Vlad

LOL

There is a difference between sport jumps and HALO jumps. We are not talking about a couple of 1000's feet up. The HA part means high altitude, we are talking 26000ft here. Plus breathing gear, plus refilling the said breathing gear. Also as far as I can tell until very recently HALO was the realm of the military alone as the civilian sport market didn't have the planes and gear. What military purpose could have been found for droping the same guy from high places 10000 times? Also, unless I'm mistaken, HALO landings are not the gentle affairs of modern sport chute, not to mention the frostbite enducing tempertatures for the better part of the drop.

Pro-gun, pro-sport, pro-hunting, pro-ipsc, pro-idpa, pro-whatever you happen to approve of, we should always make sure that when we back up our position we use facts not best wishes. We accuse the opponents of doing this, and we should always make sure that we don't do it ourselves. Reading a link from a different thread I ran across this gem: Folks, I call BS. 10,000 jumps means one jump a day for 27.4 years, 365 days a year, no weekends, no holidays. The first HALO jumps started being used around 1965 as far as I can tell, which means Bob was 35 at the time. One jump a day, until he turned 62? Maybe he had more then one jump a day here and there but the HA part of HALO means he couldn't jump all that many times a day. And after 10,000 jumps he still had knees to climb that ladder with? The author may have had a point in the article this was found in, but my eyes glazed over really fast when I saw this kind of stuff. Please note that this post is not an attempt to flame the fires from a different closed thread, its purpose it to encourge people to not inflate numbers to support their cause, no matter how good of a cause it may be.

i understand that, but the profits go back over seas. O.K. and that used to be a real solid distinction when American cars were all built here by American companies, and foreign cars were built elsewhere by foreign companies. Now though, I wonder what's truly better for this country's economy: Keeping the end profits here, or buying vehicles built on assembly lines here? Any economists in the house? My understanding on this issue can be broken down like this: If you worry about the guys making the cars, union or not, then buy cars made by the guys you worry about, ie. buy cars made in the US, regardless of brand. If you worry about stock prices, profits, and portfolios, then buy cars buy made by the companies you are invested in. Don't forget that the the location of the headquarters has nothing to do with ownership. Do we really know what the breakdown of share ownership per shareholder nationality really is for Ford or Toyota? If you worry about the national economy then buy whatever car you like at the price you like. The first two are easy enought to see the reasons for, the third one gets a bit more complicated and outside the scope of this thread. The core of the argument is that if you want a strong economy you should reward strong performers and eliminate poor ones. Ecouraging GM to continue building 5 of the same car under different badges, or sponsoring their bad financial planning or crappy union negotiators, is NOT good for the economy in the long run.

Sure, it is a beauty, and I'm sure it runs like greased lightning, and all that ... But is the breachface angle correct ?? Sorry couldn't help it. That is a great looking gun, and makes me wish I had the money to get one built.

Are you friking kidding me?

I voted none, but I sure winged mine. I put two .223 holes in the housing but it continues to work like a champ so I don't mind war scars.

Pat++, I do the same. For my usage patterns it is cheaper, and I get signal almost everywhere including ranges in the middle of nowhere and the inside of my office building, which is possesed by the cellphone radiation eating zombies which make all phones useless, but for some reason they don't like Tracfone juju.

I think a lot of people have asked the BOD to drop the 1 year requirement, myself included. I think they saw that it didn't make sense to apply that rule when the factory is selling a new model as fast as they can make it and they blew past the 2000 after the first couple of weeks. Accusing the S&W of throwing girls through the windows of BOD members might be going a bit far

I think it depends from shooter to shooter. The dominant colors seem to be (in no particular order) clear, yellow, red, grey. Personally I use photochromatic grey lenses on my Rudy's. They are a light grey indoors and they can get quite dark in the sunlight. I found that yellow make my eyes strain and I haven't tried red yet.

I'm not saying that a well done trigger job would be unsafe. I'm saying that if a trigger lightens to half of its original weight by itself, I would replace parts. Breaking in is one thing, that kinda of a change would worry me. But now we are wondering off topic.

There is a bid difference between wear and a 2lb trigger. I don't think a 7lb factory trigger ever wears in enough to turn in 2lb. BTW, note that my proposal doesn't mean you can't do trigger jobs, it just means you can only go so far. I think if I started with 7/8lb Glock trigger and it became 2/3lb by itself I would want new parts simply because I would worry about their safety.

Do you really think manufacturers care that much? I think people will develop firearms that work for military, police, and self-defence, and only then worry about competition. Lets face it, there are a few other division not placing design limits and I note that they are RULED by a single design. So much for innovation and variety. At the same time in the restricted production division we have true variety. That is because placing limits allows different designs and ideas to compete on their abilities as defensive firearms, not the amount of lead pills you can fit in it, and how light the trigger can be. And, yes, the 10rd limit is one of those things making things better. It is not about the ban or state laws. To me it is about skill, stage planning, and practical considerations. Heck, I don't even care is the number gets changed from 10 to 15 or 17 or whatever, as long as a rational limit exists to contain a capacity arms race, though I do like the 10 just fine. Yeah .. but most USPSA production shooters I know like the limit. I'm refering to people who shoot production at most matches they attend. Their opinion should matter, don't you think? Actually part of that is a really good idea, flush fitting mags only should be part of the spec. Outside 1911's and its spawn, how many single action designs are on the market right now? A few specialized CZ's and EAA's? Even the current Browning HP is trying to go DA. Oh, and they would be welcomed in L10.

