MasterLefty

+1 While the mirror will work, you will learn to recognize the sound and determine how many cases remain. The same as I can tell when the last round chambers in my gun. There is a different feel to the recoil pulse. Kenny

Darn!!! I'm master class, so I had better get to bed. G'night Kenny

Fred still thinks if he builds me a left-handed AR, I will start shooting 3-gun. After seeing the purple AR on the website, it would be tempting but not quite enough. Kenny

Harmon, I thought I could help you out. I shot this stage at the 2006 Pan American, but I just checked and none of the classifiers were loaded from this match. Jaime Saldanha ran it in 4.71 down 2 points (12.2881). At the World Shoot, he was 90% of the match winner in open. Maybe that will give you some guidelines to where you were. Kenny

Sheldon, it was priceless when we were standing at the wailing wall. I thought you were going to hit me when I said that I think I know that guy. Yea... He lives in the hill country. to which you chimed in, "I think he lives in Austin". See you again soon, Kenny

The requirements are that the STI must be either the largest logo on the shirt or equally in size to any/all other logos. Color information is below in Carina's reply Carina is correct. Starting in 2007, you must be wearing one of the STI shirts or any other shirt that has the Red, Black and White colors of STI. When this was announced in 2005, STI stated that could purchase shirts and have your logos applied by third party. Kenny

I suggested that to Ken when we were in Tulsa, that maybe keeping the date later in the year would be a good thing. Like October. Kenny

Once upon a time, we had this division. When it was only a "proposed division", it was called practical carry. Practical Carry became Production. Just a little history. Kenny At a local level, I like Shred's idea and we use it in a modified fashion at our home club with non-USPSA members.

Yes, there is a prize table. Awards and etc will be on Sunday.

I was talking with Ken tonight. He was adding the new shooters to the match and reworking the squading request based on the late entries. There were 4 more entries today. Kenny

If you want them ugly, then here it is. Tanfoglio/EAA Silver frame Lightened slide (std length) Briley LS 9mm barrel Briley Comp Kenny

They are all initials of different people. At least since Dave took over the company. Wide dust covers start with CM (I'm not sure who that is). Standard dust covers start with SAS, and this is Shirley's initials. Kenny

Dave, It was great spending the week with you. You should have heard us armchairing what happened to your pistol on 18. Hopefully everything is already back together. Kenny

Eric didn't shoot in last year's match, so he did not have an automatic slot. Kenny Here are a couple of more photos of the shooter service ladies, compliments of bpowe and DA45acp.

As promised. Attached is a photo of the shooter service ladies. Compliments of DA45ACP. Kenny

I started at the young/old age of 22. We had a local pistol club that was still shooting the old style combat matches. This was in 1984. We first learned about IPSC in October of '85. We learned that there was a club about 60 miles away that shot the other game, so we sent out a scouting party. When Greg & Joe returned, they said that this was the game we needed to play. I joined USPSA in Nov 85. My first two combat matches were shot with a 4" Dan Wesson 15V, using full house .357. After, Terry called me over and talked to me about loads I switched to 148gr 38Sp, PPC loads. By time I started shooting IPSC, I was running a S&W model 10 with a 1.100 bull barrel, underlug and Mark II Aimpoint. I let one of the old marines talk me into buying a 70series Colt and $1100 dollars later, I was running a Caspian slide with Wilson LEK comp kit and 6 Wilson-Rogers 8 round magazines. With my fresh new D class card, I won second D at the '86 Texas West section championship and was third revolver. ( I kept shooting both guns and I would outshoot my auto scores with the revolver. Six months later, I sold the 45 and built a comped S&W 586. In 87, I switched to a Browning and ran major until the power factor changed to 175. After that, I shot minor until I starting building a P9 in 1989. I made Master class running the P9's, switching to a large frame Tanfolio 38 super in 1999. In 2001, I built my first STI three days before Area 4 with prize table parts. That's just a brief look at where I've been. Kenny (I remember leaving my first match thinking gee that was fun, I can't wait until next month. After the second match, I bought my first reloading press and thought if I ever shoot 2000 rounds in my life that will be a lot. Six months later, I was running 1000 rounds a week preparing for the Sec. Championship. The rest is all down hill from there.)

