[Prod/SS - Retrieve mag from front pocket after clearing a double feed]

How about dropping the offending magazine on the ground and grabbing a fresh one off your belt? Seems faster to me.

[CHA-LEE's Tale]

Congrats Charlie. I'm glad to see you back to form after all of the trouble you've gone thru.

[How to do everything perfectly all the time]

There was a spot left an hour ago. Boom boom.

[How to do everything perfectly all the time]

You shooting centennial tonight? I'm bringing the 625.

[Passing through non scoring areas]

And if the shot breaks touches the perf you can score on both targets, just like a no shoot.

Fixed it for you.

It counts. If they didn't want it to count, the No-shoots should have been overlapped completely, or they should have added a hardcover stripe underneath the non-scoring borders.

Yup, my bad. It's easy to forget that the perf has dimension and you only need to touch the perf to count the score on the other side.

[Passing through non scoring areas]

And if the shot breaks the perf you can score on both targets, just like a no shoot.

[USPSA World Shoot Selection Policy]

At the 2014 USPSA Nationals, 22 ladies competed in Open, 17 in Production, and 17 in Limited. Only 10 juniors competed in Open, 4 juniors in Production, and 4 juniors in Limited.

Let those numbers sink in for a minute, folks.

The extensive media coverage of our female and junior shooters is completely disproportionate to the actual participation numbers--which are very small.

Media Coverage = Marketing

If we want to grow participation among women and juniors then we need to market the sport to those demographics, that is one part of media coverage.

The second part is exposure for the sponsors that help pay the cost of some of those women and juniors. By increasing exposure for those sponsors we encourage further sponsorship.

The same could be said of the smaller divisions. I believe divisions should trump categories.

[Ammo: Slow and Large or Fast and Light for 9mm Production]

In my experience, heavy bullets put steel down better than lighter bullets when loaded to similar power factors.

[S&W Performance Center 1911 (The one with the slide cuts)]

I use a lightly tuned range officer, but now I have to explain to customers that the fancy looking S&W we have for sale comes with restrictions in competition.

Seems silly. A tri-top with Hi-power cuts takes more weight off the slide than those cuts on the S&W.

I appreciate that the line needs to be drawn somewhere, but this question is going to come up a fair bit with these guns.

[S&W Performance Center 1911 (The one with the slide cuts)]

But we allow tri-topping and hi-power cuts.

It's the archer, not the.....

[Weak hand slippage]

I only experience hand slippage when I try to shoot a SIG. I tried some of these tips today when I test fired a customers P227 and it still slipped out if my left hand.

I imagine if I spent enough time with just about any pistol my body would figure out where to place my hands. It took a bit, but when I switched to a 1911 from a Revo my hands naturally moved to the grip folks talk about over a 2 month period. My left hand gradually moved up and rotated forward as I practiced.

As a beginning shooter it took a while to figure out how to place my hands on my Revo. There's all sorts of tricks you can use, but I found it difficult to have a repeatable draw and grip using the tricks. In the end I settled on getting as much of my hands on the gun as possible, as high as possible, and squeezing with both hands. The actual grip is different gun to gun, but over time my hands seemed to find the happy place.

[2017 World Shoot]

Is there a limit on how many teams we can field?

One team per division/category up to the number of slots that we are assigned.

So why do you suppose we're not fielding a team in all divisions?

[2017 World Shoot]

Is there a limit on how many teams we can field?

[What Benefit Do Clubs Get For Affiliation?]

To me as a shooter, it is worth paying for a real USPSA match. I know what type of match to expect.

I don't know what benefits are offered directly to the club, but I do not have any interest in attending a non-USPSA event so you would not see my entry fees.

I guess 3-gun could be fun, but I don't have much interest in it due to the lack of a central sanctioning body and rule set.

Thanks for the perspective Pat.

What is it about a real USPSA match that makes it worth your money? If all rules are being followed to the letter, is it it purely the classifier that does it for you?

