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try code3tactical.com.
My voodoo bag has worked great for 1.5 yrs. it seems very well made, although very heavy. no signs of falling apart. 24" benelli fits fine.
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Stages look great!
Since some will know the answers, can we all know the max distance for rifle shots in Pro? max slug distance?
Also, can we get an idea as to how the clay throwers work? Looks like a trap-like thrower. will they fly out basically in front of the shooter, like trap? will they fly one after the other, doubles, at random or what?
Thanks for great stages!
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I will echo Tennessee, "Patron State of Shooting Stuff," and Knoxville in particular. Nearby Oak Ridge Sportsman Association is a great facility - Action Pistol Range with 8 bays, USPSA, IDPA,Steel Challenge and 3-gun matches every month, skeet and trap facilities, 1000 yard hi-power range, and close enough to other Area/State matches.
+1 on East TN and the Knoxville/Oak Ridge area. Lots of Chiropractors around here, however.
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What can/should be done to shorten the length of pull on a supernova? I feel reallly stretched out on mine. Part of it may be geting my left/weakhand grip right.
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Is there any info available on distances for slugs and buck?
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Just saw the stages - screwing in my improved modified choke now...
Looks like it's going to be a blast!
You think? I can't tell the distances well enough to say Light Mod won't do. My IM has never been used.
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Stages look great. Some questions:
1. the targets that appear to be steel plates on low stands - What size & weight? Anybody have a photo or description of what they are?
2. What happens if you shoot a bird target with buckshot?
3. I would assume that if you shoot a paper buck target with bird, you're just wasting time and ammo. Correct?
4. Will paper slug targets be 1 A zone hit or 2 anywhere on paper to neutralize? or what?
5. Same question for buckshot. How many pellets (and where) will be required to neutralize?
1. 90 percent of the steel knockdowns are 4"x6" square plates
2. It will be a procedural
3. It will be a procedural
4. 1 A zone or 2 anywhere on paper and 2 on steel
5. 2 pellets in the A zone/ +2.5 for C zone and +5 for D zone
Thanks. Are the circles on tall posts clays or small round steel?
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Stages look great. Some questions:
1. the targets that appear to be steel plates on low stands - What size & weight? Anybody have a photo or description of what they are?
2. What happens if you shoot a bird target with buckshot?
3. I would assume that if you shoot a paper buck target with bird, you're just wasting time and ammo. Correct?
4. Will paper slug targets be 1 A zone hit or 2 anywhere on paper to neutralize? or what?
5. Same question for buckshot. How many pellets (and where) will be required to neutralize?
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OK, this sounds like a stupid question, but how do you measure a hi cap sti/svi mag to determine whether 126, 140, 170 etc? From the bottom of the mag body to what? tallest point?
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I am 3rd on the pro wait list and have been since the beginning. I heard that we need to wait unitl after Area 6 for Linda to get the lists caught up.
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Very well. I am committed. I am a beliver. Pass the grape juice.
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I have just decided that I WILL learn this skill after years of shooting without it.
Is there some good video of what "seeing signts lift" actually looks like through the eye (as opposed to the camera), taking into account various things - especially eye blinking?
Occasionally I see the sights lift but usually I do not. I have experienced the "photo" effect of very dim lighting at an indoor range. I have also watched the front sight lift (up and to the right) while shooting an MP-5 on full auto. But I have a hard time remembering just what it is I am looking for while shooting.
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I sent in some course designs that should be a bit of fun for those coming to shoot, look forward to another good weekend at the Rock!
Hey Jeff: I wish you would post those - or send them to me - we are planning a shotgun match in Oak Ridge TN on March 31. 6 stages on USPSA style bays is the plan. We now have a whole bunch of those little steel plates w/stands like you used at Rockcastle. Come up and shoot with us. I think I can get Todd Seigmund and James Clayton to entertain you.
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At our range in Oak Ridge TN we got pretty lax at the monthly 3 gun match over a period of time. maybe because the experienced shooters would squad together and were overly confident in each other. A guy who had not shot with us for a while showed up and called us out. He was right and everyone responded appropriately. But I have to give the guy credit - he ddn't mince words and spoke out. Not always easy to do.
However, even at the worse, sweeping someone with a flagged long gun was not acceptable, and never should be.
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I ordered the 15" Alpha rail over a month ago from Troy. Troy is now shipping part of my order w/o the rail. Can't get info on what is the problem. At least they haven't charged my card for the rail.
Update from Troy: backordered until 3/23/12.
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I ordered the 15" Alpha rail over a month ago from Troy. Troy is now shipping part of my order w/o the rail. Can't get info on what is the problem. At least they haven't charged my card for the rail.
