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  1. As I described, there was a stage that didn't comply with the rules; too many rounds required on a "standards type" stage beyond 25 yards. No issue other than the targets being nine feet too far from the firing line (or three too many rounds required; pick). As the MD was walking to the mic to announce, "We have a match" - after preliminary results had been posted, and after announcing that if there were no more appeals, the match would be considered final - someone stopped him and told him the stage was illegal. (As I went out to pace off the target distance) the MD then mulled the option of deciding that the appeal period had ended so it was too late to challenge the stage. Since he had not yet announced that no more appeals would be heard, he decided to "consider" the appeal. The MD then went on the PA and asked the assembled crowd if they wanted to go ahead with the results, or toss the stage and recalculate the results. That was a matter of expediency; do people want to wait another half-hour for results, or go ahead? I'd estimate that the show of hands indicated that 75% wanted to proceed with the illegal stage included in the results. After announcing that they'd proceed with the existing results, and about five minutes of animated pacing, the MD said, "We can't do that, I'm tossing the stage!", anticipating complaints about going forward when it was known that the stage was illegal. He did not confer with the stats guys, there was no, "How will this affect the results?", it was just a matter of integrity. The preliminary results are posted in a format that makes it difficult for people to know how they'd performed; listed alphabetically, with raw times and penalties. If someone wanted to know how well they had done, relatively, they'd have to do the math on all of their own stages, and then do the same for anyone else whose score they wanted for comparison. Lots of people dropped 10-20 points on the stage, so a lot of people would benefit from it being tossed; so many that it might not have any beneficial impact on shooter X vs. Y. The final results were not posted prior to the stage being tossed, so anyone who thinks they lost positions in the standings would have had to calculate it on their own, reintroducing a stage not included in the finals. It could be as easy as, "Hey, how many points did you drop on stage 13? Ten? I dropped two, so I would have beaten you if it hadn't been tossed!" I'm sure there was some of that, but there'd be no reason to ask prior to the stage being dropped. I do question why someone would wait until literally the last second to appeal, but that person's motives don't really matter if scores and standings are corrected as a result (right?). The rule book says stages may be challenged any time prior to the final results being "posted", which suggests that someone could challenge a stage even after awards are presented, if the final results had not been, say, stapled to a tree somewhere where competitors could see it. I commend the MD for doing the right thing in tossing the illegal stage, but it is interesting that there seem to be as many questions about motives for doing so as there might have been if he'd just said, "Screw it, I don't feel like being here for another half hour", and leaving the stage in the results?
  2. I don't know how funny it was, but yeah, I designed the stage; no more than six shots allowed at more than 25 yards, and it measured 28 yards. I'll take the blame for not pacing it off, but why wait for two days, two hours, preliminary results, stage tear-down, an "If there are no more scoring challenges . . ." announcement, and then mention it?
  3. There's a lot of additional work for the match organizers as the tier levels go up, but not much benefit to the shooters. We ran a tier 3 last year, and about the only difference between a 3 and a 4 is that we'd have to add one more staff member per shooting location. We have 30+ certified SOs already, and I didn't see any benefit to getting ten more.
  4. RickB

    BUG legal?

    Exactly. There are some guns that will fit in the box but aren't legal, but in general, guns without wide controls on both sides of the slide or frame, and with barrel no longer than 3.6" are legal. Be sure to measure the barrel, and measure it a couple of different ways; measure the bare barrel, and also run something graduated down the bore, because you will probably see both methods. I just bought a "four inch" gun for CCP, and the barrel is actually 4.15", so not legal for CCP (at matches measuring barrels).
  5. They wouldn't know that a reload was going to be needed. All of the reloading rules revolve around the expectation that in a "real gunfight", nobody would know when there's a round in the chamber but not one in the mag, that the shot you're about to fire is the last one before reloading, etc.
  6. I was performing a slidelock reload, and the slide wouldn't drop with the slide release, or via sling-shot. Somehow, I'd managed to flip the thumb safety up into the take-down notch, so the only way to drop the slide was to flip the safety off. I don't shoot many matches with the HP, but probably two or three a year for fifteen years, and I've never seen anything like that. Ride the safety when reloading as well as when shooting!
  7. What's the point of the black tape outline, to signify that pass-throughs don't score? I also have single-eye focus at work, with the strong eye corrected to front-sight distance, but my weak eye is corrected to infinity, so seeing downrange is not a problem; you don't have both eyes corrected for near vision?
  8. They didn't really have to anticipate it, they should have just not allowed the changes in SSP that result in 2# triggers. IPSC has been enforcing Production rules that don't allow even an aftermarket recoil spring, and SSP should be treated the same way; STOCK service pistols.
  9. We've used it a few times for allowing individual guns or calibers that don't fit in any particular division, but have not created any standing NFC divisions that we run every month. When it looked like ESR was going to disappear, the ESR guy was unhappy, so I thought we could just continue to run ESR as an NFC division every month. What if "Load your gun to physical capacity" was an every-match NFC? Popular?
  10. And if you read the fine print, you will find lots of opportunities to perform moving reloads even when you are not in a room or hall. 3.6.4 says you can't reload while moving across open ground (a room or hall minus one wall?), but you are allowed to re-engage targets while moving that were previously engaged from cover, so you leave cover with one round in the gun, dump that round on the target that you just engaged from cover, and because you've run dry in the open, you are allowed to reload. If there's a target between you and where you are going, you are often going to be able to arrange for a moving reload, room/hall or not. Sorry, the "fine print" comment was not supposed to be literal; how do I change the font size??
  11. The BUG gun that I've been using the last fifteen years - 3.5", 6+1, steel-framed .45 - is not legal for either BUG or CCP. It's too heavy and too wide for BUG, and too wide for CCP, unless I can get a full +1/6" on box depth. I measured four of my 1911s across the ambi safeties, and only the narrowest one (Wilson narrow/tactical) is at the legal width. If I can add 1/16", then a Cylinder & Slide tactical is legal. Kimber, Springfield, or anything resembling the Ed Brown is going to be too wide unless one or both paddles are trimmed.
  12. That why it would have made a lot more sense to put all striker-fired guns in ESP, rather than putting them all in SSP.
  13. I was watching a Major League baseball game last night; some of the strikes called were strikes, and some were not. It's the nature of calls made by humans in every sport. I've never played or officiated a sport that was any other way; have you?
  14. There was an AC conference call last night, and about twenty minutes of it was devoted to sanctioned matches; how to get it approved, how to set up the match information at idpa.com, etc. I'd suggest calling Robert Ray. In the absence of an AC, Robert will be doing the stage approval, so you'll have to contact him eventually, anyway.
  15. but running down a hallway towards known cardboard targets while reloading is a reasonable idea if you are playing a game whose object is to shoot stuff fast. Maybe you can start a new sport, called something like "Search and Destroy"?
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