vluc

Dowter...it is engraved in my mind!! Will run l to r (preferably), but if I don't, will be much more mindful as I do not want to hear that yell again! Matt...remember...lavender pasters if you have a car as hard cover....and I think the target absorbed any grease....

You all need to come to EH and shoot more often...we see a lot of this all the time!! Matt Trout has a devious mind when it comes to stage design, as do Ron Rodgers and watch out for Bill Warble!! And when it comes to adding steel to a match, Fred, Dave, Larry and the Brookville folks have no equal. And watching matt shoot is something else...heck, watch him when he shoots IDPA...get a free lesson everytime! Surprisingly, i was not at all intimidated by the match...was what I've come to expect from this excellent club, and me a production shooter to boot. Just shoot the best you can and let it all work out. i was surprised to find myself up there with the production shooters...not that i shot better than most, just made fewer errors. Only 3 or 4 mikes the whole match, and ended 8th out of the 18 production shooters...shot well above my class...or they shot well below theirs!! If they give awards for top D shooter, i'll gladly accept it! (Hmm...more names getting added to the results...) Darn, another member of the enosverse there...Bam Bam, sorry i did not know...maybe next time! (Edited by vluc at 9:39 pm on Sep. 23, 2002)

Chris, that wasn't Pollard was it? Hehehe...would be funny if the guy in the skir-ilt was the production winner!!

hehe...Latrobe has two fine products...besides Rolling Rock there is Lenature Pastuerized water.... Results are up on the USPSA website under matches. Some of the results are garbled because of the new software they are running. had i known that I would have written the results...they were posted at the club around 5:00 or so. Awards are plaques and/or trophies...they will be mailed as they are putting names on them. They go to Division Winners, High Lady, High Senior, High Super Senior and High Junior. One award for every five competitors in a class. Both mailed out after the match.

Results are up..the Enosverse was well represented and did quite fine. Mtrout40 and Dowter were there (shoot with them regularly), I met Flex and Steve Anderson, Chris Grubbe, Smoney I've shot with before in IDPA, and today I ran into Bseevers and 3quartertime. If others were there, i aplogize as i did not get a chance to meet you. 166 total shooters, 66 Limited, 23 L-10, 56 Open, 19 Production and 2 revolver. Not bad in an Open style match. Mtrout40 won HOA and Limited, Flex took A Limited, Smoney B Production. For those of you that have not met some of these folks, Flex and Smoney are big, grain-fed folks. I lost Flex twice yesterday (don't ask me how) and was unable to fill him and the 2 Steves with some of Latrobe's finest product. Ah well, there's always next week. Hats off to both Mtrout40 and Dowter. Both worked the match with poor Dowter having to do some major running all day over at the wall. Congrats to Matt for winning. Now about those lessons..... (Edited by vluc at 6:29 am on Sep. 23, 2002) (Edited by vluc at 6:30 am on Sep. 23, 2002)

Bob Evans sounds good, but us PA folks coming in will still be in transit then...eat hearty, fill yourselves up, have lots of donuts and stuff...

Hmm, interesing post. As a production shooter, in which I have a great deal of fun, i occasionally yearn for the big-stick, red dot. But I like the challenge of shooting the standard pistol, as my rewards are more internal. And the mental gyrations to figuring out a stage that (usually) is set up with 6 targets in an array..hehehe. Mastering that aspect of the game is my challenge. As for the cost to fun ratio, well, i use my golf analogy. i pay good dollars to golf, and if I break down my score into costs per swing, I get a tremendous value. Why pay top dollar to go and shoot below par and get out quicker? Maybe i'll change classes, maybe i won't, but i'll continue to have good fun the whole time, whether O/L shooters think i should be there or not.

LOL on the kilt pic until i saw a competitor wearing one at the Tri-State match yesterday. Older gentelman shooting open class...maybe it made him move faster...don't know, but the material was rather heavy compared to a basic set of khaki shorts. And yes, he wore gutchies underneath...apparently not a true scot.....

snokid, don't let that drive you away from IDPA. it can be fun and enjoyable. Remember, the only way to change something is to stay with it and change it from within.

