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Link to PNTC Wavier Larry

The Samsung Galaxy S II is about as close as you can get to an iPhone. But the Galaxy S3 is getting ready to be released soon. An even better phone. Samsung makes the best non-Apple phones available. I have a Samsung Droid Charge & as crazy fast & smooth & abloe to multitask as it is with the single-core processor as it is, I can't even imagine how smooth & slick the new Galaxy S3 will be. Oh and Brian, do yourself a favor and forget the touch-typing that comes with the stock Samsung keyboard. I too have FFD (Fat Finger Disease) .... and start learning how to Swype! It comes standard now with all new smart phones, probably because the smart phone industry realized how amazingly simple & intuitive it is to learn how to Swype. I actually got a lot better at touch typing by just holding the phone with my left hand and stabbing the keyboard with my left index finger. 20 times more consistent that double-thumbing it. But, unless I'm in a spot where I'll look silly talking to my phone in a slow monitone voice... I got the voice to text functioning today - it is the shit! It's amazing how accurate it is right out of the gate. For an iPhone, does it take an app for that phone to do that? be Hey Brian, now that you have speech to text working, start having some real fun and give the phone commands. My 4 month old Motorola Atrix II, also android and a very similar phone, will accept speech commands. I double tap my home key to activate voice recognition, then speak a command such as "send e-mail to ....." "send text to ....." or "navigate to ...." etc. Give it a try, you might be surprised what it can do. Larry

Sorry, send them to Dean DeTurk. Use the same mailing address you used for the match entry form. Larry Webmaster Edited to add that the mailing info is now on the match shirt page.

New match page has been posted reflecting the correct dates and listing all new sponsors. Colt 3M3G Championship Larry

Black fiberglass "weed guard" sold in garden centers. I have used this on a soft cover target for an Area 8 Championship and it held up well. Start with at least 5 layers and add more as required. When penetrated by a bullet, the woven mesh leaves threads waving in the breeze and helps obscure vision longer. We used very sturdy supports for the mesh and wrapped layers around the posts forming a front and back layer spaced apart. This spacing also helps obscure vision longer. We replenished the layers about twice a day. Larry

The Topton Rifle/Shotgun Championship application is now posted. Match Application TAPS home page Larry

You could also keep using PowerPoint and use my template. Preview the template here Preview Look at slide numbers 7,8 & 9 showing the background grids (background grids are actually a background image and you must set powerpoint to print background images or it will not be visible on the printed page) and scaled targets & props as well as a ruler you can use to scale other objects. The template includes several different scale grids that will accommodate almost any range. Slide number 9 shows a sample stage with all the possible shots shown as red dotted lines. This allows you to proof the stage prior to going to the range. All grid lines represent 1 yard, making setup very easy. On setup day you can pace off the distance for rough layout and then do the final tweaking. I have used this template to design several Area 8 Championships, and the setup of the stages was accurate and consistent. You can dowload the template here Topton Action Practical Shooters Larry

To completely uninstall NAV, do not use Win 7 (or XP) control panel. Go to the Norton website and download the Norton Removal Tool and run that. This is the only way to completely remove NAV from any windows operating system. Larry

I logged into my Norton account to turn off my automatic renewal, and found out I could not. Went to my account info page and deleted my billing information. When the warning box popped up stating the required fields were missing, I closed my browser. Logged back into my account and my billing info had been successfully deleted. Went to automatic renewal again and turned it off, this time it was successful. Hope this helps those having trouble turning off automatic renewal. Larry

Use the Firefox browser with the download helper add-in.

Match entry form, wavier form & rules have been posted. Topton Action Practcal Shooters If you are not familiar with this match format, here are a few videos from last year. 2010 3Man 3Gun Team Event Videos Larry

Applications are now posted on the TAPS website. October Shotgun Match: Shotgun Application November Rifle Match: Rifle Match Application Larry

My favorites would be my grandfather's A.H. Fox Sterlingworth 12 ga that has been fed less than 200 rounds in it's lifetime, and my father's 30-30 Savage vintage 1930's. Unlike most 30-30 tube fed rifles, the Savage has a rotary magazine. Larry

A friend of mine ran the Beta on a core 2 quad with 8 gigs of ram, and he said at was lightning fast. My cpu is also not compatible with XP virtual mode, but if anyone has tried it, I would like to hear the reports. Larry