I want to know what to expect, and what is expected of me, before I get there. If it's a USPSA match I know it will be at a certain minimum standard. I only have 2-3 Sundays a month to shoot.

[Likes/Dislikes about Indoor shooting ranges]

I am a gunsmith at an indoor range.

Ventilation is important for your employees, even more than your customers. We have our lead levels checked before employment and again every 6 months.

Many shooters are unaware of how slim the margins are in the gun industry. 10-15% is a common markup at your local gunshop, there isn't much room to dicker. The distributors sell at a lower price to the big chain stores than to the little guys. It is helpful if your retail area can carry items that are not stocked by the big box stores.

An on-site gunsmith offering general repair services will have a difficult time earning their wages if they are accessible to the public. An 8 hour day is easily eaten up answering the questions of shooters who have no intention of spending a dime. I no longer offer repair services. I only accept custom rifle work such as bedding, re barrels and full builds. This fits well with our business model as we have a 100 yard indoor range and we see a lot of competitive rifle shooters.

Consider becoming a class-3 dealer. Suppressor and SBR sales are becoming more popular. As an indoor range you can let the customers shoot their toys while they wait for the federal paperwork to clear, the transfer doesn't happen until the customer takes the item home. This is something that few of your retail competitors could offer.

[What Benefit Do Clubs Get For Affiliation?]

To me as a shooter, it is worth paying for a real USPSA match. I know what type of match to expect.

I don't know what benefits are offered directly to the club, but I do not have any interest in attending a non-USPSA event so you would not see my entry fees.

I guess 3-gun could be fun, but I don't have much interest in it due to the lack of a central sanctioning body and rule set.

[BMT Kickstand?...]

If you shoot right handed having the mount off to the left would be nice on table starts... Thus the kick stand moniker.

Your cylinder moves out and down when you open the cylinder. I suspect it would be out of the way for a weak hand reload.

All this assumes you shoot with the right and load with the left.

[Ammo not passing chrono]

All guns are individuals. It is not uncommon for otherwise identical firearms to vary wildly over the chronograph.

[Ammo not passing chrono]

It might make minor in your pistol.

The only way to know is to chronograph it before the match.

[How many magazine's?]

Here's my logic. I shoot single stack at major power factor, so 8 rounds in the mags. The worst case scenario for an 8 shot gun, would be a stage that breaks down into 5 shot positions and has an empty gun at the start. To complete this course of fire I need a total of 6 mags on the belt.

You need to figure out what the worst case scenario is given your mag capacity.

[Question about shooting in nationals?]

Seems it's the match directors saying they wouldn't want to pool their slots. Have you polled the shooters in your section to see how they feel about it.

Edited for spelling

[Question about shooting in nationals?]

Nimitz's explanation is a good one. It seems to be handled differently in different areas.

In the Eastern Colorado section, there is a qualifier series that we all have the opportunity to shoot in. The slots are first offered to the folks with the highest average across their best three matches in the qualifier series. If they're not interested, they continue down the list.

I believe the divisions with the highest participation earn more slots to be given out.

[I've fallen out of love]

I've been shooting single stack since January. I'm trying to earn a spot to single stack nats next year. It fits nicely with Revo nats.

I've been staring at the dummy cartridges loaded into the 625 moonclip on my bookshelf lately. As soon as I earn my single stack nationals spot, it's time to play with the 6-shot. You just can't help what you fall in love with. For me, it's the round gun.

Shoot what you love.

[6-Shot Neutrality and Stage designing]

How you know you're shooting ICORE

ICORE turns your bullets blue? What am I doing wrong?

[USPSA SCORING]

The real issue I have with the scoring system is my performance is not the only thing that dictates my score. My score is based on how another shooter shot a stage, better or worse. I would rather have my shooting performance only result in my score since that is what a system should be trying to judge.

You're proposing getting rid of the stage point system?

With stage points the lager stages are a larger percentage of your score. Do you want a 6 shot speed stage to be weighted the same in the match results as a 32 round field stage? That magnifies shooter errors in the smaller stages.