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Glen

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  1. How about using the concept of "warning shots" for long range targets. A legitimate target beyond the edge of the regular playing surface merits at least a warning shot and a reward if actually hit. You must engage it, and pay the time cost for that. There are no miss penalties. You are rewarded for a hit, either minus time or extra points. The minus time reward has to be matched to the estimated time required for a middle of the pack shooter to make the hit so everyone has incentive to make the shot. The major downside to long range targets, or too many of them, is the likelihood of timing out. Comments? Glen
  2. I prefer brilliant yellow targets with a black backer. I like the contrast between the yellow target and the black front sight. We use black garbage bags for the backers. Glen
  3. You have plenty of land, so dirt is readily available. Rent a scraper complete with operator. A scraper (the road construction variety) can build a berm in short order. Glen
  4. There is an unspoken assumption here, that the frame that is still in your hand is "the gun". Most folks would accept that idea probably because the frame has a serial number on it. However, USPSA doesn't have a definition of what constitutes a firearm so you may still get a dispute. Glen
  5. A friend told me about a stage he shot some years ago. There was a long horizontal slot in a barricade that wasn't wide enough to accommodate dot sighted guns in their usual vertical position. You had to turn the gun sideways to run the stage. He was, and still is, an advocate of tube-style dot sights. He said he turned the gun sideways and gripped the tube with his support hand. Sort of a two-handed gangsta style. Apparantly it was the winning way of handling that stage. Did the tube somehow morph into a fore grip? Does it have some non-infringing functions that over-ride its alleged fore-grippiness? Glen
  6. 5.1.10 prohibits fore grips on handguns. It bans a thing, not a function. Don't conflate the two. Your very own quote shows that you are concerned about a function, rather than a thing. Section 5 concerns competitor equipment, not gun handling. That's elsewhere. Glen
  7. I completely agree with trapr for 3-gun. For hangun only, I like stages that can be shot in several different, yet equally challenging ways. Glen
  8. Got $100, or the local max match fee? Willing to risk it in front of an arb committee? This IMHO has the potential to get ugly quickly --- at what point are you handling the gun? I'd argue that if the trigger's accessible, and all the parts needed to make it fire are in the bag, then you ought to be in the safety area.... What do you gain by not going there? Wow, indeed. Not what I expected as a response. I would prefer a rules-based reply, thank you. The fifth sentence qualifies. You said, "This IMHO has the potential to get ugly quickly ---". Do you mean in terms of this forum, or of the rules as they now stand, or something else? Should I drop this question? Glen
  9. This has come up before on this forum. The ruling was no dropped gun and no breaking the 180. Once the barrel and slide fall off, your gun no longer has a muzzle. Which brings up a thread drift. If you have a plastic bag full of parts, ie. barrel, slide, ... frame, can you root through it without being accused of handling a firearm outside the safe area? Are some parts more "forbidden" than others? In particular, is a frame a gun under our rules? Glen
  10. I am righthanded but left-eye dominant. I changed to lefty for shooting after slightly more than a year of IPSC. It wasn't hard and was the right thing for me to do. I would suggest changing and see how it goes. Probably the best part would be not having to unlearn bad habits. You can consciously burn in good ones. Glen
  11. Nope How do match officials know if the popper was hit in the calibration zone? Same as right now, if they want to look. Rule 4.3.1.7 mandates the painting of poppers after each shooter. An exemption for level 1 matches exists (4.3.1.7.1) but that would be removed. Glen
  12. I don't think we need to concern ourselves with popper desgn, just how to proceed when they fail to perform according to specifications. A popper either falls or it doesn't. When it doesn't fall from a hit in the calibration zone, we refuse to call it a failure. Instead we bring out the calibration gun and shoot it again. We have, I think, the unwarranted belief that the result of this shot provides any information on the state of the popper before the competitor shot it once, twice , or however many times. I would make the assumption that the competitor's shot was at least as powerful as the calibration shot, and the popper failed to recognize that power. I would remove 4.3.1.7.1. I missed the level 1 exemption. Mea Culpa. Spray paint is cheap. Glen
  13. Here is my take on the popper question. 4.3.1.1 Poppers are approved targets designed to recognize power and must be calibrated as specified in Appendix C. 4.3.1.2 has similar wording for Mini Poppers. Now a popper that is shot in the calibration zone and fails to fall has just violated rule 4.3.1.1. It has, in fact, NOT recognized power. The result is Range Equipment Failure and a mandated reshoot under 4.6.1 and 4.6.2. It may well have been calibrated previously, but that has been demonstrated not to be true now. The proposed solution: In 4.3.1.5 eliminate the sentence "Scoring Poppers which fail to fall ...". In 4.3.1.6 eliminate the phrases "Unlike Poppers," and "or calibration challenges". Eliminate Appendix C1.6 and C1.7 An alleged drawback to the above is someone shooting sub-minor and gets an undeserved reshoot. The chrono stage will demonstrate that he is shooting for no-score. Another is "Did he hit it in the calibration zone?" Rule 4.3.1.7 mandates the re-painting of poppers, so the hit location should be clear. Otherwise we should eliminate the phrase "designed to recognize power" in 4.3.1.1 and 4.3.1.2 as this is clearly not true under the present regime. Glen
  14. I picked 300 as the maximum I want. For the long-range advocates ... How many iron-sight guys can make the shot before timing out? Do you hold a separate match just for them? (/grumpy) I prefer something similar to the IPSC distance balance and let a well-constructed COF sort things out. Glen
  15. I can't either. Anyway, 10.5.3.2 has a caveat stating "except where the firearm is placed at a greater distance, under the supervision of a Range Officer, in order to comply with a start position". This the case under discussion. Basically all he can be charged with is "delay of game". There is no penalty for this in USPSA except a good scolding. There is no safety violation here. The RO is required to oversee the firearm since it is, by design, not in the possession of the competitor. If the competitor runs away, the RO just needs to continue doing what he is already doing. Glen Beaten to it but I'll post it anyway.
