Vlad

If you want a rubber covered light the StreamLight Scorpion is a kickass light. I carry mine in my pocket every day. I've killed the first one in about years of everyday use and I bought a second one. Only then I found out that Streamlight would have fixed it for free. Now I can't find the old one though I'm sure I didnt throw it out. Grrr. I've tried a few other lights but given its compactness, throw, battery use, and clean lines, I always come back to the Scorpion. The Inova T3 might be something I'll try next.

The truth is that Amex is more customer focused. Which double sucks for merchants, because not only do they get screwed when Amex backs up they customer, they get screwed again when they stop taking Amex because customers gets pissed when their favorite card is no longer accepted. I will disclose that my Amex is my favorite card and that their service has always exedeed my expectations, from the US to Eastern Europe. I use it for so many things that it is not unusual for my personal card to have $2000 charged to it every month. I also admit that I pick merchants which take Amex over those who don't, all other things being equal. I feel Brian's pain because this is far from the first time I've heard people complain about the very same thing. It is one of these odd things where I can understand both sides of the issue. If I may suggest, change your account name with Amex, or get a second one. I buy software online via third party distributors and it seems that you can add a message to your account name on the bill. For example I get items listed as "Distributor Name (Software Name)" which let me know who the hell they are and why the charge me.

Unfortunatly the "two divisions" aproach means that you want a game which can be shot ONLY by people who already own equipment specialized for USPSA. You will pretty much have Open guns and Limited guns, none of which are going to be owned by the average Joe. You can decided that you dont want the average Joe to shoot with you, but that is a self defeating business plan. I enjoy the shooting sport for to reasons 1) They are FUN, and 2) By attracting new shooters, they attract new gun owners, thus making it possible for all of us to own guns. Any shooting sport that fails on EITHER of those two points, is a economic "parasite", and I don't mean that in the insulting way, more in the biological meaning of the word.

I played with one at the gun shop, but I didnt fire it. My obervations: -Fits my hand well, CZ like -Though thicker then a Glock it feels thinner because of the more oval shape -Magwell seems narrow, though I'm sure it isn't. I had a harder time reloading it then my CZ or a Glock, but it isnt bad. I think the piece of plastic on the rear of the magwell, sticking down some, should have been beveled. The magwell is beveled but not enough. -The mags are a bit funny shaped at the top, which may account for my reloading problem. -slide release is HEAVY -sigths would need replacing -the trigger felt gritty on the example I played with, but I suspect it would clean up. Overall I like more then I dislike it. I may get one after I get to shoot it.

Yeah the more I read, the more I'm sure that the Savage barrels HATE light bullets. I know some people have had luck with them but it seems that 168s are the minimum. I'm trying 175s next.

I've always thought of the TX* (I love that abrev) makes a great simulation of two types of moving targets, one being human heads bobbing and weaving trying to avoid gunfire, the other being headlights of a car trying to run me down. Both react to your shots, good shots making a difference, bad ones making the problem worse.

What guideline is that? The (USPSA) Red rule book didn't have a "gun list", it just had rules and criteria. The 2,000 and available for one year was the rule there. When we went to the Green (current) rule book, my area Director and the head of NROI informaed me that the above criteria would be used to decide if a gun made it onto the "list" or not. Did they change the fact that we automaticaly inherit additions from IPSC? Because if we still take their list then all that it needs to happen is for a gun to make it on that list, and then the USPSA 2000 count is meaningless, not to mention the fact that it doesnt match the rule book.

What we do localy is use 6x8 sections of wood fence from he local home superstore. They get attached to eachother with long deck screws and/or supported with 90degree braces made out of 2x4's. They are light enough to be moved by one strong person or comfortably by 2 people, you can cut ports in them of any shape you want, you can attach push open port covers, eye hooks, or whatever you want for your activators. They stack nicely (vertically) and they last a while in bad weather (cause they are you know .. fence). A battery powered drill and saw are all you need to modify them to your needs.

Yes you can. Please dont. Background sounds on websites are really annoying .

When I used to smoke, I smoked AFTER running a stage. Do by honest I can not tell if it made much of a difference either way. I think the reality of it is that a LOT of shooters don't even breathe during a stage. I know that on short and medium stages I dont. Heck .. even 10-15 seconds while moving at full speed and shooting at things, its like 5 to 6 breaths at a normal pace which is not a length of time during which you will notice holding your breath nevermind actually changing the oxygenation of your blood stream. May or may not be the right thing to do. I'm however glad quit (using the patch) which I've done partially because breathing does make a LARGE difference in rifle shooting and I wanted to get better and partially because I got to the point where smoking was no longer fun. Also, I think it is more polite towards your squad mates. Vlad

As a (state) government employee, I agree with the original statement. It is if ever more frustrating to those of us who see it from the inside and have to do our job, and that of those who don't do theirs. My buddy Raz-0 (who happens to be my office mate) says you can devide most of the people in our organization as those who bust their ass to get stuff done, those who do just enough to keep their job, and those who do negative work and make it hard for everyone one else to do their job just so they don't look as bad. He is not wrong.

