[quote author=Mitch Harrington link=topic=40.msg313#msg313 date=1284838386]
As far as sandbagging goes, it is CHEATING! We all know someone that sandbags. Some even brag about it. Perhaps it is time for us to make them accountable for it. I consider it to be unsportsmanlike conduct and maybe they should not be allowed to participate further. I don't know the rule book as well as I should, but I suspect there is some type of rule that could be used to stop this behavior.
Just my .02
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You can use my name now that I am here. I got bumped to B class for winning. Nothing sandbagger about that. The art of sandbagging in USPSA is simple. You spend $1500 on classes your first year. You shoot 15k plus rounds of 9, 40, 223, 12 gauge ammo. You shoot every classifier like you are trying to make GM like you should. You don't so you end up a C class shooter because you don't practice weakhand shooting you practice movement and runnin and gunning. You can shoot field courses like an A class shooter on a good day so you go to a major match and you win C class. They bump you up to B class.
I won C Open at the ProAm, no more C class for me. I was 2nd C class production at area 4 in 2009, no more C class for me.
Its not sandbaggin . its getting better at the actual shooting we do at matches faster than you can get better at the all around shooting that you do in classifiers..
This damn jumping around scroll bar is killing me. my wordsa re all misspeleed for sure now. i can;t see what I am typing and i can;t type without looking at my fingers.