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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Last year saw a push to set barrels by standards where possible. Pretty sure there was A, B, C. Are any producers trying this? |
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 Champ
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | IDK if they are or not. But a MAJOR problem with any size pattern isn't the measurement of it. It's the way the barrels are set on the markers. IMO there is no room for compromise on this issue. WPRA says centered over the markers. All of our clubs and associations in the northwest set barrels over the markers. In other parts of the country they have always set barrels on the inside of the markers. This is WAY harder to compromise on than the measurements. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | And to me theres arenas that are to narrow to be doing the A,B,C system, but thats just my thoughts could be wrong..  |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | OregonBR - 2016-01-12 4:34 PM
IDK if they are or not. But a MAJOR problem with any size pattern isn't the measurement of it. It's the way the barrels are set on the markers. IMO there is no room for compromise on this issue. WPRA says centered over the markers. All of our clubs and associations in the northwest set barrels over the markers. In other parts of the country they have always set barrels on the inside of the markers. This is WAY harder to compromise on than the measurements.
Here, in LA and pretty much any surrounding state I've been to, we set them on the inside of the stake. Now, if the pen has lasers there is a sticker dead center of the barrel that you align the laser with. So we do both really lol. Traditionally on the inside, with a shift to being centered with new fancy lasers. |
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Common Sense and then some
Location: So. California | Most organizations here run a standard set with a short score. Of course, arena size plays a factor. As a general rule, you know the pattern size by the arena/organization. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | A few producers tried it because I remember seeing the pattern letter listed in the results. It doesn't seem to have caught on very widely. |
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | It sounds like a good idea, but here in my area, the arena sizes and even shapes, would make it really complicated. Weather the alley way is centered, or off center. Some places set the pattern so the alley way is in the center of the barrels, even if they are not centered in the arena. We have gigantic diamond shaped arenas (Arcadia Fl) med indoor and out door pens, and tiny little arenas as well as some that were built for roping, so they are long and kind of narrow. You have to have some spacing off the fence.
I also know the ground can be so different that just because it's a certain size, the ground changes it by almost a second. Pens here can be black Florida dirt, sand and dirt, clay and sand, white crushed shell called screening, and any combination of the above.
Maybe I'm just pessimistic, I just don't see it being practical across the board.
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