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