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Called up a friend of mine to go check out his 1050 because I have been wanting one. Got over to his house and he said don't order one just buy mine!!!!! He has been out of the sport for about a year and he bought the 1050 in 2002 and has loaded about 3500 rounds on it. I ended up with 4 complete calibre conversions 38 super 40, 45 and 38/357 with all dies and powder systems plus the auto primer system. Everything looks brand new!!!! This kind of stuff never happens to me. Than I turned around and sold 1 of my 2 650's and am out very little. Awesome day for me. So if I am bragging I am sorry, it's because I NEVER get good deals!!!!!!

I hate that I am on the night shift for one week every 5 weeks. I can't sleep but 3 hrs a day so I spend the next week trying to catch up with sleep. I hate that all week I have been doing nothing but baby setting our install teams, and have had nothing major to do. Yes, I like to be kept busy at night it makes it go quicker and I don't fall asleep! I hate that I have not been able to get all our ammo loaded for Space city yet, and I know it will kick up the god awful pain in my elbow just before the match. I really hate that I just got another 500.00 bill for my surgery. The budget was not ready for that! I love my insurance!!!! I still can’t get them to pay for Tracy’s MD Anderson bill. I hate the fact that friends of ours have a niece with 2 kids and just got pregnant again and wants to abort the child and we can never have children again! You have to love endometrial cancer. (Just put the child up for adoption! I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t say that! Thank God my birth mother gave me up and didn’t have me erased)

We have a couple at our range that thinks the women should just stay at home. I was told by some of the other shooters that they don't like my 10 year daughter Shea shooting. I was told they get pissed when she kicks there asses, my comment was get used she only going to get better! Hell I get asked all the time how I feel about my wife beating me. What the hell is the big deal, that gun has no clue if it's male or female driving it. Another thing guys need to keep there comments to there selves at the range regarding women’s body parts. Almost everyone at our range has electronic ears!!!! Guys we need our spouses support shooting if not Tracy won't let spend whatever I want on Guns. But we do have a saying at our indoor range since we have about 5 or 6 women that shoot. YOU GOT BEAT BY A GIRL AND BE HAPPY!!!!

My wife and daughter were on Carina's squad at the Lady Smith this year, she cool! Chet if you have not noticed Tracy and I are squaded with you and Beth at Space City! Need to make my name badge!

I hate cry baby drag racers that cry to everyone when you hand them there ass! We had a X-treme Race last night No rules, bring pretty much bring anything you can! First round we went up against one of the faster cars in our class and smoked him bad!!!!!!!!!!! After that we moved the through the other cars with no problems, but he was having people come up to us and tell us how he was not ready when he came to the line!!!! Tuff sh*t boy this is not little kids heads up racing this is the big boy I don't cry class!!! Then he was all pissed off when we didn't give him a race at the end of the night for fun!!!!! For FUN Nothing is for fun with my turd ass car. I told him to show up next month at the X-treme race, than he will get his chance! I know sh*t talk will start this week on my web site about the race from all of his little boys. Oh well to bad DON'T cry!!!!!!!!!! Sad part is we hurt the damn motor in time trials and still won!!!!! Still hate my car!! Had one of the 2 125.00 batteries bit the dust last night and hurt the starter also!

Just came in from the shop! Made some dyno pulls tonight and wanted to throw that piece of crap Nitrous system in the garbage!!! Not one thing has worked out with our new system and it's getting ready to become history. 1500.00 turd !!!!! Oh and to make it all better we have a points race this Friday. So I will be working on our piece of crap as soon as I get off work just to go out and lose first round. I am ready to go back to old system and tell our new sponsor that there system is crappppppppppp! I'm starting to HATE drag racing!!!!!!! I told my driver tonight that I much whether stay at home clean house than touch the car. I wanted the motor just to BLOW UP so I can start all over again or give me a way out of racing for a while. Atleast Tracy would be happy! She hates going to the track.