  16. I would like to widen this discussion a bit. A lefthanded revolver shooter wearing a glove to prevent being burned by the forcing cone. What's the call? I shoot lefthanded but I use heavy bandaging tape for the purpose. Looks like I have a damaged hand. Again, what's the call? Glen
  17. In a posting from 2004, Anderson, Mink, and Miguez shot Mini-Mart in the same match. Three different divisions. Is gaming the mag slower? Miguez and Mink put the mag on the tabletop on the start. Anderson didn't. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12680 Glen
  18. If this did occur, how would it be handled? Would he be continuously watched to ensure compliance? Also, in the other direction, consider a shooter who wants to shoot his Limited gun in Open. He declares Open and adjusts his equipment accordingly. The match gets underway with the expectation that enough people will show up for Open to be viable. This doesn't happen so Open is not available, yet he has already shot one or more stages. What happens now? Or will this situation never ever happen anywhere? Glen
  19. Brake and break. Sight, site, and cite. Pick the right ones on this forum. I don't want to guess the spelling when I do a search. Glen
  20. According to the above analysis, the answer is "yes". In the mouth violates the "distance from the torso" and the "behind the hipbone" criteria for the placement of magazines. Off to Open we go. Same should be true if the Production shooter held the spare mag in his hand. Let's expand this question to Open shooters as well. The mag in mouth retention violates the placement rules for Open. Is the open shooter now out of the match because there is no way of applying a penalty to him (he's already in Open) or does he get a free pass? And now my opinion ... I always understood that you had to be in compliance with the division requirements and the WSB prior to the start signal, failing which the RO could not start you. After the start signal it is freestyle subject to the WSB. Glen So if the division requirements and the WSB are in conflict, what happens then? Gary The WSB trumps the division requirements. For instance, the WSB says the gun starts on the table. The division requirements say in the holster. The WSB says the mags start on the table. The division requirements say on the belt. Etc. Each of these examples has the WSB overturning the division requirements and no one questions it. The stage is shot according to the WSB. Has everyone been doing it wrong? The "de jure" rules don't give priority to the WSB over the division requirements, but the "de facto" rules of our sport have done exactly that. Glen
  21. According to the above analysis, the answer is "yes". In the mouth violates the "distance from the torso" and the "behind the hipbone" criteria for the placement of magazines. Off to Open we go. Same should be true if the Production shooter held the spare mag in his hand. Let's expand this question to Open shooters as well. The mag in mouth retention violates the placement rules for Open. Is the open shooter now out of the match because there is no way of applying a penalty to him (he's already in Open) or does he get a free pass? And now my opinion ... I always understood that you had to be in compliance with the division requirements and the WSB prior to the start signal, failing which the RO could not start you. After the start signal it is freestyle subject to the WSB. Glen
  22. That move would indicate a transfer to Open..... I don't believe that would be the case. The WSB that specifies a table (or other) placement for magazines, instead of the mandated mag pouch, trumps the division magazine placement rules. Mags on the table (or elsewhere) makes everyone, even open shooters, violate the mag placement rules in the appendices. Stuffing a magazine in a pouch does not undo that violation. Glen
  23. so why can you lock and unlock a speed holster at the line? Because it's not a strap. Usually some sort of lever. It's a loophole. Glen
  24. An alternative strap method, which I've seen used, is to have a strap affixed to the belt (usually via a sliding belt loop) with a good quality snap fastener on it. The strap goes arround the pistol grip and snaps to itself. At the Make Ready, the strap is unfastened. (Think a belt loop with a long tail on it and a snap fastener.) This does not violate 5.2.5.3 as the strap is not attached to the holster. Glen
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