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Try this thread: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...mp;#entry460617 I took the Thai templates and added a BUNCH of stuff to them. I'll check when I have time and update my post there with the most recent version that I am using but that will get you going. Also, I'm going to close this thread so the stage design stuff stays in the right place. <hint: follow link above to get to right place>

Basic necessities include food, water, shelter. Depending on how long you think this might last and how much you available to spend you can do a little or a lot. A largish quantity of rice and dried beans can sustain you for a long time, is easy to store (if you can keep the pests out of it and keep it dry) but you might want more and neither is worth much if you don't have the facility to cook them. Forget fancy cook stoves that need specialized cartridges for a long term situation. If you live in an area where wild game is available and like many figure that pandemic = no game laws then you have more resources. Figure you cannot count on public utilities for anything including water. Also figure that those that didn't bother to plan are going to hope that you will help them. As times get more desperate they are likely to become more aggressive. That probably isn't a problem for most of us at least from an equipment standpoint. A quantity of N95 masks is a good idea. Painter's masks and cloth surgical masks are close to worthless against a virus. Many N95s are sized and you have to have the right size for each person that will wear them. There are ways to make educated guesses as to what size works best for you. Also don't forget any medications anyone in the family needs, food for pets and livestock, etc.

If you didn't mix good bourbon with apple juice you wouldn't "spray". Just sit back and sip it like God intended and don't be mixing it with anything other than maybe a tiny bit of water to brighten the flavors. Oh....you put it on the meat! I have a large old apple tree down next to the road that stays around only because it produces enough wood to supply myself and a friend for our cooking needs. And the deer like the apples. Of course so do the raccoons and skunks.

Watch http://www.uspsa-nationals.org/ Any info will most probably show up there first.

At the majors I have worked 99% of the squads have a specific order already and 99% of those are using the order from the squad list and just rolling "who's on first" down the list as they move through stages. The exceptions to this tend to be parent/child pairs where the parent wants to be up or down a few so they can video the kid. As CRO/RO I really don't care what the order is just don't be constantly changing it as we work down through the list. I will add that with Palm Scoring it goes a goes a lot easier/better if the squad uses the squad list order in some fashion. As for walk-thru time: I'll always give the 5 minutes but I give squads the option to waive it if they want to do that. I won't make 'em stand around. At Tulsa last year I had a pretty straight forward stage and folks were backing up bad enough in the L10/O match due to mud and other conditions (and we were trying to shoot every squad we possibly could the next-to-last day) that a lot of the squads would take one or two passes through and then want to shoot. As long as my staff was done visiting the port-a-potty, spreading wood chips, shoveling mud out of the way, etc. we'd get going immediately. Same thing at Area 1 2008 in the awful heat. A lot of squads just didn't want to take a lot of time walking the stage; they just wanted to shoot and go find some shade.

If you ask yourself the questions "do I need an attorney?" then you already know the answer. Go get one.

Wow...that is such a perfect picture of BDH how could anyone miss that? :D

I had my SDB bench mounted for awhile thinking I was saving some bucks and then decided I needed to try the strong mount after reading a bunch of stuff here. Definitely a must have. Get the strong mount and never look back. It's money well spent.

Is, per chance, Dillon a BLUE heeler?

Chairs? You give your company chairs? Make it a stand up dinner...they won't stay as long.

Yeah, I recognize that face. My Maggie had a very similar expression the day we put her down last Summer.

Excellent! All good people deserve a good dog and rescues are awesome. My pup is curled up next to my chair fast asleep at the moment. She would approve if she were awake. Kimber is an excellent name!

Max flow out of a nasal cannula is under 6 Liters per minute and the "usual" rate is 2 or 3 because anything over about 6 is rather uncomfortable. That isn't enough to do anything to the local air volume in terms of oxygen saturation even in a small room. It is only working for the person because they are taking it in directly to the lungs. Gotta give that guy points for not letting it take his sport away from him.

