kimmie

Ooops - just saw you shoot with my buds out at Hopkinton. A bunch of really good people!

Welcome! Where do you shoot? I run the winter matches at Boston Gun and Rifle in Dorchester. Our last match of the season is this Sunday. Come on over! Donna

Link to my album with pictures of this years Area 7 shooters. There's also an album on there with pics from last year. https://picasaweb.google.com/114646213181987585913

Another link to pics of shooters on Stage One - Walk the Plank - please feel free to tag with your name! https://picasaweb.google.com/114646213181987585913 *I have hundreds of pictures so all the pictures haven't been uploaded yet, hopefully will finish this week.

This is a good thread. I thought I was the only one that had a 'fear' of a loaded gun. Not really fear per se, but a seriously deep respect of what that loaded gun could do if not careful and a hyper-awareness of when it was loaded. It seriously slowed me down in live fire and I couldn't seem to shake knowing the difference between live and dry fire. I've had to really push myself with live fire to try to reproduce what I can acheive in dry fire. I still get the occassional OMG - I'm shooting a LOADED gun, am I crazy????? - going through my head. What has helped is continuing with the dry fire but unlike a lot of shooters pushing for speed, I try to shoot at MY comfort level multiple repititions at the beginning of my live fire practices. What I find is that after a few repitions of a drill at a slower pace, the tension starts to go away when nothing 'bad' happens, and I find myself picking up speed without even thinking about it. Every positive live fire practice just re-enforces my confidence and comfort level and carries over to the next session. I still have a looooong way to go but if I compare from where I was, say, a year ago to where I am now, the gains are huge. I have to remember that I'm a 50 something year old woman who didn't touch a gun until I was in my mid 40's, and who grew up in a very anti-gun climate. My goals are a little different than a lot of yours as far as where I want to go in this sport, but in the end, probably quite similar - I just want to be the best I can be.

When I saw this stage that Jeremy designed, I asked him if we could use it for the Area 7 Championship last September. It was very well received and the feedback was awesome. Well, in the latest edition of Front Sight, in the article about last years Area 7 Championship - "John Amidon singled out Stage 7 "Wide Out" as the most challenging due to the many targets visible from multiple positions, requiring a good memory as well as good technical skills". That would be Jeremy's stage. Way to go Jeremy! I wish they had put your name in there as the designer but I can spread the word here! Now, time to start looking at your designs again for this years Championship!!!! Thanks, Donna

Thanks, that's how I was interpreting the rule but someone else was reading it a little differently. 3 years doing this and I'm still learning every match we set up. But it's worth it!

Setting up stages on an indoor range can be a challenge as you all know. Especially trying to keep things challenging and interesting. And legal. We set up the below stage for our match last month and went back and forth about whether it was legal or not. The part in question is where the turning targets appear. When you start, they're not visible. To the right of the tarp is another array of 3 targets. You have to go through the door to pull the activator and inside the door there is another array of 4 targets. We originally didn't have the tarp up separating the appearing targets and the other 3 because we thought that when you began, the appearing targets weren't visible so there were only 6 shots. We then realized that some folks would just skip those first 3, go through the door, pull the activator, take the targets inside the door and then come back out and shoot the appearing targets and other array feeling that was faster or better for them. 12 shots in one location. Some folks felt that since it was the shooters option to do that and 'create' a 12 shot array, it was alright. In the end, we put up the tarp. But, some folks felt it was still one position because if you slightly leaned from side to side, you could see all the targets. We didn't have the room or the equipment to change anything and at that point, it was late. Someone said, put it on Enos and see what they say! So, what do you say? Does the tarp separating the arrays make it two positions? Would it have been legal without the tarp? One way The other way And, for your viewing pleasure - here's our illustrious Area 7 leader eating lead! If you knew our club - you would NEVER lay on the floor there (note the abundance of respirators). This was the only time there wasn't a following of 'monkey see, monkey do'. He was all alone in this - (he's going to kill me for this)

Mark and myself were talking about You and Evelin to day. are you guys going to make it Jason Unfortunately, I couldn't get the time off from work I really hate to miss this because we had such an awesome time last year. Maybe the next Gator????????

