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That's actually a good idea ... get some 3-Gun guys who want to shoot the carbine and solicit the services of some precision shooters from outside of our "community" to work the bolt gun. Anyone know where the high power and other rifle shooters hang out?

"Hot" means your can should be in whatever condition it needs to be in to fire. Typically that's cocked'n'locked for a single action gun, or hammer down on a loaded chamber for a double action. "Hot" is how we carry in real life! The real world is a hot range.

Dude! They don't want me ... they know my plans!

The replacement of "Somebody that we don't need to talk about on the SHOOTING forum"'s name is automatic!

I can't even come to grips with contact lenses, so the concept of having the top layer of my eyeball sliced and folded back so a laser-powered eyemilling machine can recontour underneath makes me want to vomit. I can barely keep my eye open for the "puff" of air for glaucoma testing (and the optometrist almost punched me once trying to get me to let him put the other type with the pressure transducer that comes in contact with your eye). I wear glasses and it's inconvenient at times, but elective surgery on them just isn't worth the risk to me, regardless of the chances of something going wrong. The stakes are too high and thus skew the overall risk assessment.

Great Googley Moogley! That gives me two years to complete chiropractic school and find me a mid-20s hottie! Woo-hoo!

Hah! Two hundred seconds is an eyeblink compared to some of my times! We had an enormous rifle-shotgun field course at Deer Creek (IN) years ago that took me over ten minutes before I emerged from the woods with a smoking shotgun, a grin on my face, and about that much (holding fingers really close together) away from a massive coronary event. The actually movement from the starting rifle position to the final rifle position to where you switched to shotgun had to be close to 200 yards. Then you had to run through the woods and whack steel plates that were cleverly hidden among the dense foliage. I don't recall my exact time, but it was close to ten minutes. Fortunately they had a pickup truck to fetch me and bring me back to the starting line or I might still be out there!

I don't obssess over it, but I would never knowingly delcare major if it didn't make it. Jakester and Sunny ... thanks for the feedback on hot ranges!

Just wanting to know how common it was. I'm getting some e-mail from some people who have shot ISPC since the late 70s who never saw a hot range. I still think hot ranges are at least as safe as cold ranges, perhaps more so in a lot of situations.

You guys should all be pretty safe until my mom let's me have some bullets for my gun.

Well, it's a better time to do it now than it was from 1994 until last year! Also ... when you get a magwell, I recommend the S&A full magwell. You have to have the frame shortened a bit by a gunsmith, but once it's installed and blended, it leaves plenty of room for just about any brand of basepad.

I'd vote for Condi Rice in a heartbeat, regardless of the opponent.

Now that would be funny. He's actually a completely bald, 47 year old man!

Wait! I missed Chuck Bradley shooting 3-Gun? Heck, if you guys had told me ahead of time, I would have tried harder to make the journey! My parents could have just waited at the airport until I was ready to get them.

Try these two: "The Twighlight Samurai" "Zatoichi" (the latest version, should be 2003 or 2004) Both excellent moves. The latter has awesome samurai action and some good humor and drama. The former has very little action, but it's one of the best films I've ever seen.

Oh ... some more blade evolution on my part. I had to switch back to my Outdoor Edge Magna in my right pocket from the CRKT M21 I got to replace it. I was retouching the edge on the M21 this weekend, when I found I couldn't get it "sharp" anymore. It's not worn too much (where the edge would be too thick), so I suspect the heat treatment did not go deep enough into the steel. I wanted to retire the Magna because it's an awesome knife that can't be replaced, but it's back in action until it gets replaced by something suitable.

I wasn't impressed by Janich (through his writing, photos, etc. in magazines) untill I saw him on "Shooting Gallery." Now I am very impressed. So many of the "knife guys" are goobers in real life that it's tough to know them from the competent people unless you meet them in person. Bane finally did something good by having Mr. Janich on his show! Now ... if only he'd see the light and make me the permanent co-host ...

Ah, does that mean SOs will have to have a protractor available at matches to give FTDR pentalties for the 10.001+ deg cases?

OKay ... did any of you old timers ever shoot at clubs at that ran their ranges hot in the old days? If so, were there any problems?

<sleeping> Buh? <sleeping> (it is interesting to note that even when things get a little rough here, it's nowhere near the level of hositility you can see on a daily basis on some other forums)

I had this problem with a Springfield for years before I finally realized what the problem was. In fact, another guy in my squad at a match was shooting a Springfield and had multiple jams. His brother realized the slide stop was working its way out. When I checked mine later, it was the same thing. I replaced it with a slide stop from an old Colt and the problems went away. I don't know HOW it was working its way out, but it was. Changing the part fixed it, so it wasn't worth worrying over it anymore.

Since you have Mec-Gar 13rds, it sounds like you have the .45 and not the .40, right? The advantage of the STI for Para mags is that they are "pointier" and may be more amenable to faster reloads because of that. They're also probably show better QA/QC than Para's own stuff. The downside is that you give up too many rounds over the Para tubes. In .45, a standard 140mm STI mag will only hold 14 rounds. I've heard of 15 and maybe sixteen, but that's the limit. Using a Para-Ordnance tubes and a Gram basepad kit, you get 18 in the tube without any trouble. So if I were you, I'd go with Para-Ordnance mags for your SA wide body.

Well, I might as well drift this baby all the way ... The thing about people circling photos in their yearbooks is something I discussed with a friend about ten or twelve years ago. We were discussing some of the more unfortunate souls with whom we'd attended school and how some of the other kids had abused them. We agreed that it was a good thing we had mostly avoided such behavior because the kids like that are the same self-actualizing victims who become the sociopaths of tomorrow. We made the little joke about some guy in his 30s (our age then) sitting in his one bedroom apartment each night, making a big red X with a Sharpie across the face of that day's "payback." You never want to be one of the people who gets circled and then crossed-out in the yearbook if you can help it! Can you tell that my cold is still lingering?

Between five and six hours, usually closer to six! The last time I shot with you guys (back in the late 1990s), my brother and I came down on Friday, visited my aunt in Paris on Saturday, then shot the match on Sunday. That was back when Denny Chapman was still shooting 3-Gun! We had a good time, but it was way freakin' hot, no breeze, and we accidentally left all of our drinks/fluids/water in a bag sitting in the parking lot of our hotel ... right next to where the truck USED to be! I did okay on the first two stages I shot (rifle and pistol), then the heat got to me and I crashed! For a single day drive-down-shoot-drive-home, Wayne's club near Owensboro is about my limit. The other problem is that first Sundays (starting in spring) are occupied by the pistol match at South Central and NRA Action Pistol about an hour north of me. D'OH! I'll be down again ... someday!

Well, that's why we carry guns!