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Do daily results go up on the web anywhere?

The breacher shotgun was provided last year. IIRC we used our own birdshot ammo. I forget if they had ammo for the 20Ga guys or they just bummed 2 12Ga shells off a squadmate. No slings were required last year, they had dump stations.

That's what I did for Area 7. It's easy to load from the pouches, but I caught myself starting to put my unload mag in the front pocket several times. I may have to copy Lugnut's clips. The guy I know who got bumped to open was for a 6" sight tracker in limited.

My bad. I was thinking Harvard, which morphed into Harvard University, which is located in Cambridge, and screwed up. No worries, that always happens the first time I tell someone I shoot a lot of matches at Harvard. There are people who live 10 miles from it that have never heard of the town of Harvard.

He rocked Area 7 too, only stage he didn't win was due to a gun malfunction on a speed shoot.

I'll take JJ in open, Blake Miguez in limited, Taran in L10, Ben Stoeger in Production, and Josh Lentz in Revo.

I like the USPSA rule on coaching and would use it in any rules I wrote. It allows coaching of new shooters at local matches if they want it. I think coaching on the clock has no place at matches where something is on the line. A big part of the game is stage planning and executing your plan.

This match was a lot of fun last year and supports a great cause. If you're down on the youth of today, shoot this match and the cadets will change your mind. Also, it's a nice change of pace for all of the ROs to call you sir.

Don't give the state of MA any ideas.

Just a few from Area 7 yesterday: 1 Getting to watch JJ Racaza shoot all day 2 Starting off nervous because I'm shooting with JJ and 3 of the top 6 competitors in production (my division), have a good run on the first stage of the day and have JJ hand me my empty mags and say nice run. 3 Great stages 4 Awesome RO crew, including Mojo the Bulldog 5 plenty of good natured ribbing among the shooters 6 Having to stay sharp to actually get a target or two pasted before they're all done 7 absolutely perfect match weather (I feel sorry for the crew who had to set up in the monsoon)

Bad weather and equipment problems definitely top the list for me. RO issues definitely would, but that happens very rarely. In the time I've been shooting, I remember one WTF was up with that guy experience and one that was actually bad.

It's definitely important to have a gun that works and is set up how you like. Where people get wrapped around the axle is always chasing the latest and greatest. Once you have gear that's good enough, there's a lot more practice before those last 5% tweaks matter at all, and even then I think the effect is mostly mental. Glad to hear you hooked a new shooter. I'm sure he'll be getting his gun squared away and coming back.

I guess that by extension a stupid rule was enacted by stupid people. Just speaking for myself, not a good way to win me over to your way of thinking. Sometimes rules have unintended consequences. That doesn't mean they were enacted maliciously or stupidly for that matter. I didn't mean that at all. I meant stupid in the sense of "annoying or irritating; troublesome." I'm not saying the rule was enacted maliciously or stupidly. I'm saying that an unintended consequence led to a bad rule. I'm looking forward to hearing what the brilliant and illustrious members of the board think about changing the rule.

I don't think anyone is arguing that that isn't what the rules say. We're arguing that the rules are stupid in this regard and need to be fixed.

That is a good idea. I will send my Area Director an email. Have you done so already? I'm shooting Area 7 with him on Sunday. I'm planning to ask about it then. With my mags in my back pockets.

Yet another reason I don't have a landline. Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk

How about we learn from that incident and fix the rule now? Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk

I've seen it suggested many places to get a universal decapping die and put it in the first station when loading. This pokes any stray tumbler media out of the flash hole.

I think the mark of a truly great stage is when there are some obvious easy plans but there are more difficult faster plans hidden there for the better shooters to find, like taking longer or tighter shots to save a position and the like.

I shoot USPSA and I still hate 357 sig because I end up with that silly brass mixed in. If you reload them, I'll bring you a bag of brass when I finish sorting my bucket of range brass.

Bumping someone to open for a mag that isn't accessed from an illegal location during the CoF is a silly unintended consequence. I'll be shooting with my area director this weekend and I plan to suggest that the board look in to fixing this.

If you want to be as competitive as possible in all 3 with one gun, it's gotta be a 4" 625. If USPSA was out of the picture, I'd go with a K-frame 38/357 and shoot IDPA SSR / ICORE retro/classic/whatever it's called now. Without IDPA, I'd go 5" 625. ICORE only, I'd shoot an 8 shot 627 in limited or open.

Man, now I'm even more annoyed I didn't register fast enough to shoot with you guys. Have fun!

They do if you win your division.

I'll let you know next week when my 1050 shows up. I've loaded about 10k on my LnL. Saw an RL1050 in the classifieds here and said what the hell. I think it depends on how you plan to use two presses. Personally, I don't see a reason to have both the LnL and 650. They really fill the same niche. I'd rather have two the same so I can share all the conversions. My plan is to set the 1050 up for 9mm (that's my volume caliber as I mostly shoot Production). I'll load everything else on the LnL because it's so quick and easy to change calibers on and the conversions are pretty cheap.