We always shoot at 900 in the morning to make sure everyone is at least 'in the black' before moving back to 1000 in the afternoon - But the marking was so slow it was ridiculous, and the marker himself said he wasn't marking the high shots, as he couldn't reach them - this was making it difficult for some members to get on target as any high shots were just being put up as a miss! - It's also no exaggeration that we had to give about 10 message fours just in the morning...and the more we complained the worse the marking got...towards the end of the morning it was looking like we weren't going to get through all our shooters, so I asked the guy on the radio (we thought that we were speaking to a supervisor, as when we asked if we could speak to our marker directly, we were told "no" - but then found out in the range office that we were actually speaking to our marker!) if he could 'sort it out' ...the next 3 shots were marked: a 1, on the far left, a bull, and a 1, on the far right (for a shooter rarely out of the 4 even in a tricky wind)...very odd?
The afternoon wasn't much better, and again we had to constantly give message 4 - it was odd, but it seemed like every time we gave a message 4, it came back up with an odd shot fall...so when we had finished (and I know this isn't really fair) we waited a while, and then sent one last message 4...it came back up marked, and scored as a 4...which was really odd, as no one had shot on the the target....
We made a complaint at the range office, and to be fair they took it very seriously - they did also point out that if we'd complained at lunch time they could have change the marker (so that was our fault, although we thought we were speaking to a supervisor in the morning on the radio) - what really worried me though, was that the reason (the range office were quite honest about it) given, was that the NRA have recently changed the way markers are paid (not cash in hand any more...)...and this has resulted in the loss of a lot of good markers

Anyway, as I shoot with a good crowd, the day wasn't a total loss - however it has to be said, that while I can handle the ablutions, the road to short siberia, and I actually quite like Jennies cheeseburgers.....it's not going to be worth me driving up from Dorset and spending £70 to shoot for a day...if I can't actually tell where my shots are going!