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CoC #2 closed with strong hand. Weak hand performance is about 1/4" from closing. Time to start looking for a CoC #3.

I read Jason Selk's book and came up with the pre-match mental program of "One stage at a time, fast and accurate" Since applying this I do worry about my times or other peoples times during a match. I just shoot the match one stage at a time. If I blow a stage, I go to the next stage with a clear head and resume the modus operandi of one stage at a time. Book available here and on Amazon http://www.enhancedperformanceinc.com/

That is a good idea. I will have to have this done to my SC bag.

That's a Bogus answer. If the match is advertised as an IDPA match, the stages should be legal, otherwise call it a fun match but don't use the term IDPA. IDPA is IDPA is IDPA. We get excuses like this from MDs sometimes and the root cause is either lack of knowledge of the MD or just plain laziness. I agree with Steve if you say it is an IDPA match you should have IDPA stages that meet the criteria of the CoF section of the rule book.

Only if you shoot in the same division as Holthus so he can ask who the heck the new guy is that shoots so well. I think you freaked him out a bit when you shot the match at JCSSA.

Match website is online at www.lonestarchampionship.com

No ... touching is considered closed.

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Yep... I think you are correct.

Cross Timbers IDPA will be hosting a sanctioned match in 2012. The basic details of the match are as follows. Additional details will be posted to this thread as they become available. The Lone Star IDPA Championship is a sanctioned IDPA match, that will be held on October 20, 2012 at Spartan Tactical Range complex in Jacksboro, Texas. The match will consist of 10 stages with an approximate round count of 160 rounds. Entry Fee is $95 ($85 before Sept 1, 2012) which includes lunch. Match T-Shirts are available for $15. Registration opens December 23, 2011, at: http://www.matchsignup.org/match607/ (no checks or envelopes please). Squads: The match will be limited to 150 shooters including Safety Officers. Shooters will have the opportunity to choose a squad at the time of registration. Squad size limited to 12 shooters. Match Schedule: Friday October 19, 2012 (Staff plus one squad): 7:30 AM Shooter's meeting 8:00 AM Shooting begins Saturday October 20, 2012: 7:30 AM Shooter's meeting 8:00 AM Shooting begins Awards and prize table will follow the shooting on Saturday October 20 Notes: Current IDPA membership cards and classification will be checked at registration. All competitors may be required to chronograph their loads, as well as weigh their gun and place it within the IDPA box at some point during the match. Sorry - NO REFUNDS AFTER Sept 15, 2012

If this becomes a discussion, it will be closed. Either you know the joint I am talking about or you don't... "Sause"... that is all I am saying

We should see how many Enos folks can get on the #2, #3, or #4 list in 2012. The #4 list is looking a bit thin: http://ironmind.com/...nsofcrush4.html

These are great ideas for fixing the 650 XL setup annoyances

The decap pin is $5 or so the carbine expansion ball is $16. I think these are considered expendible parts as I broke both in my 223 die once long ago. I bought a case extraction kit (threaded bolt, big washers, tap and drill bit) and have not damaged the carbide ball or pin since.

I would think a nice polished finish would make something smoother, thus it would drop faster out of the gun. Unless this person is referring to binding on a molecular level, in which case he has the surface really, really, smooth

Yes... On stage 3 we filled a 55 gallon barrel with hulls with all 3 days of shooting.

+1 on Squad 6... Jon and I received the news that all hulls were to be shagged on Stage 3 (20 bird shot / 2 slugs each shooter); unfortunately we received this news after we had ran 4 squads. Squad 6 was up next and they shagged every hull on the bay during their run, this really saved us a ton of work.

It was slippery as heck and there was a bunch of full speed running. Several folks fell down. Several guns jumped out. We had two on our squad. One pistol fell out while running and the other was a safety bumped off on a 2011 pistol when it was grounded. One RO told us he had two AD's occur during shotgun loading. Nothing match related that I saw. No 180 traps or crappy dump barrels. Some (not ALL) of the dropped gun issues had to do with equipment choices. Stages 1, 3 and 4 required \ run, stop, shoot, run, shoot, stop, ground and switch. Running and stopping with guns in a sloppy fitting holsters is a recipe for disaster.

Your theory is flawed. There is a lot of air in a 4 pound jug of pistol powder, probably more than is in the powder measure with the lid on it there isn't going to be much if any exchange of air to bring in moisture. You would have to vacuum seal it for it to be air tight. I can't find anything to support smokeless powder being hygroscopic. That is my $.02 Or you could inject Argon into the container to prevent the powder from oxidizing This is a good point, once you break the seal on a container 1#, 4#, 8# etc. you are allowing air from the environment into the container. This air (if it has moisture in it) will affect the powder. One thing I started doing it being more disciplined regarding how much powder I buy at a time. For a common pistol powder I will buy 4# and load 5K-7K rounds in the period of a week, rather than buy an 4# or 8# jug and load the same amount over a 6 month period.

Looks like 50 yards and less from the stage descriptions. One of the slug stages you are engaging the slug steels with a pistol as well as a slug, the other stage is paper intermixed with birdshot plates, this would indicated also less than 50 yards .

They were using them for rifle. I've seen people use the hanging ones for shotgun with little to no problems. The plastic hangers work well for rifle or pistol. Birdshot will eat them up if someone shoots a bit high on the clays.

Viewer discretion is advised: Being the MD has its benefits and its downfalls. I was the second shooter up for the day and had a really good run on a hard stage. My good buddy Johnny was helping me out from the peanut gallery.

Ken, I heard you were working stage 9 and they were going to use paper targets for you to paste each time

I only found a typo in Stage 6 but I am assuming it is either 16 rifle or 16 pistol with the typo being a missing 1 in front of the round count. The round counts are calculated with 2 on paper and 1 on steel so a pistol target would require 1 round per engagement as I read the description.

You can also get this product as a paint pen, it is much handier to carry around in the shooting bag.