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  1. Even after all this time it is nice to see this thread surface again. Scott's post is one of my bookmarked links and I reread it several times a year.
  2. I shoot home casted lead bullets in practice and plated bullets in matches. The lead bullets are much cheaper, so I can save some money while practicing and I don't mind the smoke from bullet lube during practice. The bullets have the same weight and I try to keep the velocities of the two loads as close as possible. All ammunition is loaded with the same amount of care.
  3. I'm going to gloss over alot here... Quenching is a way of achieving a particular crystal structure in the metal that is quite hard, but brittle. Cooking in the oven sounds like an annealing process. This increases the ductility of the metal. I suspect that this is done to give a better bullet-bore seal.
  4. There's actually a lot to that sentence. How much of a Natural gift for shooting does Ron have? Doesn't sound like a whole lot, but he's also a 53 year old man who holds 5 M cards...and it's not like he got them back in his 20's. That speaks for training and persistence over talent more than any argument I could make. I was thinking about "Natural gift" and running. Take the four minute mile. Prior to Bannister's run, many thought it was impossible, then in 1954 he breaks the barrier. Since then quite a few people have broken the four minute mile. Running, more than IPSC, requires certain physical characteristics. Does this mean that we, as a species, are experiencing a genetic drift towards faster runners? I don't think so. I think that training methodologies and mental expectations have changed since 1953. BTW, while I was never fat when I was young, I was definitely uncoordinated. You know that kid who was always picked last for team sports... that was me.
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    Gun Stores!

    When you worked at the camera store you provided a service... you shared your experience and expertise. Something that is actually worth something. I doubt that the average small gunshop owner has that same level of experience. I also doubt that any value adding firearms experience and expertise was shared with North (thread starter).
  6. You are thinking like a shooter, not a collector. Change your mindset to that of someone who has a safe crammed full of guns, all of them different. Another 625 isn't interesting. A revolver in some oddball caliber... now that is unusual and worth buying. There are a whole lot more collectors out there than shooters. It makes some sense for S&W to cater to that segment of the community from a sales standpoint.
  7. Thank you for the early heads up. I'm marking my calendar now!
  8. From ARPC Newsletter... These matches will tentatively be scheduled on the 1st Saturday afternoon of each month at 1:00pm on the north range of ARPC. ...If this shooting sport is an interest to you, please call Paul Johnson at 541-928-6976 for further information. Thanks. This is going to be fun. On Saturday, shoot IDPA in Eugene in the morning, shoot ICORE in Albany in the afternoon. It is a tight schedule, but I think I can manage.
  9. I'm going to miss the inaugural match. What does the schedule for future ICORE matches look like?
  10. Yup. I think alot of the BS is created by middle sized fish trying to appear bigger. Of course, the sharks know that skill will shine through no matter the context. Great match, fun stages, good shooters, and perfect weather. I'd like to thank Micheal Boyd, Tom Allen, and the rest of the COSSA crew for all the effort they put into running the match.
  11. If someone would be so kind as to post the picture? Appearances can be deceiving, asking Chris what he was doing, and for context, is really the only way to know what was going on.
  12. Yup, trying to crack a computer security convention... bad idea. The number of folks per capita who can spot a social engineering attempt is amazingly high at DEFCON, and even higher amongst the staff (a.k.a. goons). The current operating theory is that the camera was concealed in a huge locket that she was wearing. When she was shown the security goon room, one of the goons commented on how pretty the locket was. Unlike, oh, _every_ female on the planet, she didn't offer the locket for closer inspection. Another goon asked whose picture was in the locket. There was no picture. Personally, I think MSNBC was trying to get video of some script-kiddie boasting of his ub3r l33t skillz (making most of it up) in an effort to impress a female. They could turn it into some sort of shock article about the evil haxzors who can take down the siprnet with a gameboy. I'm not sure why she wanted video of feds at the con. It would have been more entertaining to get video of some of the "representatives" from other governments. A few years back there was a "press" group from a european country that were all very tan, muscular, wore go-fast boots, large dive watches, and had all _new_ camera and sound gear. This year there were parties from asian countries who stood out like sore thumbs.
  13. There are a bunch of reasons why you don't want to be close to cover. Some of them are purely competitive, some of them are based in "real world" shooting issues. Since the concept of cover helps produce realistic courses of fire, discussing those issues is germane to the thread. Bullets follow walls. After impacting a surface, bullets have a tendency to deflect at a shallow angle (around 10-15 degrees). Pie too close around a corner and that angle may be insufficient to allow incoming bullets that hit the wall to miss. It reduces the amount of new area exposed during pie-ing, allowing for easier mental processing of the exposed area and reduced chances of exposing yourself to a threat inadvertently. If the cover is a straight wall, getting too close can lead to problems. If the firearm extends past cover, it is open to grabs from a threat hidden, but close, to the wall. Even if everything is behind the wall, there is still a vulnerability to a threat popping around the cover, and initiating a close range fight that is completely unexpected.
  14. Defining cover as whatever the COF or MD says it is still runs into the problems I discussed in my post. The MD defines _this_ wall as cover. Unless there are threats visible, or a discussion of where potential for threats is, then the threat could be anywhere... like, say, uprange. A silly choice perhaps, but it illustrates in a most graphic example what the problem is. Also, without a known threat, knowing how far behind cover and how far laterally you can move is completely undetermined. Take the last stage of the classifier as an example. The barricade is cover, but the area that is behind cover is slightly different for each threats. If the threats were spaced even farther apart, the areas behind cover would vary even more. It is easy to imagine a scenario where the SO gives a cover procedural to a shooter since they exposed themselves to a potential threat to one side of the bay and the shooter assumed that the potential threat was on the other side of the bay. No gaming, no tricks, but a simple misunderstanding that can turn into a complete mess given a stubborn SO or shooter. Now, if there are actual threats there, the SO can easily say "You were standing here, and if you look over _there_ you see the threat you were exposed to."
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