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Nik Habicht

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  1. Sure. But I'm assuming that if a host venue decided that a particular person was no longer welcome on their premises - they could so inform the person, on penalty of trespass, no? That would never be my first move - but we did once have to ask someone to leave the range and never to return - but it was the host club that ultimately issued that request, and followed up with a cease and desist letter from the club's attorney.....
  2. Host organizations - meaning the club that owns/runs the range - can pretty much ask anyone to leave the premises. If the host organizations asks you to leave and not come back, under penalty of trespass - or if they want to forbid concealed carry on their property, they can. Being a USPSA member won't save you in that instance.
  3. Slide Glide or Slide Glide lite - from Brian.....
  4. In my experience - which mostly involved jacketed round nose or hollow point projectiles in 115, 124, 125, and 147 grain weights, I loaded to an oal no longer than 1.100 to get a Gen 3 Glock 34 to reliably run with ten rounders. Downloading to just make power factor - say 130-132 also required dropping a couple of pounds of recoil spring weight..... As with anything, be careful....
  5. And then a GM rolls through, shoots the same 160 points in three seconds, and you're looking at ~ 60% or ~ 62.5 of their score. Then there's the risk/reward factor - can you manage the draw safely from that position? How does it affect first shot accuracy? How about second shot accuracy? By all means give it a whirl, focusing on being safe, and testing it with a timer on targets at different distances to see if it's really worth ti, or if a relaxed stance is better...
  6. I ran a club match for six years - and the parking lot was very much inside the range. Handling a gun at your car got you DQ'd, and your attitude would determine whether or not the range would welcome you back for future matches, or invite you to never enter the property again. Careful handing out advice, when you're not in charge of running the match. That said, if anyone with a carry permit or a LEO showed up, they either knew enough to ask, or if they didn't we'd politely tell them about the cold range, and ask them to accompany one of us to a safe place - usually a berm downrange, but it might be a side berm, if the stages were being built, to clear their gun. We weren't running around trying to play gotcha.....
  7. It also occurs to me that Larry Houck ran the Summer Blast for many years - granted it was a ten stage match, that could be shot in a half a day - but it had super heavy RO staffing, in part because Larry asked his staff to paint and reset ll steel and all movers, and he staffed the stages appropriately. (Why? Consistency of reset eliminates re-shoots, which lengthen the match) I'm pretty sure that despite reportedly treating the staff really well, that match ran in the black. That said - bringing on enough staff to cover 8 pits and ten stages, is different from what you'll need for an 18-25 stage multi-day match. And the Summer Blast ran at two clubs with pretty good local support - Fredericksburg, VA and later York, PA - so my guess is hotel costs were considerably cheaper.... Finally - what do Nationals entries cost these days? Multigun is the only one with a price - $325 - which is only $50-100 higher than area matches. Hopefully Handgun Hats are charging at least $450 and selling out. They used to be twice the rate, roughly, of area matches. If they're not selling out, then they need to be consolidated.....
  8. Those are just a few guesses from when I was doing this - and I'm sure I've forgotten more than I remembered...
  9. I think there were 80 of us shooting it at the '03 Nate in Barry - the second year that Production was a thing at Nats. L10 had more than twice that number of entries, and there were a bunch of Revolver shooters - it was a cap limited nets, with only three divisions. Sevigny won all the Production Nats from 2002-5; Leatham edged him out for the win in 2006 in Tulsa - where I think we might have had ~ 140-150 competitors in the division.....
  10. And my answer would be - "let's score the targets and see if you hit anything....." Won't accept - that's funny. You have the right of appeal of course, but I haven't met the CRO or RM who would overturn the call when the RO running the shooter states he's certain the target wasn't engaged, and can articulate why he's certain - i.e. "He blew right by the position, and it's not visible elsewhere; she also fired 18 rounds on a 20 round stage..... I wouldn't call the penalty if I wasn't certain - but I've usually identified the pitfalls, and come up with a plan, before picking up the timer, to ensure I run the stage safely, accurately, and kindly - and avoid reshoots....
  11. Actually even at that point the competitor can continue to shoot - the command you partially quoted is "If you are finished, unload and show clear." The competitor must stop after "If clear, hammer down, holster" is given. Bang at that point is DQ..... I've had ROs go IF you are finished.... really emphasizing it in the distant past. Shouldn't happen, but it used to....
  12. Not for an experienced RO. Got a newish RO - then a more experienced RO needs to walk him or her through the stage and point out the pitfalls. Couple of tips - due to the limited capacity divisions, I'm always counting rounds fired, even for Limited shooters - that's not a catch all with steel, and makeup shots, but it can help. Generally I've already walked the stage, identified those targets that can be shot from more than one place and the places they can be engaged from - and can simply monitor for that. Shooter engages from the first position where eight are possible, and only engages the three close targets, I know he didn't engage the option there; if he doesn't pick it up at the next, or the next two positions, then he didn't engage it at all, and I won't be surprised to see the misses when I go to score it....
  13. ....and apparently that time was pre-2001, because I heard that same sentiment from the old shooters at my first match.....
  14. ....and apparently that time was pre-2001, because I heard that same sentiment from the old shooters at my first match.....
  15. Hey - it's no longer production, so why not? wait - didn't't we have this same conversation ten years ago about changing production? And 15 years ago? And 30 years ago weren't people grumbling about the introduction of Limited and Open, in what what was previously a division less sport?
  16. Seen it, and had it happen during a match when a trigger return spring broke.....
  17. I have zero Staccato experience. 2011s - yep, seen my share fail in the competitive arena, usually because the nut behind the gun tried to tinker too much, or went too crazy with mag extensions/followers/springs. But hey - things could have changed markedly - the Gen 5 Glocks feel in some ways like totally different animals than the Gen 3s and earlier. I'll agree with you on the triggers. On the other hand if you want it to go bang every time you pull the trigger, irrespective of the knowledge depth of the gun driver, or the amount of maintenance it receives..... Glock - accept no substitute....
  18. Does the Staccato need more maintenance than a Glock? My Gen 3 3 pin 34 has about 7,000 rounds through it since it was last cleaned - before the '06 Nationals, and it's still running like a champ..... If money was no object, I'd send all the SWAT guys to the armorer's course for their preferred platform - just to make sure they had all the info needed to keep their gear running....
  19. Yep. Lighter faster swing, all the best stuff of the Glock 19, combined with a full-size grip. When I was getting started the 17 didn't work for me at all - my performance was better using either 34 or 19, when considering speed and accuracy. Now it matters less. For sight radius, give me the longer slide every time - in fact my favorite 19 now is the 5th gen 47 slide on a 19 frame, it used to be the third gen 34 slide on a 19 frame with a lone wold adapter - but I was always concerned about reliability there - but for handling give me the shortest gun possible. With irons: 34>45>19>17 - but those last three positions are close..... With a dot: TBD....
  20. I like 34s more than any other, but most of my shooting has been in Production. I've dabbled in CO with a 34; wonder if even shooting a model 45 with a dot might not be perfect - it'd be a little like shooting one of the old IPSC modified guns, without the poppleholes....
  21. This exactly. I'd venture that most of the 300 attendees are already aware of the sponsor, and the sponsor's products - so with the possible exception of first time attendees who started in the sport mere months ago - you're not finding new customers through sponsorship....
  22. He's not the only one. I cracked a slide at the ejection port on an early 2 pin Gen 3 G34 production blaster about 15 years ago, during a USPSA match. That gun easily had a 100,000 rounds through it at the time. We noticed in comparing it to a 3 pin Gen 3 G34 that Glock apparently lengthened the locking block in the frame toward the muzzle - and we speculated that change may have been made to reduce stress being placed on the slide at the ejection port. I haven't seen a slide crack on a Gen 3; I haven't seen a frame crack unless someone touched off a doublecharged round....
  23. Nik Habicht

