare yourself into Group I during registration to be eligible for Group I All American points.

CONCURRENT EVENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE

Event	Group	12	20	28	410	DBLS	HOA
Retired	II	94.5-96.5	94.0-96.0	92.5-95.0	89.0-93.0	88.0-93.99	92.5-95.5
Military	I	96.0+	95.0+	95.0+	90.5+	91.0+	94.0+
Tri-Sub	I	96.0+	95.0+	95.0+	90.5+	91.0+	94.0+
Sub-Sub-Sr	I	94.5+	95.5+	95.0+	93.5+	91.0+	95.0+
Sub-Sr	I	96.0+	95.5+	95.5+	91.5+	91.5+	95.0+
Senior	I	95.5+	95.5+	95.0+	91.0+	91.0+	94.5+
Referee	I	95.0+	94.5+	95.5+	92.0+	91.0+	94.5+

EVENT 6

HIGH OVER ALL CHAMPIONSHIP -- 500 TARGETS
($10 Entry Fee)
(Shot concurrently with Events 1, 2, 3 & 4 )
(HOA must be entered before firing your first shot of any event included in HOA.)

HOA AWARDS

CHAMPION	PRESENTATION REMINGTON 1100 SHOTGUN
CLASS 1ST (AAA-D)	REMINGTON 1100 SHOTGUN
CLASS 2D (AAA-D)	PRESENTATION KNIFE
CLASS 3D (AAA-D)	1 OZ. SILVER COIN

HOA CLASSIFICATION TABLE

AAA	97.0+
AA	96.38-97.0
A	93.88-96.37
B	90.25-93.87
C	85.25-90.24
D	Under 85.25

CONCURRENT EVENT HOA AWARDS

($6 Entry Fee)

	CH	RU	3RD	GRP I 1ST	GRP 1 2D	GRP II 1ST	GRP II 2D	GRP III 1ST	GRP III 2D
MILITARY	KNIFE	1 OZ.	POUCH	HONORS	HONORS	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-
RETIRED MILITARY	SHOTGUN	KNIFE	1/2 OZ.	HONORS	HONORS	KNIFE	1/2 OZ.	KNIFE	1/2 OZ.
TRI-SUB	KNIFE	1 OZ.	POUCH	HONORS	HONORS	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-
SUB SUB SR.	KNIFE	1 OZ.	POUCH	HONORS	HONORS	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-
SUB SR.	KNIFE	1 OZ.	POUCH	HONORS	HONORS	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-
SENIOR	KNIFE	1 OZ.	POUCH	HONORS	HONORS	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-
VETERAN	KNIFE	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-	-	-	-	-
SR VETERAN	POUCH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
REFEREE	KNIFE	-	-	1 OZ.	POUCH	1 OZ.	POUCH	-	-
LADY	HONORS	HONORS	HONORS	-	-	-	-	-	-

TWO MAN TEAM EVENTS

(Entry Fee is $5 for gauge events and $6 for HOA.)

	GAUGES	HOA
CHAMPIONS	KNIVES	KNIVES
GRP I 1ST	1 OZ.	KNIVES
GRP I 2D	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.
GRP II 1ST	1 OZ.	KNIVES
GRP II 2D	1/2 OZ.	1/2 OZ.

TWO MAN TEAM CLASSIFICATION TABLE

GROUP	12	20	28	410	DBLS	HOA
I	96.5+	96.5+	95.0+	92.5+	92.5+	95.0+
11	Under 96.5	Under 96.5	Under 95.0	Under 92.5	Under 92.5	Under 95.0

INTERSERVICE FIVE MAN TEAM EVENTS

(Entry Fee is $6 for HOA.)

AWARDS

	GUN EVENTS	HOA
CHAMPIONS	TROPHY	1 OZ. COINS
RUNNERS-UP	HONORS	1/2 OZ. COINS

The number of teams entered by each service is unlimited, however, no shooter may compete on more than one team. Team members must shoot shoulder to shoulder. All service shooters with an ID card are eligible to shoot on interservice teams. Dependents are not eligtible.

RETIRED INTERSERVICE FIVE MAN TEAM HOA

(Entry fee is $6 per shooter.)

The Purpose of this event is to encourage former active duty shooters to come together as representatives of their respective services on retired teams. All 5-person teams must be composed of retired members from the same service (i.e., those identified in the Shooter's Eligibility paragraph). No shooter may compete on more than one team entered in this event. Team members do not have to shoot shoulder to shoulder. Teams will compete in two groups: Group I team HOA average of 95.0+; Group II team HOA average <95.0. Each winning team will be awarded a traveling trophy. The HOA for this event includes the 410, 28, 20, and the 1st 100 of the 12 gauge - total of 2000 team targets. 410, 28, 20, 12 (1st 100), and HOA Trophies will be presented at the banquet.

AWARDS

CHAMPIONS	POUCHES
GRP I 1ST	1/2 OZ. COINS
GRP II 1ST	1/2 OZ COINS

BASE CLUB TEAM

(No entry fee.)

410, 28, 20, 1st 100 12 GAUGE, Doubles and HOA 400

Winning teams will be awarded a traveling trophy. Teams will be composed of 4 shooters. The purpose of these awards is to give the AFSA the greatest exposure to the home unit commands. Only one award will be made per club per year. Therefore, individual gauge winners will not be designated until the HOA winner is determined. Team members must be members of the same base club. Shoot management will determine team eligibility. Team members do not have to shoot shoulder to shoulder. All trophies will be presented at the banquet.

HOA THREE- PERSON TEAM

(Entry fee is $5 per shooter.)
(Shot concurrently with Events 1, 2, 3, & and 1st 100 targets of Event 4 )

Teams will be determined by a "blind" draw, by average. All shooters with a HOA average of 81.0 and over are eligible. Fewer than 20 teams, two awards.

AWARDS

CHAMPIONS	KNIVES
RUNNERS-UP	POUCHES
THIRD	1/2 OZ. COINS

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

(Entry fee is $5 per shooter.)
(Based on the last 25 targets of the 410, 28, and 20 gauge events,
and the last 25 targets of the 1st 100 targets in the 12 gauge event.)

AWARDS

CHAMPION
1 OZ.

GRP I 1ST
1/2 OZ.

GRP 1 2D
1/2 OZ.

GRP II 1ST
1/2 OZ.

GRP II 2D
1/2 OZ.

GROUP I 94.0+ HOA AVERAGE

FIRST ATTENDANCE HANDICAP EVENTS

(Entry fee is $5 for gauges and $6 for HOA.)

This event is open only to shooters who are attending their first ASSC and who did not attend an Armed Forces Shoot (as it was previously called). All scores will be handicapped by gauge as shown below. HOA Handicaps are the sum of the gauge handicaps. AAA/AA/A shooters may enter but do not receive any handicaps.

AWARDS

GAUGES

HOA

CHAMPION

POUCH

1 OZ. COIN

RUNNER-UP

1/2 OZ.

1/2 OZ.

HANDICAPS

GAUGE

B CLASS

C CLASS

D CLASS

E CLASS

12

4

8

10

16

20

3

5

8

-

28

5

7

9

-

410

7

9

10

-

DBLS

6

8

12

-

GAUGE	B CLASS	C CLASS	D CLASS	E CLASS
12	4	8	10	16
20	3	5	8	-
28	5	7	9	-
410	7	9	10	-
DBLS	6	8	12	-

GUN CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS

CONCURRENT EVENT AWARDS ($5 Entry Fee)

CONCURRENT EVENT AWARDS
($5 Entry Fee)