Don Springer

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah... I'm gonna have to stick to your daily 15 minute drill. My wife would bury me in the back yard if I brought her that budget even as a JOKE!

Good stuff. I'm getting excited. =D

Barely.

Be prepared to hear what you don't want to hear when you ask for an opinion. So here's mine. I don't have a ton of money and usually have to save for what I want. Because of this I have learned not to buy on price. Is Taurus a servicable brand? Maybe. I'm not willing to find out with my dollar though. While I'm not one of the few making money off this sport my little local matches are just as important to me and I don't want my gun taking a dump because I wanted to skimp. No way in HELL I'm trusting my life to it. How many rounds have you put through your gun? Be honest now.

Yeah the closer you get to the prop and the closer to ground level you get the less likely you are to stack or burry a prop during fine adjustment.

I don't think you can. Instead of dragging I've gotten to where I just cut and paste. It helps to keep items where you want them instead of underground or 30 feet in the air. Just click the prop to highlight, hit shift+delete, put your cursor where you want the prop and hit ctrl+v to drop. In addition if you want to duplicate props quickly you can highlight item hit ctrl+c and this will copy the item then you just need to ctrl+v wherever you want the prop. If you do have to drag an item I've found the closer you get to the surface the more accurate it is. Good luck.

Been using this for about a year. I actually went and built our range to scale and have all the props we have in our barn sitting together behind a berm. It's pretty much made it so anyone in the club can just cut and paste a match together and best of all we know it fits. Very handy tool once you get used to it. There is a learning curve but stick with it and it becomes second nature.

Grats to you and my thanks to him!

Awesome thanks.

Big grats man!

Ditto, I planned on being a walk in as well. I may wanna make other plans for that weekend if your filling up though.

Are you not accepting walk ins then?

Asking questions like this will do it You can get banned for asking how you get banned in IDPA? What is this? Fight Club? What is the first rule of fight club? His name was Robert Palson....

Asking questions like this will do it You can get banned for asking how you get banned in IDPA? What is this? Fight Club?

How the hell does one get banned from IDPA?

Divisions: Open - Multiple optics Tactical - Single magnified scope (max 4x) Red Dot - Non magnified red dot sight Iron - Iron sights Carbine - .30 M1 Carbine (iron sights only / 30 rd max) 308 - All .308 & 7.62x51 caliber

When I was reading up on the 3G I came across this article and video... http://www.shootingtimes.com/2011/08/29/stag-arms-3-gun-competition-rifle/ I noticed the gun dipping in the video and was trying to figure out if it was the comp or him. I decided to order another comp just in case. Now if they'll just SHIP my freaking upper!!!

0 It's what Lorena did to John.

Merlin says lean, we say fall over. Whatever.

Yeah a buddy loaned me the first 3. I couldn't get into 'em. Conversations feel dumbed down but I guess that's because it's a comic book.

Echoing others in that it's a great dry fire tool. It works well enough for live fire practice but I wouldn't trust it at a match.

Oh, and I wasn't saying the dude was gonna leave becasue the match was taking too long over his complaint. I was just saying he was the type of shooter that whines then leaves early anyway. I was just saying he's an undesirable.

I totally agree with your call on the ruling as it is written. My complaint is not the one shooter. My complaint is on that shooter on that stage and the next shooter on the next stage and so on and so forth. How many HOURS (hell, DAYS) have been lost to this kind of shooter through out the history of this sport? I know he probably missed the shot and is grasping at straws, his squad mates know it and YOU know that MOST LIKELY he missed. I think the rules in USPSA and IDPA are geared towards giving the shooter the benefit but at some point it has to stop. At some point the ROs call has to be infallible. At some point the people playing these games have got to be GENTLEMEN. I'm as competitive as the next guy and DO NOT like to lose. But if I blow it... I blow it. I'm not gonna go grab the rule book and try to plead my case out of MY MISTAKE. I'm willing to take RESPONSIBILTY. My problem is I'm new to this and I've taken on the majority of a new clubs growing pains. I'm the one who memorizes the rules. I'm the one that designs the stages. I'm the one that puts on the majority of the matches. I'm the one that has to be a dink and correct other peoples mistakes when someone else takes on a match. I'M the one that is on here reading EVERYTHING (ok over exagerated )that is typed on these forums trying to make sure we put on the best match possible. I'm not looking for a pat on the back or grats. I enjoy what I do and like the rest of you I'm an ego maniac. I don't think anyone puts on as good a match as I do. I don't need anyone to tell me I do a good job. I just want the difficult shooter to stop trying to act like I'm an idiot. Either that or take the responsibility of putting on the shoots so I don't have to put so much time into it. >_< ..|., It's just so frustrating to see MDs and SOs hammered on constantly for perfection and then see people not willing to accept an SOs call of a miss. There is an arbitration process and there really needs to be a penalty for envoking it unnecessarily. You wanna say you hit something you didn't? Fine. If you're proven wrong then you just lost yourself the match. There is way too much crying going on. Much like in baseball I don't believe there should be any crying in the shooting sports... unless you got shot then my bad. /rant

If the CRO gives a calibration, and the popper is set properly, it will fall and the shooter gets a miss, not a reshoot. No I get you. It's some of the other stuff I've read that made my jaw drop. I mean if the steel is not PERFECTLY painted there is NOOOOOOOOOO way we can tell if it was hit or not. I mean the ding on steel isn't enough. We can't trust the RO who is volunteering his time to us and the sport to make a right call BUT... we can trust the RO to inform the Calibration Official of where the shooter took the shot from? So what happens if the poor sucker who is volunteering his time calls over the other poor sucker who's giving up his Sunday to provide everyone a good time and then the shooter and RO can't agree to the spot in which the shot was taken? Do we then call over the Location Determination Committee? At what point does it stop? At what point do we expect shooters to start taking responsibility for their own game and thank the RO for providing help at the match? Instead it's like there are 2 games being played. One is a game of marksmanship, the other is a game of "Know the Rule Book better than the RO and try to twist the rules to my favor when the wheels fall off". The funny thing is the guy who complains and fights one miss for a half hour is the same guy who complains that the matches take to long and ends up shooting and scooting. Now, on top of everything else, I gotta make sure our club gets an automotive painters booth and we keep a full time autobody guy on site to maintain our steel. BTW, I'm in no way challenging your knowledge or interpretation of the rule book. I'm just challenging the rules lawyer mindset. We all know that the odds are the dude flat out missed the shot.

Oh come on. You guys are really gonna give the guy a reshoot for a miss?