Blueridge
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I just have to ask why Mighty Mouse was left off the team
:devil:The whole movie I kept wondering "where is Batman and Spiderman?! are they too busy to help out on this squad?"
They got their own feature movies instead, I guess
Batman is from DC Comics not Marvel Comics. Sheesh!!!!!!!!!
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I really do not see a 5" 625 having any real advantage over a 4" 625. It comes down to practicing with what you have and getting good at it. I personally use (and am not suggesting) a Ruger Alaskan in .45 Colt caliber which has a 2 1/2" barrel. I don't think that by my performance in that matches that I have competed in (IDPA or USPSA) that my accuracy was worse than anyone shooting the longer barreled revolvers that I have seen. I would be tempted to say that the whole barrel thing is primarily in the heads of the shooters.
The speed aspect of IDPA and USPSA is where my fellow competitors have me at a disadvantage. I have had more points after penalties than any of my fellow competitors had in raw points in a state match before that I can specifically point to. It was being slower in the overall match that hurt me in the standings. I am working on that issue and plan to give a better overal showing in the future.
I do own an 625 with a 4" barrel, and still prefer my Alaskan over it. My general suggestion is that a 625 is one of the best choices from revolver shooters due to availability of parts and (aftermarket)improvements that is greatly due to its popularity. I don't think that you will be disapointed with a 4" 625.
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I hated seeing gabby go. She was a good competitor and I would be interested in seeing her shooting in her style of competition.
William had a bit of an abrasive attitude, but he was a good shooter. I think that he was a better shooter than Littlejohn, as I feel that luck saved Littlejohn on the first and third elimination challenge. He did not shoot better than his opponent either time, but he used less rounds to do it. I think that Littlejohn just could not get off the shots faster and that saved him both times. He knows that his luck is due to run out, and of course took the opportunity to tone down his personality to let William take the flack from the shooters as a whole.
I did not care for William's "middle of the road" focus, but part of Top Shot is to shoot well enough to stay out of elimination challenges while not shooting so good that you get considered the primary threat to the other shoters winning Top Shot (and thus get put up for elimination). That is a hard line to walk.
I am rooting for Chee to take the top spot this season.
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I thought that the trick shots were pretty good team challenges. The elimination challenge was pretty good too. I think that the red team has the upper hand again in the team challenges, as the blue team is again starting to fracture. I believe that the majority of those who will be wearing the green shirts will be from the red team.
I expect that William from the blue team will make it to getting a green shirt, and Gregory will not.
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I am not sure. It would depend on what the challenges were. I have seen some that I feel I would do real well on, and others that I would struggle with. It would come down to what the challenges there were and what order they came in.
I do think that I would "qualify" for the show, but after that it would come down to the chips falling where they would.
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The first question that came to mind for me when I saw that they were firing aluminum projectiles was did thet recover them afterwards? That number of 4pound projectiles might have been worth it. At the least they would have made nice momentos.
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I was certain that Tim was going home by the way they showed him being so confident before the elimination challenge.
I think that Chee was soo mad that it brought tears, but I was surprised that he was that upset over not being nominated. I believe that it would have been bad for Chee and Chris to have both gone to elimination. They seem to both be solid marksmen and generally better suited to Top Shot competition than Tim.
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I have been fortunate enough to participate in the match evey year it has been held. It is THE most fun match I have ever attended. The stages are always enjoyable and challenging, while the participants are just great to shoot with. The children's charity part makes it even better.
I am trying to work out making it this year, as work related training has come up right around that time period.
This is the most important match of the year to me above all the others that I consider. I have gauged my improvement each year in revolver division by how I do at this match. Where else can you shoot with 65+ revolver shooters and see how your skills compare?
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So, what is either tactical or practical about hanging onto an empty mag?? It sure seems that the IDPA rules were written by a bunch of old instructors with nothing better to do. The Tiger Team has a lot of work to do, and this is only one example.
Simple answer is that autos require magazines to be more that single shot firearms practically. If you drop all of your magazines and never hold onto at least one a situation might arise where you would want to reload a magazine so that you are not left with just putting a round in the handgun, firing and repeating the process.
As long as you have other magazines on you keeping a particular one does not seem to be important. Being at a point where you have no other magazines on you but the empty one in the handgun, holding on to that last magazine then becomes clearly important.
Take from that whatever you will, as I believe that you can find good reasons yourself.
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If you drop your mag after 10 shots in the game then you are training to drop your real magazine with rounds still in it.
Actually it seems to me that it is getting people accustomed to dropping the magazine when they go to slide lock. That has no bearing to how many rounds you have in the handgun. Simple reaction to stimuli, so when the slide locks back you respond by reloading. Whatever situation you might find yourself in this is a good thing to do.
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It is a rule that I see no problem with. All sports have rules that the competitors have to abide by. There will always be rules that seem to need changing, but I don't think this is one of them.
