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  1. What's interesting about high ports/walls is that a "shorty" can request, AND GET, a step to stand on to reach a port or wall that is too high for them, but there's no accommodation that will even the playing field for the tall guy that has to access a low port. Being "vertically challenged" myself, I got screwed by the swinging bridge stage at one of the Las Vegas Nationals [2011?]. There were a bunch of plates to take down that each had a wooden beam in front of them to "protect" the base of the plates. The taller you were, the more you could see of the targets, and the easier the stage became. I didn't realize how difficult those shots would be until actually sending bullets downrange. Too late to challenge the stage because of the unfair restriction to seeing the targets.
  2. I'm using 158 gr RN moly-coated Billy Bullets with 3.5 gr Titegroup, 45 ACP.
  3. I use a seating die to get bullets in to the correct depth, then a separate crimp die in the final position on my Dillon 650. Previously, seating and crimping in one operation would consistently shave lead on alloy bullets, or damage the coating on any other non-jacketed bullets.
  4. The 30 stage match totalled 501 shots. The various squads were all shooting six stages per day. If you check the value of each batch of 6 stages, [#1-#6, #7-#12, etc.] they were all 100 shots, plus or minus 3, worth 500 points, plus or minus 15. The squad scheduling was arranged so that the national teams in each division all cycled through a batch of those 6 stages on each day. So at the end of each day, each National team in each division had the opportunity to shoot essentially the same number of shots/points. Of course, in HF scoring, the match points change whenever the highest HF changes, and that usually happens when the best shooters of a given division shoots the stage. By grouping those shooters together, you could make team comparisons with some degree of accuracy by looking at the average hit factor numbers. However, you had to extract the individual shooter results, bring them into a spreadsheet, and run through the calculations to identify high hit factors, compute stage-specific match points, and compile match points per shooter each day.
  5. The Revolver competition is down to three shooters who have been neck and neck all week. Lentz USA, Lopez ECU, and Reiter AUT are 4, 5, 6 going into the last day [shooters 1, 2, and 3 have already completed all 30 stages, so they have the advantage of approcximately 103 points more than those three I named]. Plus, Josh Lentz looks as though he is leading the USA Revolver team to another World Shoot win. Maybe BritinUSA could put together some side by side coverage on them.
  6. I've just been tracking the Revolver teams, where it appears that the top competition is between USA, GERMANY, and BRAZIL. The country squads have posted results for 301 shots out of 501 for the match. Because of the way the results are posted, you can't easily compare the results between shooters. The overall competitor results combine all divisions for all shooters, for all the stages that they have shot. The top result in any given stage is not likely to be a revolver shooter, so the match points are sort of meaningless. However, the relative placement of the 4 shooters in each of these teams should be close to what the revolver division has posted, and each shooter has an average Hit Factor after shooting the same 18 stages. The individual shooter Average Hit Factor ranking, after these 18 stages. Please note that these hit factors are diluted by 0.0 values for the 12 stages not yet incorporated in the averages. The order of these shooters is: USA Lentz - 2.2106 GER Back - 2.1535 USA Olhasso - 2.0544 USA Walsh - 2.0539 BRA Polverini - 1.9684 USA Griffin - 1.9603 BRA Almeida - 1.8811 BRA Azevedo - 1.8449 GER Knaus - 1.7405 GER Kliner - 1.7324 BRA Carvalho - 1.3325 Team Average HF [top 3 shooters at this point] USA 2.10630 BRA 1.89813 GER 1.87547 The German shooter Schneider is no longer listed in the overall Revolver results. It could be that he DQed during the third day of shooting. Note that Average HF does not translate directly into relative rankings at this point, because the differences in stage point values and top HF for the Revolver shooters at each stage doesn't go into that calculation. Still, things are looking good for Team USA, and Josh Lentz could well come out as Top Revolver for the match. His main competitors are AUT's Reiter [avg HF 2.0857] and ECU's Lopez [avg HF 2.3495]
  7. Oh yeah. Those average hit factors in my earlier post are diluted by the 18 stage zeros that each shooter has, since they don't have valid scores for those stages as yet. PITA the way these results are posted.
