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Not only did Andre make a mental error on the poker challenge, he made a big one on the elimination range. When he came up to vote, it was Kelly - 2, Denny-1, with Andre and Peter left to vote. If Andre had voted for Denny, it would've been Denny and Kelly in the elimination no matter what Peter did.

Cool, good to see you over here. SSP EX is my goal for this season as well. I'm also hoping to make B in USPSA, but I've really gotta get back on the dry fire horse for that one. Are you planning to do live fire 2-5 times a week? That sounds expensive. I've found that dry fire helps a ton, and best of all it's free. I highly recommend Steve Anderson's dry fire book.

Someone else posted the video here: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=109818 As I said in that thread, the start position of the star wasn't consistent, which changed its reaction to the first hit significantly. Seems like that runs afoul of 4.6.1.

That's brutal on the less skilled shooters, but a good run sure is fun to watch. The start position of the star wasn't consistent from shooter to shooter, which changed how it reacted to the first hit pretty significantly.

If you only need 10 rounds, you can't beat the factory ruger mags.

There's a really easy way to fix that. Add a heavy metal division. CDP pistol, 308 rifle, 12G shotgun.

I don't get the point of a tube length limit if there's already a rather low capacity limit. What's the point?

USPSA members by state in area 7: NY 580 MA 258 CT 144 ME 62 VT 57 NH 51 RI 37 How many clubs are there that are big enough for an area match? MA has the same problems NY does.

All I know is that my friend who spent $170 on a Browning Hi-Power slide stop after getting dqed at indoor nationals for an extended one is going to be PISSED.

I worked the New England Regional IDPA last year. (including building stages) This year I'm planning to work NER again along with CT state IDPA. I could probably comfortably add one or two more, but I don't want to burn out on it and there's only so much time. I also work 1-2 club matches per month.

My wife is 62 years old and suffers from severe RA. She has had both knees replaced as well as one ankle. Her fingers and wrists are so deteriorated that it is painful for her to shoot any load. I am very proud of her that she even shoots at all. One does not have to imagine themselves as a Master Class shooter to enjoy it or take it seriously. James Good for her. What I meant was really traveling to sanctioned matches and the like, where there'd be a chrono. Some shooters in perfect health shoot ultralight loads where they can get away with it, which I don't think is ever actually a help. If that's what it takes to keep shooting though, good on her for not giving up.

Not such a good idea for IDPA. It's most likely your thumb hitting the lever.

My 9 Pro runs the best around 130-135PF with the factory spring. (I like 147s right around 900fps) If your wife ever wants to shoot IDPA seriously, she should start shooting a legal load now.

Great article on Johnny this month in Front Sight. One thing I noticed was that they mentioned Phil Strader as the next highest with 4. However, Taran is a 5 gun GM (I remembered from seeing 'five time grand bastard' on his facebook page). Though when I double checked it now, his high percentage in SS is only 92%. I believe he must have gotten bumped for finishing at 97% of Robbie last year at SS nats.

I live in Massachusetts, and when I first got started shooting, I was very curious and concerned about how I'd be perceived. I decided that I wasn't going to hide anything. I wear gun related shirts around, hang targets on my office wall, etc. I've gotten surprisingly few negative reactions. I had one friend who kind of freaked out, but that was it. Most people either are interested / curious and ask a bunch of questions, or just let the topic drop, like any other hobby they aren't interested in. Here's a similar thread I started on a local forum a while back: http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/31371-Are-you-out-as-a-gun-owner

There are two 'bear' cases pending. Sykes v McGinness in California and Palmer v DC. Also pending are two cases challenging the 'safe handgun roster' in CA (Pena v Cid) and DC (Hanson v DC). The Calguns wiki is a great source of info on this stuff: http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/index.php/Main_Page#Important_Cases

There are plenty of different brass policies at work. At my first USPSA match (I shot IDPA for 2 years before that), I wasn't used to scoring behind the shooter, so I was afraid of pasting a target that hadn't yet been scored. Instead, I picked up brass and handed it back to the shooter. What a great way to get everyone to like you as a new guy. At Sunday's IDPA match, I was one of the last staff members there, tearing down the indoor stage. When we got done, the MD asked if we'd gotten any brass yet and told us to have at it. Conveniently the other guys left were 40 and 45 shooters, so I got a huge pile of 9mm. Much better than last months match where there was a guy on our squad with a nutwizard. We thought it was great that he was picking up all of our brass. Then he had a gun problem on the 2nd to last stage and left with all of our brass. I came home to see on a local forum that he sells brass!

Having to give up 30 days of your life is a big deal. So is giving up editorial control of your image, if you make your full time living from shooting related stuff. I think I saw here somewhere that that's why Matt B didn't do it.

Info at the author's blog here: http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/e-arc-of-monster-hunter-vendetta-available-now/

How about if something you're about to post makes you think 'this might get the thread locked', you keep it to yourself so we can have a productive discussion here? I'm all for testing a variety of gun handling skills. Loading a magazine is a gun handling skill. It would be annoying to do it regularly, but I wouldn't mind it every once in a while. I'm running a 'revo friendly' IDPA match in October and I'm thinking about the mason jar stage mentioned above. I'm only going to make it a 6 round stage. Both to avoid a speed bottleneck if we still get a lot of pistol shooters and to avoid beating people over the head with it.

I think there's a simple fix to the sitting out issue that would help. Instead of not being allowed to sit twice in a row, everyone should have to sit out once before any repeats.

I've often thought it would be really cool to set up all the cameras like you said, and then produce a show in post production to air later. You could tie the timer in to a computer synced with the video feeds. Then you could look at the scores for each target and plug them in to the time of the shot. Then you could generate a hit factor graph that would show on the screen while showing the run. I'm thinking a big bar graph of the current hit factor. So, when you shot points, it would go up, and as non-shooting time passed it would go down. When you hit a penalty, it would go down a bunch. You could superimpose the current stage leader's bouncing bar over the current shooter's bar during the run.

It's a cool concept, but the problem is, I doubt most shooters will set up special gear for just one match.

Maybe don't click on threads about shows that are currently on that you haven't watched? I accidentally clicked on a UFC 115 thread on another forum, but I cursed my own mistake and moved on. Damn does that zipline look fun.

I leave the ram up if I step away from the press. That way there's no question where in the process I am.