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Light Mod, most of the time. Diffuser works great on clays. Not great on steel unless very close and not too heavy. paint your steel and then shoot it with various chokes, loads and distances. see if it dusts the paint off or just peppers it. This is of course a form of "patterning," but you dont need a big piece of paper with pictures of ducks or turkeys on it.
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Now you know that the shot size, shot weight, velocity, choke (or lack thereof), distance from the target, size/weight/configuration of the target and barrel length all factor in as to whether you knock down a plate. And busting a clay is very different - much more forgiving. It all boils down to mass and velocity. It is helpful for me in practice to paint steel and notice whether I am dusting all the paint off or just peppering the plate. Not just seeing if it goes down. The pattern will indicate how close to a center punch you need to score a hit. and that indicates how fast you can shoot at that distance or with that set up.
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Our stage diagram just had 7 rows of 3 on each side of an aisle and 3 across the back.
You started facing up range in a chair with your hands on the yoke of the "plane". On the start signal, you turned and retrieved your pistol from the safe by the door and then entered the cabin through the door (after opening it). We used a lot of baby no-shoots in "arms" and a couple of "baby bad guys".
You had to stay in the aisle and there were some no-shoots to force you to move down a way!
We used regular target stands and did dig up the ground where the "seats" were, so the bullets wouldn't ricochet.
The rows were about 3 ft apart, so if you did shoot them from the aisle from the end of each row you would miss the row behind. We made some taller and shorter, but we crammed them in like sardines like they do on real planes!
The "passengers" started about 5 feet from the doorway.
I think back, and there were only 22 shoot targets, with more than 22 no-shoots! The little baby targets helped with both no shoots and shoot targets!
Stage 6 - All Holes Count - Pistol
22 paper targets
Start position: sitting in pilot's seat, hands on yoke, pistol in box by door.
Retrieve pistol, proceed through door and shoot them as you see them.
We thought about putting a "foodservice cart" in the aisle that you would have to push along, but that didn't work out so good on the dirt! You ended up knocking off a couple passengers with the cart! So, it didn't show up in the actual match!
Hope that helps! It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot of fun!
Denise
P.S. That was the same year you started the shotgun/pistol stage in the outhouse with your overalls around your ankles and you had to pull them up over one shoulder, grab your shotgun out of the corner and get out of the outhouse before you started shooting bad guys! Oh yeah!!! AND it was the same year, you shot all three guns right shoulder, and left shoulder...rifle through low ports out to 300 yards! It was an evil year!
Thanks, Denise. Tha sounds like what I was thinking. Great idea on the no-shoot babies. Sounds like a plan.
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I am looking for something wide and not very deep or tall. so I can see and access long guns. I already have another safe for handguns, etc. You can pack a lot of rifles in most safes, but getting to the one in the back is a pain. any recommendations?
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We had a skinny berm for Johnson 3-Gun first year, so we did an airplane stage and ALL HOLES Counted!
Know your target and what's behind it...
You could dip down and get 3 or 4 bad guys at once, but you usually got a no-shoot also!!!! It was a conundrum.
Worse part of the stage is you were shooting down into hard earth, so we had to con some poor RO into basically rototilling the whole area to not have the bullets bounce!
It's always a possibility! Count all the holes, good or bad!!!
Denise
do you have a diagram - or specific tips - on setting that up? I am lazy ... dont want to re-invent the wheel if someone has one that rolls well. I like the "all holes count" rule.
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I like this stage. There is nothing wrong (and several things right) with having a straight froward 1 gun stage, especially if it involves both up-close fast rifle and long-range rifle. the only problem i see with this is the shoot-thru problem. Although it may violate some USPSA rule, I would not paint the bodies black to indicate hard cover for the reason you state. The big brown blur is part of the problem to solve.
I am trying to come up with a shoot-thru solution to have a good multiple hostages and terrorists on a bus/train/plane scenario.
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I applied for pro and am w/in the first second. got waitlisted for something. dont know what.
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My wife thinks it is really funny how a bunch of grown men are getting their panties in a wad and texting, emailing, calling and posting about it all over the country. who cares. I'M IN. R U?
Light strikes
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I am not revolver expert, but I enjoy my S&W revos. Today, for the first time, I was getting light primer strikes in my S&W 610 (40 cal). 2 kinds of ammo, so I do not believe it was a bad batch of primers. Also, some of the pin indentions were obviously light. However, this only happened at the end of the session, and always after a reload. Not on the first moon clip of a string. Always when the gun was pretty hot. Can heat affect the spring this way? or the firing pin?