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I copied my points and time off my score sheet, figured my hit factor from that, and punched it in at classifiercalc.com
They'll be posted at http://www.leaactionshooters.com/ but it usually takes 'til Monday or Tuesday.
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I really stunk it up on this one.
I expected this one to be my best one ever. Instead it was my worst one ever.
Single Stack, Major, Unclassified.
4 Alpha
7 Charlie
7 Delta
6 Mike
62-60=2 points.
17.02+25.33=42.35 seconds.
0.0472 HF
0.8889% according to http://www.classifiercalc.com/
I'd really like a chance to try this one again.
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I could be mistaken, it happens sometimes, but I believe there's a federal law that says if you are traveling interstate with firearms for a lawful purpose (hunting trip, competition, whatever) and your gun is legal in the state you're from as well as in the state you're going to, then no state in between can prevent you from passing through with your gun. You still have to comply with laws such as having it locked, separate from ammo, out of reach of vehicle occupants, and whatever else.
There might be an issue since California is not on a direct route from your home state to Nevada. Not sure on that one.
I don't have a reference to cite, so someone help me out if they can verify this.
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February of this year. I'm forty.
But I've been shooting rifles since I was about seven. I started shooting shotguns a few years after that.
Bought my first handgun and started shooting it in my mid-twenties.
Never competed before an informal match last November though, unless you want to count shooting for the high score with .22 rifles at Boy Scout camp (a long time ago in a galaxy far far away).
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Riding a "mountain" bike on the flattest land on Earth (go look up Llano Estacado) may seem a bit ridiculous, like city boys with their four-wheel-drive trucks, jacked-up suspensions and big tires that never leave the pavement. But each to his own.
I do manage to take my bike out and get it dirty. I've logged a little over 400 miles according to my trip computer, probably 50-50 on pavement and off. Not much serious technical trail riding though. When I was in California, there were some nice trails near (like 300 yards) where I lived with actual hills and stuff.
This is my second Novara. I've had it a few years. It replaced a Novara Arriba that I bought in the mid-nineties.
(Novara is the REI house brand. REI is one of my favorite toy stores. www.rei.com)
Yeah, I'm a gadget junkie. I need some lights and maybe a GPS system.
With lights.
No, I don't ride around with the fender on there. It's removable and stays off unless it's really needed.
Frame: 2005 Novara Ponderosa Hard Tail, AN6 Aluminum, 13" frame (the smallest of four sizes they offered), Very Black / Colorado Red
Fork: Manitou Axel Elite
Brakes: Avid Single Digit 5 (Upgrade to disks is planned. Frame, fork, and hubs are disk-ready.)
Brake Levers: Avid FR 5
Cranks: Truvativ FireX 44a/32a/22
Front Derailleur: Shimano Deore LX
Rear Derailleur: Shimano Deore XT
Shifters: Shimano Deore LX, x3 front, x9 rear
Pedals: Shimano M520
Stem: Truvativ XR 3D
Handlebar: Truvative XC-AM Riserbar
Seatpost: Truvative XR
Saddle: WTB Pure V Race
Bottom Bracket: Truvativ ISIS
Cassette: SRAM 7.0 11/32x9
Headset: WTB SC
Grips: WTB Weirwolf
Tires: WTB WeirWolf Comp w/DNA 2.1 26X49/54
Rims: WTB Dual Duty XC 569 x 17/541 ERD
Hubs: Shimano M475 disc
Water Bottle Cages: Blackburn Mountain Cages
Rack: Blackburn Mountain Rack
Gear Bag: Novara (I never leave home without my junk bag.)
Front Light: Cateye Single Shot
Rear Lights: Cateye TLD-LD1100 and TLD-LD610
Computer (Cyclometer): Cat Eye Micro Wireless
Heart Rate Monitor: Polar RS200
The way I set it up, I can see my speed, whether I'm over or under average speed, trip distance, heart rate, stopwatch time, and time of day at a glance without pushing any buttons.
In the bag, I carry a cable lock, everything I need to fix a flat on the trail including a little air pump, tools for repairing chains and straightening rims and adjusting just about anything on the bike that may need adjustment, wallet, keys, a roll of toilet paper, and maybe another water bottle, with room to spare for a light jacket or whatever else I think I may need to take along.
