Rich Bagoly

My point was, that it does not matter who he was. He did a bad thing, and made us all look bad.

Clancy is good for taking your mind off of your troubles, but Sum of All Fears is anything but light. I am impressed by The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. She is an accomplished Sci-Fi author. This one catagorises as fantasy, which might invoke your Foo Foo prohibition. Great charactors, story, hard to put down.

I don't see anything cool about that. I'm pretty sure that the USPSA application includes a clause that we will never use our shooting skills for evil. As Vonnegut tells us; We are what we pretend to be. (Edited by Rich Bagoly at 11:12 pm on Nov. 20, 2002)

The coolness to dumbness ratio for that show was too low.

I agree with Dowter. I ran 255's and 180's in .45 at the old PF. The 255's felt soft, but the front sight really flipped. The 180's had a sharp jolt, but the sight did not go as far, and came back faster. I liked the 180's, but felt I had to practice more than I was able, to stay on top of them. I eventually compromised with 200's.

But the power factor of the calibration ammo is important. It's not fair to the competitors if you whack the poppers at 140 PF, nor is it right if the calibration PF is too light.

The question is mostly hypothetical. I was thinking of a few years back. One match I should have passed on, and another I managed to avoid. There are a couple of places I won't go until I have good reason to believe they have got thier heads on straight. I don't like having fewer Matches to choose from. They don't know why I don't go. I know I am not helping, only trying to handle the problem. At what point do you comunicate to the staff your opinions?

The entry fee is half of what you will spend on Hotels, food, and gas.

He used to have 6 dots. I think they were Host dots.

SV went far in sponsoring the New York State at Square Deal. If they do it again for 2003, look for this Match to compare favorably with the Infinity Open. The guys at Square Deal are pretty good at putting on bulletproof, challenging stages.

Here in the East US, any match smaller than a Nationals, is done in half a day. I think the norm for the West, is something like 2, or more days. I know why I like the half day system. What is the good side of spending so much more time? Why is it an East/West thing?

You sent the check, and application in 4 months ago. The Match is 3 weeks away, and they finally sent you the booklet. The schedule does not look good. You hate to shoot in the dark. The stages really stink. You have no interest in shooting them. What will you do. What willll you doooo.

I Think that is called trusting. I have been exploring my own ability to trust. Sometimes you just accept that you will learn how to "make the shot", from what you are seeing, and feeling, as it happens. If I want to calm myself before a stage, I tell myself I know everything I kneed to know, to shoot this.

Sorry, I used HS-6, and WSF with the 255 gr. in .45ACP for Rev. and Auto. You may have to go with a short OAL to use them in an auto. This can give you higher than normal pressures. Curious what you think of the extra heavy bullets.

Not Clays. It shoots nice, but the odor is foul!

Duane, I hear lots of misunderstanding on this one. USPSA-Can't require more than 8 shots/position. IPSC-Can't allow more than 9 shots/position.

"I'm looking at requiring 8 rounds as I don't feel the need to cater to the one revolver shooter who sometimes shows up." Would you be proud if he stopped showing up? It sounds like you are trying to up the round count by just adding targets. This is one of my major peeves. It's a good way to ruin an otherwise fine stage. Using the fixed size arrays is poor stage design. They have had some good stages at the Nationals the last couple of years. Check them out. "I prefer "crowd placement", where very few of the shoot targets in an array will be visible as the shooter moves toward it, but will appear as he continues to move past it" I am not real clear on what you intend. Your goal sounds great, but the devil is in the details. No-shoots are stapled to the targets mostly to avoid "shoot throughs". If a bullet makes a full diameter hole on any target, no-shoot, or hard cover, you can't count score on targets, or no-shoots that it may later hit. A good stage won't have targets placed so that one round might strike more than one target. It can be a nightmare to line up the holes, and properly score a stage where shoot throughs are encountered "Since this will be a local club match, I wonder if I would be out of line if I threw in the occasional bowling pin, clay pigeon, or reduced size USPSA target to simulate longer range?" You can't go wrong by staying within the rules. If they don't complain about illegal stages to you, they will bitch about it behind your back. "Personally speaking, I'll be glad when the first couple of matches or so next year are over." Don't get uptight. Everything won't come out the way you want it. Sometimes it will accidentally be better. Remember why most of us shoot, and that you are allowed to have a good time too. The surest way to have a bad match is to take the fun out of it.

Quote: from TheOtherErik on 5:17 pm on Oct. 17, 2002 What happens if there is a port with 4 targets behind it the shoot 3 and then have to do a standing reload and then shoot the 1 remaining target. thats not very "friendly". IF you only put 3 targets behind that port and 3 targets on the nexty aray the L10 and PRO guys say " the course doesnt flow well" or "I have to do too many reloads" So have 3 ports. Put 3 targets at the 1st port, 1 at the second, and 2 at the third port. Revo guys are happy, no standing reloads. Yes, it does matter. 10 Rnd. guys are happy, they don't have to reload every time they move. The guys who only know how to hose the stupid 8 shot arrays are not happy. They will have to grow up sometime.

The problem is that too many think that Revolver Friendly = 6 shot arrays. Its just not so.

I was a little burnt out, so last month I screwed a dot to my limited gun, just to change things. I'm thinking that the hard shots are easier, and the easy shots are harder. At first, I was flying, but I did not like the margin of error I had calling shots. Judging by when the streak changed direction, I could call on, or off the paper, but could not tell between an A or C. I was getting ready to post a question on dot vision. In trying to find the words to the question, I think I found my answer. I now work on putting the shots in the A-zone, They don't all get there, but if I don't know where they went, I did not do my job.

13 sec. and change One D on T1 Open Cold and rainy This was a Special classifier match. I signed up for it expecting to upgrade my old open classification. I was hoping to get some really good scores. In poor conditions, I think I had a better attitude. Instead of trying to burn them down, I was just there to shoot.

Open 14 and change for the time. Had some D's Whipped the door open, tried to grab the gun too fast. Missed the grip. Right thumb was hard into the slide. Shot the whole stage with the slide moving very slowly. Threw my timing way off. My finger waited for the slide to close, and the dot to come back, but my arms kept saying "that's enough time" and moving to the next target. Oh yeah, cold and rainy

Cold and rainy today. Open 8.3? no D's Reload was not crisp, but no fumble. I think I cost myself some time by shooting the right half, left to right until I got to the 1st popper, then went to the other popper, then right to left on the remaining paper targets.

Cold and rainy today. Open Div. this time. 15 and change for the time. Pulled a shot into a no-shoot in the middle of the last array. Made it up. Shot around the left side of the barricade. More confidance calling the shot with the dot, but still not able to lean much leaving. You want to get leaning shooting T3, to start moving away from the table. You loose a lot of time if you wait until you are done shooting, before starting to move.

Read a newspaper article that reported on a memory/learning study. If you learn something, then learn something else, the second thing will degrade your ability to recall the first thing. It takes about 6 hours between learnings before you will get maximum retention. They theorized that it takes 6 hours to convert short term memory to long term, and that this was being interfered with. If I want to really learn something, I only work on that one thing. If I want to maintian, or groove what I already know, I can work on a lot of different things.