If you look at the classifications of shooters at a big shoot (I've both scored and pulled at the Wisconsin Iron Man, where there will be several hundred shooters), you'll likely find more shooters in lower classifications versus higher ones.
When I read this (mis)statement it jumped right out at me as being in error. I shoot in several big shoots a year but, more importantly, I watch the scores at many others to see how several of my friends and acquaintances do. I have known for many years that the largest number of shooters in any class at a big shoot is the Master class, which is the highest class. Next in high number of participants is the AA class, which is second from the highest. This holds true at almost every big shoot of 300 participants or more. The possible exceptions are the shoots where guns and stuff are given away for every class, three deep, like the NWTF shoots, or DU shoots.
If you want to lump AA,A,B,C,D and E together and call them the "lower classifications", then sure there will be more in them, all added together, than there will be in Master class alone. But, since you said "higher ones", plural, you had to be talking about, at the very least, M and AA .............with the rest being the "lower classifications". And, your statement is wrong in that regard.
You can go on either ScoringPro or WinscoreOnline and look at the total number of entrants in every class at every major shoot in the US. Go there and look for yourself at the numbers. Master is always, by far, the biggest class at a major shoot, sometimes making up over 25% of the total of all the classes, by itself. Add M and AA together and you are way over 50%.
Maybe you should go by the real numbers on the registrations, Larry, and not so much by your impressions as a scorer and trapper, or be a little more specific about what you call the higher, and the lower, classes. I've got no interest in the specific debate for which you intended that statement. I just wanted everyone who does not participate in these big shoots to know the actual numbers. Look for yourself under "Tournament results"......
http://www.winscoreonline.com ........... or, "View Scores"
https://www.scoringpro.com SRH
