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IMHO, If the stage description just says "outside the shooting area" as long as you have a foot outside the shooting area you are OK as you have established yourself outside the shooting area. If you fire a shot before you establish yourself inside the shooting area you get a procedural using 10.2.1. That is why normally you see, something like outside the shooting area toes or heels touching marks. Gamers gonna game so start positions have to be written well. Fault Line .........................A physical ground reference line in a course of fire which defines the limit(s) of the shooting area. 10.2.1 A competitor who fires shots while any part of their body is touching the ground or while stepping on an object beyond a Shooting Box or a Fault Line, or who gains support or stability through contact with an object which is wholly beyond and not attached to a Shooting Box or Fault Line, will receive one procedural penalty for each occurrence. However, if the competitor has gained a significant advantage on any target(s) while faulting, the competitor may instead be assessed one procedural penalty for each shot fired at the subject target(s) while faulting. No penalty is assessed if a competitor does not fire any shots while faulting, providing doing so does not violate (2.2.1.5 or 3.2.6) Shots fired after completely (both feet out and touching the ground) leaving a shooting area will be penalized one penalty per shot until the competitor establishes a presence in a new shooting area with at least one foot on the ground inside the shooting area.

Yep, I have called a couple of shooters for that but every time it was after they took their hand off the gun. To be clear, I don't think its a good practice to holster the gun with the safety off. On the PCC side I don't think we have a safety issue as the gun is pointed downrange and is not considered inert as it is in a holster. I can stop the shooter for doing some other unsafe thing. I would not start a shooter with the safety off on a PCC but I don't think that should be a DQ.

Enjoy the CO nats. Thanks for giving me a way to see the big matches I can't get to.

A bit too long and not always true. There are times I barely see my gun between me and the target, there are times when all I see is the top of the sight lined up with the back sight. It is very target dependent. For me there needs to be a point when I understand I have the stage down give in to it. At that point I don't think about the stage anymore. After MR and before AYR I repeat "call your shots" to myself while getting ready. After Standby, I find something to visually focus on, empty my mind and listen for the beginning of the beep. After the beep I try to just watch what is happening. Can't do it all the time but........

The more detail the better. When I get done with a stage I try and go back and visualize it again while I am loading mags. Then I get to create the movie with real data. I think it is helping me learn to visualize better.

As an RO I am thinking about safety. I want to see an empty gun. It is pretty rare I have to ask to see an empty gun as I watch the gun very closely but if I don't see it empty, I ask. Twice I have found a round in the chamber. That is less than 1 in a thousand, but still it can happen. I saved the two shooters from a trip to DQ and possibly saved someone from getting hurt. Take some time and watch how people drop the hammer. Point the gun at the ground at a shallow angle and let one loose, it has a good chance of skipping out of the berm. Just a hint, point the gun at the berm and pull the trigger.

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At SS Nationals there was a stage with a different number of shots per target so my guess is it's OK. This is from the stage brief. On the start signal draw and engage T1 with only one round, either T2 or T3 with only 2 rounds and T4 with only three rounds, make a mandatory reload and reengage T1 with only one round either T2 or T3, which ever one was not previously engaged with only 2 rounds and T4 with only 3 rounds. Target engagement order is the shooters choice, but T2 and T3 are only allowed to be engaged once. All rounds to be fired from within the faultlines. Best 2 on T1, T2, T3 and Best 6 on T4.

Some extra attention to gun handling skills is in order. Guy showed up shooting PCC at a local. I was interested to see him run it. On his second stage he was handing his case to someone and went over the top of his gun and I had to DQ him. Sucked for him, sucked for me.

A, No its a malfunction and that doesn't get you a stop unless its safety related. B, That is a good question. Talk about unintended consequences of a rule. My guess is no but by the rule you have to have an optic so there needs to be clarification. C, Not good at ???

That's all voodoo. Try this: http://www.travis-tomasie.com/hit-factors-and-uspsa-ipsc-scoring.html Nice!