I like to do some change of tempo stuff in longer stages. Some close in, wide open targets and then a couple tight shots and then some more easy stuff, rinse, repeat. Give the shooter as many decisions to make on their own as you can. Variety is the spice of life and it also allows folks to create their own way to run the course. Few things are more boring than a field course with only one way to run it. I know, I have designed a ton of those myself but have now taken a vow to not do that anymore. I think all new stage designers go toward evil when they start out. Once they are covered in tar and feathers, burned in effigy and run out of town on a rail they learn to moderate their designs to provide something for everyone. When I have time to get in some practice I set up stages to run. I run it a couple times, move things around a bit and run it some more. When I was doing a lot of this it was REALLY helping me improve on how I performed on field courses. It also had the side benefit of helping me understand how to design better field courses. This doesn't mean you can't toss in some evil now and then, of course. Flex has a good point about losing the middle ground shooters.

Matt Burkett's vol 1 - 3 helped me out a bunch when I was in that position. He goes through all the basics in that series.

Wow...kids is busting out all over around here again! Congrats to all!

Geez...if people could consistently get a deal like that Dillon would be out of business.

The Friday Flamer. An old tradition that kind of went by the wayside. One never knows...it might just return one of these days.

Geez Pat...I had to go check to make sure you hadn't "borrowed" my M2!

Hard to tell for sure when looking from behind but looks to me like her stance needs a bit of work. Bend the knees a bit more and lean forward. Notice how much her shoulders rock backward when she fires a shot? About every other shot she is readjusting her stance because she is getting rocked backward. It looks to me like she is arching her back backward on the draw and she is starting out with the center of gravity to the rear. With that stance and Open gun is going to really cause her a LOT of trouble because of the straight back push. With my wife, I had to spend a LOT of time working with her on these sorts of mechanics. Most women don't typically grow up wrestling, playing football, etc. and so don't really have as solid a grasp on some of the mechanics of motion/impact that guys do. We know what a "fighter's stance" is, many women do not. If you have Matt's DVDs have her watch the section on building a proper stance and help her work on it like Matt does with Kevin. Her grip isn't entirely consistent and it looks to me like that grip is too large for her. This can lead to inconsistent grip. Find someone with a CZ, an M&P etc. that have smaller overall grip sizes and see how she handles these. Given where are are located I'm thinking there is another lady shooter there with an S_I that has had grip reduction done to it. See if she can try that. And if you have the chance, get her in on of Kay's "Ladies Camps". Then watch out!

I've found I can take my Leatherman Wave just about anywhere even sporting events where they are actually looking for clip knives and sending folks back to their cars will wave me through with a Leatherman. I've forgotten I have it on and have gone through metal detectors with it. Sometimes the detector is obviously not actually on because no alarm. Other times they just look at it and say "oh, a multi-tool" and hand it back to me. Guess they don't realize it has two blades in it. And I am not about to educate them.

Wow...I used to remember when we got excited because there were three b-days on the same day. Guess I have been around here awhile...or something. Happy b-day Brian and everyone else!

When you wrote 'sweet' and 'metallic' my first thought was glycol contamination. Some glycols can be ingested without issue but others, such as that used in antifreeze and will do a number on your kidneys. This didn't stop a few French wineries from putting it in wine a few years back which resulted in thousands of gallons of wine being dumped. Humans can handle some antifreeze ingestion but not a lot. Pets have exceedingly low tolerance. First Aid for either case is to get medical attention. Ethanol is often given either orally or by i.v. to counteract the antifreeze. DO NOT treat this at home in this way. Kidney damage is irreversible. Non-toxic glycols are commonly found in food service equipment as a coolant and RO pumps get hot so some glycol contamination isn't out of the range of possibilities.

I've always liked that concept...give the shooter some additional choices to make and give the stage designers something else to tinker with. I'm still getting used to the combined rulebook so might have missed something but I can't find any prohibition against this. With some scoring methods (San Angelo for instance) the scoring could get "interesting" but for time plus it shouldn't be a big deal. Target choices are a bit more limited (no birdshot on paper, no frangibles for handgun, etc.) but that's not a reason to not do it.

There are electronic and pneumatic/hydraulic triggers now that fire otherwise normal guns with normal ammo. I doubt the cycle time on pneumatic/hydraulic would be fast enough for our purposes but electronic releases shouldn't suffer from that if done correctly. Probably use some sort of servo to release the hammer. Better EMI/RFI shield the heck out of it though or some dolt with a cell phone could lead to problems. Not sure the advantage gained would be worth it though.