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Correct - never used. I ran a small 3-gun series on Ironman rules last year and into this year. Never had more than 14 guys, and Ironman scoring is so fast and simple that i never bothered to set-up PS for those small matches. We have a USPSA group here, but they weren't interested in Nook scoring, so never used. Big thanks to BE forum for allowing our club to list this kit for sale. Repeat: we are a 501 non-profit. Kit is offered at our cost. This is a good kit. It may as well go to good use somewhere. Link with photos and details: http://prsportsmen.com/nook.html

Found this old thread using search. It was a very helpful thread at the time. Thanks to all who contributed. At the time I started the thread, our club bought a gen 1 ipad and 9 new nooks and the bright green Amazon cases linked on page 1 and a cordless HooToo router and an Ankor charger base. I rooted the nooks, installed PS & a calc & a clock & Opera browser. I loaded PS on the blank ipad and networked the lot. I didn't use the DropBox route. I even goofed around long enough to put a custom screensaver image in the /system/media/screensaver and the /system/media/screensaver/authors directories. Long story short: they never got used. I just charged the lot and checked everything - still 100%. Our club is a non-profit. I don't have enough posts to gain access to the BE classifieds. Maybe the mods will permit this post. We'd like to sell the lot to a club who will use them, just to recover our purchase price and no more. Funds payable to PRSC (non-profit!). If the mods allow this, and if anyone is interested, pm me and I will email you full info. DS

Are Nook NST's still available anywhere, or has the supply dried up? Are Nook NST's still popular anywhere, or have people found better platforms? Thx.

Tree bark. Funny! Thanks to all! This is great information. I guess dust and water drops will be a problem regardless of which tablet is used. There is a large consensus (here and other threads) that an ipad is better than a nook for the master. We really appreciate the feedback. Best, Dave

I have some general PS questions. Small club in a rural area, techie-people are the minority, small budget. Most matches have 35 shooters, but we may have an 11-bay Sectional every third year or so. We have a few guys who want to go PS. The remainder are impartial. No internet at our range, but we can use a portable router to create a range network. After doing some reading, my impression is that the NST offers the best combination of price, daylight readability, and battery life. Discontinued but still available. Easy to root(-n-score-it). Until the android upload capabilities are fleshed out, we can synch to an old ios device for uploading scores. Etc. If we want to be serious about establishing full PS capability, we'll need 18 NST devices: 11 slaves, 1 master, and 6 long-term backup units (purchased now because they are available now and importantly, because they are cheap now). We'll also need a portable router and a used ios device. We are discussing various perspectives: Does USPSA require paper back-up scoring at major matches that use PS? Do most PS clubs routinely run paper back-up? After the match, do stats officers verify device scores with paper scoresheets before uploading to USPSA? What percentage of USPSA clubs are currently running PS? Does anyone know? My perception after reading is that USPSA and PS are wholly separate entities. Correct? There is a belief here that USPSA will eventually require clubs to score matches with PS. Is that correct? If so, it seems unwise. USPSA receives scores in USPSA format. How the scores are collected and compiled is irrelevant. Am I missing something? My perception is that there are no other tablets or readers available in the $55 range that match the NST's proven features: durability, readability, heat tolerance and battery life. Have I overlooked any? Pros (PS on NST): Auto-fill during match registration, Eliminates hand-entering scores after match, Faster delivery of scores after match, Cool factor. Cons: Expensive compared to paper, Requires fleet root & set-up, Requires training of RO's, Electronics will fail. Is it possible to effectively run PS at a match on personal phones of appointed shooters? Does anyone do this? If you network personal phones to a range master device on a range router, are there security or privacy issues? Any workaround? A week ago, I knew nothing about PS. The club asked me to look into it, so I did some reading. Thanks in advance for any answers you can provide. This will help us arrive at a decision.

Ray, this isn't what you want. I pointed out a few months ago that we had a potential problem. Rather than address it, we've argued whether it's a problem. The height of the south-facing sidewall of each bay is as follows: Bay 1 - 6' 9". Bay 2 - 7' 4". Bay 3 - 7' 4". Bay 4 - 7' 4". Bay 5 - 8' 6". You were the number 1 person involved in construction of these bays. You are the MD who is conducting a match in these bays 2 days from now. There is a public highway and a BLM OHV park within range of pistol and rifle bullets fired over the berm in a southward direction. You cannot control when or where AD's occur, but you can control what you do to stop them or to mitigate risk to nearby facilities. You like to fight Ray, but you have nothing to hang your hat on here. You can post all you want to and say anything you want, but you only have one out of five sidewalls that reaches 8 feet in height. One is actually less than 7 feet. I suggest you go get some advice and can it. And print away my friend. The more people in our club who see this, the better. Unfortunately, the more people outside our club who watch us air our dirty laundry, the greater the chance that this whole thing snowballs out of control.

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This thread surprised me in the direction it took. It won't benefit my club. We will get the NRA consult, plus perhaps others. The outcome is predictable. I was just looking for a cleaner, quicker solution. Didn't work out. My club and the shooting sports in my state will not benefit if someone feels the need to quote all my original content and preserve it here. I asked a mod to delete the thread, but he declined. I'm deleting my posts and moving on. Thanks.

Hey - thanks for posting this info!

Thanks to all for the feedback. Mark, thanks for the excellent suggestions and generous offer. I will inform the officers of your offer and contact you soon if we go that way. To be honest, we have excellent internal resources (multiple NRA certs, NROI RO's, etc). This was just a curious event where priorities seemed to temporarily jumble. Between the feedback here and our own resources, I suspect we'll move beyond this fairly quickly. Thanks again to all. Still interested in anecdotal over-the-berm or ricochet experiences if anyone cares to share. Kevin, thanks for the addtl info. Dave