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nick m

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  • Birthday 12/12/1984

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    Fairbanks, Ak
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    Nicholas MacCheyne

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  1. My feelings, for one, were not hurt. I didn't feel you were "ratting us out" Bill, but I suppose my "just kidding" could have seemed insincere! I added my input because I wouldn't mind feedback/discussion on mixing and matching rules sets. I outed myself as one of the responsible parties to establish credibility on the topic and discussion. You didn't name names, and neither did I (except myself and I guess you as the RO). I was glad to see the discussion, and it really made me concerned, as your friend. As a range owner/operator, actions like this by clubs that will potentially be shooting and operating on your range, has to terrify you. If it wasn't for the landslide of outrage in this thread at how dangerous this was, it might never have occurred to me that, in the future, we should err on the side of caution. I'll admit that, in an act of cowardice, I was relieved the new shooter was allowed to continue shooting because it relieved me of guilt at my inadequate and rushed safety briefing. Your post and the ensuing discussion is really making me address my principles AND why I became and RO in the first place: I was tired of people letting things slide and blatantly bad calls. I've been focusing nearly all of my effort on improving as a shooter, I think I've been letting slip my efforts to improve as an RO and club member. And Bill, I think it was wise for you to make this post. If you had brought it up in one of our meetings, people might have taken you less seriously or felt you were overreacting. The response from this thread should be enough to open people's eyes to some of the attitudes and opinions of shooters/ROs outside of our small, interior Alaska, shooting community "bubble." It did mine.
  2. This thread is mostly winding down, but it was just brought to my attention. I was at the match, and while I was not the RO who issued the overturned DQ, I was the RO that did a 5 minute crash course on the safety rules. In other words, it was all my fault! Thank god no one got hurt, but you can bet I went a little pale when it was brought to my attention that an inadequate, last minute safety briefing was responsible for what happened, which could have lead to something truly tragic. no need to tell me: lesson learned. My takeaway on why the DQ was overturned was because, while we are an official USPSA sanctioned club, we were not having an official USPSA sanctioned match. No, this does not mean on some matches we follow the rules, and on others we don't. We do a hybrid indoor rimfire rifle/centerfire pistol multigun match (anyone who hasn't tried it, you are missing out, by the way). So we were already off rulebook to allow for the use of the rifle and a custom scoring system. The MD took advantage of this and cited RO error (mine) and let the new shooter keep shooting. I appreciate that for some (probably all) of you this doesn't change anything, and in an ideal world it *is* cut and dry. And I realize that this does beg the question: If we aren't using USPSA rules, than what the hell rules are we using? Either way, I do think everyone, the RO, Shooter, MD, and myself, all learned and are better for it. Well maybe not the RO. He went and ratted us out on Benos forums ^.^ just kidding, Bill. I was glad to read the feedback and discussion. Hearing about people getting shot at matches is a bit of a slap in the face and a wakeup call. --- And those of you that are beating your self-righteous "I'd leave" or "I'd never RO again for that MD" or "I'd not shoot that MD's match" or whatever drum are living on another planet. Get over yourself, help the MD and the club and the shooter(s) improve. Where I shoot in interior Alaska, in the winter (7 months of the year) there is only one USPSA club that can shoot in the *only* public indoor range. It's 360 miles to the next closest shooting club. More choices in the summer months, but martyrdom because I disagree with an MD is tantamount to taking a seven month, annual retirement. And yeah, i realize if someone gets hurt while breaking a safety rule, we won't have that venue to shoot in either.
  3. Unless I'm getting my points while walking. Shooting from position A, running to position B, and shooting the rest of the targets will always be slower than quickly walking from point A to B while addressing all the targets on the move. I call this, "Efficiency"
  4. i'm a beginner in the utmost so maybe its not my place to comment?... but if you've been consistent and then suddenly had problems that morning. What did you eat? /not eat? emotional change? I think every time we shoot we fight the "head game," but I also think we shouldn't dismiss legitimate physiological stresses. noob- "I had six rockstars, i couldn't find my sights." mentor- "really." -nick
  5. One of my cop buddies suddenly went from putting two inch groups at 15 Yards to drilling cloverleafs at 15 yards with his G22. I asked him what gives and he said that his Trooper Sergeant gave him a tip that for showing off in trooper qualifiers where there is no time limit, he should us the tritium ring (not the larger dot itself, just the tiny tritium ring inside the dot) instead of the big "clunky" posts. (I don't want to discredit the the troopers by misquoting them, or suggesting that they take the time to find dots and circles when they draw out, but the idea was that when shooting qualifiers and wanting to show off, this was a very precise means of blasting.) Typically the bi-product of what my buddy/roommate learns that I pick it up, too. So I started doing all my dry firing focusing on my night sights instead of my posts. For the way I shoot USPSA this is no problem. The A zone is BIIIIIG. But when I'm shooting at little things, like a bullseye, I shoot low consistently. Since I already typed it, I'm leaving it, but I could have skipped the story and stated my question: When the dots on the factory night sights of my sig are lined up perfectly flat horizontally, front post is not even (low) and I shoot low. The posts are dead on, the dot is off. is this normal? (not very low, mind you, but its noticeable for plinking at 15-20+ yards.) -nick m
  6. What the hell. It's a little victory, but I've got no one to tell. My family, Boss, Neighbor, Roomate... they all gave me a look like, "why not first?" "oh, you were the first loser, eh?" "just second?" Screw 'em. The guy that won first is the local Grand Master who kicks our butts every month by miles. I only got 68 percent of his score. It's my third shoot and the snow was on the ground and it was below freezing up here in Fairbanks Alaska. It was also my first match with moving targets. they are hard. I'm reading the other "accomplishments!" threads and feeling like I might be over-reacting a bit, but I'm as proud of this as almost anything else in my life and, dammit, I'm going to tell someone... anyone... thanks! -nick m
  7. So I bit it. No one else in the store that I worked at would do it. A guy, named Lucky, incidentally, walked into the department store I worked at, up to the gun case and, when no one was looking (or in the vicinity), smashed the case open with a hammer and stole a Beretta 92. Taste aside, he was an idiot: he left the store, got the trigger guard off, and within about an hour, pointed it at a State Trooper during a traffic stop and got (correctly) shot down. The gun was returned to us (the store) after a year. It has minor wear and tear (from being dropped) and I bought it, when no one else would, for $300. Never fired. used... er... once. Too dark? -nick
  8. Rainer 124 gr flat pt. .355" is the bullet I use for my 357 sig load. I use 7.0 gr of Power Pistol... I worked down from 8.0 grains (whups!) of PP. 8.0 gr was pushing the bullet well past 1200 and they were tumbling/keyholing. don't push 'em too hard. I am aware that my sig load isn't relevant, but I wanted to give a first hand on plate separation and accuracy. -nick
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