  8. I've just been tracking the Revolver teams, where it appears that the top competition is between USA, GERMANY, and BRAZIL. Those three squads have all shot the same stages, according to the postings. The 12 Stages #19 through #30 cover a total of 200 shots out of 501 [apparently] for the match. Because of the way the results are posted, you can't easily compare the results between shooters. The overall competitor results combine all divisions for all shooters, for all the stages that they have shot. The top result in any given stage is not likely to be a revolver shooter, so the match points are sort of meaningless. However, the relative placement of the 4 shooters in each of these teams have an average Hit Factor for the stages that they have shot. On the Average Hit Factor ranking, after these 12 stages, the order of these shooters is: USA Lentz - 1.4976 GER Back - 1.4383 USA Olhasso - 1.3674 GER Schneider - 1.3475 USA Walsh - 1.3322 BRA Polverini - 1.3126 GER Knaus - 1.2436 USA Griffin - 1.1992 BRA Almeida - 1.1951 GER Rosas - 1.1655 BRA Azevedo - 1.1562 BRA Carvalho - 0.8031 Team Average HF [top 3 shooters at this point] USA 1.39907 GER 1.34313 BRA 1.22130 Note that average HF does not translate into relative rankings, even at this point, because the differences in stage point values and top HF for the Revolver shooters at each stage. Still, things are looking good for Team USA, and Josh Lentz could well come out as Top Revolver for the match. His main competitors are AUT's Reiter [avg HF 1.5080] and ECU's Lopez [avg HF 1.6042]
  9. I'm going to agree with teros, and support that interpretation with how a slightly different stage would have been scored. Suppose the stage been set up as two strings: String 1 - Engage T1-T6 with one round each. String 2 - Engage T1-T6 with one round each. Virginia count, etc. In this case, String 1 terminates when the first engagement of the array is completed, which also occurs when the shooter stops shooting at the targets in the array. String 2 commences with engaging the array a second time, and concludes when the shooter stops shooting at the targets in the array. During String 1, the shooter has a gun malfunction that causes him to stop after firing the 5th shot, leaving one target. During String 2, the shooter engages T1-T6 with one shot each, and takes an additional shot at T6. I believe that this stage would be scored as 1 procedural during String 1 for failure to engage all 6 targets. Then there would be one procedural for the extra shot during String 2. Targets would be scored as hit, with likely no extra hits, as no targets would have more than two hits, including the T6 target. In the actual stage, performing the reload constituted the end of the first engagement of the array, and allowed the beginning of the second engagement of the array. Due to T6 not being engaged before the re-engagement of the array, the shooter was penalized one procedural. And due to shooting 7 shots after the reload, he is penalized for an extra shot procedural. After the malfunction, the shooter could have shot just T6, then reloaded a second time and completed shooting 6 targets, thereby eliminating the procedural for skipping T6 before reengaging the array. Just my take on the situation. Fire away.
  10. As RO and CRO, I think it's a good idea to avoid running the timer on a squad of your shooting buddies. There's always the possibility for a close call going the shooter's way that would be interpreted by an out-of-towner as a biased call. What's really tough on everyone is issuing a DQ to a buddy when the RO staff is shooting a sectional or Area match.
  11. I'll bet you're right. That design crew makes darn sure the SSN is 8-round-neutral every year, and all they would have to do is move (or pull) a few targets here and there to make the Revo Nats 6-round-neutral. I checked major. I'm in for Major. Haven't got the time or money to set up 8-shot revolvers.
  12. I don't pick up enough 380 around here to bother buying the 380 plate. The main thing is that 38 super is a primo reloading item around here, and I used to spend a lot of time eyeballing the brass in a box to winnow out those longer casings from all the 9 mm.
  13. I've been making do with 4" 625s. A couple of 5" would be nice.
  14. After using the 3 sieve stack with a batch of assorted range brass, you end up with a mix of 9mm/38Super brass in the last sieve. The way I separate these uses a cartridge box meant for 40/45 shells. Scoop a handful of the mixed brass into the box and shake it a few times. The brass will fall into the holes, with most oriented with the base down. The 9 mm brass just comes up to the top of the plastic grid of the box. The 38 super brass sticks up just enough to pick them out with your fingers. And I think that any 380 brass will be deeper in the grid holes, but you should be able to retrieve them [assuming the bases are down] by sticking a 38 brass chamber brush down into the open mouths and bring them out. Once the 38 Super and 380 brass are picked out, you can dump the 9 mm brass into another container.
  15. I've got a couple of North Mountain 4 post rigs. One works with 45 ACP 6 shot, and the other has thinner posts for 38/357 6 shot moon clips. Also, I'll keep a single post behind my hip for first load on a stage. That'll accommodate two string starts on those multi-string classifiers.
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