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Erik, Our squad shot that stage before your squad. I started in the much the same position as you, but with no discussion by our RO (we self RO from within the squad). I put the beads on my right hand by looping the string around my little finger and thumb with the beads laying on the back of my right hand. On reveiw of the HoserCam tape my hands were a little (3-4 inches) further away from my gun. I don't think it would have made much difference on this particular stage because after getting up from the table I had to move several feet before I could engage any targets. On a stage where you immediately shot after picking up the gun it would be critical. Your RO thought your elbows had to be on the table because that was the way it was demonstrated. When he read the course description he saw it wasn't required and let you start in your position.

OK, so what's the difference between an epilectic corn shucker and a prositute with diarhea? The epilectic corn shucker, shucks between fits!

Back in the day, when "Lethal Enforcer" first came out on Sega, I think it was. I put a Tasco Pro-point on my video blaster. The game had a pretty nice shooting gallery portion with various drills and targets. I didn't play the 'action' portion of the game much, but I think the shooting gallery was fair dry fire practice.

Oh the Lightening boys have national meets as well, and for some odd reason they hold them around the same weekends as the R/T club. 2 years ago they had a big meet at the same racetrack (Topeka, Ks.) as the R/T club. I heard rumors that as least 4 hotels had to have sections of their parking lots repaved.

Quote: from 3quartertime on 6:44 pm on Dec. 3, 2002 Trivial sometimes unprovable writings have inspired many a young man to fight. Might often the result speak louder than the reason? I believe the correct name is propaganda. LOL! It's a great story, but it's probably not true. The Frenchman wasn't trying to get laid!

Hey Erik, Way to Go! When do they hand out the awards? LOL!

Oh man, why do they schedule them on the same weekend! Decisions, decisions. I've missed the last 3 Dodge Dakota R/T club national meets because they keep having them the either the week before, the week after or the same week-end as the Race Gun or Open nationals. How do I decide? R/T nationals: drunken hotel parking lot parties, half naked women, burn out contests, stereo contests, drag racing, autocrossing, BBQ, a 572 cubic inch Hemi crate motor give away. Racegun nationals: frantic gun and mag cleaning every night, 3 inches of talcum powder dust in everything, waking up at 0'dark hundred and driving 22 miles and parking in the talcum powder and sand parking lot, rushed evening meals that taste like, yup dust! so you can get back to the hotel to clean guns and mags. R/T nationals: Ocean City, Maryland 6,008 miles round trip. Race Gun nationals: Bend, Oregon 1050 miles round trip, oops plus 400 miles to/from the range. WooHoo, I'm going to the Race Gun Nationals. This time I'm taking a rental car, I'm still cleaning that damn talcum powder out of my R/T!

Quote: from TMC on 3:19 pm on Nov. 11, 2002 Hey Holan, Kinda glad Ron didn't have that thing working for some of us to try at Rio Solano, it would be terrible to relive that firey crash again. Just to clarify, the HoserCam was working OK, Ron just didn't have a camcorder capable of recording in the VTR/VCR mode.

When I was 10 I saw "Night of the Trifid's" Man, I woke up with nightmares for weeks. I thought "The Serpent and the Rainbow" was a pretty good scary movie. "From Dusk til Dawn" gave Mona a good scare, we had to leave the lights on for a couple of nights afterwards.

Any of the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold would be a good choice, except if laughing is going to hurt don't read "A Civil Campaign." I thought my relationships were crazy until I read that one. Elizabeth Moons' "Winning Colors", "Hunting Party" or "Sporting Chance" are also pretty good.

There weren't any awards for catergories, ie senior, lady, etc... and dang it I can't remember fer sure who won C open (I was getting more pie) I think it was either Jimmy Grassmidt or Buddy Nunes. You know my attention span around desserts!

Yeah, both of my names were on them and spelled correctly: Open division Champion and Limited division Champion. LOL Actually, no our names weren't on the buckles. Most of the classes weren't decided until yesterday, Master class had to be decided by a shoot-off after the match.

Yesterday the Oakdale Pistol Section (Oakdale, Ca.) had their 2002 Awards Banquet and annual Turkey shoot. No, no live turkeys were injured (unless you count my mashed finger.) Frozen 20lb turkeys were given out to the shooters as prizes. The Turkey shoot was a great match with a shoot-off after the match to determine the 2002 Oakdale Master class winner between Francis Carlos and Russel Spilker. Congrats to Russel as 1st 2002 Master class. Then after the turkeys were handed out (Hey Francis have your hands thawed out yet after handing out all those turkeys?) came the part we were all starving, er waiting for. The awards banquet! 16oz steaks cooked to perfection over Mesquite with all the trimmings. I was doing my best to mop the plate when we were told there were 3 kinds of dessert, Apple pie, Pumpkin pie, and Birthday cake for Ashley's 18th birthday. I did my duty and had some of all 3! (Anybody got any Tums?) My hats off to Bruce Whitacre and Brad Ott for the masterful job on the grill! Then Francis and Jimmy Grassmidt handed out beautiful belt buckles to all of the 2002 division and class winners. What a concept, giving out the awards the same year and not just sometime in the same decade. Francis and Jimmy did a great job all year designing and putting on fun, challenging matches along with the rest of Oakdale Pistol Section. If you are in the area the December match (3rd Sunday) will be a charity match to raise funds for needy local families. Come and shoot, have fun, do a good deed and you can admire my shiny new belt buckle ;-}

