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Mr. Roy will be there to service all your chrono needs!

Jason, That's normal!

"Firearm magazines and ammunition clips must be securely boxed or included within a hard-sided case containing an unloaded firearm" This is the line concerning the mags. I think there is some confusion, they have to be 'boxed' or inside the locked gun case.

Paul, It helps to promote real effort on classifers. Nobody wants to tank a stage at a serious match!

Charles, I believe the intent is to generate Corporate interest, not to gin up team competitions among the shooters. Can you imagine if an outfit like Coke or Ford got involved and we could tap into their advertisement budgets? Speaking for myself, I think Jay is thinking outside the box, trying to broaden the sport's exposure.

Greetings Shooters, The stages are built and the match is ready to go! Hats off to the Art Department, they did a fabulous job! Check out the detail when you get to the match, very impressive! A big Congrats to the stage designers and builders, good job This is going to be a challenging and fun match! However..... WARNING !!!! WARNING !!!! WARNING !!!! This being Florida, sweet mother nature has contributed to the experience The range recently received 18" of rain which has fortunately drained away but has filled the swamps and now we have Monster Mosquitoes. I swear I saw bugs large enough to require FAA tail fin numbers. Be bring repellant for the morning and evening feeding times. You do not want Smitty to use his intravenous injector on you I hear it is filled with Yuengling, which might not be so bad!!!

Hey Charles, I'm shooting in my normal costume: Dazed and Confused Shooter! Stages are looking good and should be posted soon!

That's how you'suck less'! Good job.

Don't forget to plan extra rounds for a re-shoot! I had one on the Pet Cemetary stage the last match; that's 60 pieces of steel with a par time!!!!!

Are we looking at a two day schedule or one day?

I can't help but wonder if part of the challenge is to dope out an unknown weapon, sight it in and succesfully engage a target. In other words, do not expect the weapon to be accurate and do not expect it to function properly!

The stages are up! http://uspsa6.org/2010a6stages.pdf

Don't forget Tarran Butler!

Smitty, The building crew needs your prop construction plans for your stage! Rumor has it you saved the indestructable activator box from the Florida Open. Have you got an moving crew scheduled to transport that monstrosity to the range?

Hey Charles, When are you going to post your outstanding and fabulous stages, the shooting masses wnat to know!

+1 Smitty! This was my first ProAm and let me tell ya, I had a blast! Everything looks so easy, great big wide open steel poppers standing shoulder to shoulder just waiting for you to mow 'em down, but then the buzzer goes off and everything gets complicated for some yet to be determined reason. I want to call attention to two other things about the match that I liked; 1. Shooting in Amateur, no Pros to further depress my pathetic results. 2. Fantastic prize table. The nationals staff should take note of the way Phil has it organized; he provided print outs with the loot listed in order and announced by inventory number what items were picked up as the shooters left the table. THis made it real quick and easy to find something you need and move on. Very efficient! Again, as said by others above, many thanks to Phil, the USSA Staff, and the RO's for their hard work and good attitudes, that coupled with fun to shoot stages makes for a great match.

The way I've got it set up,; I have a RCBS resizer/decapper Dillon powder measure/funnel RCBS seating die RCBS taper crimp die

I got set up to reload 9 x 18 several years ago so some of my information may be out of date. Dillon tool head for a 550B Dillon #5 shell plate Dillon #9 powder funnel Dillon #3 pins RCBS reloading dies (3 pc set) Starline brass Sierra bullets VihtaVuori Oy N330 powder (don't remember how much) Good luck.

Congratulations Luke!

Just have to give a shout out to my home boy Shannon! Great job! 5 stage stage wins 5 third places 1 fourth and 1 seventh First Limited! Oustanding!

Mike, I really think you got it wrong, Cliff didn't cut a deal with the devil, he got the best ole Satan a while ago and now Lucifer is his 'female dog companion'! .....Case in point, look at what he did to win the pistol side match!

Thoughts: It sounds as if we need to elimate the 'thickness' of the target. If the target was infinitely thin there would not be a problem. Step 1. Did the bullet made a hole? If it passed through the plane of the target (on a highly skewed angle of contact, only a portion of the bullet diameter will be the part passing through. Remember the target has no thickness, so if, as Troy says, there is light coming through, it penetrated). Since there is surface tension in the paper that has to be overcome before a hole is formed this might be the deciding factor for the hit evidence. Contrarily, with an infintely thin surface any mark could be construed to have passed through the plane. I don't like this interpretation since all trace marks could be construed as hits, so I'd fall back on the the Troy light test on any shot touching the surface of the target. The only place for a problem is if the highly skewed bullet ran out of paper target outside of the scoring area before it penetrated the back of the target (I am assuming the target is constructed with two parallel surfaces of paper seperated by another piece that is waffeled to create stiffness). In this case the shooter gets the mike. This does re-introduce thickness concept but it makes for an easy field test. Step 2. Score the hit. The crease leading to the hole (daylight) would be where the score would be derived. I believe our rules already make this allowance, especially if viewed using the concept of the 'infinitely' thin target. We would still need to make a distinction between radial tears and creases, which I think are pretty obvious anyway.

I think there is a slippery slope here having to do with the total number of shots being recorded in the timer's memory. It is possible due to stage construction or a slow (lazy) Ro not keeping up with the shooter during the course of fire that the timer may miss some of the intermediate shots. The important shot is the last shot! That being said the last split is usually what usually needs to be verified. What happens with case of not getting the last split recorded correctly??? The last shot may be correct but the proceeding shot was missed, do we then go to a re shoot? It comes down to a judgement call at some point for the RO. I do beleive it is the RO's duty to get it right and that sometimes things happen to cause time to be added to a competitor's run, as previously described, and if the RO can review splits and determine that inadvertant time was added, it should be adjusted accordingly. The shooter should always get what was earned! If I know how many shots were taken and the timer has the same count, I feel much more confident about making an adjustment. This action is taken usually when I (the RO) bumped the timer and I know the final recorded time is wrong.

Let's get back to Brian's original question. I believe that rule 1.1.5.1 allows the stage designer to 'compel' the shooter's actions in a level I match. 1.1.5.1 Level I matches may use shooting boxes and specify where or when specific target arrays may be engaged, and may specify mandatory reloads in short and medium courses only (not in a long course). The procedurals, although severe, were clearly stated and written in the stage briefing. The only error could have been in assessing only two procedurals for those 'incapacitated' individuals who could not navigate the tunnel. I knew of two individuals that qualified, one with a bad leg and another with a bad back, both of which asked for despensation prior to attempting the course of fire. IMHO anybody who took the two procedurals and was capable should have been DQ'd for unsportsman like conduct! I think that appologies are due the course designer for all the flack he endured about the perceived rules problem, but not for foisting that d@#n tunnel on us folks with tall bodies or bad knees (that kind of grief just goes with the territory!).