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?

I know that has to be a sicking feeling to see your blaster falling, no less in sand or mud. What PaulW. did'nt mention is he still manged to finish a very close second with a borrowed gun and holster. just getting on with the shooting.

This seems like a good one to move up on, felt good to not drop any shots, so good I almost forgot to reload and finish the stage but after recomposing myselft managed to pop another shot on each of the brown guys. I started on T1 moved left to right then after remembering to reload repeated the same. I did get kinda of a jumpy start seemed like forever before the beep went off. The RO was more than willing to allow a reshoot...naw I'm not gonna do it that way. I intend to shoot each classifier just as another stage in the match.

a new shooter....just trying her butt off to hit the targets, dumping the gun ...shooting low..comes to a steel and paper stage.....86 secondes and three mags into an array she says out loud I gonna get'em ..then when the steel does finally fall, she just busts out laughing....now thats great ...she's having a blast...just shoot'em girl.

Range lawyers/nazis ..... a topic of discussion between a fellow shooter and I, after today's match was over at very late lunch. I understand the need to enforce rules per' se, but I don't believe in penalizing the shooter especially a new shooter with the double whammy..big club beat'em over the head syndrome---- cause it's more convienent to score by his interpetation of rules. If a new shooter is making progress and does something right don't beat him over the head... I not going to get specific here....its just good enough to say when there is some doubt about the call I believe the benifit should go to the shooter. After all, do we really want this new shooter going home feeling punished for doing the right thing just not exactly perfect or can we educate them, push in the right direction for the next time.. hey try it this way then you'll get a better result...after all he was the guy taping, picking up brass and there wanting to learn? While the same other guys (range lawyers) sit on their fanny watching everyone else work. But, if these same guys experience a range malfunction or the score keeper asks some one to repeat a score (since these same guys are talking while the score is being called out) then damn if they got a Mike or a Delta, crap they need a reshoot! IMHO a local club shoot is like a AAA baseball team trying to cultivate guys for the next level. If you want to start analyzing angles and how much hard cover and how much did it break the perferation and so on... save it for the big matches where I expect every effort to be made to make the exact correct call. ok rant mode off...... I did see a great thing today...a new shooter was pulled aside and shown what he was doing wrong compared to another shooter who had it down pat...yeah !! thats the way it should be...all the time. yep it's seems like its always the same guys who, put it up, work it and tear it down...mean while other guys are in the dash hit the road mode....

It seems to more prevalent now than when I shot before back in the late 70's-Mid 85....but then again a lot of other things have changed too. ie; foo-foo guns

We shot this one today, finally managed a classifier with out the usuall crash and burn. Started on right side T4-T3-PP2-T5-PP1, reload picked up the left side T2-and T1. I did'nt call my shot on the last target T1 never saw the front sight lift ended taking an unnecessary extra shot....the third A did'nt help. However, it was nice not to blow one for a change!

I would like to see a mixture of both 'Team Ancient' and the symbol with http://www.brianenos.com under it. BTW thanks BE for the card with the book,

Make my shirt size "large". Neither senile or decrepit! Not phsically disabled, but challenged!

PaulW, Hell, no....I owe you! I did learn albeit after the match was over on the long road home.. but I did figure it out. Now I am hungry for more.

How about? Persistance= refusing to give up or let go; persevering obstinately. The continuance of an effect after the cause is removed: persistence of vision. I will succeed, I visualize it. Conficence comes naturally from success. Confidence is that belief you will succeed. I believe it is what seperates the leaders or winners from the followers or ones who just play the game. PaulW said to me Saturday, while I am studing a stage and talking about a target, wait, if I give you a dollar can you hit that target on command? Sure, I said....well okay there you go.....just shoot it. Amazing, you know it....sometimes it just takes someone else to reinforce it.