I say drop Pigs not bombs! Fly crop dusters (spraying liquified pig intestines) over Islam not fighters and bombers! Hijack all food shipments and substitute pig products labeled as beef, chicken, etc... I declare Pigjhaad!

Grape jelly on fishsticks. Yummm! Try it you'll like it. It's something along the lines of mint jelly on roast lamb, only cheaper. ;-}

10ring, The video link posted here isn't from one of my cameras. I'll email a couple of photos to Brian and see if he will post them because I don't have a website yet. The HoserCam is mounted at eye level but is offset to the side about 2 inches from the center of the dominant eye. That's as close as I could get without going to eyeglass frame or headband mounting, hideously expensive cameras (w/o sound) and all the extra cabling to connect the camera to the batteries and transmitter.

I've just finished the pre-production model of the HoserCam. It will be going to Area 2 with Ron Downs. Unfortunately I won't be going, but if you are there stop by and say Hi to Ron. All my future postings regarding the HoserCam will be in the classifieds.

That's OK Erik you lobby for banning all the tubes and such. I'll lobby for banning ALL hanging curtains! Ooops excuse me while I answer that damn phone. It's been ringing all day.

A woman tells her friend, "My husband bought me a mood ring the other day. When I'm in a really good mood, it turns green. When I'm in a really bad mood, it leaves a red mark on his forehead."

I'm still bringing the chain saw for set up tomorrow and a sledge hammer!

Quote: from Erik Warren on 2:19 pm on Oct. 24, 2002 Ghost shooter?! I'd be happy just to do side-by-side, start-synchronized video of different shooters on a single course of fire. (Or re-synch to any point.) I'm still looking for a home video editing program that would do something like that. Erik and I shot a stage at Silver Buckle in exactly the same time. I video taped Erik with his camera and he taped my run with my camera. We set the cameras up side by side and roughly sync'd them up to the start buzzer. It was way cool watching it. We each took a slightly different route. I took an early lead shooting on the move, but Erik ran me down on the steel. lt's a real lesson in where you're losing and gaining time.

Quote: from tightloop on 7:01 am on Oct. 24, 2002 Your shameless plug was well received, as long as you don't include references to it during the next 25 posts you make all over the foum, no problem. OK, I'll just put it in my sig file. ;-} THS, No special camcorder required. You plug the camcorder into the receiver the same way you would plug into your home VCR to dupe a tape. I'm using standard large earmuffs to mount the camera battery pack, transmitter, antenna, and camera. Since I have to put several holes into the earmuff body for the cables I recommend using earplugs as well. Now I have to think of a good name. I've rejected IPSC-Cam because I'd have to pay a royalty, MuffCam went by the wayside for obvious reasons. ShooterCam is already taken. I kinda like HoserCam, but who knows what the Canadians will say. I'm open to suggestions.

At Kyles request I'm posting this shameless self promoting plug: I'm making wireless video cameras mounted in a set of earmuffs. Nothing else for the shooter to wear except as required for safety and public decency. Your camcorder plugs into the battery powered remote receiver unit. The headset unit has a broadcast range of about 100 feet so you can set the receiver unit and camcorder safely out of the way. If your camcorder has an LCD view screen there will be a crowd gathered around watching your run! The view is very similar to Duke Nukem. Image quality is 380 lines. Sound quality is actually better than my Sony camcorder. Note to self: Do the deep calming breaths BEFORE turning on the headset. Don't nod head to signal ready, the audience will get seasick. The first time I shot a swinging target wearing the headset camera I discovered that I tracked the swinger with my limited gun, but not my open gun. I didn't realize I was doing it until I saw the tape. I'm going to have two for rent at this weekends Bay Bridge match. If you are attending the match bring your camcorder and RCA patch cords. I'm selling the complete unit (less camcorder) for $250.00

Flex, Ok I'll do that, it will be in Gear & Accessories. I hope I won't be flamed for the shameless self promotion. LOL! I'll blame you for making me do it!

I almost feel sorry when the moron, er waitron asks Mona instead of me. Mona will reject the first 2 tables the waitron tries to seat us, then after being seated at the third table Mona will want to move to yet another table. Which of course is the first table that I wanted so I can see my R/T in the parking lot.