    .32 ACP

    Maybe the universe is suggesting you should reload it and buy a Seecamp to shoot it out of, Matt? I remember hating that as well, along with mixed in .380s, which on quick inspection looked like 9, only to be way too short.....
  24. Back when I was directing matches at Central Jersey ~ 15 years ago, we were lucky enough to have about 8 of the 40' containers for the various action disciplines. We also had a half dozen trailers, with 8'x6' beds, that could be towed with the club's golf carts. Initially we had a couple of trailers of walls, one of braces, one for target stands, one for steel, etc. Then one of our brighter stage designers, had a chat with another who had access to a welding rig, and they fabricated two tall verticals on one side, two shorter ones on the other side, with a horizontal cross pice connecting the uprights, about 3 feet above the trailer bed. WE then dedicated one trailer per pit, sticking walls and braces on the welded on rack, poppers, target stands, fault line, target sticks, buckets of hammers and spikes, etc. on the trailer flatbed. That turned delivery time for supplies to each pit from a 45 minute cluster**** into a 10 minute affair of delivering each trailer to a pit. Set-up began earlier, and was easier to pull off on time. If you're starting out that may seem farfetched - but could provide goals to work toward....
  25. Funny - I must have designed only long courses, even if they only took 10-20 rounds to complete. I never felt restricted, since there's not a minimum requirement for round count for long stages......
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