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Where are your hits on the steel? Frequently edge hits or always dead center?
... it really doesn't matter
This is one of my favorites:
the object is to KNOW ... if the shot hit the intended target ANYWHERE (on the intended scoring area). -
But Brian ain't planning on shootin'. It might be difficult to imagine how much Brian enjoy's not planning on what he's gonna do... much past tomorrow.
... don't plan. Just shoot.
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Sorry, Lynn, green peas and cheesewiz aren't allowed anymore. Seems the fish got too fat and lazy living off of tourist food.
It's just as well. I heard that many fish going crazy in one place tended to attract the sharks.
How are you guys dealing with the magazine restriction? A lot of L10, production, and revo shooting going on?
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And I voluntered long ago to supply beer and cookies to short_round...
beer and cookies? ... that's all I was waiting to hear. I'm in.
I think we need a montage. Some research into the discussions on the different ways to shoot arrays seems to be in order. Like the running up on a targets vs. shooting it at distance and shooting a target array from near to far vs. far to near. Maybe a single stage with multiple strings. Maybe three different "experiments" resulting in six strings. The stage description calls the way to shoot it. It's not very free-style, but sacrifices have to be made for the sake of science. In the end everyone has data on how they do under BE match conditions.
... or I could just put together a 52 round monster with movers, turners, 35 yard steel plates, cooper tunnels, prone ports, lions, tigers, and bears!
Whatever ... if it's in Reno I'm at your service.
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One of the best ways is to ... simply not need it to win.
wow ... I've never considered it this way.
This one is going to get a lot of thought.
Thanks!
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Happy Birthday!
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A 5 gallon bucket, will hold 4,400 full to the rim.
... isn't it funny how the math always seems to be a little (or a lot) off from reality?
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according to my calculations ...
length 45 acp cartridge ~ 0.9 in
diameter of 45 acp cartridge ~ 0.47 in
the volume of a 45 acp cartidge should be:
(pi*r^2)*l or
(pi*(d/2)^2)*l
substituting the above values
(3.14*(0.470/2)^2)*0.9
yielding
0.156 in^3 or
9.03*10^-5 ft^3
using the conversion
ft^3*7.5 = gallons
a five gallon bucket should then be
5/7.5 = 0.667 ft^3
assuming a 20% loss of space since the
brass does not stack perfectly, the amount
of brass should be approximately:
0.667 ft^3 / 9.03*10^-4 * 0.8
5905.2 pieces of brass
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Kfc
in What I Like
Don't know why, but the last 2 times I've eaten KFC I've gotten very ill. The best description is that it felt like I had eaten a concrete block.You're probably just feeling your arteries hardening. Did you get a numbing sensation in your left arm? I wouldn't worry, keep eating the chicken and it will pass. It's like building up a tolerance to penicillin or alcohol. Just drink through it ...
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are not endorsed by the AMA, any reputable, disreputal, or otherwise health and/or nutritional advisory council, the Independent Chicken Farmers of America or the Poultry Growers Association.
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Kfc
in What I Like
KFC's popcorn chicken, I like. Especially now that they have sweet and sour dipping sauce. For chicken fried chicken goodness I'm going to have to go with Church's. I grew up on that stuff ... However, if you're ever in Plano/Richardson Texas be sure to visit Golden Fried Chicken. They have the best chicken tenders and the gravy ... mmmm, mmmm, good!
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A man walks into the bar and orders 6 shots of vodka.
The bartender lines them all up on the bar and the man drinks them all down one right after the other.
The bartender asks, "Are you celebrating something?"
The man says, "I just had my first b!ow job."
The bartender says, "Congratulations! Let me buy you another shot."
The man says, "No thanks. If six shots of vodka won't get the taste out of my mouth, nothing will."
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Happy Birthdays!
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Hanauma Bay .... nice I really liked that place.
I learned that I shouldn't have had those manapuas before hitting the water and to watch out for those turtles. I almost drown when one poked it's head out of the reef and I screamed "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" like a little girl under water. The screaming wasn't the bad part, it was the big inhale of ocean water when I got done that was bad.
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Ah man, oven mitt beat down by an effiminate pastry product representative...the shame...
... a little poke in the stomach should fix it. Stand back after you do it though. You'll want to watch out for that glock when the hands come down for the uncontrollable belly rub and little giggle. Then again there's nothing like unbaked pastry, hysterical laugher, an oven mit, and an accidental discharge to really get the party started.
