Gregg K

@joseywales Thanks for the link. For me, I don't have any need for the diagram or the briefing and I understand why some just don't care. We have been trying to get some new shooters out to shoot steel with us and some of them need a little help and the diagrams with the names would be helpful for some of them. I have to be honest, there were many times starting out that I could not tell you the name of the stages or remember how I shot them the last time. Most of us have been at this so long that we don't remember what the first few times were like when we were the new guy. I figured that some nice laminated diagrams would help the new guys and gals plus just might make it look a little more professional.

I asked Zack about this and he suggested using the briefing that Practiscore gives us. It's a good briefing in Practiscore, I just wish it was coming from the rule book.

I never really noticed the rule 3.2 that says a written stage briefing should be available at each stage. I figured that somewhere someone has a document with the stage diagrams with the required briefing on a single sheet. My plan was to just print them out and have them laminated to stick up at each stage. Do any of you have a document that has the requirements that can just be printed? Someone has to have done this before. The WSB's are in Practiscore. If someone has Adobe to add the WSB to the diagrams, that would be nice.

Unfortunately the rules call them a "Flag" and not a chamber flag. I once asked for a rule change to make it "Chamber Flag" and define it as something that actually goes in the chamber. I was shot down on the idea so this is why we have just anything stuck into the gun including trimmer line. I will suggest a reason to flag rimfire pistols. Of all our guns a rimfire is the most likely to not extract a round, it is so common that they even made a rule to fire out the stuck round. We all have seen "cleared" guns go bang at the hammer down. A rimfire pistol is the most likely to get off the line with a live round in the chamber since we don't do the final check with the hammer down command. A chamber flag would insure that a rimfire pistol extracted the round but there again, only an actual chamber flag that goes in the chamber would do that. If your gun gets so hot at a Steel Challenge match that you can melt a chamber flag then you are missing way too many shots and need to practice more.

https://scsa.org/results/match/17480/combined

For your intended use, the EOTech is heavy and expensive and not the best for a game gun. I have had and seen too many problems with the Romeo plus the price is not a good value. Like @Haywizzle I would look at the 2 Holosun choices he mentions, they are a good value and very durable and great for a game gun. Both of the Holosuns can be had in green as well as red.

I've been down this road. I would get everything 1/4" 500 or 550 and not look back. On down the road you won't have any junk mixed in with your good steel. Like they say "cry once".

I had some that were visibly warped and some that split apart some at the joint between the 2 halves. I called S&W and they had no problem replacing them but I think it took 6 or 7 weeks so you getting some new ones first is a good idea.

While handy, I have found that using the McFadden loader accelerates the wear on the end of the feed lips, I use the loader on practice mags but never on my match mags.

I noticed that the load assist bar that goes through he follower would sometimes drag so I just removed the load assist button completely and just stick a screwdriver blade in the hole to load the mags. No more drag

I have actually been told "going hot, gas it up" so it does get worse.

Thank You! I really appreciate the huge amount of thought and time that this took to put together.

O' great, now you have me trying to figure out how to pour a concrete pad for the shooting area on OL.

It's good to experience different clubs and get used to when things aren't perfect and just focus on the shooting. I have been to matches where you had to stand off to one side of the box to keep the targets from overlapping which is stretching things too much in my book

To reaffiliate a club is required to hold a minimum of seven USPSA matches with four separate matches offering at least one classifier stage. The requirements for an SCSA affiliate are to run three SCSA matches a year, and to include at least two of the eight official stages in each match. Since they are having monthly matches it would seem that they would have been able to meet the USPSA minimums without cutting SCSA matches unless this is a club that pretty much gets shutdown in the winter months.