I,ve been testing it since January, starting with the Build 7000 Beta, and now running the build 7100 RC. My goal was to test it on older computers that would not be able to run Vista. Test machine is a 2.8 Gig P4, 800 MHZ bus, 2 IDE drives, 2 Gigs of ram, Nvidia GeForce 6200 8x AGP card. Win 7 will run circles around XP on this machine, and is installed with all features turned on. The Beta had some networking issues, but new updates within 2 weeks of release fixed that. After that issue was resolved, this platform was running rock solid. Very compatible with older hardware and software. I was even able to run Office 2000 on this sytem, with the exception of Outlook, but with some hacking, I got that working also. I was also able to manually install some software, and hack the XP registry keys into the Win 7 registry without any issues. I installed the RC release as a dual boot with XP and everything is working fine. FYI, the RC release is not as friendly to older software, but is still pretty good. The Beta version ran more older programs without issues. The biggest current issue is the lack of printer drivers from HP (they write the drivers to check OS version before installation, and report invalid operating system and abort) for my printer, thus I cannot access my network printer. Vluc, are you running the XP virual mode? Larry Eckert

Still under construction. 500 cid ElDorado. Has wheelie bars and has been run on the performance dyno. Belongs to a friend of mine. Forgot to mention, this guy is 6'4" and weights 700 lbs.

EXACTLY !!! Also, I think we can give a map AND gps coordinates. We aren't limited there. I have been doing that for our club using a snapshot from Google Earth and adding text overlaid on it. Topton Fish & Game GPS map Lsrry

Manually installing a program is possible, but usually requires a significant amount of manipulation. If it is an older program that does not rely on the registry, and all necessary files are contained in the program folder, you can simple copy it from machine 1 and paste it almost anywhere on the HD of machine 2. If it uses the registry, copy the program folder from machine 1 and paste it into the programs folder of machine 2. Now you need to hack the registry. On machine 1, export all the registry keys you find and then import those keys into the registry of machine 2. Now try running the program. If you receive an error stating a certain file cannot be found (you most likely will encounter this), go to machine 1 and search for that file. Now copy that file and paste it into the same location on machine 2. Keep trying until you have found all the missing files. If you are successful with this hack, navigate to the program folder and located the exe file that starts the program and send a shortcut to your desktop. The program will not appear in your start menu, and also will not appear in add/remove programs in control panel. If this is too deep, get the kid down the block to try it for you. Good luck. Larry

You can make your own. We used that same method back in 2002 at the A8 Race Gun Championship. Our chrono man came up with that idea. Simply crazy glue the rubber band to the collet, then when it is dry, cut the rubber band between one of the collet segments with a razor blade. No need to remove the cap, just loosen it to remove the pulled bullet. Larry

How much clearance will I need outside the dimensions of the strong mount on each side? A 650 with case feeder, 650 strong mount, bullet tray attached to strong mount (highly recommended), and acro bin attached for finished rounds requires a total footprint of 18" wide x 18" deep x 41" high. Larry

There is no such thing as "CUMULATIVE HIT FACTOR" for a match. High hit factor is used ONLY TO CALCULATE the number of STAGE POINTS awarded for a specific stage. Stage points are totaled to determine a shooters MATCH POINTS. It is the shooters MATCH POINTS, or "CUMULATIVE STAGE POINTS" that defines the match winner. LJE

Black fiberglass "WEED GUARD" mat sold for landscaping use. 3 or 4 layers in front of a target will obscure the scoring areas very well. Used this in Area 8 championship matches with good results. Larry

Seems like you are favoring a CZ, which is not a bad choice. CZ also makes a 22 Kadet conversion slide for them. I have a 75B in 9mm, a 75SA in 40, and a Kadet 22 conversion slide. The 22 conversion works well, but like all 22 conversions, it can be ammo sensitive for reliable functioning. My 22 works well with CCI Mini Mags, and works great with Fiochi match ammo, although somewhat expensive compared to the CCI. The CZ's I own have all been very reliable and accurate. Larry

A friend of mine is an IT Tech for a very large company. His last ditch effort is to seal the drive in a plastic bag to prevent moisture contamination, put it in the freezer for 2 days, then install the drive to recover data. He said this usually works 60% of the time. LJE

The S&W 945 (I own one of the early Lew Horton custom shop series) does not follow the J.M.B. design criteria. The biggest difference is the lack of a link for barrel lockup on the 945, instead, they use the locking block principal, along with some other minor differences. Larry