I bough a number of thing from them, including my first Mauser K98k a few years back. Painless and always as advertised.

What guideline is that?

There is a fine line between protecting investment and preventing progress. As far as I'm concerned this is a volunteer hobbie played with devices of a technological nature. If you do not expect advances and changes, then it will hurt more when it happens. I think any organization should make sure that no equipment that was complient yesterday becomes non-compliant tomorow without a long lead, but we should not be in the business of protecting people investments by guaranteeing that their old equipment will remain competitive for ever by legislating against progress. Yeah, it stinks when you are the guy the bought a top of the line laptop the day before the new model was announced, but does anyone honestly think that the shooting sports were better off when the only guns available where hand build items which took forever to be delivered? I love my 1911 but I think the continuing efforts to build ever more narrow sports and/or divisions around the old workhorse is a misguided (if well intentioned) effort. It is one thing to dress up as a cowboy and shoot old six guns, while re-enacting some movie version of the past, but it is a completly different ball game for organizations claiming to be "practical" to keep on trying to draw narrow boxes in which only a certain design is competitive by definition. I have no problem with defining the game in practical terms and then seeing whats popular and I have a serious problem with deciding what your favorite toy is and then dictating what is practical around it.

Wait .. Who says Zombies are not a realistic scenario ?? Just wonder around a collage campus around 4 in the morning and then tell me that zombies are the stuff of legends. That and the evil squirrels, but I'm afraid to talk about them. They might be reading this

Maybe .. I'll just start taking three shots at hard targets just as insurance .. Wait .. thats not the right answer. I hope some of those guys post here to explain it

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Thanx, I'll try all of the above. I know the white block is in place, but now that I think about it I dont remember how much I tightened blue wing nut.

For my 9mm minor load I've decide to try 124s instead of 147 for a bit. While I was reseting dies anyway, I took my 550 apart and cleaned it which it really needed. I took almost everything apart, including the powder mesure, cleaned everything and put it back together. Last nite I tried the first 100 rounds of this new load. The first 10 rounds went over the chrono and looked good. The rest where shot at our local 4 stage practice match. About 5 of those rounds where underpowered. They had enough powder to make the bullet leave the barrel, but not enough to fully cycle the gun. I've loaded over 10,000 rounds on this press and I've NEVER seen this problem until now. It is quite possible I screwed up something when I took it apart. Does anyone have any ideas where I should start looking?

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Oh I know next to nothing about wines. I do like port (which is not quite wine) so I did some reaserch. Thanx to Al Gore, its amazing what you can learn about obscure topics (like the history of port) by asking the internet.

Tawny ports are wonderfull indeed. Just make sure you get a 10year or older bottle, Portugues. The "real" ports all come from a fairly small area of Portugal, and unlike champane, it does make a difference. A lot of the American tawny ports are actually a blend of ruby and white, while real tawny port is ruby port aged for 10+ years in wood barrels and the color naturally lightens. You will find tawny labeled as 10, 20, 30, 40 years old, and it doesnt really mean what its age is what is on the bottle, it means that the port "council" has decided that it taste as if it was at least that old. Its odd, but in reallity tawny ports with age labels are at least 10 years old , the rest of the date is about flavor. You should try a bottle rated at 20 years or so, its isa good price to flavor compromise, as the 40s can ran $100+ per bottle. And yes .. port and chocolate are yummy. So are port and berries.

I hate slow results too .. What sucks most is that if they are late its my fault, cause I'm the guy doing them.

The last few pages are now full of ideas on what restrictions to add to make production work better. People need to keep in mind that rules that can not be enforced are worse then no rules at all. If you want to dictate "factory parts" only you need to have RO's then know EVERY inside part, of EVERY gun on the market. If you want to say that trigger shouldn't more then 1lb under factory spec you going to have to work very hard to show me that factory specs actually match their triggers. Some things can be enforced and others can't. A miniumum trigger pull is easy and doesnt requiere that people know how each gun works AND it removes %90 of the over the top mods. How about we all step back for a minute and think about it before we rush to demand that striker fired guns get kicked out of production (a bit silly I think) or that we demand "no mods" (how do you enforce it?).

All these problem would go away if we adopted a minimum trigger weight rule. As it is right now any trigger job can be done because how can anyone say for a fact that THAT PARTICULAR gun wasnt having terrible problems and the trigger job wasn't the only way to fix it. Clearly the great majority of trigger jobs are done to reduce trigger pull, with some help in the "clean" feel and reset, but the weight is the main part. If you introduce a limit on trigger weight life gets a lot easier because testing it is trivial. The ROs/Chronodude/MD do not need to know how each gun works and what parts are factory and which ones arent. All they need is a trigger pull scale. I think it is silly for ANYONE to complain about having their constant 2lb single action trigger disqualified from the Production Division. And I don't care what the mechanics are internaly, a trigger that light and that short is not different then a single action trigger, and a well tuned one at that. I'm going to write to my area director and ask him to introduce a minimum trigger pull requierment.