The rules used to limit short courses to 2 shooting positions and medium courses to 3. Those limits were removed with the last rule change. Now short courses could be used like those amazing short courses seen in the IPSC videos. I know for a fact that I could make some pretty interesting short courses with 2 poppers, 1 max trap and 1 swinger and 1 static target. But yeah, it takes some design work and the setup effort to round count ratio is not like doing a 12 target hoser.
That said, if you have 70-90 people who want to give you $3K to run a hoser run and gun match every Saturday, are you going to argue on principles?
Yup! It was funny that I thought the 3' thing was universal. Stafford pointed out that the rule was for loaded guns. Oops...
When I read the rules I try to avoid the "I-word" or "that's the way we always do it" and consider the possibility of someone holstering a gun with a "FBI like" cant and have some other competitor point out it is a DQ. You know it's these "surprise" exceptions that can be a real time sink. Kind of like the word "only"
I guess the "before the start signal" could be added or perhaps just remove "loaded" and let the 3' thing stand for holstering, period.
I know. But 10.5.6 does.
10.5.6 While facing downrange, allowing the muzzle of a loaded firearm to point uprange beyond a radius of 3 feet from a competitor’s feet while drawing or re-holstering.
The way I interpret this, if the muzzle of the loaded gun points uprange more than the 3' radius, it is a DQ.
My point is that 10.5.6 does not apply to unloaded guns so a shooter holsters a gun with the slightest angle uprange is in violation of rule 10.5.2 cuz the 3' radius does not apply to unloaded guns.
Yeah, but 10.5.2 points to 10.5.6 as an exception. Looking back at these 2 rules, you get the 3' radius tolerance for a loaded gun but not an unloaded gun. Oh my.. We can now argue about it for a few pages
Sorry...
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I got a cheapie when I got my first press (a used 550). Checked against a balance, it worked but had nasty drift over time. I wound up just keeping the check weight on it and would have to cal before each measurement. In 2004, Santa brought me a new 650 with the Dillon scale included. I still use it.
I do the same. It works well. I do have a cross-draw almost horizontal pouch in front for a big stick if necessary. Pistol reload for standards and such.
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Once fired primers are not a good deal at any price!
Actually, I had something similar happed to some loaded rounds that were exposed to an impact bullet puller with extreme prejudice. The only compound that remained was under the anvil arms.
Yup! Quite a while ago, he took a bunch of us over to Catalina Island on his boat to shoot the Gun Club Halloween Match. Great Fun.
(Just checked! That match was in 2003!)
We lost a local open shooter, entrepreneur and all-round good guy. He was frequently at Norco Running Gun and was a Master class Open shooter. This is the post from his company FB page. RIP Mike...