Looking for a good way to carry a pistol. (Putting it in the bag on the back makes it kinda hard to get to in a hurry
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If you want to try a Dreadnaught industries comp, I'll bring my AR to Hobbs next match. Let me know.
Hey Mark,
I'm always willing to try different stuff. There is a rifle side match at the May 2nd match. I'm not planning to enter simply because my ammo budget is all going for pistol stuff. (I may still change my mind.) But if you're bringing it, and will let me shoot a few rounds before or after, I'll bring a box of .223.
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I think the theory is that the recoil pushes the muzzle up and right, so those holes counter by pushing down and left.
I'm glad to hear from someone who's tried it telling me it doesn't work all that well. I was considering that very comp for my Mini-14. Guess I'll keep looking for something else.
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Gotta give that guy points for not letting it take his sport away from him.
+1
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Sweet collection!
I loves me some Kimbers. I've got one Ultra CDP II. I'd like to have at least a couple more of their pistols and a few of the rifles as well.
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Oxygen itself is not flammable. But it makes just about everything it comes in contact with extremely flammable. (Chemically, fire = something reacting with oxygen.)
In a hospital room with a patient on oxygen, you can not have flame, or even a spark. The bed sheets and just about everything else in the room are saturated with oxygen and easily ignited. A muzzle flash, for instance, might set it off. (I wouldn't risk trying.) But that's in an enclosed space. I seriously doubt this would be a concern at even an indoor range, and certainly not at an outdoor range. Unless he's doing live fire practice in his bedroom, I don't think there's an issue.
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I like steel.
My first match, way back in . . . February, there was one stage that was nothing but eleven steel plates. Someone quipped that I was going to have fun shooting those 8" plates with my "little sawed-off 1911." I'm not what you'd call fast
I just took my time and knocked down eleven plates with eleven shots. I loved seeing the speed demons burn up 20+ rounds to knock down the same eleven plates. (I still got my butt kicked because they're so much faster than me.)What's that little blaster in your avatar? Looks a lot like mine.
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I flip the gun with my right hand while my left is going for the mag.
But, I know more than one shooter with an ambidextrous mag release, either stock like on an XD or added to a 1911, that they hit with their trigger finger without shifting their grip.
I'm considering this myself.
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I'm driving about 70 miles a day back and forth to work. I get around 18-20mpg in my 2002 Chevy extended cab with 5.3 liter, auto tranny, and 3.73 gears.
Around town driving gets more like 15, 16, 17mpg.
On a couple of trips between California and Texas, o'er mountain and across burning desert, where I could just set the cruise control and not slow down until the next fuel stop, where I gassed up, got a snack, drink, bathroom break, and back on the interstate until I need gas again, I got 20.1mpg running 75 in AZ and NM, 70 in CA and TX.
I've got a camper shell, which might help slightly with highway mileage. (But not as much as many people like to believe.)
Pulling a little trailer on my last trip back from California cost me 5mpg off my usual mileage (got 15.1).
I had a 2004 Z71 4x4 extended cab Chevy (before my mom got it and the payments in exchange for the '02 which was paid for
). It has the same engine, transmission, and differential gearing and sports a similar camper shell. Mileage around town seemed about the same. Highway mileage was identical, to the decimal point. So the transfer case did not cut into the mileage like many will tell you it does, either that or just being two years newer made up for it.
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The item MOST likely to be in my pocket at any given time - for the past 25 years or so:
Be Prepared.
Pretty tacticool, huh?
Other bladed doo-dads that normally reside in my backpack/junk bag/(man purse) from which I'm never far away (or sometimes on my belt, depending on situation):
Knife snob? Uh, no.
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So I guess if they'd shot the target on the ground and then stepped on the pressure pad, it would have been legal.
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9.9.3
Moving scoring targets will always incur failure to shoot at and miss penalties if a competitor fails to activate the mechanism which initiates the target movement.
EDIT: Oh, I think I see what you're asking. You're wanting to know if you can shoot the mover before you trigger it's movement?
