Rob Boudrie

I have had ammo found in my luggage many times at a checkpoint and, in those cases there was not gun, it was not declared there was no trouble (except that time there was a stray round in my checked range bag) beyond waiting for the TSA luggage screener to open the ammo box due to the x-ray opacity. There are numerous situations where TSA misunderstood their own regulations, however, that is a different subject from what you "must do". I had to re-pack my luggage at the Boston airport once because I got a TSA agent who was convinced there was a regulation prohibiting ammo and guns in the same piece of luggage - but that does not translate to "ammo and guns must be in separate luggage". This was definitely outside of required procedure, and may actually have been a violation of TSA policy. Agreed, but telling people they "must" do something, as opposed to "advisable in case the govt minion does not understand the rules" is inaccurate.

Their 223 primers are a "hard cup" variant, so I went with the regular rifle primers for 40 and super. They shipped 48 hours after delivery and I didn't get an "sorry, out of stock" notice. The outer case for the 5K packs is interesting - full info about the Russian manufacturer rather than the "Wolf" trade name used for the US market.

Two posters have made this assertion, but neither has cited any law, TSA policy or airline regulation with this requirement for domestic US flights. Could you PLEASE cite an official source for your assertion, which I believe to be erroneous.

I suggest leaving a few empty holes in an ammo box in case TSA finds a stray round in your checked luggage. They found 1 stray super round in my range bag, and none of the ammo boxes had an extra slot. It took one hour, three TSA agents, a TSA supervisor, and airline rep, an airport police officer and three separate reports before they wished me a nice trip. If there was an open hole in an ammo case, they would have just relocated the round for me. I didn't even have a mag packed into which they could insert the round for TSA compliant storage. There would have been a fourth form if I wanted to accept their offer to return the ammo to me after my return flight.

I have nothing but good things to say about Wideners customer service and speed of shipment. If the Wolf primers are as good as Widener's service, I've hit the jackpot.

Can you cite a requirement for the declaration of ammo?

I am not handling prize distribution, but I was advised by the prize coordinator that they have not yet shipped the prizes and are meeting within the next day or two to work on the process. I don't have confirmation, but I expect the stuff already mailed out (I know of two people who got stuff) was from the raffle.

www.beikirchs.com They might require an FFL for orders, which is probably why their price list is passworded (not sure, I go in on part of a large order my local club does). They are great people - once you have an account you just call in an order and the truck shows up (free shipping with certain minimums depending on distance). Just pay the bill quickly - these are good people providing a vital public service. They are great for primers (except in time of shortage - they are no better than anyone else getting them during droughts), the non-exotic powders (Winchester, Alliant, Hodgdon), ammo and clay birds. They carry first tier bullets (Hornady, Sierra, Nosler, etc.), but don't carry the sort of bulk bullets people on this list tend to use, nor do they carry bulk brass (at least not the last time I checked). The staff are all great people, and the trucks are part of their own fleet. You get a Beikirch's employee who actually helps you unload the truck, not a union driver who stands with his arms folded since unloading is not in his job description. It's tough to make a judgement on this one. I'm sure Dave would rather be making a small amount on his usual table full of primers than a bigger unit profit on a whopping 10 cases. Also, charging a premium meant that WLP primers remained available throughout the match so those people who were running low could pay few $ or so a box above a more generally accepted non-shortage retail price could get what they needed to stay in the game. If he offered them at the normal price, someone (perhaps me) would have bought them all to beef up the strategic inventory.

Target Barn received a very small (50K) supply of WLP primers and brought them to the A7. The only reason they had them in stock was that they are not a UPS hazmat certified shipper, and can only sell primers face2face. They were asking $45/K, $42/K in lots of 5K. If you want a prayer of getting primers, call the usual suspects who exhibit at the nationals and get an advance order in - if you can.

Powder Valley Wideners Target Barn (at matches only, not a hazmat certified shipper) Beikirchs - great if you are in the northeast within the area covered by their munitions delivery truck

Which SR? Regular, magnum or 223? (Wolf has a special .223 primer with a thicker cup) It would have been interesting to pull the bullet and *very carefully* poke out the primer to check to see if it had an anvil.

1050 here; no regrets.

www.precisiondelta.com is the new website; www.precisiondeltasales.com is the older website. Both use the same database, and orders from each go into the same system in the same manner.

