slavex

well I know how you feel, sort of. I am not an RO yet, missed the course back in the winter as I was holding a club match. But my area of concern is with RO's that don't speak good English. We've had a number of people get put through the RO course here in BC for whom English is most definitely a second language. I absolutely love these guys, and they are great fun to shoot with, but if they are going to be in charge of telling us what a stage is supposed to be, and can't read the stage copy, or answer questions either because they don't understand enough English to know what we are saying, or don't know how to answer in English good enough for us to understand, that I do have a problem with. As well I have observed more than once, a couple of these RO's failing to call penalties or even stop a competitor when something is going wrong (finger on trigger during mag change, breaking 90 etc) simply because they couldn't get the word "STOP" out. It's not just new RO nerves, they just aren't comfortable enough with the language to be safe RO's (IMHO). They may have passed all the requisite training, and performed well under the eye of their instructors and all that, but they are most definitely failing to perform in the field (as it were) and I think that could and might lead to a dangerous situation.

ok I am an idiot and can't figure out the Java one, and the other one is apparently not a valid .zip file. any help for the dumb canuck guys?

I know how you feel, for 4 years I've run a sunday night indoor IDPA style shoot. Every Sunday night too, not just once a month. We've had upwards of 20 shooters at the shoots, and usually only 3 or 4 guys would actually help out. After we all shot a stage we'd tear down, and rebuild a new one. the more hands the better, but again, usually only 3 or 4 would offer to help, I'd have to yell at the other schmucks to get off their asses and come help us. we'd usually shoot 4 or 5 stages a night, around 100 to 120 rounds, in 3 to 3.5 hours. Lately it's been slow with the regulars finding reasons not to come out, and in fact I've lost a lot of the drive to keep doing it. I've missed maybe 10 or 11 nights in those 4 years and haven't yet found someone to take over for me when I go back to school this fall. Very likely no one will, and it'll go into hibernation till I find a job next year. Either that or it'll be dead for good. It's too bad as we had a lot of fun.

close, but not completely correct! In keeping with the spirit of other questions, I won't tell you what's right or wrong. But I have the 6 movies sitting here beside my computer so it'll be easy for me to let you know when you get it right.

hmmm still no biters? how about someone make a guess at naming the main title of the entire series?

hmmm I didn't think this would be so hard. So lets see, first hint. The main character is a Ronin, and spends the entire 6 movies making his revenge on the people who set him up. Elements from this movie were used in 3 of the characters in the movie, Big Trouble in Little China. that's all for now.

one thing I find totally useless is reading the match copy too much. Not sure how it works down south, but in our match copies we have a diagram of each stage. When I first started IPSC I would study each page religiously until I could almost redraw them from memory. I quickly determined that the only truly useful info in the match copy is the date, start time and round count. Once you get to a match the target layout and stage size is almost always different in some way, and if you are trying to lay out a plan ahead of time it ain't going to work. But once at a match I do try to get around and snoop at each stage to see how they are setup. It's far too often that I will get home and realize a better way of shooting a stage. Hopefully with practice that will improve though.

Unless I am blind there isn't a question for June yet, if it's ok I have one, if not simply ignore this question. In the movie Kill Bill Volume 2, Uma Thurman's character's daughter is watching a movie with Bill (Carradine), the movie is obviously the cut up and re-edited classic Samurai revenge movie ___________. SO the question is, what are the names of the original 6 movies the cut up movie is from? If by Thursday I don't see any answers I'll post some hints.

huh doesn't look anything like I thought it would. not a surprise though.

then you've got my opinion, and I know a few others that share it. If you shoot a calibre that can make major, ie. .40 or .45 then it should make Major, even if you are in Production. Nothing irks me more than the guys that download their .40's to Powderpuff loads whereas us 9mm shooters load to max just to make Minor. But hey that's just me, when I shoot .40 I load it up, when I shoot 9mm I load it up. I don't like these little wimpy "fake" loads.

ENTP 56% for the first 3 and 20 something for the P. big surprise there eh? actually not, I know I am an extrovert, I would think the fangs and piercings would be a good sign of that.

oh great yet another snag for us PD guys in Canada........... (way to rock the boat chickenfarmer!) hey what is going on with the whole XD-40 thing? (hmm new thread maybe?)

thanks Vince, I must have glossed over it if you previously explained that all (sometimes speed reading is not a good thing eh?) I never noticed the "changing engagement angles" bit before either, so that's good to see it in there.

I too realize that any special parts like Ernests Speedbump trigger are a huge no no, but this "Polishing" thing has got me flumuxed (sp) (hell is it even a word?). As Ken states thousands of rounds fired will produce much the same effect as me taking 600 or 800 grit paper to my hammer and sear and making them baby ass smooth, with just the perfect amount of engagement. is this legal? that's where the question seems to stand now. what can we do to our guns, or more specifically what can't we do when it comes to smoothing things out? If I remove the rough spots on my trigger bar is that allowed? etc etc. ieeee what a can o worms.

see this is where problems are gonna start and it's going to be hard to keep people honest. are we going to see people pulling hammers and sears and comparing them to a box stock factory one? if someone is really talented, they can alter the face of a sear and change the engagement surface enough to make the SA trigger totally different from factory, and really improve the initial DA pull, but at the same time, I've owned and played with other pistols the same as mine where the trigger, from the factory, was as good as, or better than some that had been worked on. It all depends on who fitted the gun at the factory, if the machines that cut angles were using new tooling etc etc etc. So many variables, and depending on the mood of the person testing the gun, or the phase the moon is in, it's going to be a mess at a big match. Is there really any way to keep people honest? I don't think so, at least not without having to take steps that would make it impossible to run a match effectively. groan............. I wonder if this will ever get sorted out properly?

ok so is polishing my sear and hammer, and back of the trigger bar on my Beretta allowed or not? all that is being done is that burs, and rough contact areas are being smoothed over.

not trying to hijack here, but why make the rear site on the Beretta narrower? if you are really intent on doing this, I think it would be far simpler to just shape your own rear site out of raw steel, than to mess with a Novak.

First post here, I think another question would be about the Worlds. If and when the Worlds are held in the USA next, what rules are followed? USPSA or IPSC or a strange combo of both? I know a number of shooters from up here in Canada that do shoot in the USA and obviously they shoot following USPSA rules, and vice versa for when Americans come up here. I would expect the Worlds, no matter where they are held to follow IPSC rules. but hey what do I know, I've only been in IPSC for a little over 1.5 years.