This is breaking my heart ----

Base document - thanks! Ah duh. I should have thought of that. Sometimes the easy way is just too hard! Oh - Congratulations!

Where can I find a template for the WSB? I searched the USPSA websight but no luck. Thanks! Donna

Still waiting to hear if my vacation time is going to be approved - probably won't know till the end of November when I get back from Arizona. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I can see Boston from every side of my house! Come on down to Boston Gun and Rifle and shoot with us! Indoor USPSA matches starting up December 11 and then every 2nd Sunday until March! Good times!!!! PM me for info!

While I really wanted Mike to win, Dustin was absolutely phenomenal. He performed awesomely the entire season and his aw shucks personality and boyish enthusiasm was impossible to not like. I really enjoyed the 'Behind the Bullet' segment and seeing more of the interactions we didn't get to see during the show. I don't have a psychiatry background but after watching and listening to Jake, I'm convinced he is suffering from some sort of personality disorder/mental illness. I think the other contestants should have been afraid of him, but not for the reasons that Jake wanted. I wonder if the producers took extra security measures because of him - 'just in case'. In the end, I found him to be a very sad, miserable man who was actually exploited by Top Shot for ratings, and now he has to carry that stigma with him for the rest of his life. But.....can't wait for next season!

I have the regular Dawsons basepads. I just bought the basepad tape from Dawson that's numbered, to go on the bottom of my mags. It's a kind of sandpaper finish. I don't have a gauge and am now hesitant to put them on prior to Area 2 in a few weeks. Has anyone used these and measured their mags? It's a lot thinner that skateboard tape. Guess it's time to buy a gauge.

I third that! That was freakin' awesome. I was on the edge of my seat and my neighbors are probably about to call the cops because I'm yelling so loud! Way to go Mike.

Oh how I can identify! The ugly memory of our 6 stage classifier match is still fresh in my head. From 2 years ago. Small indoor range, limited space so limited to classifiers we could use. Wound up using 2 that had multiple starts. Plus, I kept saying - what's one more, when folks begged me for a slot to shoot. Those 2 stages plus 7 or 8 shooters more than we usually had spelled -disaster- and were just enough to make us run until well after 5pm! We usually end around 1pm. Yup, folks left. Not pretty. Plus, I was so stressed, I shot terribly and took my percentage WAY down when I was just fractions of a percent from the next class. Never again!

I thought your were more like 38 O.k. 38 and a half and a half and a half...........

I only wear glasses for reading so this only works if your distance vision is o.k. At 40++ years of age I'm up to 2.75 readers which I buy at the drug store. My eye doctor suggested shooting glasses at 1.0. It actually works. I've tried everything else that you all have suggested and this current fix works awesome. I can actually still see in the distance and don't have to take them off to walk around. When I first put them on, it takes a couple of minutes to acclimate but after that, I don't even know I have them on. If you only wear glasses for reading and your vision is o.k. otherwise, I would suggest buying a few pairs of over the counter readers at a lower magnification and try them around the house. Find the strength that lets you see your front sight fairly well but doesn't blur out the distance too much. Then have them made into shooting glasses.

day 2 - correct link https://picasaweb.google.com/deehmah/Area7ChampionshipDay2?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Pics from day 1 and 2 -https://picasaweb.google.com/deehmah/Area7ChampionshipDay2?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMCHve76zbPBSA&feat=directlink and https://picasaweb.google.com/deehmah/Area7ChampionshipDay1?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Mike - hope all is well. Was wondering where you were! Day 2 pics -https://picasaweb.google.com/deehmah/Area7ChampionshipDay2?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMCHve76zbPBSA&feat=directlink

Pics of most of the squads from this past weekends Area 7 Championship. Some folks were camera shy.....

Wish I had got to meet more of you and been able to put faces to screen names! It was an awesome match and I enjoyed working it. Pictures to day 1 are here https://picasaweb.google.com/deehmah/Area7ChampionshipDay1?authuser=0&feat=directlink and I'll get day 2 up sometime this week. I'll post squad pics in 'the gallery'.