Jon Merricks

Raven, Keep it up and be safe. Have you tried IPSC yet? If you havent give it a shot You will meet some great people and get to put lots of lead down range.

TNN is the ones to be ticked of at. American Shooter is a good group of guys. And I'm not just saying this because I was on a show a couple of years ago either. TNN gave them the boot. Maybe if we bug ESPN/2 enough they will bring them aboard. I'm going to buy a copy from them when the show air's.

Well if you havent seen it, there is a person on the USPSA site that got stiffed. So I give a reply. The person I am having my problem with also replies and brings public our problem. So if you want to no who it is go ahead and look. By the way I still have not received my frame, maybe tomarrow. But thats what I heard a week ago, too.

I have done pretty well at keep my cool so far. The bad thing is I can't get a straight answer from this guy. He tells me one thing and then couple of days latter tells me something different. He denied giving my money back and says he now has the frame and is sending it out tomorrow. I guess we will see. In his last email he makes it sound like he is some kind of dealer but his add was that he was just cleaning out his gun safe. I just don’t know if I should warn people by posting all of our emails and let who reads them decide for themselves or just let a dead dog lie once I get my frame.

LMAO Thats too funny, Ron. It's a good thing you have such a great hobbie.

I forget my humor is dry. I was just kidding.

Sweet Sixteen powdered donuts in my cereal. Ranch dressing or Ketchup on pizza. Thousand Island on Spaghetti.

North Carolina

I have also taken one of Bennie's classes. I like his style of teaching. It keeps you on your toes. He's also a cool guy to hang around with after class aswell.

Yup I'd stop you,,,,,, to check out your blaster. Most LEO's around here would like all the intelligent law abiding citizens to carry guns.

The bummer is I will miss 2 or 3 days work this week. LOL Able to shoot but not work?

Try here http://www.brianenos.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard...=1&topic=75

Here is what happened. There is a person posting a frame for sell on the USPSA board. We email each other back and forth and finally agree on a price. I tell him I will buy it but my ffl is out of town for a week and that if someone else makes him an offer to go ahead and sell it. He says no he don’t mind waiting a week. The next day I find out my smith prefers a frame already cut. So I email him back and tell him that. He says don’t worry that he will just trade the uncut for a cut with a dealer friend of his and we agree on another price. Well my FFL comes back to town I get the copy and tell him I am mailing the money order and a copy of the ffl. He tells me the frame is boxed up and ready to be shipped the same day he receives the money order. Well he gets his money and then tells me that there is a delay on the frame and that he has not gotten it from STI yet because of the frame cut. He also says that he has given some girl that is not very dependable my information and for her to mail it to me if it arrives before he gets back from Area 2. Well just back the truck up. What happened to the frame being boxed up and ready to be sent? So I guess he is just having a big time at Area 2 on my expense. I have emailed him and called him with my displeasures in our dealings. What should I do?

Thanks Al. He is a known shooter with sponsors. So if he does not make things right when he gets back from area 2 (Let the mud slinging began). Just cant stand being lied to.

Philip, Did Tommy build that for you?

I got one but it's a little diffrent. I think I just got stiffed on a STI frame. The day I sent the check he said the frame was boxed up and ready to be sent when he received the money order. Now he has received it, he is saying that he has not yet received the frame from the STI factory. I'll post the full story in it's own thread when I hear a little more from him. If your going to Area 2 you may see him there. (Edited by Jon Merricks at 8:42 pm on Nov. 7, 2002)

He is saying I am the only one pushing the issue. But he is now at least thinking about it a little more than the first time I emailed him. He does think that for some reason there will be more information after the Shot Show on the matter. Not sure why.

I'll let you know what his response is.

LOL. Thats pretty funny Pat. I guess I should send my Dillon bag back to them. The one with a bullet hole in it.

I contacted my area Director. He is not in favor of lifting the restrictions on OAL. I heard reasons from how many times the brass can be reloaded to non-uspsa shooters picking up loaded rounds left behind from matches.

True Story: My squad was up to be chronographed at the Georgia Sectional match. The chrono Guy told us that he would not chrono very body he would just pick a couple out of the squad and that if anyone else wanted to volunteer and he was done he would be glad to check them. Well a few of us went through and everybody check out OK. A couple of guys decided to volunteer to be chrono'd just for the heck of it. Well one guy was shooting a single stack 45 in L-10 didn’t make it. I did learn one thing that day. Don’t ever volunteer to be chrono'd.

This may be of some help. http://www.brianenos.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard...=75&start=0

If a person shoots in three diffrent division at three major matches would that count? ie I shoot Limited at an area match, production at FGN and Open at RGN.

If it does not tell you in what condition other than the gun being unloaded I would say he was wrong. There was a stage at the Ga State match where it said that the gun had to be lying on the table. It did not say on it's side. So with the S&A magwell I was able to stand my gun up with only the magwell and the end of the slide touching the table. One of the RO's told me I could not do it but I spoke with the CRO and he said that if it doesnt say on it's side it does'nt have to be on it's side. I would say the same would have applied to you. But if you were shooting a local match you will see stuff like that.

Pat, I don't hear too many people standing up and asking 38super to be major in limited. Why would 9x19 be any different? I just don't see the problem with removing the OAL restrictions for the 9x19. But what do I know my ducks are crooked.