shred

Ok, so it was an 80% second place... , and it amused me immensely that I beat the M's and GM's that had come down for a shot at TJ, but really it was that I didn't have any thoughts beyond shooting well and learning from it.

A dozen years ago I worked for Atari. (Shortly after that, the company collapsed ). As part of the collapse, I ended up with a couple old table-top style arcade machines-- the kind you'd see in Pizza Hut. Right now they're Missile Command and Arkanoid, but that may get converted back to Pac-Man. Those machines are becoming collectors items, but if you look around, you can sometimes find the less popular ones for $200+. (All the new machines have interchangable parts and never seem to come on the market.. ) The ultimate home arcade machine now is to get one and swap the guts for an old PC running MAME-- then you get tons of classic games and the smack-em-around indestructible controls. Something about those old games-- since they didn't have stunning graphics, they had to have good gameplay. (Edited by shred at 12:43 pm on Dec. 29, 2002)

Hopefully it was a pre-existing hole that he stuck his foot into. Most fun present so far: a cool radio controlled hovercraft, from my parents of all people. (Edited by shred at 1:33 pm on Dec. 29, 2002)

It's been so long since I posted that I'm not sure y'all are answering my question, but in the mean time I've been thinking about it and decided that I was, as Steve said, in a results-oriented mode. As in, I was thinking (subconsciously) "When I win my class, then I'll be good/happy/successful.. ". Since I got where I was going (winning my class) and wasn't happy with how I did, I had a conflict going on. This happens in a lot of places for lots of people ("When I get a new house.. then I'll be happy", "When I get a million dollars..", "When I get my M-card", ... ) Since then I've dropped a lot of that "When.. then.." thinking and have improved considerably for it. The most fun I've had at a match recently I came in second and was happy about it (It didn't hurt that TJ was first, but it was really how well I shot)

You could whip up a recoil spring tester to check the weight: http://www.brianenos.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard...28&topic=44

eeek. After having one primer go off unexpectedly in the seating station, I'm not going to run my RF-100 with the top off for any length of time. I don't think Dillon put 1/4" of polycarbonate on there for show. I've considered drilling and tapping the shield for a couple of small nylon bolts to bear on and allow external micro-adjustments to the plastic plate. That would be cool, especially with a 'lift' option.

I used ~4.8gr Titegroup under a 115 for steel loads in my comped supers all last season (bumped to 5.0 and 135 pf for Paper & Iron). The dot bounces some but it's super soft.

The full-frontal view is less useful than angle-views many times. Bonus is you don't have to draw down on yourself.

You could always use the flip tray to examine 'em all, then dump the tray into the RF100. When mine's misadjusted and sticking primers right before the drop tube, I poke up under the shield with a small tool and lift the plastic plate just a tad. You can also tap the plate edge a bit to tune the entry as well.

Cool. Go get 'em Kath! I was a perpetual student for a while, having too much fun to leave, but I definately get the 'number' people vs the 'word' people. I'm a word-thinker. (Hey BE, that tie into temperment types??)

Well, I might approach Ron's level of pondering the classifier system, and have come up with some items: a) There is a considerable amount of variability in the HHF's between classifiers-- a level of shooting performance that scores 70% on one may score 80% on another. Translation: Some classifiers are easier than others. Some will never get you an M-card. My classifier % is around 80%, has been for a year and a half. c) At the three national-level matches I shot this year (Area 4, Area 2 and Race Gun Nats), my match %'s were all between 70 and 80%. What does that mean? I dunno. Maybe all the flaws cancel themselves out. Anyway, I'm working to get issue 'a' fixed by Sedro, and working on me to fix the other two (Edited by shred at 8:12 pm on Dec. 19, 2002)

I played with PowerPistol on Miculek's recommendation at Area 4. It's a bit on the fast side, but behaves similarly to N340. I vaguely remember ~7.5gr in a 38 Super with a 124 gr bullet was barely Major.

