My personal experience has shown that increasing the penalty for a miss is an easy way to emphasize speed and accuracy.
I MD a monthly Cody Dixon match. As a group we like to emphasize speed and accuracy so we typically shoot the SASS rifle targets as our pistol targets. The CD rifle targets range in distance from 40 to 125 yards. As the yardage increases so does the target size.
To get more participation we decided to allow Handi Rifles without ejectors in the single shot category as a more affordable alternative to more traditional single shot rifles.
It soon became apparent that a decent shooter could outrun a miss or two because reloads with a Handi-Rifle are significantly faster than all other single shots.
I didn't want to go back to disallowing Handi Rifles so I proposed to the group that we increase the miss penalty from 5 to 10 seconds. Everyone agreed so the next match was scored with 10 second misses. It was immediately obvious that the playing field was back to more equal footing.
Everyone still has fun and to my knowledge the time increase has not resulted in anyone voting with their feet.