This is the kind of problem that can happen with electronic scoring. Yep its only about 1% of the issues we had when we did it on paper. It is not a scoring issue, its a report issue. I wonder how many times the person keying scores the day after the event fat fingered a score? 50 shooters, 5 stages, 250 scores, normal data entry error rate of about 2% gives me 5+- per match. Wonder how many times the person putting it on paper made their 4's look like 9's or 7's look like 1's or forgot to write down the time, or did not put in the steel, or....... We are so much better off now, and the Practiscore team will get this report issue fixed. Hit the donate button once and a while and toss in $5 to help offset all the cost of this wonderfulness.

For a popper at a level 1 we get someone with minor power factor ammo to shoot the popper from the same spot the shooter shot it from and hit it in the scoring zone. If it goes down, then you score the stage as shot, if not is is a reshoot. There are some more rules about what to do if it misses etc. LII and up the RM has special low power ammo but the idea is the same. If it goes down score as shot, if not reshoot.

Unless it's stage points (his (HF / Top HF)* possible points) I have no idea.

Kind of depends on what you call significant, and what the stage looked like. I have seen stages where reloading from my belt could save me 2+ seconds. What if it only saved him 1 second. I have seen matches won or lost by less than that so isn't it significant?

Saw Chris Tillley fall at SC state one year. He was running on the 90 plants his feet, they don't stick, he ends up in the air feet almost as high as his head. In the air he turns the gun square down range, lands on his ass, pops back up instantly and finishes the stage. He still beat my time but it was fun to watch. Stop can be used for a lot of things but not just a fall.

You could find a way into production for that, $500 for the gun and $400 for the gear +- Not going to have the best production or PCC setup but.... PCC looks to be a nice distraction from pistol shooting. I have never shot anything with a dot so I have a learning curve on the way.

You're right, I want a 25mm division for my BFV. Talk to your AD, it could happen

Blade tech by itself moves too much. Boss hanger makes it much better. Probably any quality holster on the boss hanger will work well.

Go shoot some IPSC and you will wish for the USPSA prone stages. Those guys are brutal. I am in my late 50's and I don't mind whatever they throw at me as long as it can be done safely.

The only time you won't be able to have 10+1 is on unloaded starts. Not sure I understand the reload question but in general USPSA is freestyle. You can do pretty much anything you want in the stage as long as you don't break one of the safety or procedural rules.

Well, just to close the loop. Ordered a 16" with the 15.5" Rapid Config hand guard, TI7 stock and MAID grip. I have a friend that shoots open with a deltapoint pro and I have seen it and like it so that is what is going on the top. The suppressor I have coming is only +- 5" so I still think the gun will be manageable inside and it is just not worth the hassle to try and do the 14.5" Thanks again for the help in making up my mind. Now just 8 weeks +- to get the gun and who knows how long to get the suppressor.

Cool, thanks for the help guys.

Ok point taken, but I still don't want to have to remember to fill out paperwork to travel to matches. I live in Asheville NC. Not a whole lot of ranges much less ranges with cool toys to play with.

I am a USPSA B class pistol shooter that has shot some rifle and shotgun but I know very little about rifles. I have three uses for a 9mm carbine. Use #1 is to have in the house as my primary home defense with a can on it. I will have a Silencerco Omega 9k in a few months (I hope). From reading things I don't think I want to pin and weld it on and I don't want to have to ask permission to travel with it, so I am pretty settled on a 16" barrel. Use #2 is to have something quiet to shoot varmints on my property. I have way to many raccoons, ground hogs, coyotes, etc running around. All should be 100 yards or less. Use #3 is to shoot USPSA PCC and some local 3 gun in the winter just because it sounds like fun and I would like to learn how to shoot a rifle. JP offers multiple hand guards that all look about the same to me. I have no idea which one to pick and most are the same price. Rapid Configuration or Signature, then length of 7", 9.25", 12.5" or 15.5" Other than a light and an optic I have no idea what other stuff I would put on it. I need to buy an optic for it and I am unsure about the best choice. I would like to keep the budget for the optic in the < $500 range. Is it worth the $200 to go to the Machined Upper Receiver over the forged one? There are several options on stocks and grips. Any advice as to a good choice on those would help too. Any other options my use needs? Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.