According to 9.9.4, If the WSB prohibits, then no. Otherwise, I guess you can take advantage of the poor stage design.
I ass-u-me that at higher level competitions, a stage with a mover that could possibly be engaged before being activated would not get approved.
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Yes, just a suggestion, but I've seen and done this myself upon occasion. I once shot a HUGE stage. Point to point travel was measured in yards, not feet. I engaged the safety between each point. There was a lot of fault line, rocks, etc to run over while moving and no targets to engage.
That I can understand.
It's when moving two to five steps that I was worried about. I'm still working on mag changes on the move. Going a short distance, I can sprint there (and probably outrun just about everyone in my local club) but arrive with no mag in the gun, costing me time, or I can walk and change mags on the way, which seems to take about the same amount of time now, but will probably be the faster choice as my mag changes improve. I'm also a master of run-on sentences.
I have smaller than average hands and have to shift my grip to reach the mag release. I was trying to visualize flicking the thumb up to engage the safety, shift the grip, hit the mag release, change back to my shooting grip, insert new magazine, and flick the safety off all while moving to a new position. Seemed like too much to process at once.
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That's encouraging. Thanks.
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8.5.1
Except when the competitor is actually aiming or shooting at targets, all movement (see Appendix A3) must be accomplished with the fingers visibly outside the trigger guard and the safety should be engaged. The handgun must be pointed in a safe direction. Emphasis added.
A3 defines movement as taking more than one step in any direction, or changing body position (e.g. from standing to kneeling, from seated to standing etc.)
If I'm moving to a new location I'm supposed to have the safety on?
I shoot Single Stack. I've been told, here and elsewhere, that if I'm moving, I should be reloading. So if I engage T1-T3 from Box A and move to Box B to engage remaining targets, I should shoot T1-T3, engage the safety, GO, dump the mag, insert new mag, and not take the safety off until I'm aiming at another target?
I've never noticed anyone doing that. I've never been told to do that or heard any conversation on the subject.
The only time I engage the safety is during Load and Make Ready.
We where all newbies once, they way to get away with newbie questions is quote part of the rule book so someone can correct and explain it for you.
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Congrats!
And nice job on the Texas star (AKA that damned star)
Doesn't that RO get his head sunburned?
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So, while I agree that IDPA & USPSA do teach some very good principles, I am not entirely convinced that style shooting is truly "defensive" shooting.
It's a game. Most of the participants understand that. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.
But from practicing for and playing that game, you can dramatically improve your shooting skills.
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In between brain farts, I was reloading - ahh the joys of single stack...
Wow! That should be my signature line.
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I'm hoping I'll be legal by just turning them off for matches. I'd hate to have to swap grips several times a month.
Legal for Open only.....
That's what I was afraid of.
I don't want to use them in competition. I just don't really want to have to take them completely off the gun for every match.
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Very nice. I hope to get a J-frame soon and intend to add the same Lasergrips.
I can only surmise that laser grips are looking upon here like automatic transmissions would be be on a Porsche forum.I also plan to add Lasergrips to my Kimber Ultra CDP II, which is my main carry gun.
That also happens to be my competition gun. I'm hoping I'll be legal by just turning them off for matches. I'd hate to have to swap grips several times a month.
(Logic would say that if I'm looking for competitive advantage, I wouldn't be shooting an aluminum-framed, 3-inch-barreled 1911 in Single Stack. But logic has rarely had anything to do with rules, and I haven't really checked in to the legality of this for USPSA.)
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I just took my time and knocked down eleven plates with eleven shots. I loved seeing the speed demons burn up 20+ rounds to knock down the same eleven plates. (I still got my butt kicked because they're so much faster than me.)
My New Firebird AR-15
in What I Like
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Mark let me shoot it at the match in Hobbs today. Felt really nice. I just fired a few rounds at junk on the berm, so I don't really know anything about the accuracy. (I've developed a blink again, so I didn't see where most of my shots were going. I'm going to have to go back to the range and force that out of my system.)
If I'd have seen this thread earlier, I would have brought my camera. This yellow monstrosity has to be seen to be believed.
Just kidding, Mark. It actually looks pretty cool.