In round two you shoot six target stocks from six circles: 2, 5 or 10 points per attempt. Order, scoring, warm-up and the most common mistakes.
The second round of the target competition is the one in which it gets loud: you shoot a target stock out of the target area, and your own stock should stay in the field. The honest answer to "How hard is it?": harder than measure attempts because the target has only the width of a stock. The BÖE textbook quantifies it: the target stock must be hit centrally with a maximum variation of about 10 cm [2].
The IFI rules fix the round exactly: 6 attempts are played at a target stock that is set up alternately in marked circles. The order seen from the delivery spot: A front left, B front right, C back left, D back right, E middle left, F middle right. A Daube lies on the centre cross for all attempts [1].
Scoring has three levels: 2 points if the target stock is hit without leaving the target area. 5 points if the target stock is removed from the field and your stock also leaves the field. 10 points if the target stock leaves the field and your stock stays in the target area. At most 60 points [1].
A clean touch brings two points. The ten comes through feel, not through force.
Note: the shooting technique itself is covered in the guide on shooting and shooting away. Here it is about the round as a competition.
Entry criteria (practice standard):
A front left, B front right, C back left, D back right, E middle left, F middle right [1]. You play alternately left and right. That way before every attempt you know where to turn the body, and you stay central on the delivery spot, only the body turns towards the target stock [2].
Milestone: You name the order A to F and the sides by heart.
If a right-hander misses left and a left-hander misses right, the force is too great [2]. At the start, removing the target stock must not take top priority: a touch is enough to secure 2 points [2]. The textbook gives you the priority: first hit, then effect.
Milestone: You hit 4 of 6 target stocks centrally in the right order.
Depending on the speed of impact and the running sole on the target stock, the hit must turn out differently. All target stocks must have the same stock-body types and class-appropriate running soles [1]. In the warm-up you test how far your stock runs after the impact.
Milestone: After the warm-up you know the sole with which your stock stays in the field after the hit.
For beginners the textbook gives an order in the warm-up: first measure attempts into the middle (about 10), then onto the back rings (about 10), only then warm up round 2 with about 4 to 6 stock attempts, alternately left and right [2]. You do not have to play all six, four are enough for some security [2]. The warm-up time is 8 minutes per player [1].
Milestone: You play your warm-up time through to the end by this plan.
Wrongly executed attempts are valid and score 0 points [1]. There is no repetition. So: the same sequence as always, no hail-mary shot.
Milestone: In ten practice rounds there is no invalid attempt due to a foot error.
In the target competition nobody may be in the target area or behind it during delivery [1]. That matters when shooting because a target stock can fly out of the field at speed.
This guide explains and motivates, it does not replace supervised training.
Train the round with a points sheet: six positions, three levels, write the result down. After ten rounds you see whether you lose more at A and B (front) or C and D (back). The textbook recommends playing attempt variants with points systems so that improvements become visible [2].
Six, at one target stock set up in turn in circles A to F [1].
2 points if the target stock is hit and stays in the field; 5 points if both stocks leave the field; 10 points if only the target stock leaves the field and your stock stays in the target area. Maximum 60 points [1].
For each player 8 minutes at the start [1].
For beginners the textbook advises about 4 to 6, alternately left and right [2].
Wrongly executed attempts score 0 points [1], an attempt without standing on the delivery spot is invalid and not repeatable [1].
The "Wappler": The Stock on Its Edge, Damped Into the Target