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Fastest speed, travelled: 152 MPH on Hayabusa (pucker marks still on seat) Fastest speed, ticket received: 78 in 55, reduced to $100 fine, no points in court Number of tickets received, lifetime so far: 4 Average daily velocity: 90+ MPH on highways, at least 20 MPH over prevailing limit on back roads. 4-wheel vehicles totalled: 1 4-wheel vehicles damaged, not totalled: 1 2-wheel vehicles totalled: 0 2-wheel vehicles damaged, not totalled: 1 Other cars jumped/smashed/run-over in my big-ass truck with no damage to my truck: 2 Number of years driving like this: 17 years Lucky or good, it's been a wild ride...

I recommend that next year if you have any kind of pistol, autoloading rifle with medium/large cap magazines, and a shotgun that holds more than 6+1 rounds (pump or auto) that you give this match a try. In other words, this was a hella-fun match!

One night, my friend Anna (from Poland) pulled out a bottle. When I asked what it was, she quaintly called it "rocket fuel". I bet that's what it was. Mampoer = South Africa

We are very fortunate to have an extremely talented CAD guy "on staff" at EHPSA who likes doing this kind of work.

I would think a snap cap at LAMR should be gross unsafe gun handling and DQ'able. Anyone who picks up a firearm without verifying its condition is just begging for trouble.

We're getting crushed. Geocities won't give me a straight answer on what's the trigger transfer amounts for downloads to cause the site to go offline. If the site is reported as unavailable, try again later, please. In the meantime, I may look into other hosting options if this keeps happening.

Erie -> Eagle's Nest, Gem City Alverton -> East Huntingdon Alverton is about 15 miles south of Interstate 76 at New Stanton. About 5 hours from Philly. East Huntingdon sent 2 (I think) representatives to the Area 8 for RO'ing this year. I believe they setup their own stages and helped with some other setup as well. Some East Huntingdon "regulars" attended the Area 8 match. They all drove about 5 hours to Topton. I know of 6 people who got on planes to attend the Area 5 match, and they travelled about 5 hours to get to Polo. Two more of them jumped in an F150 and drove 10 hours (each way) to go there (I enjoy driving, especially in the "flat" states). If it's a quality big match and people want to go, they'll travel. On a side note, David, I offer the same Sept 26th club match arrangement to you as I have to Bill Schwab. Come out and see what we do every month. jveg

Bill (Schwab), Not that you can change your vote now, but I'd like the chance to prove that we put on a great show. Consider yourself to have an open invitation to the Sept. match (fourth Sunday of the month, Sept. 26th, 2004) at East Huntingdon, where we will likely have our usual 90-100 guns run through our monthly match. I'll even pay your match fee and buy you lunch. And if two or more Bill Schwab's show up, I'm gonna have to ask for some ID jveg Monty Brewster...maybe I can buy your vote!

Previous-> '94 Suzuki GS500 Current-> '02 HD 1200 Sportster Custom. Speaking of the 2-stroke Kaw-triple, about 10 years ago someone near me was pretty much giving away a basket case Kaw-triple. My dad worked in a Honda( / Harley?) shop in West Chester, PA back in the 70's, so he got to see and ride some different bikes. So, I figured he'd at least know something about it. I can still remember the day when he told me about riding a Kawasaki triple. He had an weird, pale white look on his face while relaying the story even 20 years after. Those must have been some kind of monsters...I decided not to buy it after seeing him react like that. BTW, nice Triumph, 2Tap45. Clean, classic iron. jveg

<LONG> I am no authority in the subject, but I have noticed some trends in spamming. Something that spammers could be doing is what I call "random e-mail blasting". One of past experiment shows that (on the same domain, e.g. *.mydomain.com) a 4 character (a-z) e-mail address gets much more random spam than a 6 character (a-z, 0-9) e-mail address. Since computers are relatively fast, and network connectivity is fast, what some spammers could be trying is like fishing with a net: "take the alphabet letters a-z and spam every address at a particular domain up to a "reasonable" number of letters (maybe 3 or 4 letters). a@yourdomain.com b@yourdomain.com c@yourdomain.com . . aa@yourdomain.com . . . This totals Summation (i = 1 to n ) [ (26^i) ] potential e-mail addresses, where n is maximum number of characters in the e-mail address. To spam all (a-z) e-mail addresses at a domain up to 4 characters in length, it requires only 475,254 e-mails to be sent. Let's assume that a major ISP might process somewhere around 20,000,000 e-mails a day. Since the body of the spam is generally small, it only takes miniscule amounts of time to send each e-mail. A spammer can spam an entire domain using all possible 4 character or less a-z combinations potentially at that domain within a few hours without really attracting much attention by using the myriad of mis-configured open mail relays and reply-to address obfuscation techniques. To spam all e-mail addresses (a-z, 0-9) at a domain up to 6 letters, it requires well over 4 billion e-mails to be sent. That would take significantly longer than the 4 letter case above and would attract attention, unless the spammer consciously removes "a-b-u-s-e" from the 5-character set of spammed addresses Also, if you're interested in one person's take on bulk e-mail transmission tactics and potential sparks for ideas on how to block your spam, an excellent article exists at http://www.astalavista.com/data/bulkemailtactics.htm jveg

Skywalker67, I can't rightfully take credit for the design. it was MTrout40 (board member) and Ray at our club ehpsa. They're the genius behind this one. My idea was a little different...and wouldn't have worked nearly as well as that one. Thanks for the welcome, vluc: I can't wait to shoot a stage with this prop again...that must be the sign of a good design! danial97, glad to hear it worked well for your club. [thread drift] I was thinking maybe we could lobby Brian to start a "props" forum for ideas like this? It would be a good thing to get fellow shooters to critique and share prop ideas. jveg

From the nice folks at EHPSA: Add (1) 5 lb weight, one more cable, one garage door pulley, one eyehook (as a cable guide/redirector) I modd'ed the previous design's picture for a "bad" re-representation of what it might look like. ehpsa mover allows for less angle for those with lower backstops. jveg

Interesting thread. INTJ Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging 89 44 89 22 As Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, as the main character's alter-ego from the movie "Fight Club") might say, You are not your test score. You are not your classifier percentage. jveg

It's not Win231, but Hodgdon lists a .357 load at 7.5 gr Titegroup for a 125 gr XTP, and a .38 special load of 4.6 gr Titegroup for the same bullet. Using interpolation, I decided to try 5.1 gr of Titegroup with .357 Magnum case (Winchester, new) and 125 gr Rainier tmj. at an overall length of 1.580 inches. Primer was Winchester Small Pistol primer. According to my log book, power factor for this load was just shy of 134: I recorded a three shot string at 1071 fps velocity with a spread of 42 fps out of a Model 66 S&W with a 3" bbl. The measurements were recorded at 62 degrees F, 55% humidity, altitude of about 1000 feet. Offhand accuracy was acceptable: I was able to hold them all in the -0 center of an IDPA target at 50' when I didn't jerk the trigger The power factor of this load should be legal in almost any weapon usable for IDPA. If possible, chrono all loads out of your weapon. Best of all, Titegroup is relatively inexpensive and with the load I used I got a lot of ammo out of each pound.