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Scott,
I've got my app filled out but need to know if we can park travel trailers in the field? It's 28ft
I haven't seen a reply to this, but there were a few rigs in the field this past weekend at the Area 1 pistol match.
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There are a bunch of hotels/motels in the Albany area. I normally stay at the Quality Inn, pretty cheap but they have breakfast and nice rooms. http://www.qualityinn.com/ires/en-US/html/CitySearch?placetype=city&placename=albany&state_country=ORUS&chain=Q&source=gqoh32
Doug
I stayed at the Quality Inn last night for the Area 1 pistol championships. It's nice enough, but there was an uncivilized horde of yelling middle-school-aged girls racing up and down the halls several times before they gave up about 11 p.m.
I suspect that the presence of an indoor swimming pool attracts such unhousebroken riff-raff. I wish I had stayed at the EconoLodge where there's no pool and no halls.
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Your check is in the mail.
Funny, however, that the announcement and theme coincide with the arrest in California of America's most-wanted gangster
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Zone 2 (Stages 5-8) was located off "Slave Cave Road." For those of you who missed the cave, it was about a quarter mile from the lodge and well before the turnoff to Zone 2. (Not the big one on the way to the golf course)
I didn't find much reference to the history on the Internet, but here's a link to a writeup by a California visitor, including some of the history. Slave Cave
I explained the sordid history of slavery and the "Underground Railway" to some of the visiting IROA staff and they were amazed.
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Where do we register at? The Lodge? Rockcastle shooting? The Golf Course? and does anyone know where the map is for these locations? I did not get a packet for the match probably because one of my kids got the mail that day, so I am missing a few details.
The lodge, registration, etc is at coordinates 37.09575 -86.07533 You can plug the coordinates into various mapping programs.
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Dennys ??? Yuck !! Ihop is the only saving grace in American cuisine !!!!
I've always had to put up with my British friends/colleagues taking the mickey out of my by telling me that American beer is like "making love in a canoe" (translation available via PM for those who are unacquainted with the metaphor).
Yet, when we had a meeting in Florida and I asked the Brits to go for the beer that would satisfy them, they came back with (hold on to your chair) Miller Light.
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There is a tick problem in the area? Are long pants suggested, or needed? LOL
The good news is that apparently, the ticks in Kentucky are usually not the deer tick, which carries Lyme disease.
Now that the clock is ticking, so to speak, until the start of the match, you might check Tick Time in Kentucky
And, I don't suppose that having a bunch of ticks crawling up your leg would entitle you to a re-shoot, but you could claim that a miss was caused by being "ticked off."
LMAO....thanks for the Heads Up.
We have the Deer Ticks that carry Lyme Disease in the area that I live, but they are pretty rare to come across. I have never had one on my person, but my Labs pick them up once in a while.
How about Fire Ants. I spent some time in SC a few years ago, and they were pretty prevalent around the area I was in, Aiken!
Dunno about fire ants near Rockcastle, but apparently they aren't a big problem in general. See Fire Ants
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There is a tick problem in the area? Are long pants suggested, or needed? LOL
The good news is that apparently, the ticks in Kentucky are usually not the deer tick, which carries Lyme disease.
Now that the clock is ticking, so to speak, until the start of the match, you might check Tick Time in Kentucky
And, I don't suppose that having a bunch of ticks crawling up your leg would entitle you to a re-shoot, but you could claim that a miss was caused by being "ticked off."
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Ticks tricks and tips
Consumer Reports, the U.S. independent product testing organization, ran a piece on insect repellents in the July 2010 issue HERE.
Unfortunately, they didn't include BugBand.
They do suggest, among other other things, tucking trouser legs into boots to keep the beasties from crawling up the leg.
I can't find any of the "blousing bands" we used on utility trousers in the service (USMC), but I find that 10" "mini bungees" work fine as a substitute method of creating a bug barrier.
For those who wear shorts, well .....
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People used to joke about labelling their enclosed motorcycle trailers with things like "John's Septic Service" to discourage theft.
I'm considering checking a gun case as baggage and trying to figure out what would discourage anyone from taking too much of an interest in it.
I have thought about "DVC Delivery Systems - Specimen Collection Kit #2"
Any other ideas?