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My PRIMARY hobby (shooting sports are my seondary) is olympic style fencing (Foil and Epee). I started when I was in college and managed to letter in the sport as a varsity athlete. After approximately 3 years the varsity team was dissolved, and I was out of the sport for about a decade. I came back to the sport winter of 1999, and have qualified and competed in 11 of the last 12 US Fencing Nationals in Division II and or III Foil and or Epee. This last year in addition to Div. II Epee I qualified for Veterans Foil and Epee at the US Fencing Nationals.
This year I have already qualified for Veterans Foil and Epee at the US Fencing Nationals. At the end of March I will compete in the NC Divisionals Qualifier to try and make the Division II&III Foil events and the Division II Epee events at US Fencing Nationals also. I took first place in the Epee event at the NC Divisionals to qualify for Div. II Epee, as my C rating in Epee precluded me from competing in Div. III (I'm rated too high for Div III now
).I was also fortunate enough to compete in the 2003 and 2004 Pan-Pacific Masters Games (held in Sacramento, Ca. and Gold Coast, Queensland Australia respectively).
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82% Jayne Cobb.
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A friend twisted my arm into shooting an IDPA match this past weekend. Now do not get me wrong, my first real match a year and a half ago was an IDPA match. I do not really mind IDPA but I just put more credence into USPSA. But that's neither here nor there.
Anyhow here's my dilemma:
Upon arriving at the match and signing in: All of the stages were blocked off. Meaning you could not go and walk the stages prior to the start of the match. Secondly, there was no walk through of each stage. We split into three squads and started on our respective stages.
So my questions are these:
1. Is it ok/ethical to block off stages and prevent a walk through prior to the match starting?
2. Is it proper to NOT have a consolidated walk through with the MD or RO explaining the stages before beginning the match?
3. Is it OK/ETHICAL? for the MD and whoever set up the match with them be able to see (and in many cases shoot) the stages and walk them before the match and unlike everyone else and still shoot for score?
These guys have been known to Shoot the stages they are going to use in a match in order to "Calibrate" them. Really?? Is that what they're calling it now?
It would seem to me, the MD and other people who set up the match should not shoot for score. Seeing as they are disallowing everyone else to see the stages prior to the match. How is this fair to the other shooters?
And to clarify, I am not whining. Despite not looking at the stages and not having the walk through I won the match(Despite the first reported scores going out in error and me in 3rd). So I am not crying over spilled milk. This all just seems well, odd. And I would appreciate some other opinions on the matter.
What say you, people of BrianEnos.com?
I'll try to simply answer your questions as clearly as I can. Just so you (and others reading)know I am an RO and SO for USPSA and IDPA respectively.
1) It is allowed that stages are not "open" for walkthrough prior to the match.
2) It is most common that the SO handling the stage reads the requisite stage briefing and allows a walkthough by the squad.
3) I am torn over the match administrators shooting stages that are "blind" to the rest of the shooters. There is a need to make sure stages work and the administrators have just as much right to enjoy a match as the rest of the shooters.
If it was not allowed for the squad to walkthrough the stage after the stage briefing, then I would not be happy. That said as long as all the shooters were under this restriction I would not have a problem with that. The point that you bring up is that those who setup the match are not "blind" to the stage setup, which is an interesting point. My view is that it cannot be helped that those who setup the stages know the layout, and they still deserve to enjoy shooting the match.
I am glad that you shot the match well, and hope that your concerns do not prevent you from participating in future matches.
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While I would really like to make this match, it falls on the same weekend that the US Fencing Nationals Qualifier is being held in North Carolina.
I'll be competing on Saturday and Sunday in the nationals qualifier (trying to qualify for 5 events at Nationals), and don't have it in me to participate in the fencing events and the SC Sectional in the same weekend.Maybe next year....
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I think that the first episode went well. I felt bad for the first two eliminated, but that is the nature of the beast.
I was happy to see the atl-atl shown as one of the future weapons used. I am looking forward to this season and hope for a good mix of competition and teamwork.
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I understand the manpower issue reference chronographing every shooters ammunition. Some consistent method of handling such matters is all that I am concerned about. Random checking of shooters ammunition is fine, and it does make life simpler for the match staff.
I personally have never been chronographed in IDPA, but I use the same loads that I use in USPSA that make approximately 170-175PF. I used to make approximately 180PF when I was just starting out reloading .45 Colt. Tha was before I got a chance to chronograph my loads.
At a USPSA match when I was starting out they fired two rounds and declared that I made power factor when it was found that those tow rounds made 185PF.
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Blueridge,
I wasn't asked to shoot over the crono, but there was one set up on the car trunk stage when I got there. The guy that won SSP SS said they asked him and 3-4 other people to crono on that stage when he shot it, so I guess it was more of like a spot check. Not sure if they were picking people they thought were below PF or just picking people at random, but they definitely checked at least a few people.
I did not notice that. As that was the case, I stand corrected on that issue reference to this match. Nice to see that measures like this were taken.
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Now that I have had a few days to look back at the match, I have come to some conclusions....
First of all that this match did not reflect what I can do on average. The stages were outside of what my strengths are, which shows me where I could use some work to improve.
