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There is also a Precision Rifle Series organization that sponsors matches of the sniper/tactical type. precisionrifleseries.com

I have some upcoming travel/work plans that may have me transitting through Ronald Reagan with cased firearms with layovers. While I am exploring other options (like using Dulles which is in Virginia not DC), I am trying to find a reference to the actual laws in DC. Can anyone point me to a website that lists them?

Chester Cox lives on 61 between Summerville and Charleston. You can not go wrong with Chester. palmettoarmsllc.com

Sinistral, How do you randomize targets and yet keep a stage that presents the same problem to everyone? Or at least similiar enough that no one gets penalized/benefited?

I like mesh walls. For a lot of practical reasons, lighter, easier to move, easier to see who might be downrange, etc. As a stage designer, I assume mesh walls and if I want a solid wall I will specify such. As a wall builder, I tend to make ports narrow but long top to bottom. Makes it easy on the short and the tall.

I think match issues are magnified with 3 Gun Matches. If a $85 one-day pistol match has an issue or two, you might be willing to give it a shot again. The overall cost is not that large. If a $200 three-day 3 Gun match has issues, the overall cost is much larger and you are more likely to seek an alternative match rather than give it a second chance. That said, I have yet to experience a match that I would not attend again.

9 pages and still going..... I knew there was a reason I liked the "a hit is a hit, a miss is a miss, just record the time and misses" scoring.

After this weekend, I think I will just hang my head and cry. Both major SC teams took punishing losses and looked BAD doing it.

My Para open gun started its life as a TJ Limited model in 40. Para full size frames are all the same. No one makes a 170mm Para mag. You might find an old STI for Para mag here or you can either (a) use all STI mags and a certain mag catch which works with them or ( use and STI 170mm magazine and just modify the mag catch slot.

Easy fix. they simply ship the parts to say Taraus in Brazil who then assembles them and imports them. Like when Norco was banned, it did not stop shipments for much more than a day.

The plot reminds me a lot of John Ringo's Black Tiding Rising series, one of the actually plausible "zombie" stories (weaponized rabies rather than some supernatural cause). I do have to agree with remoandris it is a bit predictable.

Been talking to Sandra about ROing this match, so .... I am looking for 1 or 2 folks from the NC/SC area who would be interested in car pooling to Texas. I need to be there Weds night, so if you're not ROing you would have to be okay with having all day Thursday to look around.

Everyone is screaming about how "slow" the investigation seemed to have gotten started. But I know that after several days of internet chatter, I was still seeing posts that said no formal complaint had been made and giving links to the proper place to do so. Seems like we may all have to bear some blame in a "slow" start.

Its a Catch-22. No one is going to leave a solid paying job to take on a four-year position, especially if that position doesn't pay as well and there is no guarentee of more than four years or work after four year. So you would likely get a retiree if you demanded fulltime. On the other hand, a full time CEO would need to be strictly limited and with a well laid out recall process. We the shooters are not USPSA employees but its shareholders. So I am not sure that either would give us anything better than what we have. So I agree that at this point its a matter of electing someone who we each think will do the best job.

A few bad actors should not make your decision for you. Do what YOU want to do and have fun at it. There are some stories about some in 3Gun that makes this look like child's play. It's kind of all of it honestly. The Cheating, the HQs inablility to deal with it, peoples poor reactions to it. But you're right You think 3 Gun will be any better? In some ways its worse. No standardization, no central power mean you get good ROs, bad ROs, sometimes strange ruling, there is no communication, more money so more temptation. But USPSA, IDPA, 3 Gun, SASS... they all are made of people. 99% of which you would trust with your wife or your guns. And sometimes the 1% is the same 1%. In other words, go shoot. Shoot the sport you enjoy. Shoot multiples if you want. But don't let the 1% get you down.

you mean by appointing someone from a different region to investigate the situation? That sounds like a great idea. Maybe someone like one of the western area coordinators who may be less likely to be personally acquainted with personalities involved.... Exactly. I don't agree with Chuck on everything, but I trust his integrity fully and I think he was a good choice in this instance. As a person who is in courtrooms and conducts investigations involving huge sums of money, fatalities and lots of emotions on a regular basis, I know that being emotionally detached from an investigation is important. The whole conflict of interest thing is also something we do not know about. I have had to refuse cases where I know, or have worked for entities involved in a case, and that may have happened here, so we should not be jumping to conclusions. The party involved was very active in Area 6 and likely other surrounding Areas; so it would make sense that you would want a party as removed as possible to head the investigation.

I thought the majority of the movie was OKAY. Not great, but not bad. I was unhappy with the ending. Very "magic button" to me. The term was coined during the height of the SG-1 series on TV. SG-1 would be getting their butts kicked by the aliens and Dr Jackson would push the magic button and suddenly the aliens were defeated and all was sunshine and unicorns. Almost like the writers just ran out of material or ideas and so just suddenly wrapped everything up. I thought Tom Cruise played a much better confused recruit than he did a hero.