If I was king of USPSA, a minimum trigger pull would mean just that, minimum. I don't care what trigger you have, the lightest pull, DA, SA, Striker, should not be less the X. That means that if the number is 5lb then your Glock's every pull should be no less then 5lb, and my CZ's SA should be no less the 5lb. BTW, I shoot a CZ and I will fully admit that the DA first shot is not that much of a pain, and it MAY add .10 to my draw. The rest of the shots are the majority and they should be subject to the minimum trigger pull. Some people could argue that if a Glock has a 5lb trigger, the CZ SA should be allowed to be 4lb, but I think that pointless complexity.

You might want to give some serious thought to L10, Production, and Single Stack. Believe it or not a lot of people shoot those divisions even if they have a choice because they are FUN. Personally I like hard tasks and breaking down stages for smaller mags and planning your reloads is a lot more interesting to me then picking up a gun holding enough ammo to shoot most longs stages without a reload. So consider starting in those divisions. You may find the game more interesting, practice skills that would help you even if you decide those divisions are not for you, and it keeps you from running yourself into prison because you weren't fully aware of the legal implications in your state.

I'd like to see a trigger pull minimum weight. I know that some people have spent money on trigger jobs and they might be upset. I don't want trigger jobs banned because clean triggers are nice, but I also think that the sub 2lb Glock/XD/soon M&P triggers are way out line with what the division was supposed to be about. Otherwise I agree with Nik.

I've been thinking about this thread for a while and now that it is back up I'll add my 2c. I don't think I can define a FAVORITE movie. I have a short list of great movies I love, but I like some better then others at different times. I don't think a movie has been made yet which would touch all the right buttons depending of what mood I'm in and not be a turn off at the same time. Even more, I would not bring any of my favorite movies with me forever on an island. Watching that only movie would ruin it forever, flaws would be notice, etc. What would I bring on a island? Wild Things, for a number of reasons.

Yeah .. thats the reason I don't load 11 in any mag. I rather have 9 rounds in the 5th mag on my belt after I top off, then risk loading from the worng magazine and having to imagine a red dot in top of my gun for the rest of the match. This is one of those issues I changed my mind on along the way. When I started shooting production we where under the old rule book where you couldn't load 11 in a mag. I thought that was silly. When they changed the rule, I didn't care anymore, and I don't make use of it.

I want a giant menacing robot arm that can come out of the back of my car, pluck the offending vehicle off the road and toss into the roadside bushes. Then watch as the men cheer, the women faint, and the children wave little multicolored flags in celebration (line shamelessly stolen from Amanda Tapping of SG-1). Not only it is reusable, but it also doesn't damage my car, gives them the chance to cry in horror as they are flying through the air, gives them time to imagine how their car is going to crumple when it lands, and doesn't leave wreckage on the road.

No sweat .. That book is a getting thinker every revision and while I can see the reasons for it, it doesn't make it any easier to find stuff in.

US Appendix D9.9 Maximum ammunition capacity Yes, 10 rounds loaded maximum in any magazine after the start signal. Thus, you can have as many as you want in the mags while not during the course of fire, but once the beep goes off you can only have 10 in any magazine, including the one you are going to load your gun from.

How is the stainless in the sun? I've been considering one but I worry about glare and the like.

Another reason not to mix the targets on a single stage is that certain target presentation angles may make it impossible for the shooter to know what type of target he/she is shooting at, and the scoring zone are different. Imagine a stage where you might only see that center of a target through a port. If you can't see its edges you don't know its shape so where do you aim? Yes good course design can fix that but its is a lot easier to just not mix them.

At my local clubs it goes like this: $15/$20 match fee, part of it goes to USPSA for the classifiers, some goes to the section, some gets payed back in winnings to the division/class winners. Then some pays for the targets (they aren't cheap), sticks which gets shot up, water and ice for those who didn't bring their own, and if we feel nice that day coffee and donughts for the guys that show up 2 hours before anyone else to put the match together. Those are the expenses for the match day, and they are the small ones. The match needs props. Walls, braces, screws, fault lines, steel targets (check out the prices on those some day), trailers to haul it all around, ATV's or golf carts to pull the trailers, gas for the ATV's or golf carts, paint for steel, paint for hardcover, tape for targets, staples, staple guns, timers, spare timers, timer batteries, boxes for each stage to store all the crap in, making many copies of the score sheets, and another 100 small things I'm forgeting. And that is just to put on the matches. Then you have range maintaince. The berms need to be recut every now and then, garbage picked up, insurance payed, mortgages or leases on the land, utilities, tents, buildings and grounds, so on and so forth. Note that I didn't attach numbers to any of those because they vary wildly from match to match and from state to state, and most clubs need to plan ahead and save their pennies from each match to make some of the bigger purchases.

Ruger or Buckmark. I own both, the Ruger is more realiable and I could proabably drive my car over it, burry it in sand, not ever clean it, and it will still mostly work. Mine is an older MkII. My Buckmark is a pain in the ass, sometimes it gets weak strikes and it only works well if you feed it hot ammo. My Buckmark is non-standard, most work great. So my Ruger works and my Buckmark sucks. Yet I prefer the Buckmark. It has great ergonomics, the trigger rocks, and its balance is wonderfull. I wouldn't depend on it for any critical function but as a plinking gun it rocks, plus it teaches you failure drills