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  1. you make some reasonable points, but the classification system obviously isn’t set up to reward those who shoot at a repeatable match pace. a good reason imho to ignore it and focus on getting better.
  2. i guess ive never really paid much attention to whether a stage involves retreating or not, but it seems excessive to have 12 of 14 stages at a match be retreats.
  3. its been part of every national match i’ve done, and majority of l2 and l3 matches as well. im not good enough to give those points away, but people who don’t care about their scores at major matches are encouraged to follow their hearts.
  4. this is known as “not practicing enough”. you know almost all majors (and many local matches) will require SH/WH shooting and reloads, so if u want to do well you must practice those things at least a little.
  5. or maybe you just shoot classifiers like any other stage instead of swinging for the fences. the hero/zero. mentality combined with foleys flawed logic in adjusting the hhf’s has made it difficult to get high scores without unacceptable (to me) risk, so i just stopped paying very much attention and worry about my match scores.
  6. i have shot some outlaw matches using that scoring and i absolutely hate it.
  7. lol @ running challenges. i wish that were true, but sadly even the outlaw stages with 100 yards of running still get won by the fat gms.
  8. worrying about where you place in your class is a good way to keep from improving.
  9. i suspect it’s different for everyone. personally i have always reloaded for every division because frugal. for me, the allure of co was a dot on a practical-ish duty/carry gun. the allure of LO is that i already had a limited gun that i love, and for $60 i could mount a dot on it and still be able to use it and shoot it measurably faster and more accurately than my co gun. open has no allure for me, mostly because of the noise, but my wife loves it, and so do several other local shooters who have made the jump in the last year or so.
  10. thats not what we see when we look at any other sport on earth. people LIKE spending more money on higher performance stuff. as the only dot division with major scoring, i expect open will continue to grow. LO will act as sort of a slightly cheaper gateway drug.
  11. great points by both posters. for shred, i think small bits at a wide angle are more likely to constitute unscored splatter. bigass chunks almost directly behind the popper are more likely to be a scorable part of a bullet, but i am ready and willing to be reeducated by troy or jody or evans on the finer points of this topic. for rjh, i personally think that no shoots behind poppers are mostly chickens**t bs used by poor stage designers, but sometimes i have seen interesting uses where the noshoot is there from one position but a clear shot is available from a different position. that can encourage some risk/reward calculations. whenever i build anything weird like that, i try to. gather some opinions from other m and gm shooters during setup to make sure its an interesting challenge and not just annoying and stupid.
  12. imho, jackets are not “splatter”. i think of splatter as being wood splinters or shards of plastic,but maybe thats my inexperience showing.
  13. ^^that doesn’t seem sticky, except for the lack of paint.
  14. we have always scored those as hits. similar situation is no shoot behind a steel popper. if the popper shows a partial hit, then even a weird shaped hole in the noshoot counts as long as it is reasonably in the path of the bullet. (i wouldn’t count splatter directly to the side). this is different from a partial hit on a barrel or wall support because those hits tend not to fragment the bullet, and they introduce the possibility of non scoring holes being made by chunks of dislodged plastic or wood. fwiw, all such hits have seen did indeed have some kind of minimal crown or grease ring.
  15. its not necessarily about the scores being similar or different. its about the fact that striker and da guns will disappear from co entirely if they have to compete with 2011s. see limited and open for good examples of this. regarding “getting smoked” in open….. major is only worth 3-5%. if you weren’t close shooting minor, you won’t be close shooting major either.
  16. i personally would be ok with a weight limit that excluded my s2. i think it would need to accommodate typical duty/carry guns with a flashlight. probably in the 40-45 oz range somewhere. but im also cool with something else… or the status quo. i understand that other people want other stuff, which is why im cool with LO being minor only even tho i would be all over major. the world doesn’t revolve around me.
  17. the issue is that every division that allows custom 2011s is completely dominated by them. if u combine the divisions, everyone except sponsored pros will be shooting custom 2011s within a year or two. it doesn’t even matter if some smart guys think you will get the same score with a da or striker gun. i have tested my shadow2 back to back with my atlas titan, and i would always choose to shoot the 2011 if the division allows it. i would still like to see people be able to compete effectively with lightly modified duty/carry guns, and for that to happen they really need a separate division where the more expensive and competitively superior 2011s are not allowed.
  18. oh, i didn’t realize you were talking about a cz. my 9 and 40 cz mags are 100% interchangeable, but they are all for small frame (cz75/p01/shadow). i guess the large frame mags must be different.
  19. you are probably right. to me as a shadow 2 owner, it still makes sense to roll. back to some of the original restrictions on CO, like 15 rds, possibly lighter weight,etc, but that would piss a few people off and maybe theres no real reason to differentiate the divisions other than sa vs da and custom. guns vs production guns. one thing i would be strongly against is combining the two divisions.
  20. u must be pretty busy. it takes me 30-40 mins to load mrs moto’s 38sc practice and match rounds for each week we have a match. in contrast, we spend 2-3 hrs at practice and 6-7 at the match, and 30 mins cleaning guns the night before. i’m not sure i would ever notice that 30-40 mins if i bought factory ammo (especially since i usually have a sports event on the boobtube), but i would notice the extra $50-80 i spent each week.
  21. why not just keep shooting uspsa matches? the local matches near me are better than ever, and i don’t really care if $3 of my match fee goes to uspsa. full disclosure: i filed my taxes this week instead of moving to costa rica, even tho i disagree with many things the govt is doing….
  22. in your opinion. whether or not i attend nationals, im ok with my membership dues and my $3/match being used to support it. Im also ok with some of my usa hockey dues being used to support national team programs even tho i certainly will never play on the national team. fortunately stoeger doesn’t play hockey so i’m blissfully unaware of whatever drama there is in that organization, and no one has teamed up with anti-hockey dems to get tournaments cancelled. however i do think it’s totally reasonable to demand more transparency in the accounting and reduce costs to the org where it can reasonably be done. to me the issue is not “losing money on nationals”, its that nobody seems to know why nationals loses money but A1 can spend 1000’s on range improvements and break even.
  23. for ro’s? that information is freely available on the website. free entry to staff match shared hotel room during match lunch at range $25/day per diem up to $375 travel cost with receipts it is sufficient right now to attract quality ROs, but obviously the majority of shooters find its not enough to make it worthwhile.
  24. thats a reasonable topic for discussion. imho, yes, but it doesn’t bother me if others want to jealously guard their $3. i think even the whiners would probably be ok with it if there were other national programs that they felt provided value to them and their clubs, like a stage design library (which already exists) or more resources to help new clubs, or open/expand ranges.
  25. ive worked several nationals, and shot 2 where i didn’t work. for anyone who advocates reducing RO reimbursement, my question is “have you RO’d at nationals, and if not, why not?” is it because the reimbursement is not enough? is it because you know your shooting will suffer from less time to observe and shooting on a compressed schedule while still working at the staff match? if the reimbursement isn’t enough to get these folks to volunteer, does it really make sense to reduce it?
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