"I Highly recommend that the final split is shown and called out, and required that it is done for Major Matches. Most all, except the most antiquated timers in use show the split time on the screen." The Pact Club Timer and the CE Pocket Pro are probably the most common timers in USPSA (and just about any other shooting sport). Neither show the last split. The only timer I know of that does is the newer CED and probably other new timers. So showing the last split is not going to be a workable change. I do think showing the time to the scorekeeper at the very least should be the standard. The shooter if they want to see it. The reason RO and CRO classes are so scarce and scattered is that they are asked for by clubs. This means someone has to want to hold the class. I would rather see USPSA start mandating a class as part of the AREA matches. That way a RO or CRO (I would alternate) class is being held in any shooters region at least once a year. Take the Class Day one, RO for a grade on RO Day (and shoot of course), work a stage as a stage hand during the match. As for the education, I think we need to go beyond just the current material. Rather than a John A interpretation posted somewhere, start posting mini-classes and require all ROs to take say 2 a year. If they are 30 minute videos I don't see that as asking much. For example a 30 minute video explaining and discussing Significant Advantage.

B45C22, The issue with the big boards seems to be one of distance and refresh times. I have been told they work good at Steel Challenge where things are pretty static but have issues with field course where there is a lot of movement and distance. In many ways this is like the whole "gun control" discussion. Do we need new technology and rules to deal with a 0.01% issue? Maybe tweak some procedures here and there, but I think most of us understand that this is an anamoly.

Why would we care if a shooter sandbags? You wanna take 20 secs to run a 12 sec stage and drop 25 places in the results, that's your choice. As for classifier sandbagging, peer ridicule takes care of a lot of that.

Showing the timer to the scorekeeper is the practice of most ROs. That practice should probably be reinforced in training and/or policy. But I would rather wait and let people with experience write that policy since there are always stages that will make it difficult. Since most of this allegedly (since I don't know if it did or not) happened on RO day, maybe we need to think about the way we shoot ROs through. I know typically RO Day is a bit looser, with the ROs working out any kinks in the first stage they shoot and typically ROing themselves within the Squad. Maybe a policy of RO Day ROs are fixed to the stage and then shoot with the Shooters rather than ROing in the squad need to be considered. But that impacts the match as you now need additional ROs. I don't think Match Days are as big of an issue since Stage ROs are typically put together groups by skill rather than "friends". Personally, as an Area 6 shooter I know the parties involved and I am trying to keep any personal opinion, good or bad out of it. Leave it in the hands of HQ. What I would like the hundreds of us who shoot regularly to take away from all this mess is a way to be better tomorrow.

The issue with the "last split" is always going to be one of time. At a major match, ROs have a pretty fixed amount of time to get a shooter through the stage and the stage reset. Now you are adding the time to cycle through all the shots on the timer to get the last split to that. Yes it might only be 45 seconds. But thats 45 seconds for 14 shooters for 10 squads. That almost 2 hours added to the shooting day. That doesn't include the time taken "discussing" the fact that you are not happy with the last split and is it valid. A timer that displays it already is great. The RO shows the shooter the timer and you get what you want from it. Personally, I always look at the timer at the last shot so I can insure things like slide racking, bumping, etc don't get charged to the shooter.

Chris.... That could be. I am so use to the PACT timers where you would have to flip back through them. If its already on the screen, then it wouldn't be an issue. I am sure there are other ideas, other steps we could take to make USPSA ROs better.

Whether he did it or not and what action the USPSA and NROI take is out of my hands. But what I would like to see come out of this is the USPSA ROs become a more professional group. Now before you get your back up, I think for a bunch of volunteers we all do the very best job we can, often under trying circumstances. I would like to see more Continuing Education. Doesn't have to be much. A library of CBT videos, each 15-30 mins long, covering the host of topics ROs run into - for example "Significant Advantage". The video could be an automated PowerPoint, a video of an RO and shooter on the range, John A. sitting and talking. I have to do dozens of these a year for my job on HIPPA, HITECH, Ethics, etc etc. I would like to see the classes scheduled better. I think each Area match should include a RO/CRO class. Maybe at least every other year. It always seems classes are far away, badly timed, or poorly advertised and therefore hard to get to. I think USPSA needs to do a better job of recognizing ROs. USPSA/NROI should know every match I have RO'd at at what level I worked (Staff, RO, CRO, etc). Not for issues like this but for recognition purposes. ROs who have worked a set number of matches deserve some recognition. Only if its a page in Front Sight of ROs getting their 50 match pin, 100 match pin, etc. I think IPSC uses RO shirts and expects ROs to work major matches in them. I think that is a cool idea. When you look professional, you feel professional and act professional. I do have a concern that a more structured professional group of ROs could impact the bottom line of matches. That basically you pay for what you get and so matches would have to compensate ROs better. I know at higher levels IPSC seems to dictate what that compensation is and I don't think we need to go quite that far. Someone said they were going to ask to see the timer, I think that is a legitimate request. But seeing the last split? No. If the RO has to stand with the shooter and go through the splits before they can get to scorring targets and get stage reset started, we are now adding delays to matches that are typically already pushed.

You also have situations where the RO should step aside. If you are ROing and your wife is in the hunt for a title, I would think stepping aside and letting the other RO run her would be the most proper thing to do. In the past ten years I have only had two issues with ROs, neither related to their integrity nor their conduct towards shooters or myself. One was related to a disagreement between the RO and the RM, the other was just a very friendly RO being overly chatty when we had shooters backing up.