VERY few shootoffs at anything outside of top 20 shoots last more than one box. Most shooters look forward to, and strive toward shootoffs (or at least they should). Those participating in them aren't worried about making each individual shootoff more expedient, they WOULD like shootoffs to be run more efficiently (which many clubs need to do some serious work on) and to eliminate some of the extraneous ones.

Nobody is concerned if spectators think the shootoffs are taking too long.

What should be done is to combine class and concurrent shootoffs wherever possible (this is generally done anyways, but not always). What could be done is long run any places that are not for AA points, $, or prize (or eliminate those places completely, which is likely more logical).

 

No reason to change anything since there is no problem to solve.

 

what could be done to make the shoot off more sudden death instead of slowly dying

Shootoffs generally ARE sudden death. If nobody misses, nobody is out.

I don't think overly-long shootoffs are a problem, they're actually pretty rare except when the big boys are playing.

 

Our club tried doubles at 3,4,5 for shoot offs but people didn't like it. Shoot regular skeet to get to the shootoffs only to shoot doubles which nobody had shot to get there. Just shoot regular 3,4,5 until only one shooter is left.

 

What they should do is go back to the original rules of low-gun start and a variable delay pull. It would save a ton of ammunition and time. International skeet still follows the original rules.

 

VERY few shootoffs at anything outside of top 20 shoots last more than one box.

IMHO the problem is not so much the length of individual shoot-offs, but the number of shoot-offs. It makes a long day or a long weekend even longer. Too many shoot-offs for no other reason than ego self-delusion. Too much adult T-ball.

Use the high-gun system* for points and money.

*Since many do not understand the deceptively named "high gun system", I will post the section of the Rulebook that explains it -

II-B-7. High Gun System In explanation of the high gun system: If, for example, in a class, three should tie for high score and two tie for a second high score, the top three scores would divide evenly the monies for first, second and third places, and the two tying for second high score would divide evenly the monies for fourth and fifth places.