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... in defense of craziness. It hasn't been cured. It's more like in remission.
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Nice!!!!!!!!
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I sent this to the guys I used to play Axis and Allies with (yes, I admit it) .... this is going to kill them.
f*#kin sweeet d00d!
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Another possibility: separate the stages front-to-back in the berm enough that you can score and reset the close one while someone shoots the far one. That cuts a little time off and works especially well for a series of steel-heavy speed shoots, like when you don't want your 3-gun steel stages to turn into who-can-reload-fastest-fests. Easier done with 50-yard berms.
This might be difficult ... scoring with gun fire close by makes it hard to hear. Also, if the target as placed further up range, then they are further from the berm which makes shooting angles impacting the berm much harder to resolve. Unless you have a super high berm and have mass amounts of sand bags or hay bales.
One of the things that we learned on my stage was that 3 was the optimum number of RO's. One with the timer two clip boards. When the stage was over the clipboard RO finished adding up the score and signing the sheet as the next clipboard RO and timer ran the next shooter. After the score was added up that clipboard RO got the next shooter prepped. Also, since there was always an RO at the table it helped prevent foolishness with the shooting order since they could watch to make sure that people didn't bogart scoresheets into the on deck pile. ONe thing Thomas did which was pretty cool was initial the scoresheets of the shooters that were in the last walk through to make sure that someone wouldn't be able to say ... "yeah I was in the last walkthrough I should be in this group shooting."
I hope this made sense ... if not ... apologies ... I just got back from the bar.
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I still enjoy the "original diet coke"....Tab. Some of the 'not so young' will remember it.
Tab tastes nothing like Diet Coke ... come to think of it Tab doesn't taste like anything but Tab.
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the other was from Zorg about how a "real died in the wool killer would want to know about the little red button."
I don't like warriors! They're too
narrow-minded, no sublety. Worse,
they fight for hopeless causes..for honor!
Honor has killed millions of people but
hasn't saved a single one.
(pause)
You know what -- do I like though, I like killer.
A real dyed in the wool killer. Cold-blooded.
Clean. Methodical. Thorough. A killer, when
he picked up the ZF1, would've immediately
asked about the little red button on the bottom of
the gun.
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I think you're mixing quotes. One was Corbin Dallas saying something like "you gotta press that little button to load it".
MUGGER
The cash man!
KORBEN
Been here long?
MUGGER
Don't f*#k with me man or I'll blow
you into tomorrow!
KORBEN
Isn't that a Z140? Alleviated titanium.
Neuro charged assault model?
MUGGER
Uh..
KORBEN
You know you could hurt someone with
this puppy..good thing it's not loaded..
MUGGER
It's not?
KORBEN
You gotta push the little yellow button...
MUGGER
Thanks..
KORBEN
You're welcome..
KORBEN
..you know these things are VERY illegal..
you could get in a shit load of trouble..
I better hang onto it for you..
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
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... I thought you were adding a supplemental to the 5 second rule which is how long a piece of dropped food can stay on the floor and still be edible.
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BBQ: was that your little red thing?
Buffy
... great, don't tell me Billy's going to need help looking for his little red thing. Good thing I'm not on duty this weekend.
Smack upside the head taken, ma'am. You may return to your topic!! 
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Had To Do It!
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The front cocking serrations on this gun don't really do it for me as much as the cuts on the spitfire. I have to admit the though, that the cuts on the spitfire (that I incidently have on my open gun built by you) have really grown on me ... they're just freak'n sexy!
The rear cocking serrations are good. I'm not a big fan of swenson's. The cuts on the trigger guard are very aggressive. As Erik would say ... "mongo like."
The hybrid "site-tracker" setup I think is going to be all the rage in 2006. I expect that you'll see more and more of that with the fashion and technology conscious IPSC competitor in the upcoming shooting season. It's stylish yet functional. Nothing says "I'm ready and standing by so someone come beep me" like a virgin hybrid barrel.
However, the coupe de grasse for this gun is the pattern on the top of the slide. The top view profile looks like a battle spaceship from an H.R. Giger coffee table book. Stand aside and put away your Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, there's a new sheriff in the final frontier and this one's it. I can't wait for the next picture that shows engine blast coming out the beaver tail, contrails coming off the thumb safeties, and plasma and particle beams shooting foward. If Paris Hilton was an IPSC shooter she would be standing in a black bikini covered in slide glide, that gun in one hand, gun scrubber in the other saying "That's HOT!"