Corey

I'm not a CRO, just an RO, so I don't know if its any different, but the online renewal test takes less than 10 minutes to complete once a year. Not that hard of a commitment or waste of that much time to show HQ "Yes, I'm still invested in the sport and want to keep my RO/CRO status". And yes, despite the rules not changing all that much, I still hear all sorts of wrong things at the range. A little refresher once a year is a good thing in my opinion.

Wow, long time no update. Didn't get any of the above offseason goals accomplished, haha. Actually ran out of .40 ammo a couple weeks ago with the move to the new house earlier this year and a lack of drive to set up the reloading bench at the new place. Finally got it in gear so I can start building my supply back up. Haven't shot much, 1 USPSA match a month. Couple of rough matches to start the year but had a pretty decent day minus 1 stage yesterday. No video, but I won 3 stages and should have won the match but blew it on the last stage with 3 Mikes. Got 3rd overall by less than .5%. Might have made GM as well, will have to wait for the official update next month.

After yesterday, I might have gotten it. We'll see when the next update runs...

Shooting "on the move" can be subjective too. You dot have to be running or even walking at a fast speed. Learn to back out of a position and shoot the last target of an array as your body is shifting out and you maybe take one step. Likewise, try to maybe shoot the first target of an array as you are coming into a position. Learn to pause during a movement and take a shot if needed then keep rolling like the drive-by description from moto above. No need to setup fully, but you may not want to shoot it on a dead run either. Its all dependent on skill, stage setup, target presentation etc. Set up some target arrays and a couple boxes or a small shooting area and see what you can do. Try it walking forward, backward, left and right. Did your accuracy suffer? Was the HF higher or lower? Was one way better than another. For me being a right hand shooter, i seem to do a little better when I'm moving left to right and i can turn my body with my string side moving forward. Just feels more natural. you may find that you can and should shoot on the move moving certain ways but not others yet.

Yes it should be presented occasionally. Its a physical sport. I don't want to see it on every stage but its a skill i think should be tested from time to time. I like the options of offering a 'non-prone' solution that might add a little time to the stage, but if that's your choice, so be it. Most of the kneeling/prone I've seen has always been at the end of the stage which I can understand for shooters who may not be super agile anymore. Just like ULSC, they done have to worry about getting up and being potentially unsafe while still on the clock to go shoot more stuff.

Whats the percentage of points you are getting at matches? This should be listed in uspsa.org website match results. A long time ago, I was told if you are getting less than 90% of points, you need to slow down a bit. If you are 95%+ you can afford to pick up the pace a bit and a couple dropped shots (as long as they aren't mikes) wont kill the score. As Jake said, its not one vs the other. Its both together.

No. I will do a few different walk thrus at first to see which one I like the best, but once I settle on one, I stop thinking about the others.

Well, its technically still mine until we close in a few weeks. But I have to haul the push mower across town to mow a yard at a house I dont live in. Ugh.

11 in 2014 and 10 in 2015. Not abnormally high, but apparently a couple more people had trouble this year than the previous. Seems like a lot at first, but out of 350 shooters, its not that high. I haven't shot it in a few years, but its always a very technical match.

Started a stage once with one ear plug rotated out a bit. Timer went off and I thought "Wow, that was louder than normal". Luckily the stage had about a 10 foot run before I started shooting so i was able to crank the ear plug in on the run, then draw. Probably slowed me down a little bit, but I thought it went rather smooth, lol. I have video somewhere.

Doubt it. Switching guns for FW since I'm almost out of ammo, lol. Moving and a lack of motivation to get my new bench setup has killed me lately.

Where did you practice at? Didnt see you at our Thursday night

If you can get extra rounds AND major scoring, seems like a win-win . but yes, 19 vs 20 rounds in a .40 mag shouldn't make much of a difference either. 1 random stage here or there it might save you but any short courses with mandatory reloads or long field courses it'll be washed up in the rest of the stage.

I can see the desire to shoot minor if you don't want a new caliber for just one division/gun. Makes reloading life a bit easier. I'm still wanting to do that with SS so everything is 40 for me, so I get that. But for Limited, the major scoring far outweighs the extra 3 rounds you'd get in a mag. Might help you on the rare 22-23 round stages, but usually I end up reloading somewhere around 16-18 rounds on a normal field course. Extra rounds would do me no good. I can see a slight increase in recoil management from a minor gun, but the extra time to ensure more A-hits would neutralize that benefit. And then if you pull a shot, you've hurt yourself even more. When the Nationals winner is shooting minor (or there are multiple people shooting minor and finish in the top 10) then its a viable option.

cheaper than 3gun and more expensive than competitive archery (3d or indoor)

As long as the star is reset the same way for every shooters, that's good enough. Mark 1 arm and that one always points up or down or wherever you want. Then let the shooters shoot the plates in whatever order they desire. Its the same target presentation when they get there. Anything else is on them.

And with most places using electronic scoring now, you need to fill in all the lines or you can't save it. Might as well score the ones shot and mark a time then add in all the penalties. Everyone knows its a zero, but everything still needs to be shown.

http://www.uspsa.org/document_library/rules/2014/Feb%202014%20Handgun%20Rules.pdf

Set the auto timer and then just skip every other. Gives you the ease of the auto timer but you aren't rushed and just going through the motions or ingraining bad habits. Do 1 rep, visualize a rep on the next one while you get ready then do a rep on the 3rd, visualize the 4th, do one on the 5th, etc.

I've made ready more times that I could ever dream of counting outside of a shooting box. One step one way or the other really shouldn't matter for safety. If it does, maybe the stage design needs to tweaked. If the WSB says the start is toes on marks, as a shooter ill put my toes on marks and wait for the RO. If its start outside a box, ill stand outside the box and wait for the RO. If its uprange start, ill face uprange and wait for the RO. As an RO, I won't give the Make Ready command until the shooter is at the start position or very close to (shooter is walking a stage one last time while the squad finishes pasting and on their way back to me). If its a weird start position I might motion with my hand Vanna White style and say Make Ready.

looks good! I like that you can use the different sized ones to simulate distances on a given "stage".

I design stags for our local match and adding PCC won't change how I design stages one bit. Make a fun stage with multiple ways to attack it and let shooters figure it out for their gun. If they brought a rifle and there is a hard left handed lean, so be it. They need to know how to shoot a rifle with both shoulders/hands

I think the BoD was supposed to be meeting like this week maybe i read somewhere? Those may just be proposed stuff, but its better than nothing. And answers some people questions about equipment, start positions etc.

Like Moto said, what if you find out they are minor? Do you have time to get new ammo made/bought and tested? If not, then don't sweat it and just hope the temps are up and the chronos are running hot at your match. If you think you do have time to rectify the situation if your ammo isn't up to snuff, then by all means check it!

Sounds like some rules have been established already: http://uspsa.org/document_library/2016/PCC%20Appendix%20for%20USPSA_D8_DNROI_posting3116.pdf Most of the points brought up in the arguing is still silly though.