Bigbadaboom

I am offended by people who get offended. That goes right along with people that find everything "UNFAIR".

My question is, if the RO is watching the gun and the score keeper is watching the shooter for foot falts and such then what officiating person, during the course of fire, would see a "bouncing shot" and could make the call any other way than by what holes are in what targets? Spectators are the only people that "SHOULD" be watching the targets while the course is being ran and thier opinions don't legitimately count in makeing the scoring calls.

By USPSA rules, if you are at an USPSA sanctioned range for a USPSA match and your firearm falls to the ground at any time, other than on the ready line and loaded, and you retrieve it yourself, without another RO, CRO, or match director first picking it up and checking it for "Clear" you are to be DQed from the match. As TDean said, I believe you are in the match as soon as you arrive onto the property on said match date any time prior to the end of the match.

Vince is 100% correct!!

My name is Daniel Cook #A-43119. Bigbadaboom comes from my wifes favorite movie "The Fifth Element" and is her nickname for me, and she's a redhead, go figure.. Hardball and I are very good friends 99% of the time(LOL Chris ) and were introduced into USPSA at the same time by a great mutual friend about two and a half years ago. I didn't have a lot of experience with pistol shooting (once a month at the indooor range) and was extreamly humbled at my first match. I have an extensive knowlege about long range rifle shooting and sub-gun experience from military duty. I'm located in Deltona FL. and I shoot Orlando, Tittusville, St. Augustine, and Port Malabar. I get to shoot almost every Saturday and go to Church every Sunday so I pretty much have it made. This is, by far, the best shooting forum on the net and I am very happy to be part of USPSA. "Few men strive for true Freedom Most only hope for a just Master"

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Got a speeding ticket on the way to the match. Got stung by a Bee during the walkthrough. Shot a 53.6% match. Shot about a 35% on the classifier. Should of stayed home. OH YEAH!! Had about 6 or 7 failure to extracts with a brand new Aftec.

I have two STI Edge style limited guns that are almost identical. Both are long dust cover, heavy Schuemann ultimatch .40 cal. barrels, unique cut slides, STI tungsten guiderods and plugs, ect. ect. triggers, hammers, sears and all other fire function part in the guns are the same. Here is my problem! one will not run with a shockbuff and the other runs great with or without one! I did not build these guns but the man that did realy knows his $#!+ when it comes to guns, I'm talking John Browning reincarnated, and it even has him stumped. When I first got the gun it was parkerized and would run fine with a shockbuff and 12.5lb. spring but after I got it hardchromed it would fail to feed ( Round will nose down into the bottom of the barrel ramp). It does this with all my mags, all my load lengths ( from 1.130 to 1.20 ). It does this with recoil springs from 12.5 to 16 lbs.. Without a shockbuff the gun runs like a Rolex but as soon as I put one in it the jams return. All tolerances look to be almost the same on both guns except that the slide on the jamming gun comes to the rear a hair farther than the other (about .040 farther). Any help with figureing this out would be more than appreciated.

PaulW This is Daniel Cook, Please doen't quit!! You've made it!! you are now a GM so just kick in the cruise control and have fun! Try limited or some other division for a change of pace maby but we ( the local shooters) would miss you a great deal!. Remember when Joe Kessler left? Well you would be missed a lot more. When I started shooting this game I took it to serious and I got to the point were I was ready to Quit, I was on edge all the time and it wasn't much fun anymore. Then that day at Orl. that I got hit in the leg happened and you and I got into it. That evening I realized what an ass I had made of myself and came to the conclusion that I had to get my priorities straight or get the hell out. Well, as you can tell I prioritized myself and I started improving faster and people doen't mind shooting with me, go figure. Anyway, DO NOT QUIT!! Just prioritize.

TDean Please reread my post, slower this time. I said "Shooter", singular, i.e. Todd Jarrett. John is at 85.872% of Todd Jarretts 100% just as I am at 57.768% of Todds 100%. Gotcha! In the end who cares. It's all semantics. LOL!!!

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!! Good job on hitting 85.872% of the top limited shooter in USPSA. You're a lot closer to the top than you are from the bottom so just study the cause to improve the effect.

Ape I have a very good friend that uses N320 with 220grn. .40 cal lead. YES this is correct, I stated 220grn. he only has to use around 3.6grns. of powder to make major wich is a good thing because of room for pressure and he has to seat them to at least 1.2 but he doesn't get "Flat primers" or bulging or any other signs of high pressure. He's shooting a STI with a Schuemann AET 5 inch barrel. With that said, I doen't think it will hurt to run N320 with 180 lead. Hope this helps!!

Shooter grrl Thanks a bunch! I'm going for that 59.9999% #1 C class limited but I think I'll pass myself and end up a B class. Man!! This sandbagging is hard!!

