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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The final results for the inaugural PRO-AM match are now posted at the USSA website! http://www.usshootingacademy.com
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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!
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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!
  15. Wow, you guys have it good. People WANT to pick up brass - even though it isn't theirs. Here at USSA we can't PAY someone to come out and pick up brass. I'm talking about a LOT of brass. When a rifle class ends we have 10000-15000 pieces of once fired 223 brass all in one nice little area. Same with a pistol class. The range turns gold! Easy pickin'. No one will pick it up. If I had time I could moonlight as a brass supply company. At the local matches in this area there is almost no one picking up their own brass so when I want to pick up my own 38 Super I have to sort through hundreds and sometimes thousands of bright shiny 9mm and 40 cases to find my own 30 pieces - a real frustrating process. I do return other open shooters' brass to them however and that tends to get them to try to pick up their brass as well. I shot a match near Denver a few years ago and the ROs would call SHOOTING, ON DECK, PASTE, PASTE, BRASS, BRASS. All their shooters were used to it and it worked well. I have often thought why more clubs don't do that. Maybe I need to run an ad..."There's gold in dem dar ranges!" "Come an' git it!"
  16. Grip it & rip it works for me here too! The classic NRA "how to hold a pistol" posters (pistol in line with the forearm) are for one handed bullseye shooting...we don't do that here in USPSA and IDPA. This is decades old theory and practice but still valid for their sport. If we took our modern practical shooting techniques back to that time we would be considered heretical wackos - but a modern day B class shooter would win every match! Shooting, like any other sport, is continually evolving. We try new stuff, keep what works, and junk what doesn't. Only thing that matters is what the sights do between trigger break and the bullet leaving the barrel.
  17. Try to begin and end every practice session with nothing but accuracy shots. I like to start and end with 50yd plate rack runs. Even one time through shows you at the start that your pistol is capable of making any shots during practice and when you wind up with accuracy shots you are building confidence in your own accuracy. When the plate rack gets too monotonous, switch to a Texas star at 50. That also builds patience to wait for the pause and time out your shot.
  18. Check out EvolutionPBX by Intuitive Voice. It's based on Asterisk with an easy-to-use front end. You basically get an old PC, pop in the CD, install it, and forward a few ports on your router. It supports VoIP as well as T1/PRI, and FXO lines with hardware from Sangoma or Digium. If you're hosting your own VoIP server at home and have dynamic IP, be sure whoever you get your lines through uses password authentication instead of IP auth for the lines. They have a free version that's perfect for home/small office use. I use it with Polycom IP phones but you can use analog adapters like the Linksys PAP-2 to attach standard FXS devices. I also use it with X-Lite softphone when on the road. As someone else stated, VoIP really requires good QoS. I know many of the newer upper level consumer grade routers work great with VoIP - you just tell it to prioritize certain ports or traffic to/from your PBX local IP.
  19. Oh come on now. This sounds like there's a seriously funny photo or video behind it. OK, what's the YouTube link?
  20. Make sure your barrel goes into the slide with proper clearance (chamber and upper locking area) at this point BEFORE you fit the bushing. You wouldn't want to fit two bushings! If you have to come back and enlarge the slide bore you ruin your bushing fit. Also, if you make a plate (or buy the EGW plate) you can cut your flat tops with the side of the endmill which eliminates the laborious cleanup work. I use a Micro100 0.500 high helix cutter at about 2000RPM with a pretty quick feed rate courtesy of X axis powerfeed. The final cut is a climb cut about 0.003 which leaves a beautiful surface. Very minimal (if any) cleanup is required. Usually take off about 0.026 (+- a few of course) which lines the flat top with the edge of the ejection port. Don't forget to hand file a slight radius in the back corners of the breechface to help prevent cracking later. FYI, the EGW trigger that is for standard (non GC) frames is mondo oversized on all four sides of the pad. No need to start with the GC trigger to get it tight. In Caspian frames you usually end up taking some off the top and a whole lot off the bottom (I use the mill for the bottom) and hand file the sides just slightly. Use a Sharpie to find rub marks. Once you get your slide-frame fit, keep that thing CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN and oiled throughout the rest of the build process - especially the blending of the grip safety and the back of the slide to the frame. Now you need to come up with your own 'trademark' signature like a custom serration pattern, some sort of unique cuts, etc that will let people identify a pistol as yours quickly! Maybe even how you cut the end of the barrel in relation to the bushing. Good luck with the rest of the build!
  21. Take out elevation screw. Loosen small allen screw. Knock it out toward the ejection port. Be sure you keep the leaf somewhat elevated and out of the Bomar pocket while knocking it out!!
  22. +1 on the extended (manufacturer's, not the retailers!) warranty. For a laptop, there's a good chance it will get used especially if it is mobile daily. You can also get insurance that is affordable that covers accidental damage like dropping it, drowning it, etc. Check out www.safeware.com . It's too bad you can't go Mac but there are a lot of good Wintel laptops. I had a Vaio FE550 series that I sold almost two years ago that is still going strong with its' new owner and he's a lot less careful with it than I was. Prior to that I had a Vaio FX that went for many years. I even have a Compaq EVO N180 that is still going strong. Battery still goes for a few hours and it's five years or so old now.
  23. Just add a video track in your editor timeline, drag the 2nd attempt onto it, and add a video effect to the top (second run) track dropping opacity by about 60%. I know this will work in Premiere Pro or FCP and should work in most others that support multiple video tracks.
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