Nik Habicht

This has drifted far enough......

It sounds like you see engaging the safety as an arbitrary rule on par with holster position. There are real safety issues with holstering a short travel, light pull weight trigger without the safety on - a jacket zipper or an untucked shirt in the wrong place at the wrong time and you've just shot yourself in the leg. Instead of worrying about how far you can go towards the holster before engaging the safety without getting in trouble just don't do your make ready on auto pilot. Think about what gun you're using each time and proceed appropriately.Edited to fix iPad typos. That is my plan to very deliberately handle the make ready procedures. I fully understand the need to safely handle the gun for my safety and the safety of those around me. I just don't like subjectivity in the rules or rules that leave themselves open to different interpretations by different people. Short answer -- if you're looking for the exact point at which the safety must be applied to avoid a DQ -- you're either going to pop off a round when you least want to, or get disqualified. It's not a speed event -- so load up and apply the safety with the gun in front of you, near eye level, pointed in a safe direction/at a safe backstop, then move to holster the gun. I've issued that DQ and it frankly sucked for everyone involved.

I'm aware of that piece -- 4.8 IV that is........ That's been in existence for quite some time, and seems to have been satisfied by uploading classifier scores and paying for activity fees. My guess is that the bylaw predates the internet; once upon a time match scores were published in Front Sight....... That's not a requirement to upload to USPSA either -- one could satisfy that, if USPSA were serious about it -- by printing the overall results and mailing them in..... .....and they're publicly accessible so I'd say the requirement is met the moment they're published on the club's website. As far as 12.4 goes -- part IV is fulfilled by my member clubs; part V we occasionally run into trouble with, but usually a phone call or email gets things resolved. Sometimes stuff happens in volunteer's lives....

Can you point me to the actual requirement to post full match results to USPSA -- I must have missed something....... ....and even if that's a requirement, it's not possible to post FULL match results to USPSA as the website won't allow the posting of overall scores, even though EZW has been capable of generating them for decades. In my neck of the woods there's demand for the overall, so a number of clubs upload classifier results to USPSA, and then post ACTUAL FULL match results to their own website.....

Wish list?

Will the gun fit in the box with it attached? In other words does it make the gun wider than the box?

In EZW there was a reshoot flag -- it would generate a score for USPSA, and an associated activity fee -- but would not count for match score....

I found it also helped when i moved ten years ago. Emptied my safe so it could go on the moving truck, packed the guns into their plastic boxes, and the boxes into a large cardboard box, that I moved in my own truck.

Since some of you can't drop the political commentary, despite a polite request -- Timeout......

Ever dryfire at a match hotel?You ever dry fire anywhere? What's your point? My point is most of the rules get broken when you do that. Ok. So how does one dry fire safely? Blade-Tech plastic safety barrel of course...... ....also SIRT.....

What I find irritating is that the local grocery store has decided to lock one of its entrances/exits after 9 p.m. -- thereby violating local fire codes...... I usually walk in through that door a bit before 9, and when I try to leave....... ....I have to unlock the doors first.... I'm only there 3-4 times a year -- so usually my first clue is when I'm heading that way and there's a sign in front of the door...

OK -- I guess i was spoiled by having Linda Chico run registration for the bulk of majors I attended. Then again, they didn't order plaques until the match was over, and mailed them out -- with the winners names on the plaques.....

Really? You won't let a competitor change divisions on match day? Wow.......

I carry a six pack with me to matches..... Then again, they're Glock mags with Arredondo bases, so it's not like they really cost a lot....

I have no idea what the expenses are to put on a class...... Any instructor who drives in and stays with a friend is saving you money -- because technically you're responsible for their hotel and meal reimbursement. Some of the costs I can see: Rulebooks and other course materials -- is that a huge cost per student? No, but likely a few $ Shipping of that box to the class -- depending on weight and distance could be a buck or two per student Projectors -- I believe they're furnished by NROI/USPSA and while they've gotten cheaper, they still need to be paid for and need occasional maintenance/new bulbs/replacement of the actual projector. Figure another buck per student -- I could be over/under estimating that by half Flights -- I haven't booked domestic airfare since the mid-90s, but I suspect that the bulk of the money is allocated here. Some places are likely rather cheap to fly to -- Las Vegas, Orlando -- others maybe not so much. And we've got to fly the instructor back home afterwards -- it's good for their morale.... IIRC discounted courses are available if you're hosting a Level II (??) or Level III match -- those classes may be discounted, but the underlying expenses don't change. NROI Instructor Conference -- I think that's funded out of the NROI budget -- it's essentially an annual meeting of the instructor corps to discuss class training materials, potential rule changes, etc. I think that's a valid use of funds to keep the instructor group on the same page. Again, flights, hotel rooms, meals, and conference space is involved. Last but not least -- the instructors aren't making money off the classes; the revenue is used to fund programs. So no, not everyone of those $800 dollars is going directly into your class; but I'm ok with subsidizing the education of Range Officers around the country, in an effort to level out expenses for every club/shooter. In the long run it benefits all of us, when our officials know the rules -- and the range commands.....

