Graham Smith

It was my understanding that all SYNCing in Practiscore is a PULL. This is different than a SYNC where two devices exchange information in a two way flow so that they are both the same afterward. We have one Nook that is the Master and before a match, we go to each Stage Nook and PULL the stages and shooters to that Nook. After a match we take the Master and PULL the scores in from each Stage Nook. It is during that after match pull that I sometimes get a message that a shooter has changed. During a match, no one should even get anywhere near a shooter definition or a stage definition. If I could, I would "lock" them into a stage scoring only mode with some kind of admin PW required to get out of that. If I understand, the iOS version of PS could tell me what has changed. But we don't use an iOS master and are not likely to start. Regardless of being able to see what has changed or not, the somewhat larger issue here is that it doesn't seem to be possible to ONLY Sync scores back to the Master if that is what is needed. It would be nice if the option existed either during the Sync or as a Preference of some kind.

This is not the first time I've seen this but never thought about it until this morning. When syncing the Nooks back to the master from yesterdays match, I had one stage Nook where it said that one shooter had changed and the apply changes button was staring me in the face. My problem is that I don't know what was changed, why it was changed, or how to figure out what was changed. I also had no option but to accept the change or cancel the sync since I couldn't update the scores without updating the shooter. So, now I've got a changed shooter in the master and, without going through every single entry, have no idea how to figure out what was changed and why and whether it was correct or not. I have no choice but to press on but I'd darn sure like to be able to: 1. Review any changes to Shooters 2. Skip changes to anything other than scores during the Sync

Thanks for the prompt reply. I can see why we've never allowed this before. We shoot under time constraints and can't afford to have matches drag on while people try and one-up their prior score. In this case, we were running on time and the squad was shooting it's last stage so the delay wouldn't be an issue, but it's not a precedent I'm eager to set.

We had a a couple shooters who wanted to reshoot a classifier in the same division for a better score. They wanted to use their original score for the match and their reshoot to submit for the classifier. First of, after talking to both the former MD's of the club, this is something we have never done. I'm not even sure it's legal, although I can't rightly point to something offhand that says it's illegal. But beyond that, I have no idea how to possibly enter this in to EZWS or Practiscore such that it will be submitted to USPSA without creating a problem. The folks that wanted to do this say that other clubs have done it, but that doesn't help me figure it out. And, can't this end up in a situation where someone just puts down $50 and shoots the classifier 10 more times and turns in the best result?

Call me a Luddite if you will, but Production has already strayed so far from being true Production that it's fast approaching Limited 10 territory. If someone really wants modify their production gun that much, just shoot L10 minor. I've seen people do that with a 9mm and be competitive against people with a .40 major.

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From your description, I think that might work. If I tried that in the city, I'm afraid I would be getting to know the SWAT team way to well.

My main concern is, if the names are sorted in alpha order, the score keeper will see the same persons name twice and it could be real easy for them to pick the wrong one. IOW, this may be more of a User Issue than a Software Issue.

They may have changed the design in the past few years, but it's the one thing I had the most problems with. And others have said the same thing. The main issue I had is that there was plastic in a couple places where metal may have been a better choice. But that's debatable because I blame myself for some of my problems because I let myself go too fast or wasn't sensitive enough to the equipment and pushed or pulled a bit too hard on occasion. And that could very well be the main difference in various people's experience. One other comment that I, and a few others have also had is that it's a pity that they haven't made a 4 station Lee Pro (to allow for a separate taper/crimp die). The Pro is, in my opinion, a better overall design than the Loadmaster - particularly the case feeder.

I know how to do this in EZWS but never considered doing this in PractiScore. Do you just enter the Shooter twice? I can see how this might get confusing when scoring - too easy to grab the wrong entry and enter scores for it. If you are running one scoring device per stage, would you only enter the shooter twice on the classifier stage device?

If you are careful and establish a good rhythm and never, ever, EVER, force anything, you can get them working fairly well. Keep extra parts for the primer system (the weakest link in the design) and do regular cleaning and maintenance and you should be OK. The bullet feeder is a mixed bag. I had a lot of problems getting mine to work well with 9mm (the only thing I ever used it for). In the end, I disconnected the rod and moved the "fingers" manually and it worked quite well. If I were shooting a lot of 9mm I might still use a Lee Pro for that, but I had problems when I switched to .40

He, apparently, had a lifetime fight with depression. Whether he was bipolar (manic/depression) or not, I'm not sure but he never publicly admitted it or even admitted to ongoing clinical depression. But I seem to recall he admitted in an interview a number of years ago that he had been seeing a psychiatrist and that it had been very helpful. It's worth noting that people with depression are seldom "depressed about something." People can be rich, and successful, with everything to live for and still be so deeply depressed that suicide seems a reasonable solution.

"Exit to Eden" was a sort of comedy with Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell set at a private club on an Island. Dana Delany played a sort of a PG13 rated Dominatrix with a few R rated scenes. It was loosely based on a rather controversial novel but had very little to do with it. The movie pretty much failed on every level and has very little to recommend it.

