This is the first post of our series on the rules of FITASC. If you’ve never shot FITASC sporting this is the series for you. We will spotlight several key areas of the rules to help new shooters of the game understand it and feel more comfortable the first time they shoot it.
If you have been shooting English sporting you are already equipped with the basics of shooting Parcours de Chasse. Parcours de Chasse means "Course of Hunting" in English and is the proper name of the game. It has however been increasingly known by the name of its governing body FITASC.
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In this first video I give you a "chalk talk" on the basic layout of an "Old System" parcour and how the six person rotation works. A parcour consists of 25 targets shot over three pegs. A peg is the shooting position witch is either a one meter square or circle (hoop). There will be two pegs of four singles and two doubles and one peg of five singles and two doubles to make up the 25 targets. The five single peg could be any of the three and the doubles on any peg can be on report, true (simo) or Rafale (following) pairs. BTW: Rafale is properly pronounced something like "Rah’Fah’La". Old habits die hard.
The parcour is shot in squads of six shooters. Every shooter will be up first for something, either singles or doubles from one of the three pegs. On the first peg the first shooter is up for the singles. After the entire squad has shot the singles from the first peg the second shooter will rotate up and shoot the doubles first. After the entire squad has shot the doubles they will move to the second peg where the third man in the squad is up first for the singles. Get it? The squad rotates between singles and doubles and from peg to peg.
Link to Official FITASC Rules of Parcours de Chasse
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