Especially of BJ gets the boot camp "some of you may think you know how to shoot" lecture

You won't be able to ship hazmat without hazmat training, a hazmat contract from UPS, and an contract agreeing to pay the cost of any hazmat cleanup even if UPS is at fault for the hazmat spill.

Wow. More impressive than any of your match wins.

I ordered some Wolf SRP from Wiedeners on Thursday evening and received the UPS tracking number today. I either made a big mistake or got really lucky - I'll find out when I see how they work in my press and guns.

There is no fee for posting the scores to www.uspsa.org. USPSA employs vast armies of people whose job is to figure out ways to provide more free services for clubs and members The "combined results" do not exist in the rules, and have no official standing - which is why they are not included in the posting to USPSA.ORG. Posting local results is a very simple process, and some clubs post to both their local web site as well as the USPSA site.

Wideners has a nice writeup on the Wolf SRPs - there is regular; magnum and 223. The 223 has a harder cup than the regular SRP and is recommended for high pressure 223 loads. I ordered some of the SRP (regular) for use on 40 and super. Assuming my order comes through, I'm either going to really happy or have some primers for sale in a couple of weeks

BOD ratification is not required - but the board is given a chance to anti-ratify. The NROI interpretation system which John uses to make opinions posts them for board review for approximately one week. If the board does not object, the system automatically releases the interpretation as official NROI/USPSA policy. It's a process where the board is given a chance to void an interpretation before it is released. The release of official opinions occurs during the week (I think on a Tuesday, not certain) to minimize the possibility of an interpretation being released during match. Good point on the chrono failure - I missed that in C2.

This issue is not "is it explicitly allowed?", but "is it prohibited"?. I asked John Amidon what would happen if the chrono broke half way through (would existing measurements be used), and the answer was the the chrono results of those who could be measured would stand. On the other hand, there is that "every competitor" statement in the rules - which could be used to present an argument that any chrono measurement not involving all competitors is not valid. Although John Amidon can issue official opinions, they become official policy when posted as an NROI interpretation. So, the real question is "do the rules allow a MD to select a sample of competitors to be chronoed?". It is clear that even if a preliminary screening procedure was allowed, it would only be through symantic gymnastics and is clearly not what is intended by the rules. But, no protests or arbitrations were filed. If one was filed, the Match Director would have been responsible for choosing the committee. I would have declined any request to serve on the committee, and suggest that he fill it with persons not involved in the production of the match. I'm glad this was the only issue with the match, and will ask NROI to verify that the chrono procedure to be proposed by the match staff for the 2010 match is in full compliance with the rules.

On option is to ship some of your other heavy stuff home via UPS. You might want to pack some ORM-D stickers www.uspsa.org/orm-d rob

The airlines allow up to 11lbs, which will cover 250 rounds of 180gr 40 S&W with room to spare. If you bring 600 rounds, chances are you'll be well under the 11lb limit for the return trip.

You need to consider the two basic classes of attacks: Force (drilling, cutting, grinding, torching, etc.) and defeat of the locking mechanism through means such as picking, shimming, rapping or impressioning. Some locks offer excellent resistance in one arena, but little in another. Others offer generally good resistance to attacks such as cutting or grinding, but have a weakness to a particular type of physical attach (for example, some locks are tough to cut but can be easily opened with a rotary pick [portable electric drill]). Still others offer little resistance to a brute force attach, but are very resistance to surrepetitious openings (for example, some S&G combination padlocks place a greater emphasis on resisting surrepetitious opening than on resisting an attach from a grinder). I've very skeptical of the Medeco bump unless the base key used just happened to have all the pin rotations matching that of the actual key, or the sidebar had been removed from the lock. Abloy also offers decent pick resistance.

Your opinion is incorrect. A simple email to dnroi@uspsa.org will get you an official opinion. The board went to great lengths to keep Single Stack a true "1911 friendly" division where someone with an old warhorse of a gun would fit in and feel competitive. If we started to allow things like coned barrels, extended dust covers, and other variants it would create a culture where the "best gun" was an exotic and expen$ive gun. By limiting it to the traditional design, we've (hopefully) avoided an "arms race" and kept this division open as a true 1911 division. When you have a question, please ask the official source. We have official interpretations available through NROI, and the intent is to avoid unintended consequences by parsing together sentences in a way that was never intended. The dustcover rule was intended to allow an moderately extended dustcover with a light rail when one would not otherwise be permitted. It was absolutely not intended to limit the dust cover length only in those cases where a light rail was not present. I've got a really nice SVI single stack in 40 that I can't use because it's a cone barrel