BSeevers, Thanks for pointing that out since I failed to mention it. I, personaly, have a squirl cage exhaust fan that sets in the window of my garage and I do all my popping in front of this. Also, I am married to a Microbiolagist and she does metal testing of waterways and wells and soforth so I'm pretty much up on things like that and, somtimes, take for granted that everyone else is to but we do need to make sure that people are aware. One other thing though, Vapor inhailation of lead, mercury and other toxic metals that we deal with as shooters is the #2 way into our system as far as harmfulness goes oral consumption is #1 and epidermal absorbtion is #3 so we also need to wash our hands constantly. Thanks again! Hope this helps. Sorry for the thread drift! (Edited by Bigbadaboom at 5:38 pm on April 12, 2002)

A timer is a great practice tool. I have a standard yellow speed timer that is not adjustable and for me personally I feel that useing par time stiephales me. It sets a standard that puts me in a routine. It's like BE states in his book "Just because a fast draw is .9 to 1.2 secs doesn't mean you can't go faster". I doen't like to set standards for myself I just keep trying to get faster and faster. I take some brass and load up some primers. I chamber a piece of primered brass and insert my safe mag for wieght and start my timer with 3 sec. delay. The timer registers the primer pop. Also, I doen't know what information you have gathered but here is some that has helped me greatly. Try to get your draw off at the beginning of the beep, buzz or what ever your timer does. If the sound lasts .5 secs. and you start the draw at the beginning than you've saved that much time. Hope this helps you!!!

Amen Brother!!!

I just finished some chamber polishing and extractor adjustments after having some "sticky feeds" in my newly built STI Lim. gun so I spent my lunch hour at the local indoor puting a couple hundred rounds through it for break-in and function check. While there an amazing thing happened. "I FOUND MY GRIP"!!!. I've been shooting IPSC for about 3 years now and I have narrowed my misses down to maby 1 every 3rd match but I doen't have good grouping while shooting fast, always an alpha/ charlie or a alpha/ delta or such. when standing and shooting "sight on-pull , sight on-pull" they stay on the target but are always spread all over the place. I started out with my strong thumb on top of the safety and my off thumb against the frame just in front of the slide-stop. This caused me to pull right and miss long shots so I took my thumbs compleatly away from the gun causing the above mentioned spread out effect. I figured that this was better than misses and have shot this way for about 2 and a half years all the while having people tell me that I need to pull my thumbs in to get more accurate. Well today, while shooting, I figured that I would try some different things with my grip so I took PaulW's addvice and sent my target all the way out to 50' to practice long range grouping. After trying this and that I placed my off thumb against the frame and left my strong thumb splaid out away from the gun over the knuckle of my off thumb instead of on top of the saftey. After emptying a 20 round mag I brought the target in. There was an approx. 3" ragged hole in the center of the A-zone with a few orbiting holes around its perimeter. Figuring that it was a shot up target and I had probably blown a bunch of pasters off with my first shot and missed a lot I sent a new one down range to try again. It happened again, 3" hole with 3 or 4 orbiters. After 3 more mags it hit me and I jumped and yelled so loud that the guy running the range came in to see if I was OK. I said " Yes, I just found my grip". He replied "It's a beautiful thing isn't it". I fired the rest of my ammo and found, while doing so, that my splits were a LOT faster and very accurate. I never thought I could get here with a handgun and for it to hit me all at once is euphoric. Sorry to be so long with this but I just had to share this lip tingling expieriance with some fellow shooters.

Come on guys! NO CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM? What would we do? If all we had to blaim bad performance on was ourselves we would be lost. I mean, with no classification system we would'nt have sandbaggers, grandbaggers, paper masters, paper grandmasters, and all the other entities thet we are constantly complaining about, blaiming on, and whining over. If the competitive ones could only compair their percentage to the top guy and had to put in the hard work and dedication to get better then those of us that shoot this sport for 95% fun and 5% competition wouldn't be get to listen to all the political bitching and "This isn't fair" crap that we hear at 8 out of 10 matches. So PLEASE! doen't do away with "class warfair". No sarcasm here, only agreeing with TGO.

PaulW knows what he is talking about. He has been a great help to me on a couple of occassions and he comes across as someone that wants to help and not just someone that wants to show you how much they know. I only hope that he hasn't mistaken me absorbing the information with disconcern. I need all the help that I can get.

I can cut a piece off of one of the handles of a small binder clip and it works great for capturing my guide rod plug to disassemble my STI. Cut another piece and fix the flip lid on the primer catch of my 550B. They hold targets, keep score sheets from blowing in the wind. At least once a week I find a new use for them. THEIR GRRREAT!!

"Diplomacy" is being able to tell someone to go to hell and then they look forward to the trip.

I did it. Everyone else can go through the thread three times like I did to make sure but I am the first to mention "Last Man Standing" with Bruce Willis. Also "An Odd Angry Shot".

I have to say Blackhawk Down. Both the book and the movie were great but the movie was better.

OK, Here goes! Life experiences make us who and what we are. What works for me is to look back at something that I am very good at, Hardball try baseball, and ask what is it that I apply to that activity that will help me here. Also, attitude improvment, When I started shooting IPSC I let the little things get to me. When I stopped letting the little things get to me I started improving at an astonishing rate. Hardball and I have a very good friend that got us into IPSC and one of the first things he told me was " learn how to mannage the stress ". IPSC is a stressfull activity, there is no way around it. People can tell you to relax but that, to me, is not the answer. I am suppose to wait for a buzzer and then draw my gun, run and shoot as fast and accurately as I possibly can and you want me to do it relaxed, I do'nt think so. What I do need to do is control the stress. I finally got a grip when I looked back about nine years to my days in the Army where I did some intense training including a lot of live fire, airborne ops ect. and contemplated what it took to get to the high level of skill that I was at while always under tremendous amounts of stress. It took some effort but once I found my stress control it has all been coming together wonderfully. Hope this helps.

ipscman I have a schuemann ultimatch .400 with about 20,000 rounds through it and it still groups like it did when it was new. Hope this puts tour mind at ease. All copper jacketed and all making major. (Edited by Bigbadaboom at 12:03 am on Mar. 29, 2002)