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Just FYI there are only about 32 spots available for the Saturday/Sunday squads, so if that is your preference, sign-up now @ https://practiscore.com/2017-walther-arms-area-4-championship/register

This ^ would happen. I raised our price from $15 to $20 and people almost had a heart attack. Now almost every other match in the state charges $20, so I guess we set a trend! Anymore than that and everyone would expect to not have to help out at all. I know I wouldn't pay $30+ for a local match and have to help set up too, no thanks. MemphisMechanic has a point on stage design. Like I said in my previous post, we set up 8 stages majority of the time, 5 meduim courses plus a classifier (6) and 2 32 round count stages in 5 bays. OR I'll do 4 medium including classifier and 3 long courses for 7 total stages. Our round count is always between 165-170 per match. A good stage doesn't have to be 32 rounds, it can be small with some tough shots, tight shots or a hoser stage with some quick movement and just a couple of walls. Do visit the link above!!!!

Some of your clubs sound very difficult to set-up and run a match, mine is a little different as it's a public range. I'm the MD at my club, USSA in Tulsa, which is a public range, there isn't a BOD or panel etc. They let us run matches there and we have to pay the range 1/2 of our entry fees, I charge $20 per match. I design all the stages, sync nooks, practiscore, registration, sign-up/sign-in at the range, usually have 1 helper with sign in. There was another local range that tried the volunteer set up the morning of the match, it no longer has matches, so that doesn't work around here. For set up on Saturday, the evening before the match, it used to be just myself and 1 other person. We would set 7-8 stages within a 3-3.5 time period, with just 2 people it was a lot of work! Luckily we got a few more people to start helping set up and now we have 4 total that help set up. It makes set up go by faster and has taken our stage build times down to about 2.5 hours. Those who help set up shoot for free of course. We have a trailer that carries just about everything we need to set up and tear down and that makes a huge difference. I appreciate those guys so much now I don't think I could go back to just 2 of us again, so 4 people can very easily set up a match. Our match starts at 10 with sign in from 0915-10 on match day and I usually get to the range at about 715-730 to start hanging targets for the match. Help arrives around 745 and we are done with targets etc and any last minute adjustments by 0845 so it gives us a minute to rest and get up to the range lodge to start sign in. After sign in is complete we have a very short shooters meeting and assign squad moms who are in charge of their own squad during the match. We ask that people help tear down the stage they finish on and bring things to the front of the bays so we can come by and pick them up with the trailer. We usually have 4-5 others that will actually stay and help put stuff back on the trailer after the match and that makes tear down go a lot quicker! Scores are posted and everything is put up within 30-45 minutes of the match being over, not last shot fired, because some squads finish sooner than others. Myself and one other volunteer will shoot 1st on the last stage, whether or not we are supposed to go first or not, so we can go hook up the trailer, put our stuff up and get prepared to start tear down. The big key to our match running smoothly is having a trailer to store things on and move from bay to bay. You really don't need that many people to help with a local match so don't try to over complicate it. You just have to be efficient at set up and don't make your stage designs too complicated that it takes you 45 minutes to set 1 stage. We have awesome stages though but don't try and trick people or make them too hard to shoot. As one of the posters above said, I never shoot to my best abilities at my match due to stress of set up/sign-in/stage design/targets/complications/questions/general match admin type stuff. You can never just relax and shoot like you do when you go to someone else's match.

It's a cool little place, Yuth puts on some fun matches, he's from Thailand so the stages are more ipsc style which is a nice change sometimes. USSA in Tulsa is only 2 hours from you, 2Alpha in billings, old fort in ft smith is 1.5 hours from you so there are a lot of options not too far from you and they all run great matches.

At local matches I use 3 mags and have them on my belt. Load with the back one at make ready, then put it back in it's pouch and insert the 2nd mag into the gun. Then I have 2 mags of my belt for use, plus the one in the gun. For major matches I use 4 mags and have them all on my belt and use almost the same process as above but insert the 3rd mag into the gun at the start. Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them. Plan for the worst, hope for the best. Malfunctions, dropped mag on a reload, too many misses on steel with targets still to shoot etc can all go wrong under major match conditions.

CLASSIFIER RECORD:Classification Lookup below... Last updated 1/16/2017

An update occurred last night, so shouldn't the scores be on the new update?

Ghost pouches bullets out in limited is lit!

I am using blue's 9mm 124gr rn for over a year and have been using them in 40sw 180gr rn for the past few months and have not had any problems with them. Great price/quantity and accuracy.

I received an email yesterday saying they added me to the list. Thanks!

I've emailed them several times to put me on the list but I never receive a response.

So did any one else follow up with them on the scores?

She may not, or they may not, know about this thread but they are well aware of the scores not being uploaded correctly. I have emailed her, others have emailed her, maybe it's time someone else does as well?

Depends, what was the shooter doing when he told the rest of you to go tape? If he wasn't the next shooter, the score keeper or r.o. then I'd tell him that I was waiting on him to lead the way or go f'himself. If he was the next shooter and people were walking the stage in front of him, then it was justified. So what was he doing?

Depends if you want to stay all the way in tulsa or in owasso, (where the match is basically held and 10 minutes from the range). I live in Owasso and recommend staying up there. There are several nice hotels in owasso and a couple of them are brand new. We have plenty of places to eat, mexican, burgers, bbq, sushi, chinese, steak, a fantastic pizza/italian place, bricktown brewery etc...if you want stuff to do at night or afternoons then besides movies, eating, resting, bars (theres only 2 in owasso) then Tulsa is your spot and only 20-25 minutes away depending on locale.

The bays will be a mix, the big bays are mostly grass with a few dirt spots here and there. The other medium, long bays are all dirt so bring a mag brush.

Yes that's on my short list of things to buy since I'll be shooting limited most of the year other than ss for a month or two.

The one I have is a little tight but is faster than doing them all one by one. If it's a little tight in the hundo, I drop it in the dillon single case guage, and it usually goes in just fine. But the glock bulged brass sucks to deal with!

There has to be more to it than they got uploaded to the wrong area....because I am the one that emailed HQ to get them moved from where they were uploaded, the LA Section 06, to the major match results page. That only took one email to get them switched and they were changed within an hour. I would like to know as well as many others.

Still hasn't been updated, it doesn't take long to get that sort of thing figured out. Wonder what the real reason is?

Minimum round count is at 309 including chrono. Stage designs are already in the works and there will be plenty of options, opportunities for shooting on the move and some technical short courses! Chad

To USPSA.org not practiscore. Yes, when I emailed them about them they said they forgot to do so, so they uploaded them that day to the section page. I had to email uspsa to have them placed on the major match results page but the fees have yet to be paid and the classifications won't update until they're paid. Not sure what the hold-up is?

That's amazing, hope to make it next year!

To USPSA.org not practiscore.

Does anybody know when the match results will be submitted to USPSA?