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Eric, I'm not sure it is still true. Here you are my experience. My first Garmin E-Trex legend GPS unit was not able to pick up GPS signals if I had it in my raincoat pocket; it had to be placed in the open, top side up (i.e. antenna facing the sky) to work, and I had to put it right below the windscreen on my car to receive any signal. After that I upgraded to TomTom for Pocket PC with a BlueTooth GPS antenna (TomTom 5 package, about 3 years ago). It works perfectly even if I place the antenna inside the small car drawer in front of the passenger seat. I haven't tried to bury it in the trunk though. My guess is that antennas effectiveness has been greatly improved over the last 5/6 years.

TL, I knew you are a fine gourmet ... are you a mind reader too? You might want to try this salad: fresh tomatoes (cut to cubes about 1" wide, or you can use small "pachino" tomatoes), mozzarella cheese (cut to 1" cubes as well), steamed or smoked salmon fillet pieces, steamed maize (corn), olive oil and dried oregano; mix ingredients in a large bowl and serve with a bottle of still white wine.

Have you tried the "ancient" variant, with seeds?

I concur. There's a disgusting trend inTV news (and television in general for what matters), where the news itself is not very important, but what appeals more is being able to show real human emotions live. Emotions are definitely well within the personal sphere of every human being that should be protected by privacy, and breaking this privacy is just another form of voyeurism, just like that disgusting "Big Brother" show which so many people seems to be fond of.

A car parking gone bad. Even though they don't say anything about Kim's hair dye, anybody's willing to bet?

Glad to hear everything is fine with you. BTW, I too have a spare pair of clear lenses oakley glasses in my reloading/laboratory room: I wear them anytime I'm doing anything in that room.

Same guess here. 12 years ago I had a G27, and decided to play with its trigger mechanism to get a smoother pull (you know, the kind of do-it-yourself trigger job made by an amateur that ends up ruining a perfectly functioning firearm). I had smoothed and (inadvertently) changed the engagement angle between the the rear of the trigger bar and the striker, with the astounding result of a limited 3-rounds burst upon pulling the trigger very slowly. It could have been amazing, but at that time it scared the hell out of me the first time it happened ...

Visit your eye doc, a.s.a.p. you need to get a good antibiotic prescription, to avoid the risk of infections. A few years ago a small (but no-so-small) piece of debris fell from the roof, hit me in my left eye and lodged under the eyelid when it blinked. it took me several trips to the bathroom sink to get rid of it, and by the end of this all it had lightly scratched my cornea. Visited the eye doc the day after, and she said I needed a 3-days treatment with and antibiotic cream, 'cause risking an infection there could have possibly led to loss of eyesight. Keep us posted, please.

Completely agree wit this! They're nice for being totally impenetrable, but they greatly limit a Stage Designer, since they need to be placed at least one step beyond the distance deemed as safe for shooting steel (IIRC, USPSA is different from IPSC one). And you need to take into account every possible shooting position a competitor can take a shot at it.

Beetle Bailey, Garfield, Mafalda (especially that "Manolito" kid).

What is most funny about the posts here is that people that spent 2K+ USD on custom made guns because they're beautiful, they're a masterpiece, they're the best and finest example of mechanics, would not consider spending the same amount of money on a different mechanics masterpiece like a wrist watch, simply because a cheaper one does the same service as a really expensive one. The same could be said about guns but it looks this didn't dawn on them ... Carina, Leo gave you a great advice, but I understand it being a bit out of your budget. Even if I don't have one, I would say that a Seiko Kinetic Sportura Chronograph would be a very nice present.

Since you only use a condom if you're doing it with someone else, your calculations are flawed ... you need to divide 125 by 2 first ...

Here lies the possible exemption I was talking about. IF your finger was placed on trigger after you finished bringing back the gun up at eye level, and IF you had targets in line with your eyesight AND your gun, then the rules say NO DQ. In any other situation that could have occurred in this case (e.g. finger on trigger while bringing the gun UP), it was a righteous call.

