Sgt Rock

enough said.............. Guess this is going to crimp my shooting till it's settled...crap

Singlestack, It's one of those things that if you shoot and reload long enough everone will encounter. I had the exact same thing happen to me back in December. Only it was on a 1911. I never felt or heard the difference in the first round the second knocked both bullets out of the barrel, but left the gun locked tighter than a drum, trashed the barrel, thus the motivation to drop the comp and go to L-10. The good thing is it was'nt any worse and you still have all you fingers.

Cypher, Like you I stopped shooting in 1985, I was then shooting outside of Ft. Lewis Wa. around the Tacoma area. I stopped shooting cause of a serious double knee injury I incurred on active duty. I just started shooting again, this last December, I had my knee finally replaced last April 17th. I live in Ft. Pierce, Fl. and shoot clubs in Frostproof, Stuart, Palm Bay, and Titusville. I was a "B" shooter back in the day and now crave to move back up to the top of the ladder as soon as possible. Still have'nt been moved from "U" yet, I've only shot about 20 classifiers, some of the clubs seem to be slow to send'em in. Oh, yeah Hardball and PaulW as well as a bunch of other people have been a great help in returning to the "Sport/Game." (Edited by Sgt Rock at 9:53 pm on May 3, 2002)

Sounds a lot like a month ago, remember? We were shooting at Orlando and the poppers would not fall. It was so hard just to shoot them and keep on going. Sometimes, the peanut gallery gets on my nerves cutting up and talking loud when the buzzer is coming. Is it possible to be trying to focus so intently, that any little distraction causes a major distraction or loss of focus? Maybe, it would be better to just try to relax and just shoot it?

Chris, sorry to hear about your missing the area. I ended up loosing my voice at my high school baseball teams district playoffs (they won) and did'nt go either. The good news is our team won the district championship and now are on their way to the state championship. I lost 17 years of shooting due to having my legs injured in the military. Just started shooting again this last December. Take your time and heal up, your health is more important, the shooting will still be here when your back.

We had a few of us think about going prone, but it's damn hard to do it in a shooting box! Kneeling would be the next best bet, a few tried it to no avail.

Shot this today, I had some trouble transistioning from the different types of targets . I dropped shots on the paper targets on the left side and right side "A-C" then again "A-D". I "think" I did'nt stop long enough on the second shot on the paper while sweeping right to left, I did punch out two solid "A's" on the center array through the port. Honestly, I can't and could'nt even remember seeing the sights the moment I was done.

I get some variation with cast lead #68 200 gr. SWC with mixed range brass for my .45 loads, but nothing over 2 or 3 thousandths difference. But, then again I use a Dillion 550B.

At our local club shoot today stage five was a long range steel challenge. Four 10" plates with a Popper on each side at 50yards! There was a bonus incentive to any shooter who knocked down all six, a share in some prize money $1.00 per shooter to be split two anyone who got all six. You only got one shot per piece of steel. Out of all the shooters nearly fifty, no one got all six, five in about 28:00 was the best. We all ought to be able to shoot plates at fifty yards right? The open gun guys thought they could, but it was a limited gun that got 5 of 6. Obviously, I need to start some long range practice.

Julien, Sorry to hear of your situatioin, but we (here in the USA) need to be reminded of how quickly that same thing could happen here. Today, in my American Goverment class the professor, who is retired Air Force, and has a P.h.D. professed, "only the military, police, and security firms should be able to have firearms." When I confronted him with some of the same arguments and facts of the failed gun control policies in other countries, he was surprised and in fact ignorant of those failures of gun control. Never take for granted you can't sway someone's opinion. Fight on for your rights, don't give in.

I'll be shooting Friday, and working it Sat & Sun. (Edited by Sgt Rock at 1:32 pm on April 16, 2002) (Edited by Sgt Rock at 1:34 pm on April 16, 2002)

Ron, That's exactly like we ALL should treat new/novice shooters. Maybe, if we did there would be a higher retention rate. If no-one else did, pat yourself on the back! After all this is a Game right?

Oops, realiZe Damn college English students.....

Since my return to IPSC and to reloading in general, I have run across this constant source of irratation. Amerc brass. I have'nt made it a point to sort through all my range brass everytime I come home, I just dump it all into a bucket and tumble as required. As I am loading new rounds I usually seperate the very old off colored stuff into a practice only pile and trash any other cracked casing I find. I don't seperate the brass anymore by individual headstampings. Hence, the burr in my butt of late. After I reload, I chamber check all my brass, seems like every other batch an Amerc case finds its way into the lot. As many of you know the brass seems to be thicker and will not chamber into many barrels. Where does this crap come from? I am almost tempted to start sorting thru all the brass in order to eliminate this junk before the loading even starts. How much of this junk do you all run into?