Jeff Gonzales scoring system counts any bullet that partially touches or goes past the line as a miss. He was one of the first people I trained with that had scores as a requirement for a certificate. So I had just assumed that’s how it was. But now I’m watching more drills/standard videos on YouTube and it seems like everyone else counts partially hitting the line as a hit.
I didn’t know better before training with Jeff so that’s how it always was for me that lines were misses. Seems like it could be a big deal because a 9mm round is .357 inches in diameter so if you count any part of the bullet hole as within the score ring then you have extended the score ring by 0.7 inches since you can get that extra 9mm on either side. That makes a 4” target be almost 20% bigger diameter which makes it almost 40% bigger in surface area.
Should I be counting edge hits as hits? We’re targets and standards originally designed with edge hits in mind?
What do IDPA and USPSA do? What do most LE agencies do?
If Jeff just a mad man with too high standards? Our class of 24 people only had 2 certificates issued. I was not one of the recipients.