Barry
I made the attempt to inject a little diplomacy into this thread and to put it back on track out of respect for you and the original purpose of the posting but you seem determined to derail it yourself as Alan has already observed.
So lets talk a little philosphy. Alienation, like racism and other forms of stereotyping can only exists where someone is bigoted enough to insist that it exists and gives it a name. This alienation of FO that you speak of does not exist here, we are all good friends or at least respected fellow shooters. This is the first consideration, it is only secondary that we may consider what the person is shooting with. I am deeply saddened for you that this is not the case in your state, you are being deprived of wonderful comradery by considering your FO shooters as being "alienated", just because they use a different target and that they are somehow different from yourselves.
For all that some may think SA is a little radical, and I suspect a few other things as well, I won't trade with you. Like I said, we are
all F Class shooters here.
I also would like to see both shooting on the same target, which we were until other people deprived us of the ability to by removing a choice that was doing them no harm but which the loss of has done us serious harm, I believe it is called selfish self-interest. As to your ideas on targets, this is not a point we will agree on so it is best left alone. However I will make the observation that setting the difficulty of an event (in any sport) to cater to the lowest common denominator is never good for the sport or the competitors. If you don't aim your sights and expectations a little higher than the mediocre, you will only ever get mediocre, if you do not challenge yourself, you will never improve. I know you will argue this point, but anyone who has done any psychology, be it sports or other, will tell you this. The target is not so difficult as to be daunting, unless of course you are not prepared to even try it. Comfort zones are dangerous things including to ones self esteem, they make people complacent.
Lynn