Vlad

I've made a policy to not do business with places that charge absurd shipping, and midway is on that list. I only make exceptions for exclusive items or thing that are so expensive, shipping is an afterthought. For example I picked up a Geiselle Super Dynamic from them but they were the only ones selling it and shipping of $10 on a $200+ item I'm ok with.

Happy day dude.

Nope.

The problem is that you asked "Should I buy a Ford or a Yugo?" instead of the "Should I buy a Ford of a Chevy?" If you had asked "Should I buy a Glock or an S&W M&P" then we would be looking roughly at the same price and quality gun, so we could have a more coherent argument then "Sigma? Yuk!".

Actually that works just fine. I can juggle my mags down range .. maybe I can toss them really high up in the air, shoot 4 targets and move into position to catch them. I see a new event coming combining the best of action shooting and flaming baton twirling.

I've gone through similar issues not that long ago. First question ask is are the side berms unsafe? Are they too low, too thin, etc. If they are then they are right BUT then they should fix them because even if you don't shoot them during matches it doesn't mean a random shooter won't shoot them when there is no one to watch them possibly injuring someone in the next pit. If they are willing to say that the side berms are unsafe for you to shoot and not fix them then I point out to them that they may have some liability issues if someone gets hurt because they just stated, in writing that the range is unsafe and refused to fix it. If you can't use targets where the rounds impact the ground (such as poppers) you should ask them to pay for them changing the rules buy purchasing enough tall plate stands and plates to replace targets you can no longer use. Your equipment was purchased in good faith assuming the existing rules and now their change of rules makes the equipment partially useless. Ask them to pony up the cash to fix the problem. The most useful but hardest solution would be to run for the board. One of the clubs I belong to was in danger of being taken over by bullseye and high-power shooters with the same kind of "issues" and we just had the steel/uspsa/idpa shooters get together and at the next election we changed the composition of the board in our favor. Our USPSA match director is now the club president.

So .. this is idiotic. It is almost like USPSA wants people to throw their hands up in the air and shoot something that is not called USPSA. Can of worms my ass, this is the crude oil carrier of worms. It basically says I can't reload on the move, I can't take a strong hand only shot as I grab my reload mag, etc. I am as well going to contact my area director and formally request the start of proceedings to replace DNROI with our thanks for his service over the years.

Yesterday I had this exact problem at NY State rifle match. I zero'ed the first stage. Basically my match was done. However that gave me the freedom to shoot the match all out, no misgivings, no second guessing about riskier strategies, taking shots from distances and angles I might have otherwise avoided to be safer. I had a GREAT match the rest of day. It was like removing a rev limiter on your car. Run the rest of the match at full power just to see what you can do, it is a useful learning experience.

Yeah but then you will be celebrating May Day and Bolsheviks everywhere will be chuckling. Edited to add: on the other hand it is also Law Day which I find strangely appropriate.

If we don't want guns to get better and better guns to be proven effective in competition, then we should tone down the rules so black powder revolvers don't get disadvantaged in production. See how little sense that makes? They don't like my kind over there, and I've stop caring enough to bother once they moved to become and airsoft league.

Well there's your problem. How about we allow the guns most suited to the game to actually win. Might as well designate some random firearm the "stock" firearm and every one has to shoot that. No more "field" problem.

Here you go.

I think the issue is not tube lengths but arm lengths. If you put a 15" tube on a 18" barrel (or a 13" tube on a 16" barrel) You can reach pretty far out there but you won't be tempted to wave your hand too close to the muzzle. With a 12" barrel your left arm is going to want all the space it can get and wonder close to the comp. Hand stops, noveske's oddball barricade grabber, whatever will stop your hand reliably.

I haven't shot a single stack gun in a match in years, but I did yesterday and its like discovering that your high school sweetheart is still single, even hotter, and has been waiting for you call her. I haven't had this much fun shooting a pistol match in quite some time. After shooting ever stage I was getting that 10 year old kid urge of "Can we go again? Can we? Can we?" And to think that I ended up shooting it because I didn't have time to load ammo for my production gun. I think I'm switching divisions for a bit.

When you pick up the timer to run your squad mates, you are holding someone's life in your hand. Get your head on straight and make sure your only job is to make sure all safety rules are followed. The shooter may be your buddy, you might have known him forever, but that doesn't mean you give him breaks when he screws up. It mostly certainly does not mean that you don't pay attention if did or did not unload his handgun at the end of stage. It absolutely does not mean that just because an RO can't be DQ'ed for fracking up that he doesn't have a moral responsibility to make sure that the shooter does not walk away from the firing line with a loaded gun he doesn't even know is loaded, and to only later find out about it at the safe table as a round is ejected from the gun and lands on said table. What if the shooter distracted enough to not unload his gun, just bags it and takes home, and hurts someone while "cleaning" their gun, how would you feel then? Oh yeah, and just because the shooter you failed is your buddy, it doesn't mean you argue with the (fuming) match director when your buddy gets DQ'ed for your failure. The rule book may place the ultimate responsibility on the shooter, but if you pick up that timer stay awake and get your shit together.

I have a new signature in support of this thread.

I asked NROI months ago, never received an answer. I passed the same question to my Area director, no answer yet.

I've gone the exact opposite way. I carry the LEAST amount of gear possible. Gun holstered, mags on belt. and all I drag around is a Maxpedition Jumbo Versipack which despite the "JUMBO" part is not all that large or heavy. It can hold a few boxes of ammo, water, gun oil, small bits like that and weights very little. The big range bag of crap stays in car and more and more at home.

I like the BCM one, not only is the latch arrangement stronger, the whole thing is stronger. Hold on in your hand next to a standard one and you'll realize it is beefier and better built by quite a bit.

Except they aren't, the rule only applies to Limited in 3gun, not limited in Rifle only, unless they've gotten around to fix that.

You have basically free labor, hand them some paint cans and point them at the target stack. In my experience spray paint is the only way to go.

In 15 years of gun ownership I have decommissioned exactly 3 magazines. A 10rd CZ 75 mag which was limited via some cuts in the mag and those thin areas cracked, a 15rd CZ mag that was my number one mag for about 5years and which I've stepped on enough to bend its feed lips, An AR mag with a cracked feeding lip, though it was used when I got it. Every other mag (including my Chip single 8 and 10 rounders) keep working with the occasional spring replacement, and that only happens when they start running funny.

Happy B-day.

So .. I'd say people should take a look at the picture in Appendix E3. Look at the graphical reprsentation of where your hip bone starts. Then look at the pants in the drawing. Then stand up and look at your pants and where your hips are (by USPSA definition of hips as per E3) and then look at where you pockets are. Unless you have pockets on the front of pants this is somewhat unimportant. I've been looking at this thread for a couple of days now and I actually looked at ALL my pants, shorts, hunting camo pants, hiking pants, denims, pajama bottoms, sweat pants, exercise shorts, even my 20 year old pair of sweat shorts I wear while painting my house, and out of ALL of them a single pair of shorts had a pocket that would have failed the test, and it is to small to fit a mag in it. Ok I lied, I didn't really check my painting shorts, but I know they have no pockets. If E3 is correct, the only to have a mag in a pocket in front of your hip bone it is because you have some really funny pants (flight suit pants maybe) or you were once a fan of Kriss Kross and you wear your pants backwards .

I say again, everything is competitive advantage and it is a bad unit of measure.