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All parking is 300 yards or so maximum from the shooting bays. You will be on asphalt so your shooting range cart doesn't need to be a 4x4! We (USSA) provide water on every stage and there are vending machines in the lodge with Gatorade, soft drinks, and snacks. We will have shade canopies on the stages. The lodge has full restroom facilities and we will have port-a-pots on the ranges. One every 2-3 bays or so is standard. The nearest town is Owasso about five miles away. Several restaurants on 76th street as you leave the range and come into town. There is a QuikTrip right there as well. The weather forecast looks like it will be somewhat pleasant. Nothing like our extreme hot spell that finally broke a week or so ago. All the shooting bays are grass so bring shoes with traction.

This is the patented RamLine design from the late 80's, early 90's. It used a clockspring under the follower and riveted to the top of the mag. I have a lot of these mags still and they work fine. It generally adds three rounds in a factory length magazine. As far as open guns go they really haven't changed much in the past 12-15 years. Nowadays they all are basically the same with weights and spring setups to suit the individual shooter, stylized milling, and melt jobs on the grips. What has changed is the number of shops making top notch ready to go parts such as fire control components, comps, mounts, magwells, etc. That and the attention paid to the 170 mags with guys able to stuff 31+1.

You didn't specify but if the PC has a firewire connection you can connect the two computers via firewire and start the iMac in Firewire Target Disk mode. Just hold down the T key while the iMac is booting and the screen will change to a gray background with big floating firewire icon. Now the entire iMac hard drive will appear as an external drive on the PC. Create a temp folder and copy the files over. If you are using FileVault on her account, just create a folder in the root of the Macintosh HD for holding the temp files then copy them into her home folder once she's logged in. Outside of that, the next easiest solution is to put the PC hard drive in an external enclosure and plug it into the iMac. It will read FAT, FAT32, and NTFS. It just can't write NTFS without third party software which is twenty bucks or so. Remember to deauthorize her iTunes account on the PC before reformatting the drive or junking the computer so it stops counting against her five devices.

It is MUCH easier to ship your ammo into the USA than it is for us to send it to a country listed on our terrorist watch list like Indonesia. From my understanding it is currently illegal for Americans to ship their ammo to Indonesia. I may be wrong on this but this is the last I heard. I know Eric Grauffel flies to the USA with a LOT of ammo when he comes for a match. Way more than 11 pounds (5 Kg) for sure! Another thing to remember is here in the USA we have a lot of domestic companies producing QUALITY ammo for open guns. Atlanta Arms & Ammo is the first that comes to mind. Their US Army 38 Super load uses 7625 and works very well in most open guns - it is great in all of mine from a 4.5" Brazos shorty to my 5" hybrid and non-hybrid guns, to my 6" Tribrid. I'm sure that if enough foreign competitors committed to one load - say with VV N38 at a standard 1.135" OAL they would load up several thousand rounds for visiting competitors. They load our team ammo and it has been extremely reliable and consistent. OR, here's an idea. What if some very large reloading press manufacturer (Cough, Dillon, ahem) were to set up a demo area with 1050s and associated equipment so competitors could buy components from a local vendor (Powder Valley, etc) and load their ammo to their own exact specs right here on the range. It certainly wouldn't take long to crank out 1000 rounds on a 1050. There's lots of possibilities here in the USA for getting ammo - more so than for most other countries in the world.

Between the STI and Infinity magwells, I prefer the Infinity. I don't know why but I definitely reload MUCH faster and more consistently with the SV even though it is a smaller opening. I think it has to do with the deeper angles. I have the Infinity steel on my 5" open gun and it helps balance the pistol nicely. I also like the EGW a lot and have one on my Tribrid pistol. I load just as well with it as the Infinity and it is a very good looking part as well. The well goes all around the frame opening (360 degrees) at a deep angle with the EGW.

USSA in 2011! We can only hope! It's NOT hard for competitors to bring guns into the USA. They can bring all the ammo they can fly with and if they need more we have several suppliers of top notch product. Oh, and they don't have to worry about getting blown up in their hotel! If the economy continues in the current direction then by 2011 it will be downright cheap for foreign visitors.

The final results for the inaugural PRO-AM match are now posted at the USSA website! http://www.usshootingacademy.com

I usually tilt the pistol a bit inward and bend my elbow to bring it closer to my face when I have to shoot those rare weak hand shots. Bringing the scope closer to my face - the back of the slide is only about 10" from my face - really helps me pick the dot up with my weak eye. I also keep the dot on full bright if the match is outdoors no matter what - unless it is really overcast.

My Armalite 20" has a 1:9 barrel and it absolutely eats up the Hornady 75gr bullets. Well under 1MOA results at 300 yards with A2 sights. I load my 75gr rounds with VV540. I think the 1:9 works just fine with the heavier bullets as long as you keep the velocities high.

There is an open 802.11 wireless system that will be available both in the USSA main lodge as well as the vendor tent. I'm keeping it as generic as possible so any devices can connect. If you have a notebook computer running pretty much any browser you will be able to easily connect to the system and view both the leaderboard and your individual scores. Individual scores DO show how many A's, B's, etc as well as hit factor and a few other tidbits of info. If you do not have your own computer (or iPhone - I tested it and it works great!) there will be several score stations set up for competitors to check their results. Rob has done an excellent job with his leaderboard / score viewing software system and I'm sure it will get even better in the future! We will be using it in our next few local matches here at USSA. Note, this open wireless system ONLY connects to a closed network - no Internet connection is currently planned.

The Limcat is the only one I've found that can really stop primer flow. It is the longest from the back of the firing pin stop to the breechface. I don't really care about the OAL, just want the tip at the breechface when the FP is at rest. I hope SSI gets some more in soon!

You may want to think about just skipping the hybrid barrel and going with a standard 5.5" with lightweight comp. My personal open gun is a .830 STI frame, 5" Caspian slide, 5.5 Schuemann non AET with a Brazos comp (THIS ONE). The slide has lightening cuts on the front and the swoop cut at the rear. The guide rod is a standard 1pc drilled out with a 0.250 bit - thin walls but it has MANY thousands of rounds with no problems. This is the fastest and easiest to shoot setup I have ever tried. The gun is light enough to accelerate and stop quickly and accurately but the weight distribution is perfect for shot followup. My target transitions are VERY fast with this setup and in open division that is very important where it's all about hot nasty speed. Without the hybrid holes it is nice and (relatively) quiet and blast free. I don't even have to run a blast shield! We build lots of hybrid guns for customers but I always try to talk them out of it. I even let them shoot my pistol but most of them buy the hybrid for the looks and cool factor even though the barrels are a lot more expensive and the additional machining costs a few bucks also.

Without pics people will have a hard time judging the extent of the damage but... Heavy comps do not cause locking lugs to round, peen, strip, or otherwise get damaged if the barrel was properly fit.

Slide racker looks like a Briley part.

Yes, Phil shot a Caspian based 40 built by Kevin. It has been extremely reliable with the Tripp Gen2 mags. There's no real secret juju to getting 40 to work. As long as the slide stop is cut correctly all is good. One load for LTD, L-10, and SS. Doesn't get any better than that!