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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.
  16. At this point, all I've got that are competitive are 6 Major 625s. Of course, "competitive" is a relative term. Moving to 8 Minor would require a good bit of change, as I don't have an 8 shot to work with.
  17. Wish I was there. My Revo Nationals ammo can make 120 PF.
  18. Unless the target are backed up against the back of the stage, you risk sending a volley of bullets through the targets and over the berm. Same goes for engaging targets from the ground after losing your footing and falling down. Think about where those bullets are going after they hit the target.
  19. Movement of the feet are not required for multiple positions. Shooting from behind a barricade with a 3' x 3' shooting box, with feet on the side fault lines. You get two shooting positions by leaning right, engaging targets, and then leaning left and engaging more targets. In that case, if you CAN ENGAGE all the targets on the stage by ONLY leaning right OR left, the stage would be illegal. And it would be illegal even if it is faster and easier to shoot the targets from right-lean/left-lean positions. Position a wall or no-shoot so that you cannot engage all target from either side, and you're legal again, as 2 positions are required. So "changing body position" does establish new shooting positions.
  20. This reminds me of another thread from many months ago. Shooter engaged a target thru an orange snowfence wall. RM would have to declare FA and shooter would have to reshoot the stage. I think it is BS. Shooter is NOT engaging a target, they are engaging a prop, or hardcover, but not a target. That is how I see it. NROI has the final say, so I am wrong. Stage descriptions written to specify "All walls and props are hard cover". Shoot through the cover on the port and hit a paper target, and it doesn't count for score. Hit a steel popper and the stage has to be reshot for Range Equipment Failure. Same goes for shooting through mesh walls of every type. As hard cover, any shot taken through them does not count for score or forces a reshoot. The only thing you can legally shoot through and score are the target sticks of paper targets.
  21. Blueridge, after all your talk about how much you like to march to the tune of a different drummer with your oh-so-macho Ruger Alaskan, I think it's pretty funny that you got yourself busted for shooting pussy ammo! Yep, my ammo went minor and I was as surprised as anyone. It won't happen again I'll make sure of that. Can't remember saying that the Alaskan is macho, but it is durable. Marching to a different drummer. . .Yes I do, and have no shame in doing so. Even if I didn't blending in with the crowd would not happen for me anyhow, so why should I? I can take a good ribbing as good as anyone and I am glad that I brought some humor to your day. Before you insult my ammo (which I still have several hundred rounds of) how about I let you set some off? I can save some just for you to shoot. Bet it would put the recoil of whatever load that you use to shame. The failure was due to a miscalculation on my part that I will fix.Nobody has ever accused me of being a gamer, sandbagger, or someone trying to gain an unfair advantage. Not saying that you are, so don't go taking any offense now. I like doing the best that I can on my terms, rather than simply having the goal of winning. I doubt that you would have even noticed that I went minor if I had not posted that I had. No shame here. I went minor, too, with ammo that chronoed major previously. [Obviously not the same temperatures here as in Vegas, but I'm looking for explanations, too.]
  22. Well, slflr and I almost did just that. Arrived Fri night, spent Saturday at the range watching people stuff these flat things up the butts of their pistols, and shot revolver on Sunday. It didn't help my confidence any to watch one guy DQ on the 2nd stage of the SS match, then show up on Sunday to find that's our first stage, and I'm the first shooter. Pucker factor might have slowed me down a bit.
  23. A while back I got involved with some other guys interested in coming up with a scoring scheme for USPSA/IPSC that gave shooters stage scores for a match that didn't change based on the performance of the best shooters on each stage. We kicked around various ideas of Time Plus scoring. The stumbling blocks to a workable system were (1) how much to penalize mikes and penalties, and (2) how to limit the liability of a blown stage to the individual's match score. As you know, USPSA stages have a minimum score of zero, which means broken equipment on a stage cannot penalize your match score more than zero points out of the maximum you might have gotten. In Time Plus scoring, a single blown stage can knock you out of the match due to excessive time penalties. The conclusion I came to was that the scoring scheme dictated how a shooter could best attack the stages to max out their performance. You couldn't fairly evaluate a different scoring system, because shooters wouldn't have employed the same shooting options if they knew what that different scoring system would reward in terms of performance. Simplest example would be scoring El Prez using USPSA hit factor versus Time Plus. A shooter can get a decent Hit Factor with a fast time and a couple of C hits, but Time Plus scoring would destroy their score unless they scored all Alphas. About the only way to put some sort of limit on Time Plus scoring's disaster potential would be to set a Par Time for each stage, so the worst you could do is Par Time Plus Penalties for unshot targets.
  24. I got on the 1911 website today [as they are administering the Revo Nats the day after the SS Nats]. At this point, still stuck at 115 on the list, including 8 GMs. Special category listings include 2 Juniors, 26 Seniors, 8 Super Seniors, and 8 Ladies. Fifty-nine days to go!
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