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gun to get clean really quick before your next run, but you have a 5 second penalty to make up as well! If that gun happens to be loaded then you have 25 seconds in missed balloons and 5 more seconds just for dropping your gun in the first place. Hopefully you bought the Mounted Shooting 101 Course Management book at the last Club Baddog competition or ordered it on line and know where you are going on each course. If you get lost on course, and it happens to everyone in the beginning, you will get a 10 second procedural! Memorize your course! Think you are a Wild West Superstar? Great, just don’t do any gun spinning or trick shooting while at a CMSA event. Unsafe gun handling is a 5 second penalty per offence. If your horse accidently knocks over a balloon stand it is not penalized unless the stand knocked over is part of a gate. If the stand knocked over is a part of a gate there will be a 5 second penalty. Now let’s say you don’t agree with the amount of time penalties the range master says you have. In some sports it just tough luck. In Mounted Shooting if you believe the range master has made a mistake you can file a protest, it will only cost you $50. If you h