Well having opened this can of worms, I would like to say a word or two. Yes I accept that the Olympic mob want everything to be totally equal, but given that the fifteen trap layout was devised many decades ago, I think it is time that they looked at a viable, fair and more cost effective way of doing things, now that there is technology available that could be put into use at a more reasonable price! If an Olympic layout of some sort that was cheap enough, could be installed in a ground at a sensible price, then possibly more grounds would do it and maybe more people would then shoot it. Surely the UK cannot be the only country where there is so little in the way of OT layouts! I have often wondered what would happen if tomorrow, the Olympic mob decided that they wanted 20 traps instead of 15, how many grounds would actually do it, how many could afford to do it?
For me personally, I would favour a high tech computer controlled ABT sort of system. In fact any system that involved a single high tech trap that could throw serious speeds and angles and would give the same targets to each person, as we now know, the technology is there to make such a thing possible. So why do they have to stick with technology and a system which has been around for so long and which they must know, is not exactly popular with the majority of clay shooters? Surely there must be a better way?
