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    Making Weight in SS

    in USPSA/IPSC Rules

    Posted

    If you have a scale and you put an object on it and it reads 42.20 oz, removing the object and placing it back on should give you the same number. Exactly. If not, it should not be used.

    Not necessarily. Depends on the technology of the scale. If you put the weight (check weight, powder, bullet, gun, w/e) down on a different spot on the load cell, the pressure internally can be different and produce a different result. Some scales are obviously going to be worse at this than others. Granted it wont be much, but that's the reason I like to have cushion on PF and with regard to gun weight.

    Part of the weigh in procedure should be something like: "Place gun on scale with muzzle down range and grip to the right. Repeat procedure with the grip to the left. The lower of the two values measured will be accepted as the weight for the gun. The shooter may request that the match official use a calibration check weight on the scale prior to each measurement attempt."

    Good start. But why weigh twice if it makes it already? That will make the chrono take more than twice as long. How about a repeat weight only if the first is over, kind of like chrono is (don't need to shoot more than 3 if you make PF).

    If you don't make it twice, calibrate scale with a 43 oz. standard weight, and try a 3rd time. 3 strikes and you are open.

    And the scale can be calibrated with a 43 oz. standard weight at the beginning of each squad.

    Although personally I like Corey's idea of a balance scale with an arrow that points to "Good" or "Open". That's less practical but way more fun.

    3GUN AT BGSL Saturday 3-24-12

    in Multi-Gun, Rifle & Shotgun Match Announcements

    Posted · Edited by Steve Umansky

    I doubt you will need more mags. I can bring some 24 rd XDm 5.25 9mm mags if you want to borrow them: look for me.

    Your equipment sounds fine but with 1 all shotgun stage and a 5 round 870 you're gonna need a lot of pockets or holders for sg shells. Pockets are fine for rifle mags and sg shells. Just slower

    Not looking like an idiot may seem like a worthy goal: I've had a lot more fun since Ive given that one up!

    See ya there

    Waiting for service when you have an appointment

    in What I Hate

    Posted

    "I guess my insurance paid well."

    So even when they meet your ridiculous demands, they still get no credit from you for doing the right thing.

    Guess they made the wrong call and shoulda let you leave, huh?

    When you have a preconceived notion about someone's motivations, it's hard for you to interpret anything in any other light, isn't it?

    XDm 5.25 9mm. Zero 125 jhp. N320

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted

    After a few different configurations, I settled on this load:

    Zero 125 jhp

    OAL 1.132

    VVN320 4.1 grains

    Mixed brass

    WSP

    16 rounds: Average velocity: 1078 fps. PF 134

    Highest was 1105

    Lowest was 1019

    These were both outliers: There were 9 with velocities between 1076 and 1084.

    (cheap chrono and statistics was too long ago to calculate SD)

    This is an accurate and comfortable load. Good slide speed. I like it better than my 147 9mm load.

    Hope that gives others a place to start with this component combination.

    Health Insurance rates. When does it STOP

    in What I Hate

    Posted

    And I thought it was bad at $850 a month.

    The only people in the world who pay that are Americans.

    Switzerland and Cuba seem to provide pretty good medical

    care for a lot less than we pay.

    All depends on how much money doctors make per year:(

    You would be surprised to learn that how much doctors make accounts for less than 2% of healthcare costs as reflected by your insurance premium.

    I failed as RO

    in Match Screw-ups

    Posted

    You should have never been given the responsibility of ROing in the first place. The MD should have known better. I can't join the crowd in saying shooter's DQ themselves, yadda yadda after reading that you had a shooter break the 180 and sweep the other shooters.

    Get the training you need before letting this happen again. I would hate to be reading a thread about somebody getting shot because an untrained RO let something terrible happen.

    I firmly believe that no matter how "local" a match is there should always be a competent, certified RO running the squad.

    Sorry if this goes against the grain but it's just my 2 cents.

    Well I disagree with ya there. My 2 cents is shooters do DQ themselves, they are totally responsible for completing the stage within the requirements of the rulebook. I think what the original post was trying to convey is that the RO should not feel guilty in informing the shooter that they have committed a DQ'able offense. They may feel bad about having to DQ a shooter but it is in no way the RO's fault.

    Maybe the first DQ wasn't his fault, but would the other ones have happened if he sent the first guy home?

    I failed as RO

    in Match Screw-ups

    Posted · Edited by Steve Umansky

    1) 5 shooters in a squad break 180 .. could all have been individual problems, but also needs to be evaluated at the stage design level

    2) It's easy to KNOW what to do. DOING it requires confidence. Experience and RO training provide it. Though you thought you were experienced enough to do it (and likely are, when everything's going well) you obviously weren't (not faulting you) and someone else who IS more experienced should have recognized it and either a) not let you take a squad or b ) (and more prevalent in our club) had a more experienced shooter run with you and "help" you run the squad and back up your calls.

    So now you know. Glad no one got hurt, and you learned and posted a good lesson for all.

    Now go sign up for a RO course, and keep shooting!

    :cheers:

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