While the responsibility is, in my opinion, on whoever is RO'ing, there is still the ethical aspect to it, especially if the "true" RO sees a mistake has been made. While a bit of drift, i pointed out a procedural on myself that was not caught by the established SO on a recent IDPA stage. It was low light, I ejected a partially full mag and did not retain it before engaging the next array. I had a wonderful score, excellent time, down -1 for the 6 targets, but saw I did wrong and pointed it out. So, ethics should win out, IMHO. If you can't call an honest run on yourself, how can you do it on someone else? Or do the breaks only apply to the RO and his friends....interesting post!

Open 10...now that would be something to see!!

anything with Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant for starters....

Get the clear lid with the midway tumbler...fill it up, turn it on and just watch the brass move around...kind of soothing the first few times. Now it's throw in about 400-500 cases at midnight, let it run overnight in the garage, then dump into the seperator the next morning...pretty, shiny brass. (Edited by vluc at 4:37 pm on Sep. 12, 2002)

Even if it was impulse, did you call that shot?

I enjoyed the DVD, but then again, i read Tolkein back in the 60's so it really fit my images of what the characters and the world should be. Flex...hehe...see you at the gathering. Hmm, have to get the Highlander films on DVD...maybe a Directors Cut that improves the last one a bit....

Hmm, interesting post as that seems to be the rage lately...no shoots behind steel...not all at 25 yards, but still there...

FWIW I did just see my first quadruple mag holder. looked like a box on the guys hip...outer mags were higher, inner lower...seems cumbersome, though. i do like the option matt just mentioned above with the front two angled rearward

I watch all the shooters, good and bad. Even a blind squirell finds a nut now and then, and i'm more towards the latter end than the former! I paste and set steel except when I'm the next shooter...gives me a few extra moments of walk thru...allows me to develop a back-up plan as well.

Dowter, page 37 of the green book under "What's the difference between a tactical reload and a magazine xhange with retention" A magazine change with retention is done by ejecting the partial magazine, PUTTING IT AWAY, and then drawing the full magazine from the pouch. I would interpret, froma semantics perspective, that putting it away means placing it somewhere other than the hand. Just the definition of having it put away differentiates it from a tactical reload where you have to draw the new mag first, then eject the old.

I just shot the classifier a week ago...was Marksmen before, only 1.5 points from sharpshooter. I read the tips on the classifier and followed them...this classifier came in at 136.42...almost 20 points better just by following the advice from that web page. Took my time on the head shots, and the third stage...have to practice those longer shots with the SigSauer 225, but otherwise am pleased. I know I can cut down the time more next time.

Good post. Shot a recent IDPA match where there was disagreement on what was to be done. Course description had no mention of it, walkthru for SO's did not address an issue, so when questions came up, the SO deferred to the course description. it's not there, well.... This get's back to a different post on "opening your mouth". If we don't point things out, they can't get any better. Remember,, Einstein's definition of insanity was doing the sme thing over and over and expecting a different result. if we don't say something, and nobody else does, why be surprised if teh same things keep happening! Hmm, kind of like the mistakes I still make while shooting....do the same things and wonder why I don't improve!

Or the Lara Croft reloading setup from Tomb Raider?

Good advise on the class and on the pistol status. You may also want to look at why you carry. It is an awesome responsibility, not to be taken lightly. Sorry, don't mean to be preachy, I just see too many folks who think its "cool" to carry and don't realize the committment that goes with it. They buy it, strap it on, never really shoot it, then become the poster children for RKBA and damage all of our rights severely.

And don't just aim at the steel, aim at a spot on the steel...per BE!

Steve, Flex, if you guys do come to Tri-State Saturday and want to stay for a bit, I'd be pleased to buy you and the Ohio folks (and any enosverse members who we can find) a few Rolling Rocks! (Edited by vluc at 6:02 am on Aug. 12, 2002)