My wife had 1 good stage followed by 4 that sucked because of gun problems. It also blew her mental game right out the window. But this is the first time she didn't stay pissed off!!! She is now giving her 2 min to be upset and thats it. I am proud of her for that!!! She still took 3rd C!! On the bright side my 10 year old daughter that has not figured out match stress yet or first stages butterflies was high jr. and won D class at the Ladysmith. She has no worries about shooting yet!!!! I was stressed for her.

I hate when you shoot 2500 rounds in a 4 or 5 weeks and have NO problems at all not even a jam. Make it to a big match and run into gun problems. My wife bless her heart worked her ass off and for what to shoot 1 good stage 4 with a jamming gun! We believe it's the new ammo, that is the only thing I changed (figured that out to late). I went from 121gr hap hornday to 121gr zero, that was it. Tracy starts her Baby’s with bullets camp today and we have a bunch of the 121gr hap for practice. I will be a dead man if the gun doesn't fail with the old ammo!!!!

My daughter Shea started shooting at 7 with a P22 but after about 2500 rounds that thing was not the same. If I had to do it all over again I would buy a 22/45 or MKII better Gun better trigger. She is now 10 and is shooting a 9mm open STI steel gun and has a MKII with Volquartzen Trigger and pac-lite barrel! She won high pre-teen at our big club match this year. Played Hell on the 2 boys in her class! Also the idea of steel shooting with kids is awesome. We have a boat load of jr's that all cut there teeth shooting steel!!!! MKII ruger 22/45 ruger P22

Thats one thing we forgot! Tracy and I could have picked Sharyn up in Houston we are going right through there on the way. Leaving at 6:45 am!!!!!!

Our gunsmith got Her to move her holster to help her with the draw!!! I have been trying that for aleast 2 month!!!! Some stuff works and then I have to call in help on other stuff!!!!

Getting the family ready for our 10hr trip north on Friday!!! Shea and Tracy are excited (they get shoot) I get to work like last year! I also had fun watching!!!! See you all up there!!!

She is motivated! Her biggest problem is the mind game!!! She also been shooting since 2001 with not much improvement tell this past year! She always been a good shooter just could never drive the gun that hard. Our gunsmith and one of our master shooters in our club really helped out also! Oh by the way it helps to practice also!!!!! lol!!!

Spent the last 4 weeks doing a lot training with my Wife (Tracy) I haven't picked up a gun since we started. I wanted it to be all about her!!!!! In 4 weeks we have moved her draw from high 1.40's to consistent 1.08 to 1.13 A hit at 10-15 yards and moved her splits into the Low .20's and I know she can do better!!! I know for some people this is not a great deal but she is a C shooter (mental game kills her). She has been working on her mental game for a couple of weeks (hard Core)! She was pretty pumped she broke into a couple super low 1.0's draws and even one .97 all at 10 yards. They were all C hits but close!! To the A line. She has moved her (mod) 6 shot Bill drill to a smooth 2.05 all A's!!! I just hope she can get her Mental game on this weekend at the Lady Smith match. My daughter Shea has been improving also! Just got her back into her Open 4 weeks ago after being off about a year. Hurt her wrist shooting a super and moved her back to playing with the .22. Now she has a new 9mm open and loves it !!! Also thanks goes out to Steve Anderson and his awesome book it has help out!!!!!

I am sorry to start this up again. But I didn't see the Bullet Lady from CSI Miami!!!!! Emily Procter

Carina, Delta is what our Company uses for it's dental and it's not to bad. (Sprint Did have better insurance last year) My daughter (Shea) just had braces done and they paid for a good chunk. We also have had no problems finding Dr's to take Delta. I HATE that our primary insurance is not paying MD anderson!!!!!

