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I think I have a complete set of GunGames. All bought at retail too, since subscriptions were kinda hinky in those days. I'll have to go look for them someday.

The problem with even tuning the tab to the tiniest release is those of us that push up on the grip safety as well as in. No matter how small the tab, it isn't going to disengage.

Then all the shooter has to do is plunk down on their a$$ for ten minutes after they're done shooting and keep waving off the "If you are finished.." until the mover stops. Time stops with last shot, so they don't lose anything but daylight. Since we don't want to get into that, the only reasonable answer is to determine "at-rest" as "after some lengthy period of time has elapsed" and not "when shooter is finished"

This for a Beretta trigger?

eek.. I'm already supporting one non-reloading IPSC shooter. She's a little lighter on the round count as yet though. Maybe if I get a Camdex.. I wonder why the custom reloading places never took off? Seems like there would be some kind of market for it given the number of people that don't actually like reloading, just like the more-shooting part.

If (and stress the IF), it's just as good, why should it matter if the slide was fit by a gunsmith at the factory or the gunsmith you write the check to? Most smiths send various work out anyway-- fancy machining, bluing, chroming, whatever. Why not ask your smith to rifle the barrel while they're at it? Nobody but nobody starts with just a block of steel and a file. Have your smith do what they're good at (which hopefully is making a reliable, accurate, nice-looking blaster from a pile of parts) and let them choose who and how to get those parts they assemble.

The eyelash-batter-in-chief has generated way too much help and support in this thread for it to remain a Hate rant. I oughtta move it to the Reloading section.

Open guns, like most everything else, have a far higher labor cost than parts cost. If a smith thinks he can get a decent fit with a pre-fitted combo and save 8 hours of work (I have no idea if this is true, btw), you'll pay less because if it. On the other hand, I've heard a top shooter say he'll put another 10-20 hours of work into a brand-new blaster after he gets it. Think about what 20 hours at a typical shop labor rate would run and you'll soon see that there is no such thing as a 'completely finished' gun, no matter who you buy it from. They'll all shoot, but the smith has to stop somewhere in order to stay in business. Where they choose to stop and what you want to spend are all part of the tradeoffs that have to be made.

I predict that unless there's a serious modification to typical USPSA stage design that the blaster-to-have in "1911-protected-class" will be a 10-round 9mm or Super shooting Minor. With the low points-down of the top shooters, the 20% more rounds will be far more of an advantage. Boy that'll show the crossover shooters "yeah, we have a place for .45 ACP 1911's, but really you want one of these custom 9mms..". the SSC has stage design to compensate, but typical USPSA matches won't. Can we say "9 rounds per position?" everybody? Will a STI with a single-stack grip on it be able to shoot single-stack?

I'm pretty sure Flex's thoughts are correct. Kay's mentioned the need and willingness to support more Junior female shooters to me too.

Looks like the stages (or early versions thereof) are up. Practice your chair and gun-on-table starts. 33% of the stages. The tilting one looks interesting. Hope it doesn't rain!

Added a poll

How about allowing one retroactive match? Joe LocalHero wins top-B at an area match and suddenly starts thinking "maybe I should be in the points series?" Obviously if you didn't have to sign up until the very last second would be sorta, well, pointless.

One other problem with free-standing NS is 'mystery hits' wherein the NS are far enough from the scoring targets that the RO doesn't get a good lock at them in their haste to get the scoring targets scored. Then sometime later somebody sees the NS hit and everybody starts with the Austin Powers act "that's not mine.. "

As a lefty, I get pretty good at hitting the stock ones with my index finger. Even Glock ones aren't too bad. There's a lot to be said for the old slingshot however.

Each search engine has a "submit a new URL" link someplace off their main page. Hit all the big search engines and put yourself in there. You'll know when they hit your site if you look at the access logs. Then get all your friends to link to your site from their pages... links-to-pages (among other things) are valued in the search-engine priority scheme of things. Meta tags are easily hoked up by people wanting hits. Make sure there's visible text that has the same text as your meta tags as well. SL's alt-text ideas are good ones also.

And I'm not complaining either :D Seriously, this sounds like a good thing. One Q- are signups retroactive or do you have to be in it from the beginning?

Got any Steel Challenge plates and gongs? Those could be real fun as hard-cover when scattered in front of targets... hmm.. I'm going to have to draw up a stage now

The Marvel conversion with interchangable scope/sights is built with a fixed barrel and a "slide" sort of like the Buckmark on S&W 41-- There's a removable top rib. You either get the scope one which has a weaver rail, or the sights one, which has adjustable sights but no rail. As I've posted before, it does also work with no top rail at all if you've got a frame-mounted scope. There's another Marvel conversion that doesn't have interchangable rails-- it's the cheaper one and comes with irons only. Btw, on my Ceiner hack-job I had to open up the ejector tunnel to fit my .38 Super STI frame. No big deal. No important parts there.

At local matches we've been known to do that. If there's far-off targets, send a patcher that has some experience scoring while the RO scores the rest of the targets. At the end, they can yell back the hits. If the shooter wants to look (or there's a Mike), then the RO will go over and score it. Strictly by the rules? No. But, it saves a bunch of time and wear-and-tear on the RO at a local match.

I think it's cool too. Darn close to a billion, with a "B", miles and they not only got something to the right place at the right time, but it's still working and showing us what's there. That's an awesome achievement.

Isn't the scorekeeper allowed to pre-score targets on long COF's? I thought that was why you were allowed to have a "Scoring Designate" to make sure those hits were recorded correctly before being patched.

Thanks for the clarification for IDPA. If the only criteria is caliber, then the 40-in-a-10mm should be OK. If there's more than that (and it sounds like there is), then probably not. Somewhere there's a thread on the allowability of this in IPSC/USPSA PD, so we don't need to repeat that here..

Same for TX CHL law-- an officer can disarm the CHL holder for a short period of time if needed (see: http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/ftp/forms/ls-16.pdf#page=64 ). I've been stopped several times and while they occasionally ask where it is, they never ask me to hand it over.

I get powdered graphite at the hardware store.. it's by the locks and keys. One tube lasts a long long time.