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Next squad should ABSOLUTELY not be walking the stage! On-deck shooter only. Proper etiquette would be to stay out of the way completely. Good sportsmanship would be to help out pasting and resetting steel so that the stage moves faster.

Except that CMCalc hasn't been updated with the latest classifiers. You're better off going to classifiercalc.com

It's a small club with limited certified RO's. There are no RO's assigned to a stage. They travel with the squad and shoot with them. The other RO may have been on-deck or may have just shot, and might not have been available at that moment.

I really like "gill" or "rib-cage" style cuts.

No. I think if your current scores average above 40%, you should go to C, even if you don't have 8 scores.

Also more weight swinging around when you transition between targets. 6 of 1, half dozen of the other.

I think that beyond a certain point, you're not gaining anything more and are actually losing other advantages. Longer barrels may give you more velocity and more sight radius, but they are slower to transition. I don't think anything beyond a 6" gun is really worth pursuing.

Initial classification can be confusing. 4 or more gets you classified. They will only use the best 4 out of the most recent 6. It doesn't matter if you only have 4, or if you have 60. They still are only going to use the BEST 4 out of the most RECENT 6. Less than 4, then you're still unclassified. After that, they use the best 6 out of the most recent 8.

I just used the original STI plastic spacers and held them in place with some high-strength double-sided tape that we have here in our shop at work. (Used for attaching large engraved signs onto industrial control panels, etc.) More than three years and they're still in there, and haven't moved.

I was surprised that Darren Mulford dropped out with one stage left to shoot. One less Centerfire Open shooter between me and Jeff Matsche. (Although I was actually beating Darren anyway. He must have been having a bad day.) Now all I have to do is actually catch Jeff.

I don't see how the RM or the RO staff were at fault, The safety areas WERE clearly marked! It's just that not EVERY table in EVERY bay was a safety area. They even pointed this out during the shooter meeting. Not sure what is unclear about a big sign that says "SAFETY AREA." If you don't see the sign, then it's NOT a safety area, even if it looks like one. And BTW - Sparta is owned by the state if Illinois, (World Sooting and Recreational Complex), so we work with what is available. They're not going to build safe areas with permanent signs to please one group of shooters who RENTED the range from them.

It was only one match. Sometimes you have great days. Sometimes you don't. It happens to everyone. I always remember the time that Rob Leatham got DQ'd at SS Nationals a few years ago. It was a stage called "Cigar Bar", and it had three plastic culvert pipes set in a wall. You had to shoot through the pipes and pivot them to see all of the targets. Rob backed out of one, caught the muzzle on the pipe, and it stripped the gun from his hand. Instant DQ. So...bad day? Yeah. As bad as Robbie's THAT day? NO!

This wasn't at ARPC in Arnold. MO, was it?

Yes, only 8 shots per target. String 1 - 2/target, reload, 2/target String 2 - 2/target String 3 - 2/target (2x2)+2+2=8 Any extra shot is a procedural, (whether a hit or a miss.) Shooters at your match SHOULD have been penalized per extra shot. Any extra hit on a target is a procedural. You can't shoot 8 at T1 in string 1, then 8 at T2 in string 2, etc., because that is not what the WSB says. That's called "stacking shots." This is also a procedural penalty. Hopefully this answers everything.

Hey, don't feel bad. I until this weekend. I hadn't really shot Limited since I initially classified about about 4 years ago, and I still have 4 of those original classifiers that count toward my average, even though it's current;y a C and the two lowest scores that count are a 22% and a 34%. Since I am a C, the 39% that I shot last November, (yeah, it sucked), doesn't replace either the 22% or 34% from my inital classification, because it's below the 40% minimum for C class. Funny how that works, huh? Meanwhile, I switched to Open, and I'm a high B, (72.61%), and close to getting my A card, so... Just try to be consistent. Consistency really is the trick to moving up. In the meantime, beat up on the rest of the D class shooters.

GTG! The rule was meant to prohibit plugs like this, that obviously extend beyond the grip and give an advantage when reloading.

After a member has earned a classification, the classification system will look at the best six unduplicated scores of the most recent eight to evaluate the member’s current classification percentage. So, yes, If your scores go into the system with no further scores being entered into the system before the next classification run, then you will get classified as D. If you manage to shoot more classifiers before the next classification window, (usually around the 15th of the month), then you can still get above 40% if you do well. It doesn't matter for your initial classification if you only shoot 4 classifiers or 40. They are only going to look at the best 4 of the most recent 6. After you are classified, they will use the best 6 of the last 8. After you are classified, if you don't have at least 8 scores yet, (6 of which are better than the 36% you flubbed up on), that means the 36% score is not going to drop out and will still be used to figure your average.

Q-tip and alcohol. I wouldn't use anything that is petroleum based, as it may cloud the diode lens.

No OFFICAL power factor. If it doesn't go down, keep shooting until it does. (At least that's what their webpage says.) No idea what the steel is calibrated for.

2.4 Safety Areas The host organization is responsible for the construction and placement of a sufficient number of Safety Areas for the match.They should be conveniently placed and easily identified with signs. At level II or higher matches, Safety Areas must include a table with the safe direction and boundaries clearly shown. We did that last year at the Illinois Sectional. If you wanted to handle the gun, you had to have BOTH feet inside the boundaries in front of the safety table. One foot out? Sorry, you're DQ'd. I had to DQ someone at the IL Sectional in 2013 at Sparta, because of an issue like this. Sparta has tables at the end of their bays that have roofs over them, and those tables were marked as safe areas on some bays, but not all. I turned around to see a shooter dry firing at one of the tables that was NOT marked as a safe area. Hated to do it, because I know it was confusing, but rules are rules.

1. Larger MOA dot. 2. Fresh battery. 3. Get a dot module cover from Arredondo or Limcat. (They really do work.)

There's no power factor for either, so just shoot whatever makes your gun run and allows you to shoot the best. Personally, I use a 115gr plated bullet with about 5.2gr of 231/HP-38 for my steel loads. The gun runs fine, and I don't have to re-spring between that and my IPSC major loads.

You didn't say what division you are shooting, so this tip may or may not help, but... When a classifier requires a reload, I always remove at least 1 round from my mag to reduce the pressure on the mag spring and make sure that it seats properly when reloading.

My .40 open gun had a ZEV trigger, and it was about 2# with zero take-up. Is it a 1911 trigger? No, but it's about as close as you can get in a Glock. The big thing with those lightened Glock triggers is to make sure that you set your primers all the way in! (DEEP!!) Otherwise, with a lightened striker and spring, you tend to get light strikes and rounds won't go off.

I have to drive 120+ miles one way to shoot at monthly club matches at PASA Park. Another hour or so shouldn't be that much worse.