The .44-77 1980's made Farmingdale Shiloh

[Kurt]

You could carry this a little farther also.
A paper match you get as many sighter shots to taste the conditions and adjust your sights for the conditions. Plus you have wind flags and all the time you want to take to wait out the conditions if you want. At the Q you don't have those options. All you have is a few seconds when your name is called to make your sight adjustments according in which way the shooter before you smoke flew or the way the grass is leaning or the feeling of the wind changing from hitting your cheek and moving to the back of your head before squeezing the shot off. The Gong shoots I think are more challenging than paper matches. And there is a lot more shooters trying to get ahead of you to the top of the leader board.
Now I'm not saying that paper matches are a cake walk, they are not but you do have advantages with them over the Gong shoots.
I like both venues.