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What do you plan to do with the .22 and how often? I used to make two marks on my scope.. one for the .22 and one for Super. A quick crank with the sight adjustment tool and it's pretty close-- good enough for practice and local matches at least (this is good to do anyway-- if your zero starts changing, you can see if its' the adjustment screws moving, or something else moving. If it's the screws, you can then put them back easily. If its something else you can schedule an appointment with your gunsmith) I'm thinking pulling a mount on and off the gun repeatedly probably won't hold zero either.. been there, done that.

The radio transmissions from the phone affect the circuits in the scale. It drives my Dillon scale nuts-- it'll vary up and down by several grains and never zero consistently. Remove the phone from the area or stop using it and all is well.

Don't use a cell-phone near them when you're trying to weigh stuff.

Did you use the Egret? Sadly, no. The awesome recoil control available with the Egret would have been nice... and since it was man-on-man pins, my opposition may have ended up on his a$$, but alas I was uninitiated in the finer tactico-ninja arts at the time.

I had decent success with 147gr Golden Sabers in a Super w/lots of VVN105 @ ~200 PF on our local tables (RIP), but they were a little on the small side.

It's not too bad.. probably just a hairline crack. I can manage most things besides pushups.. and Chet's going to help me move, he just hasn't admitted it yet

I shot pins with a 50 AE Desert Eagle a time or two. They fly really nicely and the spectators love it. Recoil recovery time is a problem.. Were I going to use a DE on pins, I'd look hard at getting a .357 Mag working with some extra-heavy bullets

Naah.. then y'all could read the house numbers The creek is about 20-30' across. The bottom (and typical water level 90% of the time) is about 15'-20' lower than the house.. which it seems is about a foot and a half into the FEMA "special-high-flood-risk-area" line Did I mention how much I love dealing with flood insurance people? This creek used to flood badly years ago, but the city has done a ton of flood control work since then (and the other side is the low side-- there used to be houses there before the last great flood.. this one survived fine) It'll have to do until I get my own range.. here's the end of the back yard on a "full" day.. :

There's not a lot better than snowboarding in fresh powder (now y'all know where I was last week.. I'm sure you missed me terribly), but cracking a rib getting off the powder onto an icy cat-track blows. At least I talked myself into believing it was a bruise and got 3 more days on the slopes. Ow.

Mission Accomplished:

I declared independance on my apartment today... ditched it for a little chunk of Texas with a house on it (and a 30 year note ), but I'm pretty happy about the whole deal (except for flood insurance, that stuff blows). Real reloading room, here I come!

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For local matches it's not too hard to figure out what it costs in terms of targets, pasters, paper, range fees and club operating overhead per shooter. Add a few $ to cover long-term prop wear and you're there. Round to the nearest convenient dollar figure for ease-of-making-change. For bigger matches you need to start budgeting for everything-- and then it gets tricky, since there are a lot more fixed costs that don't scale with the number of shooters, so then you have to estimate how many shooters you'll get and split the fixed costs among that number. If you're estimate is too high or you go over budget, you're likely to be out some $

There's a couple common places to stay-- either somewhere near the match hotel in/near Valencia, or in Fillmore. Piru is between the two, maybe a little closer to Fillmore. Being near the match hotel is handy if you're likely to make the shootoffs (they post the list there at night) or want to hang with your fellow shooters during off times.

Mod note: I deleted the extra threads For dryfire you want something with an easy to set and re-set PAR time. The big PACT (get it from BE) is good here as is the CED.

Dawson Toolless guide rod in one (way cool) and a RM (until it breaks) in the other.

27, 28, 29.. the difference is almost zero, especially it it doesn't work 110%

Yes, they were... But since "they" haven't gotten to this thread yet... FWIW, this thread is not in the memorial section

I sent a few pictures of plate rack details via e-mail. The basic idea of hinged plates is pretty universal. The reset mechanism is almost always a bar that lifts all the plates from behind, but the details varies a lot by builder.

I'd also like to add "poorly designed steel" as a potential problem. In general, on a smooth plate, splatter follows the plane of the plate. This is easy to see if you shoot a good plate over soft dirt-- there will be a line of frag holes underneath it stretching out to either side. What's not so obvious is that if that splatter then hits something else, it will follow that plane. Imagine the classic round steel plate with a flat foot welded onto the bottom for it to stand on. Splatter hits plate, splatter follows plate. Splatter hits foot, splatter follows plane of foot-- splatter goes back towards shooters. This is bad.

SCUBA stores have all sorts of mesh bags. Not usually super-cheap however. I like Chuck's Shooters Connection shooter-gift brass bags a lot-- they're tough enough to hold loaded ammo and also rock as brass bags.

The TSA is explicit about "We are in charge of the rules. We saw IPSC go a direction we didn't want it to, therefore we must always be in control".

I shot on the same squad as Daniel Horner at Steel Challenge. When he shoots it looks looks a heck of a lot like an aimed-fire Isoceles to me, but what do I know? It's the individual nuances that make a good grip great. Of course there are also old pictures of Jack Weaver shooting what looks like an ISO stance too.. the whole bent-arm thing was so he could get 'bladed' to the target... Don't make me post the 'stance is irrelevant' 50 AE videos again :D

- What is bulletproof? A good one in which they blow holes through the 'blast shield' they'd been hiding behind all season - Ice (and frozen meat) bullets, re: undetectable assassins / JFK - .22-replaces-fuse (it even pops) - Tree Cannon

You're just jealous Erik (in his Adam Savage persona) got to shoot a bunch of full-autos. Mythbusters hardly ever does anything relevatory, but they do what they do in a nice mass-market-appealing manner. Woulda been cool for them to throw in some of the old clips of Davis shooting himself with the .44 though.