reverse animal count?

[newpep]

What does it mean when they use reverse animal count for a tie?
Thanks

[GTKF]

The animals are ranked from hardest to easiest. Whoever hits the most Turkeys is the winner. If Turkeys are tied then move to Rams, then chickens and finally Pigs.

[newpep]

When do you use a reverse animal count and when do you do a shoot off? What decides?
Thanks

[Jerry G]

At the approved local matches the match director usually makes that decision. On registered matches it should be noted in the program, If not, the NRA rule book says to have a shoot-off. At the nationals, some shoot-offs in the higher classes seem to last forever.

[Bob Mc Alice]

The reverse animal count rule, (ties) (15) (b) alternate methods, generally applies to large registered or national matches. It is in place to save time and keep the match moving. Example: if two shooters in a class each scored a 29 and each hit seven turkeys then the person who hit the higher amount of rams would be the place winner. This tie breaking method saves a lot of time spent on getting the shooters back on the firing line to shoot off for a winner. The rule is only used for the individual matches. The aggregate scores with ties must be settled by actually shooting the targets specified for each class. Normally the match program will state what rules will apply to the match. The words "NRA rules will apply" covers this situation with out actually stating anything about reverse animal counts.

For smaller matches the Match Director has the option to do what works best to decide a class winner.


The following text was taken from the 2015 National Championship Program.

TIES AND SHOOT-OFFS: All shoot-offs will be
conducted in accordance with Section 15 of the 2015
NRA Silhouette Rule Book. If there is not sufficient
time to conduct shoot-offs in a shoulder-to-shoulder
fashion, they will be conducted in accordance with
this program. Shoot-offs in the Individual matches of
the High Power Rifle/High Power Hunting Rifle
Championships will be for the Open Winner only. All
other class and Special Category ties will be broken by
reverse animal count. The reverse animal count used
will be Turkeys – Rams – Chickens – Pigs. All
unbreakable ties will be decided by shoot-offs. All ties
in the Championship Aggregates—Individual and
Team—will be broken by shoot-offs. Shoot-offs for
the match winners only will be a five-shot string.
If there are ties for Open or Special Category awards
involving competitors from different classes that
require shoot-offs, all of the competitors involved in
the shoot-off will fire at the same time. If there are two
or more competitors from the same class, the shoot-off
will also determine the final standing for class awards.
Ties in team match will be broken by shoot-offs, with
all team members firing.

[Hotrodrockets]

At the nationals, some shoot-offs in the higher classes seem to last forever.

Just my personal opinion: I think the shoot- offs are the most exiting part, for a spectator.

Shoot -offs are also basically a made for Televison type of thing. Whould that not be cool?