My handgun case goes inside my luggage. My rifle/shotgun case goes plain. I'm not about to test the humor of the security people by being cute. ("I was just joking," hasn't worked yet as a "get out of jail" pass.)
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If you are a Canadian shooter and reading this and you want to shoot this match with a Benelli semiauto shotgun, enter the match and contact me. I have a M-1 with a pistol grip and I have an M-2 with a conventional grip that I will be glad to bring to the match for your use free of charge. While I only have two extra shotguns available, I bet there are other shooters in the US who would do the same thing.
Absolutely. I'll have my Winchester Super X2 Practical available. (I'm just shooting the staff match, eh?).
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From Appendix D4 (Production) of the 2004 Rule Book:
"Handguns with external hammers must be fully decocked.
Competitors in this Division who, after the issuance of the start signal and
prior to making the first shot, cock the hammer on a handgun which has a
loaded chamber, will incur one procedural penalty per occurrence."
(I have the pdf file if anybody wants it. Send me a PM)
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Note that the link to the web site on the R&R application has a typo in it and doesn't work (It has too many 'r's
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By now, you've probably read Jerry (The Geek) Burnett's article in Front Sight about the Area 1 match this year.
Here in the Pacific Northwest we are not accustomed to high temperatures and the heat took its toll as Jerry described.
I was CRO on stage 8 so I had the advantage of parking my truck immediately behind the pit. I kept a wet towel over my head on Saturday and after every shooter, re-soaked it in the cold water of my ice chest.
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I got an M&P 9 Pro a couple of weeks ago and now I find that the 17-round magazines are impossible to obtain (At least I haven't found any either locally or on the Internet). The promotion coupon says to wait 8-10 weeks.
Oh, well, it will probably be that long before the gun makes it to the approved list and I can actually shoot it in a match.
Other than that, I like it so far. It feels better than my Glock 34.
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didn't get the email
driving 5 hrs late Friday night
what time is registration and shooters' meeting on Sat?
I took the liberty of converting the MS Word attachment from the e-mail to pdf and including it here. See above.
See you all there.
Steve Graham
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I don't know anyone that got an email yet.. are you sure these went out?
I got the e-mail
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Apparently, one cannot delete messages.
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Bevan Grams trakes on the long-range targets on stage 10
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Jerry Bonura hustles across the "Ports."
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Do we have any pics coming? I wanted to take pics but......having to much fun
Rick
Here's a picture of young Jacob Klein. It was gratifying to see the young shooters.
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I will be traveling to North Germany soon. Are there any German clubs in the Dusseldorph area where I could observe (and maybe borrow a gun and some gear)? I will be there for three months or so and would like to find a club if I can.
I did a little research through Google and found a German-language shooting forum where somebody asked a similar question.
Apparently, there's a shooting center in Langenfeld, near Düsseldorf. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langenfeld,_Rhineland
The city has a web site (http://www.langenfeld.de/) and although the "sport-shooting" center is mentioned, there's no link to a web site.
I could not find anything on the Internet for the shooting center, but there was a team called IPSC Langenfeld that won a big match.
Team members:
Böhm, Dietmar
Thiesen, Winfried
Meißner, Michael
Hinz, Tilo
The contact address for the city is:
Stadt Langenfeld/Rhld.
Der Bürgermeister
Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1
40764 Langenfeld
Telefon: (49) 02173/794-0
Telefax: (49) 02173/794-11201
E-Mail: info@langenfeld.de
Internet:
For starters, I would contact the city and ask about "Schießsportanlagen" Somebody there will be able to read/write English.
If can be of help, you can contact me privately at sdgraham@duckswild.com
Viel Spaß
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Sine nobody can agree on unified rules for pistol-only matches, e.g. NRA, IDPA, USPSA, IPSC (no, USPSA isn't the same as IPSC), I suspect that unifying rules for three-gun will be at least three times as hopeless and maybe to the third order of magnitude hopeless (in total agreement with BenelliChick)
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2013 Northwest Multigun Challenge, Bend, Oregon
in Multi-Gun, Rifle & Shotgun Match Announcements
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You have some dropped text here, it should be " Co-Match Directors and Range Masters For Life"