At the time we went to the 140/170 rule, there was no box. The requirement was that the magazine had to be flush with the bottom of the gun (not counting any magwells). ---------------------------------- Back to our regularly scheduled thread. .335 almost made it as major in Limited. The original ruling that came out of the proposed tactical division (and later called limited) was that in order to be declared major you needed three manufacturers supplyling ammunition that made 175 pf. (Cor-bon didn't count, they had to be from the big companies, i.e. Federal, Winchester, Remington, etc) If anyone remembers, there was a lot of debate if the .40S&W would make the declared power. IIRC at first only the 180gr factory stuff made major. Back to 9mm, instead of going with the 9x21, S&W decided to chamber their pistols in 9x21.5 or 9TSW. They had two manufacturers on board and almost had the third ready to start manufacturing, when USPSA imposed the .40 diameter ruling. [this is just my opinion] I think the whole reason to ban 9 major in open was because the only guns worthy (i.e gained capacity) of running 9 major were small frame high caps and Bill Wilson had a 2M/year parts business (and a few others) selling to the 1911 market. If we allowed Major 9, then everyone would have been buying Springfield P9's. (I did and put away my hi-power and went back to major. I use to run the hi-power major at 170, but when we went to 175 the hi-power would not survive the punishment.) [end opinion] Kenny

The only time that I can say I was really backed up was after lunch on Saturday. My 1:30 squad showed up after lunch at 1:00 and my 2:30 squad showed up at 12:45. It was the 2:30 squad that tried to get me in trouble with momma, while I was down on stage 2 running the stats guy through the stage. I was ahead of schedule the entire match. I could have done better with a dedicated assistant R.O. to keep the firing line safe 'n moving and not having the Sunday squads drinking my bottled water while I was out working. Glad you enjoyed the match. Kenny

mscout, you've got it right in the second acronym. Good F*$#ing Luck. I've watched 5 pieces let go about 7or8 years ago. All 40S&W, in both glocks and STI's. The result was full case head separation, and for the glocks, it caused them to puke their extractors out and blow the bottom out of the magazines. Post mortuem reveiled that each round was GFL. I've not seen any problems with the 9mm variant. Kenny P.S. I will never run Remington in a 45ACP. The case will not hold the bullet in place during loading.

Allison, When you get ready to go, give me a call. I will see if we can draw Luis out of retirement and go shoot a match. I don't remember how many times I've traveled there for the company. I've been on the phone with them everyday this week for a least an hour each day. Wait, it's only Tuesday. I'll get to spend most of tomorrow doing the same. (The fun of multi-plant teams, and half of team is on the island this week running protocols.) Kenny P.S. I got my magazine. Thank you very much. It's good training material to help with my Portuguese. Lots of interesting information on Brasilia and the upcoming Olympic events. In other news, our Q.A. manager went back home on the 28th of August, so once again I am without someone to help with speaking and hearing the language.

[in my best Chevy Chase accent (from Caddyshack)] Why Alex, your a great sandbagger. Kenny

It's not an Ohio thing, I learned it Texas as My Very Ellegant Mother .... I also learned to spell geography by "George Edward's Old Grandpaw Rode A Pig Home Yesterday." Now I need to return to school and update my degree in Physics. Kenny

I've only killed one by my hand. I've lost three due to other people. A guy that use to shoot with us 20 years ago, killed two of Tommy Weston's at Area 4. The RO told him to keep aiming lower, in the hopes of getting a reading. After the second one bit the dust, Tommy declared Wayne's 45 to be minor. If you switch to IR, then the problems with no reading goes away. Kenny

The spring rate is pounds per inch. However, recoil spring are listed as the load at solid height. So an 18# wolff spring exhibits 18 pounds at coil bind. It you check Lee Spring and the other manufacturers, they're specifications are listed the same way. Kenny

Fred made it home!!!!! He arrived in San Angelo at 11am today, with all of his pistols. Kenny