Here is another cool site. The gattling gun is real! http://www.montysminiguns.com/paintball.htm I need ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also hate that my car looks like a big turd!!!!!! 3 months ago it 360 at about 145mph and hit the wall just after having all the body work done. I looked at my best friend and Driver of the car and said this is drag racing not NASCAR!! http://texasdragracing.dreamhosters.com/Pi...HOST%20CREW.JPG

I hate that the guys at work complain that there JOB of cell site tech is too hard. They work 4hrs a day(oh sorry 8hrs a day) driving around hanging out on the internet. I hate switch techs that say they are stressed out, From what hanging out in a controlled envorment (nice and cool) watching alarms and have to do simple repairs. Hell I am the senior and take all the abuse and Love it!! I hate that I spend a crap load of money on my 1300 hp Outlaw Mustang and I am still having tune-up problems.

Damn Mark, I need to teach Tracy to reload!!!! That would be awesome if my wife would load her own ammo!!! She will at least get all the primer tubes filled! Thanks Carnia for the great story, I thought I had a bad day but you WIN!!!! Hope to see you again at the lady Smith match next month! My wife and Daughter shot on your squad last year. And Mark Hope to see you down this way soon! You still getting my emails???? Later Mark Self

USPSA needs to take a long look at the SS division as something viable. I have noticed in Texas that we are seeing a lot of local SS match showing up. San Antonio is now having a big SS match every year! We had our first SS match this past year against some of our club member’s request (because I am the Prez and I wanted it) and still ended up having 26 shooters show up.(that’s a lot) The match was competeing against a big USPSA match only 2 hrs away. We are looking at having a bigger match this year!!!! Simple rules SS 9mm-45acp, 8 rounds total in the gun at the start of the buzzer and at this point we are allowing any holster. It’s going to take a grass roots movement to get them to move on it but I am not going to hold my breath on this one!!!!!!! Hope to see this division in the future!!!

Tracy and I have been married 18 years and it really hasn’t seemed that long. Not sure what I would do without MY best friend, wife and shooting partner!!!! Not to bad for 2 stupid kids out of High School to just up and get married!!!! No Shotguns involved!!!!!!!! My daughter (Shea) is 10 !!!!!!! For the young people on here don’t get married until you’re out of collage, make your parents pay for the school, I didn’t like paying for 4 years of collage!!!! LOL!!!!! Love her more Today than when we got married !!!!!

2nd Annual South Texas Steel Spring Fling. March 6th 2005, Pharr Rifle and Pistol range in Pharr, Texas would like to present our 2nd annual spring fling steel challenge style shooting match. This is a .22 rim-fire and Center-fire match with 6 stages of fire. Match sign-up 9:00am Hammer Down 10:00 am. Rules are simple: 1. .22 rim-fire start from low ready position. 2. Center-fire starts from a surrender position and must have a holster. 3. There will be 6 classes this year. Limited, Open, IDPA/Production and Revolver (Center-Fire) Limited and Open (.22 Rim-Fire) 4. You may shoot multiple guns and Classes but you will be charged full price for each class. 20.00 adults 10.00 Jr’s!!! 5. Trophies will be given out in all Top Classes in both Rim-Fire and Center-Fire. Top Overall, Top Super Sr., Top Sr., Top Lady, Top Law and Pre-Teen and Jr classes. Limited 1-3, Open 1-3 IDPA/Production 1-3 and Revolver 1-2. (Center-Fire) Open 1-3 and Limited 1-3 (.22 Rim-Fire) 6. All USPSA Rules will apply. 7. JUST HAVE FUN!!!!! This is a family event!!!! Here is our website: http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/orgs/pasc.htm Please feel free to call me (956-778-9730) or email me at mself@rgv.rr.com Thanks Mark Self

Alan from Springco talked me into one about 4 months ago at our local gun show. I have used it in my 6" and it has really helped get back on target. Stoped that snap I was having with the 165gr. Only problem, just a little pricie for tha 6"!!! Very Happy

Guy's thanks for all the info. I am hoping this new gun works well for her. She really likes to shoot the Super over her .22. By the way she has just turned 10 as of the 24th and is look forward to shooting in her 4th big match. She is the little blonde girl they interveiwed on shooting Gallery at the Ladysmith match last year. Shea has been bugging me everyday to get back to the Open gun because she wants to do better than last year!!!!!! She won a set of hearing protection and a S&W knife and thought the world had come to it's end.