How does an athlete challenge a decision or a score?

• Who: any athlete or team official.
• Spoken protest: made immediately to a range officer or jury member. It may be about the rules not being followed, a decision, a disturbance, a long interruption or the timing.
• Written protest: to the jury "not later than 20 minutes after the matter in question", on the ISSF protest form. It may be made without a spoken protest first.
• Fees: 50 euros for a protest and 100 euros for an appeal. The fee is returned if the protest or appeal is upheld.
• Appeal: in writing to the Jury of Appeal within 30 minutes of the jury's decision being announced. "The decision of the Jury of Appeal is final."
• Results: a protest about scores or results must be made within 10 minutes of the preliminary results going up on the range scoreboard.
• The value of one shot: the protest must be made before the next shot (the next series at 25 m) or within three minutes of the last shot.
• The extra shot: the athlete fires one more shot at the end, which is used if the protest succeeds and the disputed shot cannot be valued.
• Two decimal rings: if the jury finds the shot within two decimal rings of the value shown, the protest fails.
• If it fails: two points come off the disputed shot and the fee is paid.
• No appeal on shot values: decisions on the value or number of shots "are final and may not be appealed".

Short deadlines keep results from hanging open, and the fee and the two-point risk discourage protests made in hope. Electronic targets measure more finely than a person can judge from the monitor, so a shot value is reopened only when the claimed error is larger than the system's normal margin.