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  1. That's all you need to say. Although her "only a while back" on Battlestar Galactica was pretty good too.
  2. Very interesting story, a good adult balance of action, humor, and drama. And anything with mobile infantry suits is a win for me, although these suits kind of sucked compared to most (so... probably realistic )
  3. Kinda boring this week until the end. Two single-shot revolver accuracy tests in a row, yawn. And spending 40% of the show on self-guided practice is also a yawn. Good ending contest with the tubes, but the editing was annoying. Didn't help my fav Jamie was knocked out.
  4. Cheat Sheet Hopes of the remaining are Gabby -> Kelly -> Jamie. A real sleeper like Alex or Joe would be good too, they are just out there being quietly competent. The only one I'd be annoyed with winning is Adam, he just drives me crazy. We say we like the shooting-only style but this season has generated about 10% of the talk as the others...
  5. Good episode last week. Always like to see traditional bows, that is on my short list for new hobbies. Gabby was scaring me but pulled through with a very good effort. Love those gatlings. Sad to see Alan Alda go but Jamie is one of my favorites and did have a better plan. "Honey, can I get $25k for a gatling gun? I already reload .45-70!" Hopefully the producers do come up with at least a few new guns and events this year. I can't call it a shoestring budget, and you can claim the all-stars season should revisit the best challenges, but something new would be nice.
  6. Guy uses a clay flipper to lauch a facehugger at the shooter
  7. spoilers . . . . Enjoyed it, especially the scenes in the last quarter - "Welcome to Scotland". Early parts dragged at times and were a bit over-artistic. Gunplay was Bond-standard impractical. Bardem certainly has the creepy badguy role nailed. Needed more skin from Eve and Severine My wife and I were thinking it would have been a hoot to have the Kindaid character played by a disguised Sean Connery I viewed this as Craig's last time as 007, they have rebooted the series back to the new M and Moneypenny. But my opinion has little weight since I thought Timothy Dalton was a great Bond - another one that wasn't afraid to get bloody.
  8. You can definitely shoot something nearly every weekend day as long as you're willing to drive a bit, and some weekday stuff too. New RZR range north of McKinney looks good but having trouble getting out of the gate, and there's rumblings of some other ranges too. Multigun of various flavors a couple times a month plus big stuff like FB3G. I'm frankly burned out on multigun and priced out of the bigger local match entries ($15-$30 per stage really?), but the matches are full and get good reviews, so more power to them. I've cut back to plate matches and only a local fun range instead of the good practice place, and spend my range days mostly taking newbies out from work. For your daily life you need to really check your work and house locations, some commutes can be a real time beating or $$ in tolls, the whole metroplex is an hour across anyways. Depends what your idea of fun is
  9. First off, welcome to Texas. Dallas is the home of a gun show every weekend (sometimes two), but places to actually shoot are getting leaner. Check out dfwshooters.org for the local competition message boards. With your own vehicle and a relatively small collection I would just take them in your vehicle. CCW on you, the others at the bottom of the presumable pile of personal stuff you'll have in the trunk. Hopefully your car will not look like the okies in Grapes of Wrath. When stopping, inside your room is best, but not if it makes a scene getting inside. In a golf bag with a cover works pretty well Shipping to yourself is legal but $$ and problematic since you don't really have a address to receive them unless you know someone or a sympathetic business. I would not want to ship to a hotel and have them sitting in their back room unattended, for example. Pistols need to go overnight IIRC, long guns can go ground, using UPS or FedEx. No USPS unless to/from a FFL. You could ship to a gun shop but I believe you have to transfer them out as if you were buying them. I am not yet up on NFA stuff but there is an ATF travelling form to be filed, check it out. I believe stops are covered as long as you are reasonably en route. Don't know carry rules off hand, check them out state by state to be sure. Texas CHL is pretty easy to deal with. There's a specific sign to watch for if the business doesn't want your money, but it's rare to see. Bars post a 51% sign for no carry. Declare to a police officer if you come in contact and get asked for ID. Lots of government offices off-limits due to courts etc.
  10. I just saw this thread, interesting... I don't have my rulebook with me, do disappearing targets really have to disappear? I have seen notes that certain targets disappear in local written stage briefings to cover movers that don't get 100% covered when at rest. Seems to me you could have a stage where you picked one side or the other, and the WSB just says "All targets are disappearing targets". Go down one side and get hits, the other side is non-penalty misses. Can't remember if failure to engage applies to disappearing ones though, darn I'm slow today. If so cover that with a note as well, or start the stage by throwing a grenade over the wall so that the unused side is all engaged The weird part is the available points would be really high, so the stage is essentially weighted 2x of its normal size since there are twice the targets. I wanted to take this concept even farther. The two sides could even have different numbers of targets. Highest hit factor wins 100% of the available points. The short side may be fewer available points but if you can do it faster... You could do some cool stuff with balancing # of targets, shot difficulty, and distance travelled.
  11. A guy at our club has had that 2 ALPHA plate for over 10 years , I keep asking him when he is going to give it up ?? Now that Texas has the 7-digit plates, I can finally get my usual 1A1M1NS
  12. The KelTec guys have been out at the last two TacPro matches, shooting a KSG. The first time was a bit awkward but this last match they were obviously more practiced and much smoother. For gun games though I think the standard pump user will generally come out ahead just due to the simplicity of reloading. That recessed loading port and the switching is just harder to do in a hurry. If you can load all 14 though, or have to maneuver in small spaces, it would make a difference. Also, don't hang the vertical grip over a barricade lip when shooting slugs, it doesn't like that.
  13. Quoting myself to say the next USPSA multi-gun match is May 26! From Tim:
  14. TDSA range in Ferris is putting on a 3-gun match every 2nd Saturday, check their web page. They've had two now, I haven't been yet, or seen any reviews, so no report on what it's like. The USPSA club at TDSA (very good 4th Saturday pistol match) also does an occasional USPSA multi-gun match. TacPro near Stephenville does a 3-gun tactical match in May and October, you just missed May 5, next one is October 13.
  15. When my dad wants you to sign something, he'll say "Put your John Henry on here".
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