With purely anecdotal evidence, I'm starting to think there's a curve that peaks somewhere in A-B class as to the 'amount of rounds I should fire in practice'.. most of the GM-class shooters don't seem to shoot a lot anymore, even though they burned a pile of powder getting there. a random quote: "Want to make GM? Shoot 500,000 rounds. By then, you can't help it" FWIW, Todd suggests 25K rounds/year is plenty.

..fishing around in the depths of my memory here.. way back when I got a Lee bullet mold and it came with some handwashing instructions that were somewhat specific in regard to soaps. I've since forgotten the exact ones though (must be the lead). I think it involved dishwashing soap though.

Quote: from TeamGE on 5:59 pm on Dec. 17, 2002 Any other material would make the magwell too big for that much weight. I know there are brass magwells out there that run in the 4 to 5 ounce range. Yeah, I just played with a Dawson 'Heavy Ice' magwell. Heavy it is, but it's also large since it's chrome-plated brass.

Here's a tip for y'all that are struggling to see the front sight tracking: point your nose at the horizon. I was fiddling around with a .22 at the range today and for some reason had trouble following the sights. Then I noticed I was only using the top 1/4" of my glasses. Propped my head up and voila, the sights are much easier to follow.

So therefore they're pointless for IPSC matches, which despite massive efforts to the contrary, are still occasionally plagued by examples of weak, unreliable, poor-excuses of no-good firearms that don't correspond to the Sainted Cooper's ideals.

By random coincidence I ran into a guy with a set of IHL sharkskin gear. He also won a cert at the Steel Challenge years ago, and said his took 9 months to get. So there still may be hope, just don't expect it by x-mas

not me.. I have apparently peaked at 83% six months ago and am now sliding slowly downwards towards the depths known as the 70's. Wierd, since I've generally I've been shooting better than ever.

Barring the various half-price hit-man jokes (none of which are suitable for the kiddos), and venturing dangerously close to the T-word, I saw an Al-Quada training tape the other day in which they practiced (role-players and live ammo, eek) golf-course assassinations-- Open with an RPG to the protective-detail, then the bystanders open up with AK's from their golf bags, and the caddy fishes a Makarov from somewhere. Lob a few grenades about for the big finish. Should you golf in close proximity to VIPs or in Afghanistan, you might be wise tucking a .223 into the bag...

Ok, how about for a Revolver? Or Glock? Or Mataeba? There are so many different guns the conditions don't really fit-- I suppose we could have: "Gun will [or will not] go bang now if all I pull is the trigger" or maybe: "Bullet will [or will not] come out barrel if gun is sufficiently heated"

This kinda belongs in 'what I noticed', but it's instructional vis-a-vis "advanced classes" So there I am in an "Advanced Class with a Big-Name Shooter" and we're shooting frickin standards at 25 & 50 yards... This irritated me (I paid good money for this?/I can do this at home/Where's the turbo-speed top-sekrets??)..., until it suddenly struck me that, da*n it, my standards sucked. Shortly after that is when I really understood the old "there are no advanced techniques.." quote

agreed, close it.. experimenting with techniques is one thing, but when it turns to danger, it's time to stop. Finger-along-the-frame is not only dangerous with stubby (read: carry) guns where fingers can protrude past the muzzle or cylinder gap, but IT WILL GET YOU KILLED if you're in a gun-retention situation. I can do pull-ups using only my pinkie and ring finger and still can't prevent even a half-assed disarm attempt using that hold.

Dogma, that's the answering-machine detector in the delay-- they wait for a couple seconds of silence to be sure you're message is done before they start the recording. You can make one of those irritating "Hello?? {pause} Ha, got you, I'm not here." messages, but better yet, stick the tone from the 'doo-dee-dah This number is no longer in service" on the front of your message-- that hangs up the computers, and is the same thing those 'Tele-Zappers' as seen-on-TV do

Ahh.. you're thinking inside the box again Detlef. The card doesn't have to be turned by the shooter. We can expect even more random start signals as time goes by... By the proposed rule, ignoring (or forgetting) a light, sound or whatever start signal = do over.