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Hi I can't go. Anybody wanna buy my slot? I believe it's Sat afternoon Sun morning.

So why can I not take a pistol with a chamber flag and do the same thing?

People interested in being on Staff can email me now jake_martens@comcast.net I am setting up entry forms and online payment with Practiscore Staff will shoot Thurday all day, then complete Friday Morning (thinking 11 bays Thursday, then 4 Friday) I will cover Hotel Rooms (Hampton Inn Louisville North this year, more expensive, but breakfast included and closer to the range, and nicer!!) I will be working with Techwear on Shirts for Staff, covering at least one, hopefully 2 for all staff Shoot free, separate prize table, food...all the regular high end stuff you know. Seriously all of you RO's who have never worked a major this could be a great experience to take advantage of. I have worked quite a few majors and none as treated me better than Jake and the IN 400. It is very similar to working a Nationals/Area and could be closer in distance for you and requires less of a time commitment than Nationals.

I don't like Jake and I'm happy ?

I'm in TN that weekend too and it looks to be a 2 day match so can't do both

I agree dry clean bags present a VERY different accuracy challenge vs the no rain days, Slow stage reset at least 200% slower and people get free hits and screwed outta hits. There was a guy that tested all kinds of poly..varnish..paint and came up with a great way. used regular pastors and he could hit target with garden hose. Pretty sure he wrote a FS article but EVERYBODY ignored him cause he was an Horses Azz

Just the fact that you ask is a sign of tension and tension ain't fast and accurate

Yes chip/nick Watched a buddy drop Open on concrete right on the top of the C-more, No damage, no really it shattered the lens

You don't sell it. You trade it for water, food, antibiotics, safe passage, movie passes..….. Man we gotta get your paranoid level up

I would be ok scheduling a blanket party for the Open shooter that did this to the SS shooters

Loaded for months especially every winter. You guys really empty every time? They got meds for that now. Local guy was a pretty avid IPSC shooter in 80/90's. Job took him out of country or something and he had become disenchanted with Raceguns, etc.so he left the sport, so fast forward ten years. He loaded up what sat in the press for a decade and now shoots IDPA somewhere. Said everything went bang fine and it was probably some weird powder like Bluedot or SuperLite, Lead bullets and WIn primers

I think it might be your approach. The Bill Drill is not the end result, it is the means to get there. You should be seeing more, adjusting grip/stance/trigger and the end result is to shoot A's faster and more accurate

Yes that is what a GM was supposed to be but people love being ranked higher than the next guy, so we have a lot more non-Pro GM's. What I hope never happens is Super GM (top1%) Back to the original post You compete in your division and class. Are you gonna beat Max Eric etc by just getting letters Uh no. So get that GM card if you want. GM's used to compete only for HOA til very recently. I notice some matches giving HOA 1st GM 2nd GM….. I guess the 1% Super GM is already slipping in there

Been in this probably as long as you have been alive. Not going to tell you personally what to do but what I have seen. Most young " phenoms" or those that rise quick to M/GM disappear as quick. Life and wife take over. You are in a time of life where career growth, kids, houses, second cars....become a big issue and hurdle to shooting especially finances/time. Usually we see them back in their late 40's or so. Kids gone and better income equals they can afford the $3K guns and all the trimmings. They usually don't win a lot since that's not why they show up They are there for the fun and lot. Your choice to shoot less and compromise is not probably the right advice for a driven performer like you. That means much less winning competition and skill growth. Can you handle that? I personally would prefer a woman that shot with me but would never get involved with one that didn't like competition and its effect on our time and money together. A lot of woman feel the same about your work and that's a hard row to hoe too.

Really neither. Just went and measured some well used brass. Got a some with bulge area at .386-.387. They still work and you do have tool and operator error Is that supposed to make me feel good or bad?

SAAMI max is .384

I think some of mine are Lee Just look at them If there is a "taper" of steel get rid of that and expose carbide

Multi reps with coffee cup on the way, then quick reps before run with Red bull. I think there is validity in a pre match warm up but don't wanna get worn out before the match

Bill which dies are you using ? And are you just grinding them square across the bottom ? Dillon I think. Probably at least 20 yrs old. Yes expose the carbide ring even a little higher than "even" so you can seat as low as possible

Really doesn't get weak unless you are ridiculous. Gotta let brass go on a regular basis. What it might do is fail to chamber. I grind the steel around the carbide ring on my die. So you get the deepest seating with just carbide exposed. Every mm counts.

You don't try for C's you "accept" a certain amount. Usually amounts to 5-8% of points if you want to win. When I say win I generally mean majors. Locals are based on who's around or who is training. I have dominated locals winning matches all year by 20%. Right now not so much. I'm not training as hard and we have grown a huge talent pool round here. So we have a huge talent pool currently but next year that could be 180 deg difference. Wanna see where you stand? Area's or Nationals. You need to make an adjustment to your training to improve at USPSA. These are the most fastest and accurate shooters in the world. Showing up ain't good enough. I have spent countless hours to drop .10 sec off something. Don't fall into a speed trap if you want to win consistently. I'm pretty fast but my shooting has evolved into shooting A's as fast as I can and sometimes accepting less for speed. You see the gun can only track recover move, so fast. Then it's your foot speed, entry/exit, splits at 24 yards......I could go on and on. You need to master everything. Don't and understand your competition already is.

This year I switched from my Open gun to someone's Limited gun when I ran out of ammo and just wanted to finish the match. RM first said no, then I said what? Don't worry I'll shoot the Limited gun slower in Open and it meets Open gun requirements too. Oh and my class is the same too. Now I think his brain misfired for a sec and thought I was going the other way. That's a no no

I can't wait to see the 3.3 inch silly rigs. I've helped quite a few new guys that buy a holster and install every spacer that comes with it. There was a guy couple years ago at MI State that had one sticking so far out you could probably catch it on barricades leaving a position. He had modified it himself. Comical.

If this outlaw match was still available to shoot, would you still shoot it? A lot of my coworkers sure do love to talk and bitch about the NFL. In fact, a good amount of company time is spent picking teams for the office pool. As far as I know, none of them are current NFL players. Haha, It is a free country, for sure. The outlaw? Well in my younger days being bullheaded, for sure. In my older wise later life, Oh yea for sure, just to beat up a few Tactical Timmies. Most of them are dead though. I like shooting anything but still see USPSA as the best competition

USPSA brings fair consistent rules, Certified RO's, National footprint and recognition. I can explain to laymen that I shoot a recognized nationally sanctioned legitimate sports competition. Without this I could be just shooting refrigerators at the dump and call it a competition. I have seen what lack of National sanctioning can do to the shooting sport. It then becomes a dictatorship, at the worst. I remember going to outlaw matches and being turned away or screwed with because the current "MD" couldn't beat me or the guys I was with. My game, my rules, my range, my ball. Seen smaller versions of this at USPSA but we have an organization to make it fair and work. We need to have a rule book and people who administrate it. That cannot happen on its own, you need a sanctioning organization. USPSA membership is a great value. I consider it like voting. If you don't vote, don't complain. Don't belong? Don't complain