Kenny D

Getting back to the original posts on this thread, (I did however, enjoy the humor) As a shooter who doesn't have a lot of money, I do appreciate getting my brass back and I know many other folks do as well. My IPSC guns were all purchased 2nd hand as I could not afford new ones and the expense of purchasing new brass while leaving once fired brass on the ground makes cringe. While my .40 brass is cheap to come by (free once fired) my new/used .38 Super could cost me more to shoot it than I am willing to bear. I know more than a few shooters who would rather let their brass lay than help pick up brass for other folks. Their logic being that if they don't expect you to pick their brass, then you shouldn't mind not getting your's either.

Hey Flex, It is a scientific fact that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. Therefore, we left - handed people are the only ones in our right minds!!!!

Since Bill H and I have shot together for a number of years (almost 18) I share his values concerning honesty and integrity in competition. I look at this subject from the point of the "Golden Rule" ( do unto others as ......). If I gain an unfair advantage knowingly, then I have no right to to complain when someone else gets that same advantage. I would rather err on the side of honesty than to gain an advantage I did not earn. Even if it costs me an award. As an aside to John Amidon's reply, I've shot many different types of competition. One thing thing I have always pointed out to people is that there is always a statement in most rulebooks that reads to the affect of (paraphrasing here) "Any questions that are not specifically addressed in these rules will be governed by the spirit of the intent of the rules and the spirit of fairness of competition". If you try to address every possible situation, you rulebook ends up as thick as a dictionary and requires an army of shooting "lawyers" to decipher.

I used to help run matches at a local club a few years ago and designed some stages. We used the little plastic design template that you can get from USPSA. I've used the one from Ken Wagner in PPT and Word. It is a bit cumbersome however I do use the score sheets and course description template. Robert Foo hasn't updated his Website in 4years. Does anybody know of any other free software, (or if it is real good I'd pay for it), that I could use?

Eric, You are looking at this from the right perspective. One of the TV Newsmagazines (Dateline I think) had a show on the subject. The place I went to treats it exactly for what it is, SURGERY!!! According to all the information I found, you were at a much greater risk going to a place that does this as a "Side Business" for lack of a better term. There are even places in the Midwest that were shown where the clinic was in a shopping mall and shoppers could stop and watch surgeries being done. Also beware of low advertised prices. After all your followup visits which are kind of expensive, you'll wind up paying the same money. The place I chose had a sterile operating room and everyone was gowned and wore masks. The price I paid was not the most expensive but it was not the cheapest either. This is one area where you get what you pay for in most cases. Hope this helps.

Since Bill H is my neighbor, I thought I'd weigh in on the subject. I got my LASIK done a week before he did. It's been 2 months since I had mine done and I love it!! Already got the restriction taken off my drivers license. Both eyes are 20/20. The only 2 problems I had were that my astigmatism got worse with the surgery and I saw Halos with low intensity lights. (tail lights, traffic lights etc.) no problems with bright lights at all. Both problems are getting better with time. Am I happy? You bet!! Especially when it rains and I don't have waterdrops in front of my eyeballs. By the way Bill H is fairly happy with his results. Might need an adjusment though.

My only gripe on the area 8's was the "Spinning" target. If that was meant to be a bad guy, in a real life situation, you would not have needed to shoot him as he would have been to dizzy to shoot back. The word "Practical" didn't apply on this stage. I thought the the rest of the match was great though. Chriss, I've attended several matches at Fredericksburg over the years and they usually have a stage on that particular bay with a "changing 180". Even when they hosted the Nationals. I've also seen similar stages at other clubs. You'll see this more often at a match that has access to a "Tire House"

I like the first posting from Flex. A buddy of mine recently made the observation that you could give any of the top shooters an average gun (meaning no bells, whistles, gizmos, super duper anything) and they'll still beat you and your $3000 .38 super duper laser guided, gun with paper seeking bullets. It takes practice. A little talent doesn't hurt, but in the end, it's practice.

Another vote for the Nike Sharks. They work well on all surfaces except of course wood. I've worn out 3 pair of these shoes over the years shooting and playing softball.

Just shot the area 8 a couple weeks ago. I broke open a new box of bullets to load for the match and discovered some of the bullets were shorter than what they should have been. I was loading 135's and the short bullets weighed 124. I went through the box and pulled out all (or so I thought) the 124 grain bullets. At the first stage I hand in my 8 rounds. When I get to the Chrono, I 'm watching the velocities right at 1250 FPS. ( Big grin as that is the same velocity I got at home) The lady doing the calculations then announces my PF at 155. ( Grin now leaves my face) I look at the chrono sheet, and there listed is my bullet weight of 124 gr. The chronoman asks if I would like to pull another bullet and have it weighed. "Uh-HuHHHHHH". Whew!!!!!! 135 so sayeth the scale!! 13 bullets out of 1000. I had only found 12 when I went through the box. Guess I should ask for a refund on my laser eye surgery. (Just kidding there. 20-20 both eyes. Money well spent.) Any way, lesson learned. Check everything before any reloading session. It could have been the other way around and could have caused a real problem, especially with the pressures some folks run. Load safely and shoot safely.

I'm with you Shooter Grrl. I forgot about the Star Wars trilogy. Add that one to my list.

In no particular order....... Any Clint Eastwood western but the best was the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Later John Wayne westerns, especially Chisum, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, The Cowboys, McClintock Terminator Terminator II True Lies Tombstone Armageddon Independence Day Up in Smoke Zulu Braveheart The Road Warrior Magnificent 7 movies. Vanishing Point Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry (great cars!!) Cool Hand Luke Clear and Present Danger Platoon Patton (I love George C. Scott) Battle of the Bulge Bridge at Remagen The Alamo Sniper

I have 2 cool shots to list. #1 - A few years back I was at my parents farm getting ready to do a little target practice with a terribly inaccurate Mini-14. At this time, fox could be hunted year round. As I was pulling the gun out of the car I looked up into the meadow and saw a rabbit. While watching the rabbit some movement caught my eye and it was a fox stalking the rabbit. I popped in a magazine and took a shot at the fox at about 250 yards. The gun being as inaccurate as it was, I missed. The fox took off. I fired another round at about 300 yd's. The fox put it into high gear. I fired one more round at 350 yd's and dropped him on a dead run. #2 - After attending the first day of hunter safety class, my son and a friend of his wanted to do some shooting in preparation for the next days live firing portion of the class. I took them to our gun club and set them up with a clay target thrower and since both boy's were experienced with firearms, I left them to themselves about 25 yd's away. I took my 9x21 open gun along just to fire off my last 20 rounds of ammo before reloading a fresh batch. Since they were missing a few, I thought I'd take a shot at them as they croossed in front me. 3rd shot, I hit one and since they knew they missed they looked in my direction and saw me with a big grin. Clay target, crossing shot at 50 yd's with a pistol and 2 witnesses. I packed it back up and quit right there for the day.