MasterLefty

I think as a general rule, lefties are more aware of their surroundings. Because most stages are right-hand, a left-handed person has trained themselves to be aware of the muzzle direction in all situations. Not to put down right-handers , but I feel that they do not think about the direction of their muzzle after their first couple of matches because the majority of stages are run left to right. During this time, they see that the muzzle automatically points downrange in a safe direction and don't ever think about it again. <on soap box> My personal peeve is when a R.O. cautions everyone to be aware of their muzzle because the stage requires the competitor to move to the left down a wall parallel to the 180°, but not for moving to the right. Does the R.O. do this because he/she thinks that the competitors are dim or because they haven't been trained to be aware of the muzzle direction so they have to remind everyone? Why don't they warn the lefties when the stage requires the same movement to the right. <off soap box> Because most stages are right-hand friendly, I have trained myself to shoot either way with equal ease. I weigh all of the factors, and then attack the stage in the way I think will yield the best score, whether it is the right-handed way or left-handed. A group of physiologists wrote a report years ago that left-handers are more adept at handling challenges and crisis because we face additional challenges everyday living in a righthanded world. Clocks, cars, micrometers, hand shakes, etc. To answer your question, I think that lefties are better when moving against the grain. Kenny

I have run many holsters, Blocker, Ernie Hill, Safariland 007-010, CR and Limcat. I never was a fast with the Safarilands as I was with the EH's. The CR is a good holster, but the lock is inboard when converted to the proper hand. Presently, I run the Limcat and like it over the CR because of it's small package and ease of release from lock. I carry the gun in an appendix position and all of the other holsters are always in the way when I squat for low ports. This is not the case with the Limcat. What it boils down to is ask some folks if you can try out their holster and see what fits you the best. Kenny

The Texas State Limited Championship will be held August 27-29 at the Ridgerunners gun club in Breckenridge, TX. RidgeRunners Gun Club Kenny

I have run vermillion lenses for the last 8 years. Wilson use to sell a really dark vermillion that made the targets 'pop'. The dark greys or smoke with flash mirror coatings make me prone to more misses, so I run different shades of vermillion depending on light intensity. Kenny

Alex, From Steve's note I take it that you won. How did the rest of the crew from SA perform? Kenny

Gary, This is a start and from here we can start fine tuning everything. If you would like, I can have our statistician send you a sample of our multi-gun score sheets. We have been using them for the last 2 years, at the Texas State 3-Gun, without incident. The lag is the software. I told our stats guy I would create an Access database to run next year's match if we did not have a revised EZScore. Currently we have entered data as follows: if was a pistol agg stage with rifle, you just use the extra penalties to deduct for the minor rifle (non A hits). Rifle agg stage with pistol is a 'bear' . You have to convert C's to A's and then subtract if it is too much. When the scoring program is fixed, we will no longer have to use the multi-match setup and then everything will fall into the single match definition and there will not be individual gun/match results. We just need a switch to define whether it is a pistol only match or multi-gun. Keep up the good work, Kenny

Bruce, I do not compete in multi-gun matches, but our club has a strong contengent of 3-gun style matches. Based on the Texas 3-gun for the last two years, I will start suggesting that we work on revising WINEZScore to handle multiple power factors guns within a single stage. I understand why the provisional rules are written to work within our current confines of the US scoring program, but it severely limits what we can do in course design. (We are a freestyle sport, let the competitor figure out how/what they need to do on the stage. ) Kenny

Call Terry Ashton, it's much easier than trying to build your own. Amidon covered the legality/rules in a past Front Sight. It is a legal target array. In answer to the last three; 5 shots - don't miss Kenny

The correct way to manufacture the box is to have it built as a No-Go gauge. The box should be built to the maximum dimensions of 226x151x46 and the tolerance for all dimensions is +0 / -10% of the allowable tolerance (which would be - 0.1mm). I would also have the manufacturer provide a certificate of accuracy that indicates that the box and all measurement devices used to perform the measurements are traceable to ISO standards (or in the U.S. traceable to ANSI Z540). Kenny

Troy, You've been hanging around Worden too much. The first time I ever heard that was in one of Jay's Level 1 courses. Kenny

At least Alex is nice (about adding flash targets), I suggested that next year's match include 200 yd standards. Standing, Kneeling, and Prone. Kenny