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jester121

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  1. Same reason director elections are staggered and not in the same year. Stability is good for the org, and any major change should be carefully and thoughtfully considered, slow, and deliberate. Especially for a mature one like USPSA.
  2. Any candidate or president who can't manage a 75% consensus to make fundamental changes to the org should view that as indicative of a) inadequate leadership skills or b) bad ideas. Actually it always should have been that way. Being subject to whims and easily manipulated popular opinions makes for a weak organization.
  3. I suggest people check out the USPSA podcast, and draw their own conclusions - are the directors big fat liars, or is there more nuance to these decisions than some people would like to admit.
  4. How are you so convinced that A3 and A4 members at large agree with you? Couldn't A3 and A4 have just voted their consciences, feedback be damned? At least one of them seemed to have made up his mind months ago. Very obtuse.
  5. Sure, I've gotten about 4 in stock notification emails in the past week. Just sign up everywhere and be patient, they are in the pipeline.
  6. Bunch of these hitting inventory today, got a few in stock notifications.
  7. And sometimes good enough is good enough. How many years did we Bring Our Own Straightedges? It's not a matter of economics, but rather geography -- the stack of extra overlays on my reloading bench at home is harder to reach than the hotel room key in the back pocket of my shorts.
  8. Come on now, those posts have some insightful s#!t, strewn down the Unread Content page as they are. At least it's a 4 year old account....
  9. Some of us have a near lifetime supply of the old school ones for club matches and such. And as Jay says, a hotel room key card works great as a straight edge. Especially when both of the ROs on my stage forgot to bring their own overlays to work a major and we're sharing mine. (how does that even happen?)
  10. It's pistol powder... not precision rifle loads for the Olympics. Relax......
  11. I kick myself for wasting money on the Hornady bullet feeder, go with the Mr and be done with it. Your hearing and sanity will thank you.
  12. That doesn't apply to non-residents, and it has more to do with corporate policy FUD at Cabelas than gun law strictness. Or, the Cabela's salesperson knew you were wasting their time since you weren't going to be buying one of their handguns in Illinois, and didn't want to deal with you. I've taken friends and colleagues from out of state out to a range or gun shop several times and once they show an out-of-state ID they're fine. Illinois cops don't care that you have a gun in the trunk either, we've had concealed carry for 4 years and they're all used to dealing with armed residents by now.
  13. The PPQ "extended" (+2) factory mags do fit in the production box. I think because the grip is so squished on the PPQ maybe?
  14. Not to be overly pedantic, but the COF is not complete until "Range is Clear" is given.
  15. Three thoughts -- Charging a fee up front (other than for classifieds) is a huge barrier to entry for new shooters -- all those google results would suddenly hit a pay wall, and what new guy is going to say "I just wanted to learn a bit about USPSA, why would I buy a membership on a site I've never heard of?" It would be a self-defeating policy, and leads to the death of the forum in the long term. I can't understand the $330/month hosting cost for this site, sure it's relatively high traffic, but hosting plans just aren't that expensive these days. I think the current host is on a gravy train.... Last time I looked at the donation form, it wasn't even set up with any SSL encryption, so anyone who's donated had their credit card info transmitted in plain text across the internet. Brian's subjecting himself to substantial financial liability if something gets compromised; Visa and the other brands are getting very aggressive with their fines lately. Starting in 2018 most browsers are going to start throwing more aggressive security warnings for sites that aren't running security certs.
  16. That whole issue probably does, you and TGO are referred to in just about every article!
  17. If you look at how primers actually ignite, you'll see there's nothing to be all that nervous about if they're just seated upside down in the brass. It's not the firing pin itself that makes the bang noise....
  18. No one shoots L10 or Revolver, and yet.... Maybe it was just ahead of its time.
  19. It's "just" a DVC -- by which I mean, those aren't uncommon models and if you decide you want it back in a couple years, it won't be hard to replace. It's not like a one-of-a-kind custom or anything, right? (Granted -- I'm speaking as someone who has never sold a single gun I own )
  20. You must be confusing USPSA with IDPA -- we don't simulate "bad guys" in this sport; just a couple different shapes of cardboard and steel.
  21. I'll do both this evening -- though it wasn't a traditional "crash" of the entire Practiscore app, just the scoring screen froze up, then flipped back to the list of competitors, then they went back in and the scores were gone (at least that's how it was explained to me). Anyhow, I'll send over the export files to you, I know for sure which 2 of the tablets that had the problem on Sunday. Thanks Eugene.
  22. We ran a fleet of these tablets at the Wisconsin Section match this weekend, and had a few reports about the screen freezing up for several seconds while entering scores. Then, after a pause, it would kick the user out to the list of shooters and they'd have to go back in and re-enter the time and scores. They were all on 1.4.13, I'm wondering if it's a tablet issue or a Practiscore issue, maybe something fixed in the .14 release? The patch notes referenced crashes from the automated reporting tool, but from the reports I heard these weren't hard app crashes, just what you might call a "crashed subroutine" or something like that? Based on reports it only happened maybe 5 times, on an assortment of different tablets -- all were brand new Fire HD 8" tablets. The tablets performed well otherwise, we had to shut off wifi to preserve battery life which was a bummer, in my earlier testing at club matches I'd projected we'd get through a full day of shooting with no problem, but 10 stages x 12 man squads would have been too much for the batteries. A quick 45 minute boost charge at lunch got it done, since we didn't have external batteries handy.
  23. 4.3.1.5 Scoring metal targets must be shot and fall or overturn to score. Equating "spin" with "overturn" would be a stretch.
  24. Playing golf at St Andrews would be an amazing experience, but I certainly don't want to watch my idiot friends hack around a course like that every Saturday morning. No thank you.
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