Just be aware that lead times for a custom rifle can be several months. I would be really careful about jumping into any long range rifle until you know what it is you want to do with it. There's all kinds of long range shooting and the requirements can be very different. A rifle that may be perfect for one thing may suck for another. For example, if you are shooting mainly prone fixed distance vs multiple positions / multiple distance vs unknown distance vs tactical rifle, etc.

Anyone suddenly having problems with their Gmail account on Thunderbird? Keeps telling me my password is bad - this just started. No problems, so far, using either webmail or iPad.

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." Thomas Paine "We have to create the future, or others will do it for us." Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5) "There's no right way to do the wrong thing." Graham Smith

Just a quick update, for the past week or so, I've had Pandora tuned to Smooth Jazz Radio in the mornings. I listened to a similar station on Sirius mornings and the Pandora station is 1000% better! The variety is huge with a ton of stuff I never heard before. I suspect that the main difference is that Pandora is playing every track on an album while Sirius was just working from a play list - which is why stuff repeated so often it got stale. I've continued to play around with building my own station by adding artists to Steely Dan Radio and am finding it's not quite as straight forward as I first thought. While I may like a particular artist, I may not care so much for other artist and songs that end up on the play list by adding them to my list. I have the feeling that it's largely because I am not taking into account everything that Pandora does. For those fellow dweebs who find this sort of thing interesting, Pandora is based on something that they call the Music Genome Project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project Genome may not be an accurate term to describe this but it does go WAY beyond something as simple as genre and tempo. I'm not sure how many people they have working on this but it does produce some rather interesting mashups. For example, I was messing around over the weekend with something that was rock based but was largely smooth, melodic, not too fast, etc - IOW a rock version of the Smooth Jazz genre that would be good office work music. Right in the middle of all this, I found myself listening to "Stairway to Heaven". I have to admit that it did sort of fit but Led Zepplin is not a band I would have added to this list.

That's why I said go to the manufacturer of the can. The makers of the covers are going to advise against using them in a rapid fire situation because a suppressor cover can actually get too hot and start to melt. The TAB gear cover is certainly well made and well spoke of, but I'm not sure I would want to use it in your case. In fact, I'm not sure why you would want to use one for a rapid fire AR

Unless you have a lot of money to spare and don't care how much you spend, I'd suggest you start with a simple semi-custom .308 and 175gr match ammo. Here's a place to start looking: http://www.snipercentral.com/scriflepackagedetails.phtml?packageid=1 http://www.snipercentral.com/scriflepackagedetails.phtml?packageid=2 If you are in a rush, then you have very few choices. Either a Rem 700 SPS or a Savage 10 Carbine in .308 will get you started and you can upgrade later.

OK, who's going to be the first person to see if they can brick one?

I can pick out a torso target at 1000yds by eye if there is a good contrast between the target and the background. But it's REAL tough and it's basically just a little spot.

Wraps (mirage cover) help keep heat from radiating up and creating air distortions (mirage) in your sight path, which can be important for long range shooting, particularly with a scope. The downside to a mirage cover is that too much trapped heat will start to create problems with the suppressor itself. Some suppressors are more prone to problems than others. Best bet is to call and ask the suppressor manufacture and get their recommendations.

1. I want to know what he was aiming at. Had to be something way up in the sky someplace. 2. At that range, the bullet was basically just falling when it hit the balloon. Surprised it didn't just bounce off. 3. At that distance, the elevation is not the big problem, it's windage. At 1000yd a good long range rifle will have to compensate 8-9" per mph. With a 9mm, a bunny fart would blow the bullet off target.

That's a very interesting take on it. Of course there are other blogs that say you have to do both or it won't know what you like. And a few that say only Thumbs Up stuff you really like and skip (rather than Thumbs Down) stuff you don't like. By messing around with some artist as starting points and seeing what that gets me, I'm starting to narrow down a few artists that give me stuff I really like with almost no clinkers. My next step is to start adding some of these together. One I've had a lot of success with (remember my age) is Steely Dan Radio. I've had this on in the office for the past couple days and don't think I've run into one song I didn't like.

Clearly your choice in music sucks which is the reason you are having so much trouble. Why not try something more hip like "The Backstreet Boys" mixed with "Polka Time". It's what all the cool kids are listening to. Seriously, the fact that all this kind of mashup can be done is rather remarkable. It rather puts me in mind of a day long discussion I had with some other data guys and a couple government types back in the late 80's about the huge amount of world wide data that was available (and this was pre-internet hacking) and ways to capture it all and do correlations. Believe it or not, there was actually a pilot program at the *** with a bunch of people scanning newspapers from around world for key words and phrases and entering them into a Lotus Magellan (I think) database. I came into this because I was working testing a database program called CrossView which could create multidimensional data arrays. Both products failed because there were only a handful of people who could find any use for them. The only reason I bring this up is that what those programs were doing then is what eventually lead to things like Google and Pandora. You never know where some idea is going to go given some time.