The shooter loaded and mounted his rifle, ready to shoot. They had set up a 4' X 8' sheet of plywood and had stapled regular paper targets to it. There is constant down-time while targets are retrieved and posted. Trailwalk targets may have different point values, depending upon their difficulty, but the scoring should be simple and immediate. The target either clangs, swings, explodes, collapses, disappears, or waves a flag.
Nobody has to futz about scoring reams of targets.
Your scorekeeper is shooting right along with you, in most cases, and not going cross-eyed in the scoring shack. In a trailwalk, the emphasis is fun for all. There are reports of shooting at blocks and stake-cuts which date from the War of 1812. Some shot to the mark but modern paper targets were making a rapid inroad. The first modern rendezvous is said to have been held in August of 1958 at the Daniel Boone Club of Portsmouth, Ohio.