First: check your handloading book to find out the test barrel lenght and type. It's not unusual to have loads factory tested in longer (manometric) barrels of 7.5" and longer. Try and find this info and compare it to your gun barrel lenght. If the test barrel elnght is longer than your gun one, then you know that with listed loading data you will be getting lower velocities. Second: check all loading data are exactly what's listed in your literature. C.O.L., bullet weight/profile/type (e.g. 200grs/SWC/Lead), powder charge, primer maker, brass maker. Each of these variables can cause different velocities. E.G. if you load longer than listed, your pressures will be lower (more gas chamber at ignition) and the resulting velocities will be accordingly. Third: test day temperature, lighting and humidity can play a significant role in measured velocity variations. Fourth: barrel clean, leaded, fouled usually gives slower readings. Try chronoing your loads always in a clean barrel for consistency sake.

This is (roughly) the chain of thoughts a MD follows. You plan your match in terms of stages (available on the range) and days you want to run your match. Let's assume a 10 stages match, run for one single day. Then you decide if you want to run a half-day of full-day match: we will run a full day match format. This means that you will have 10 squads for the whole day. Now full day usually means 8:00-17:00, with a half hour (12:30-13:00) lunch break. A 8 hours 30 mins timeframe to complete 10 stages means 51 minutes for each squad on each stage. At this point you have to allocate time for squadding, briefing and walkthrough, individual stage runs, scoring and resetting, to determine squads size. Let's assume 3 mins for squadding and equipment checks, 2 minutes for briefing and 5 minutes for stage walkthrough: this leaves about 40 minutes for individual runs, scoring and resetting. Assuming 3 minutes for the above, you can confidently run 12/13 competitors squads (13x3=39 mins) in your match and still have some spare time for unforeseen events that might slow you down. If you want to increase the walkthrough time, you either have to reduce the time for individual runs and resetting (total squad time on stage stays the same), reduce number of competitors per squad (but less overall income), or enlarge the timeframe for the whole match (more time on stage per squad: 5 additional minutes walkthrough per squad will roughly mean one additional hour): this latter option might not prove feasible due to daylight conditions.

Given the exeption granted by the very first sentence of 8.5.1, you could have only disputed the RO call (finger on trigger) if you had your gun at eye level in the general direction of the targets. In this case you were under the provision of the exception in 8.5.1, otherwise, there's simply no way you can appeal against a safety call from an RO for not having done what the RO reported:

Assuming you won't need a last-minute charge backup (battery pack and/or car charger), I'd say silicone skin and rotating belt clip should be enough.

Since I'm no M or GM either, i will abstain from giving advice on this (being guilty myself of the same). I'll just ask to clear all possible doubts: how many Ds or Cs close to D-zone border did you score in the same 10 stages? If the number is equal or more than the mikes, then it's not a consistency problem, but rather a groups problem.

Here is the list of complete CED 7000 accessories. So far I bought: - Custom Carry Case - External battery pack - Neck lanyard.

I have both a PACT Club II and a CED 7000. Although I'm pretty satisfied with both, I would definitely advice to buy the CED. When it comes to functionalities, size, battery duration and accessories the CED definitely outruns the PACT.

I've definitely given that some thought. I even played with an experimental forms html page that would only have items I sell overseas on it, then it send the order via email. Of course that wouldn't be secure with a credit card, So I was thinking of a workaround for that. I could probably get an SSL certificate for that. And, someone knowledgeable once told me that you could safely send any text (like a credit card number) in an email, as long as the info was in an attachment, like a Word doc, or PDF. Anyone know if that's true? Probably, technically, no; but practically, maybe? For the longest time I've had customer's email me credit card info, I just have them email half the credit card number in two separate emails. Realistically, I bet that's pretty safe. Maybe the email part could be for items only, payment details could then be faxed, or any other way you would like. The basic part of this would be to keep the on-line store (automatic orders processing) for US customers only, while international orders (even if not publicized on your website) could be placed in a different way (email, fax, phone), that could be handled manually. For example, I used to buy once fired brass in the US from a vendor that would accept my order and shipping details via email, while billing details (CC info) were provided via fax. This worked for the last 5 years for me and several other teammates.

Brian, what about officially shipping to US only, but unofficially accepting email orders from overseas, so that you can manually process and check those orders only?

Sounds like the extractor is seriously lacking a good grasp on the brass rim. I doubt (as others have said) it can be traced to the new slide stop. In general, if the extractor lacks tension, then the brass/round is ejected from the bottom of the gun when no mag is present to push it up during slide cycle. Normal ejection is OTOH reported when there are bullets or follower supporting the bottom of the brass/cartridge.

Time and place for the services?

Can't go wrong with Eric's tape ...