Or unless you can use Federal primers... After years of playing with Glocks (shooting Federal primers deeply seated on a 1050) I've gone back to stock striker and recoil springs...... ....and for carry guns I've gone to a NY1 trigger return spring and a - connector after experiencing a couple of trigger return spring failures at matches..... Honestly for me, the difference in trigger resistance isn't that big a deal anymore. Lighter triggers and 147 gr. loads helped a lot as I was learning how to shoot; then at some point it stopped mattering....

IIRC, any 1911 pouch should work..... My Metalform 9mm mags fit in the same pouches as my Wilson .45 mags..... The guns fit the same holsters -- whether leather, Blade-Tech or Safariland 012...... Of course its been a decade or so since I last owned a 1911; and there are some new 1911s out with a different frame and mag size, but for most fullsize 1911s that should hold true, no?

Thank you. Beautiful. (For an actual data point, my 125 gr Blue Bullet USPSA Production load that I use for my G34 goes 1230 out of my PCC. In other words, it's the same bullet weight as most Open rounds, a lot slower, and not nearly as freakin' loud.) So there is no reason whatsoever to change anything about steel distances. As opposed to rifle rounds going 1500-1800 fps faster? Makes sense to me....

This is the exact reason that I didn't like the "new division but MD's can just not offer it" approach. There are MD's that won't offer it for a plethora of reasons and that introduces fragmentation to the USPSA product. You no longer have the same experience from one club to the next. Imagine how upset you would be if you showed up to a USPSA match and they told you "sorry, no open guns at this match". I don't blame MD's that are skeptical. There is a lot more going on than many are willing to admit. Stage design and stage briefs must consider PCC as well as making sure that every squad that has a PCC shooter has at least one RO that is familiar with 3 gun long gun etiquette. Stage design is not supposed to consider pcc. They want to shoot the stages we have now. OK -- 2 mikes, FTE it is..... After all it'll be the same for all the PCC shooters..... Or step out of the box and take the penaltyOr learn to shoot strong hand/weak hand...I shoot a rifle left handed, pistol right handed...it's not that difficult to switch from left should to right shoulder (or so it seems to me...) OK to continue on that theme -- how good are you shooting the carbine with one hand only on the gun? Because we regularly encounter stages where the target engagement angles dictate firing with either strong or weak hand only.....

Basically tight interior target, tiny port, odd angle...... Also shot some stages with very narrow FFZ -- like less than a foot in front of the wall -- that requires tricky pistol and foot movement.... I can see people removing some of these challenges in the interests of safety for long gun shooters..... Handguns are not carbines -- each have their uses, but they're not totally interchangeable -- and I'd like to not see pistol matches made easier because carbines want to play on the same stages....

Suppressors are probably disallowed to deal with timers, to ensure the last shot gets recorded, even under less than ideal conditions....

This is the exact reason that I didn't like the "new division but MD's can just not offer it" approach. There are MD's that won't offer it for a plethora of reasons and that introduces fragmentation to the USPSA product. You no longer have the same experience from one club to the next. Imagine how upset you would be if you showed up to a USPSA match and they told you "sorry, no open guns at this match". I don't blame MD's that are skeptical. There is a lot more going on than many are willing to admit. Stage design and stage briefs must consider PCC as well as making sure that every squad that has a PCC shooter has at least one RO that is familiar with 3 gun long gun etiquette. Stage design is not supposed to consider pcc. They want to shoot the stages we have now. OK -- 2 mikes, FTE it is..... After all it'll be the same for all the PCC shooters.....

Absolutely -- I think what he was saying was "Does it matter if in addition to the outer scoring border, you can also see delineations for the A, B,C and D zones on the No-Shoot side of the target?"

I don't know if anything's changed recently -- but Target Barn was no slouch at match sponsorship either, when I was on the circuit...... Neither's MGM...... When I was involved in running matches, my club sourced targets from all three of those guys.....

Patience, grasshopper -- let it heal. Take the opportunity to rest, reflect, and practice your weak hand ninja skills -- I learned a lot during a couple of two hundred round sessions devoted to only one handed shooting.... Then when you're all healed up, do the same thing with your strong hand....