Second is that while my scores put me in last place in ESR division, I can be competitive with revolver shooters that use moonclips while I use speedloaders (SL Variant). Considering that I am using a stock revolver with likely a trigger pull DOUBLE any of the other revolver shooters (SSR & ESR) I can be confident that my success or failure comes from my skills. Nothing against anyone that has allowed modifications done to thier revolver, but I have not come to the point that my stock revolver is holding me back as opposed to the level of my skills.
Third is that no one really checks to make sure that anyone makes power factor in those divisions that have one, or is concerned with the shooters equipment being within required parameters. There would have to be some gross violation before someone would make an inquiry. I could easily have shot SSR instead of ESR, as no one knew that my revolver exceeds the weight limit for SSR. I know that it does and shoot ESR because it is the right thing to do. This is not a jab at the match, but an observation about IDPA in general that I have seen over the years. In at least major matches ( State Championships, regional matches, etc...) I would expect to see a chronograph be used to verify shooters are in compliance with the rules at least, but I have participated in 7+ "major" matches of this level and have never seen one used. I'll continue to participate within the rules, but it would be nice to see some effort to check for compliance by larger than local matches. A S.O. advised me that I should be shooting SSR instead of ESR because I was using speedloaders instead of moonclips. When I advised him that my revolver exceeded the weight limit of SSR I got a look of disbelief, followed by a comment that suggested that I did not know what I was talking about. I carried on with working the stage, as I knew that I was correct. I don't expect every S.O. to know all the restrictions for all the divisions (heaven knows that I don't remember them all from the top of my head), but the level of doubt and disdain shown by the S.O. I came across was a bit annoying.
Finally I would like to say that I enjoy participating in IDPA and other shooting sports (on top of competitive olympic style fencing at the local, state, regional, and national level). I am getting better and my skills are improving, so don't be surprised when I finish higher than you in future matches (that means not only those shooting revolver, but those shooting autos).
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My schedule is getting pretty full, but it looks like I may be in Franklin TN the week of the 5th-9th. Hopefully a date for the MCC can be determined so that I can decide if I can make it this year. I know that you are working as best you can to pin down the date, so I hope that you have some luck in the endeavour.
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Overall I enjoyed the match. That being said some of the stages seemed to have "procedural traps" in my opinion. Stage 1 with that first window put the shooter in a position to receive a procedural when attempting to engage the drop turner and disappering targets and exposing them to another target they could not engage per the scenario at that time. Stage 7 (with the truck) required the shooter to engage in tactical order two static targets and a drop turner and require 3 hits on each target in that array. I don't recall witnessing anyone that was able to manage that feat without not engaging the array in tactical order.
Now while I found the rest of the match challenging, those two stages seemed to set up the shooters overall for failure. Speaking to several other shooters I found their view on those stages similar. I understand that creating stages that are challenging and enjoyable is tough. I truly appreciate all of the effort put into all of the stages, and accept that my shooting a revolver colors my view on the stages. I don't want "easy" stages, but ones that are challenging yet less mind-boggling in reference to the two stages I commented on above.
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I would hazard a guess of a loss of 30-50 fps in the revolver with the same load that you are using in the 1911.
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Just shoot safe and enjoy the match. All a major generally is is a match with more stages than a local match (okay, and they hand out trophies).
I'll be at the match, but competing in ESR. I'm heading up Friday evening (got to work in order to play). After the bullets have flown and the stages are over I plan to compare notes with fellow participants on how the stages went while waiting for the final results.
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From my experience brass being picked up is a common part of the stage reset (along with pasting, resetting steel, etc...). Brass left on the ground can cause problems with shooters having "safe" footing whlie shooting a stage. It is as much about safety of the shooters as it is helping a shooter retrieve their brass. That would seem to be the case how I see it.
95%+ of the time I get my brass back (even from lost brass matches) because no one else shoots .45 Colt in IDPA and USPSA competition (I compete in revolver division or ESR as you can guess). The RO's or SO's have either advised me that I can pick up my brass during stage reset, or they have tracked me down on occasion to return my brass to me. The first time I shot a "lost brass" match I of course made no attempt to pick up my brass and was surprised when the SO's had gathered my brass and returned it to me. None of them were interested in having the brass. I was of course appreciative to get the brass back.
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Eliminate divisions from classification system?
in USPSA/IPSC Shooting
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Actually in the case of Revolver Division the Memphis Charity Challenge has for it's existence gotten enough for the match to count as a classifier every time. I have never gone to Revolver Nationals and probably never will because I will never likely win a spot to Nationals. I have however made it to every MCC match so far and had a great time competing against 60+ revolver shooters. In fact I made C class after shooting the last MCC where there was a classifier stage and the match as a whole was classifier in itself. I was more proud of how I classified in the match as a whole than the classifier stage. I feel that matches that count as classifiers are more accurate in showing skill level in a "here and now" viewpoint. No one is going to try and "tank" a whole match, and therefore I believe that it is a better reflection of the skill level of a shooter. Now a shooter can have a bad day at a match, but a shooter can have a bad classifier stage also.