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When your reloading-fu is strong, grasshopper, you will be able to tell how many cases are left by the sound the brass makes. And by how many loaded cartridges you have made, or primers you have used.
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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
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Darn!!! I'm master class, so I had better get to bed.
G'night
Kenny
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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
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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
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... I even got razzed by another shooter's mother for edging him out. ...
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
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Question:
1. Do you have to wear a STI shirt or can you still wear a custom-made shirt(i. e., Techwear) with STI logo?
2. If custom shirt allowed, anybody know where to find the specs?
Thanks in advance!
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
Double check with Don Kimball at STI but from what I understand for the 2007 requirements, the shirt needs to be black, white, and red with the logo displayed "prominently" on a custom shirt.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
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ya know, this might be a good time for Area 4 to break with "tradition" and ditch the usual 1st-weekend-in-June action. Not that I like Nov/Dec any more, but April or Oct would be out of the way of many of the norther majors and likely good or at least decent weather, and the current midsummer date has been icky for quite a few years now.
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
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Once upon a time, we had this division. When it was only a "proposed division", it was called practical carry.
Practical Carry became Production.
Mike Martin moved to add the following paragraph to the Practical Carry Guidelines:"Practical Carry Category was developed by USPSA specifically to encourage new shooters who do not own competitive guns to compete in our sport. These new shooters should be competing against shooters of similar ability. Therefore, it is inappropriate for experienced USPSA members to compete in "Practical Carry".
Seconded by Randy Cestaro. Roll Call vote requested. Voting in favor - Randy Cestaro, Mike Martin, Dave Carruthers, Keith Milberger, Steve Kalamen, Jeff Nelson (by proxy), John Hurst; voting opposed, Larry Bullock.
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.
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Any information on the prize table?
Yes, there is a prize table. Awards and etc will be on Sunday.
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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
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If you want them ugly, then here it is.
Tanfoglio/EAA Silver frame
Lightened slide (std length)
Briley LS 9mm barrel
Briley Comp
Kenny
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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
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I had a great time meeting a bunch of you guys and ladies finally. Saturday night was CRAZY in the upstairs portion of the Irish bar. I got to meet Flex, Steve Moneypenny, Shootergirrl, Steve Anderson, and a bunch of others that are too numerous to list. I also got to squad with Flying40. He is a hell of a shooter and helpful to a fairly new open shooter like myself. You all made my first Nationals an experience I won't soon forget. I will glue my comp back on my gun and try again next year.
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
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I thought if you won the championship, You got a slot????
Ivan
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.
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As promised. Attached is a photo of the shooter service ladies.
Compliments of DA45ACP.
Kenny
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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.)
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..... When the mag length was lifted is that when the box went away? ....
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).
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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
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I think that would be splendid. And, just in case we DO wind up with some long range standards - give the poor RO a golf cart so he, the shooter, a scorekeeper, and a taper can go downrange and get back quickly so that stage doesn't botteneck.
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
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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.
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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.
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[in my best Chevy Chase accent (from Caddyshack)]
Why Alex, your a great sandbagger.
Kenny
I'll be back in The World April 2007Bill, remember that my Benny Hill Special "Fat Free 40" has won a bunch of frames and slide/frame fits there at the Limited; keep the tradition going. Although that should be easier for you, as you are a better sandbagger than I am
Alex
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Pluto
in What I Hate
Exactly! My very educated friend brought up the pluto (not capitalized because it's no longer a planet) thing last night, and my response was that I was sad - that fun sentence I learned in grade school was now a history lesson. And he'd never even heard of the sentence! That was bit a shocking - he's 40+ and a professor at ASU. Maybe it's an Ohio thing....
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
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I've only killed one by my hand. I've lost three due to other people.
It seems the first thing many do when they get no reading is try to shoot "closer" to the sensors. Why is that?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
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I always thought it was what ever wieght you are using is the required pressure to collapse a coil spring one inch.
FM
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
while I was out working.
Offset Scope Mount
in Open Pistols
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I've run the Brazos offset on my gun for three years with no problems.
I had a death jam in Brazil this year, but it was because my thumb bumped the brass back into the gun and wedged itself in the hood cut of the slide. It was not fault of the gun but it took about 10 seconds to get it cleared.
Kenny
(I use the correct hand, which is my left.)