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I changed my loading procedure at this week's match. I now come to the line with my barney mag in the front pocket, but behind the hip-bone and my start mag in the back pocket. I chamber a round with the barney mag, then swap mags at the back pocket.

Go to cmcalc.com or classifiercalc.com and put in the hit factor for your stage. They will calculate your percentage.

We did SO shirts for the New England IDPA Regional: Underarmor shirts with custom printing (logo and some text on the back, text only on the front, no names). I want to say it was about $30/shirt. I can ask who the vendor was if you're interested. They're not as nice as techwear, and not personalized, but significantly cheaper.

I shot mine stock for a year and just picked up a second one. I put a Burwell rear and dawson fiber front on the new one. I like the serrations and smaller front in practice. First matches with them are this weekend.

I totally disagree with the advice to new reloaders to avoid progressives. If you load at the volume of a competition shooter, progressive is the only way to go. I started with a single stage based on similar advice, loaded 50 rounds on it and bought a progressive. Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk

I'm pretty sure Dave made a typo. He meant illegal for SSP, legal for ESP.

Yep, kinda like 1911 owners that will not carry cocked and locked IMO there's a pretty big difference between not wanting to carry with the hammer back just because it looks scary if you don't understand the design and not wanting to actuate the trigger of a loaded gun when you don't want it to fire. In either case though, the solution is to not buy it, which is what I did. I'm not saying it's dangerous, just that I don't need something else to think about while I'm getting ready to shoot a stage.

I completely understand and agree with the ruling *as based on the current rules*. I also think the rule is dumb.

The start signal is the beep. See 8.3.4 which reads in part: “Start Signal” – The signal for the competitor to begin their attempt at the course of fire. The course of fire begins at Make Ready. See 8.3.1 which reads in part: “Make Ready” – This command signifies the start of “the Course of Fire”.

As it was told to me, a 'controlled pair' means seeing the sights for both shots and a 'hammer' was two shots with one sight picture.

It sounded interesting, but then I read that there's no decocker, so you have to manually lower the hammer. I don't need to worry about DQing every time I make ready, so I lost all interest.

View the classifier as just another stage in the match. You're probably either psyching yourself out, or pushing too hard on the classifier.

t_telecom, get Tapatalk. It's a general purpose forum app that most forums including BE can use. I'll never go back to using the browser.

The other reason you need so many loaders is some stages don't divide by 6 very well and you'll drop a bunch of live rounds reloading early. I think this probably lessens somewhat as your shooting skill improves and you get better at stage breakdown. I shot a section with Bones and he saw a bunch of opportunities I would've missed to take harder shots to improve movement and reload efficiency.

Another good forum to check out is Northeastshooters.com. It's the place to go to stay informed on what matches and stuff are going on around New England. I also have a Browning HighPower for sale there There's an IDPA match at Worcester and USPSA at Harvard next weekend. I'll be at both, maybe I'll see you there.

That was the most entertaining match video I've ever watched.

Elevator door plus disappearing charger: http://www.youtube.com/user/Bombaymike#p/u/12/vO7XIwNtBkY

At my IDPA clubs, we try to pair new shooters with experienced shooters who like helping them and spread them around the squads. I think this is the way to go. A newbie squad sucks for the experienced guys and tends to back up the match too. When I was new to USPSA, I squadded with friends from IDPA who already shot both. One time I ended up with mostly newer shooters, but they had mostly shot a few matches. How good they thought I was was a nice ego boost.

I was very impressed by the most recent update to the basic pistol course. I was concerned when I took the instructor course that I'd be fighting the outdated material(based on the BP course I took a few years ago), but I was pleasantly surprised. It's up to date (teaches thumbs forward grip, etc) and even mentions action pistol competition and self defense training. Bravo to whoever made the update happen. It's now a course I'm proud to teach. Yes, the material is quite basic, but it's a very solid foundation to learn from.

You realize you just looked the battery into the grip of your electric drill, just like it was a pistol you were reloading. You know you're a competition shooter when instead of buying a new toy, you buy an identical backup of your competition gun. I did both of these this week.

Kind of a strange challenge to use Taran as an expert for. I wish they had him set up a raging multigun stage.

Do your shooters want to classify up or sandbag?

Take a look through your reloading manual, look for about 1175fps with the 115, 1080 with the 124, or 920 with the 147. I think 147s shoot the softest, so that's what I prefer.

Gary's post explains the rules. What I think the OP is really asking is, are these rules the fairest they can be?

This. I haven't DQ'd anyone for it, but I've gone up to shooters after and quietly requested they have their finger more clearly out of the guard so I don't even have to think about it next time. Most take the hint.