This is the second 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 second video I show you all about the line and low gun mount requirement of the sport. In FITASC sporting there can be no "pretense/mock shooting" as the rule book states. To be specific:
No pretense/mock shooting is authorized on the shooting ranges or outside. If a shooter, before calling “ready”, engages in mock shooting (e.g. shouldering the gun and following the theoretical line of the target trajectory) or fires a shot involuntarily, the referee must give the shooter a warning. After the first warning, any further occurrence is scored “zero” for the next target hit.
The shooter uses a low gun ready position where the butt of the stock must be touching the body below a line marked on the shooters vest or shirt. Again, to be specific the rule book states:
Shooters must adopt the ready position, i.e. standing with both feet within the limits of the shooting stand, with the heel of the gun stock touching the body under a horizontal line marked on the shooter’s jacket. This line is 25 cm (9.85") below the axis of the shoulder and in parallel with this axis (see diagram below). Shooters must remain in this position until the target is released and is visible.
Also, shooters must fire with their guns shouldered on all targets, including rabbits.
Link to Official FITASC Rules of Parcours de Chasse
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