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.....nope. Only local matches.

With this improved new USPSA website - anyone know where you upload results? Anyone, attached are the results. TN10_2010_11_06_Revolver.txt

watching you shoot the revolver will be worth the entry fee! lol Brad shooting revolver is entertaining. 2009MCC Brad Griffin Hey - I look good for the first 6 six shots! It is just all of the other stuff required to keep shooting that is my problem. :-)

If you plan to do a walk-up, please let me know as soon as you are very certain that you are coming.....and then you can pay me at the match. brad.griffin@gmail.com 615-415-0099

If these items are on the agenda - is it possible to publish a little more detail about what the thinking is behind some of them? Meaning - why they are on the agenda and etc.?

That is very true - however, when you force the shooter to move and shoot on the 180 due to stage design, this typically puts the RO on high alert for anything close to the 180. In other words, they may be quicker to stop someone in those situations than in "normal" conditions (and for legitimately arguable reasons). As so many know, when someone is shooting close to the 180 (170 for argument sake), spectators and RO's can actually see their muzzle. But again, the shooter is not breaking the 180. This situation just forces the RO's to be EXTRA watchful and thus potentially quicker to yell "Stop!" And in some cases, stopping folks when they shouldn't be. This is all why I tell folks, these stage situations is something they need to be watchful for in order to ensure the RO sees what they want to see.....or to ensure they DON'T see what they don't want to see. :-) But the point is - when a stage forces you to move or shoot on the 180, it does open the door for a RO to yell "Stop" for something may appear to be a safety violation.....and therefore, would be a 180 trap in some cases.

Just sent an email blast to all - something happened when I did my recent competitor upload to the self-squadding section and the data was totally goofed. So when I tried to re-load the data, all squadding information was erased. I apologize - but will need everyone to re-squad themselves. If you have any issues, questions, or simply want to call me a bad name - brad.griffin@gmail.com 615-415-0099

Most clubs in TN will have an initial "regular" fee and then a reduced fee based on whether the second run is for score or "fun."

.....it's a Norco thing.

.....we run the match four times here in central TN - twice on Saturday and Sunday. So one can shoot in four divisions or have three "fun" runs.

I have sent the question about waiving late fees to Sam.....one of us will post a response soon.

Don't worry - there are slots available. And if they aren't - we will make room. :-) Seriously everyone - this is a match that if you can make it, please do. It will be a very good one and for a very good cause. Plus, you can hang around on Sunday and shoot the same stages with your regular gun.....assuming revolver isn't your regular gun. :-)

Yes, this is a Level II match and we should have enough GM's in revolver for this match to count as a classifier in itself......so we should be getting two classifier scores from this one match. And yes, the administration side of self-squadding is back up and running (the competitor side seemed to have been working all along, just the administration side was temporary out of commission due to the conversion). And finally, I will be out of town for a week.....so if you have recently mailed in your app, I will get you registered next week.

Hey everyone - once USPSA puts out a working website, I will be able to update the online squadding with the new registrants. Until that happens, if you have any questions as to whether I have received your app or not, give me a shout: brad.griffin@gmail.com 615-415-0099

Didn't think anyone had an ax to grind.....just most complaints about the Palms comes from fear as opposed to something real. This issue Squad 10 kept having was that RO's were entering John's scores into Jonathan's (and vice versa) and that forced me to come over to "reshoot" the shooter in the Palm.....while some RO's simply over-wrote the existing score (and that is what caused many of the delays as that was the WRONG way to correct the problem). And then there was one group of RO's that were still learning the Palms and so they had a couple of issues trying to get their "system" down. The issues you saw (which did seem to be concentrated primarily with Squad 10) was just the lack of RO Palm experience and not Palm error. Like I said - the ideal thing would have been to have had more experienced Palm RO's on each stage and 99% of the issues seen would never have been seen. But we just had to do with what was available. But even with those not-so-perfect moments - anyone that has ever done stats before, the Palms beyond a miracle. All of the hits add up, all times are entered, don't have to decide if that number is a "9", "7", or a "4," and don't have to worry about fat-fingering a number into EZWin.....and most of all, do not have to enter the data from 1,300 scoresheets! :-) ....once a club uses the Palm, they will never go back to paper.

Obviously, you never have used the Palm system and seen what all it does. The match was running a couple of hours ahead of schedule and final scores were being posted within 30 minutes of the last shot fired on Sunday. Any problems you might have seen would have been due to whoever was using the Palm probably made a mistake and wasn't familiar enough with it to correct it on the spot. Because of the limited number of RO's available to us, we didn't have a large number of Palm experience to spread around. Otherwise, most errors/corrections are made within a minute or two.

Hey Jon - I have you registered. But the new website doesn't work yet so I cannot upload the data again to correct.

.....the administrative area of Self-Squadding doesn't appear to be working

here you go everyone - the finals on a combined basis. Pistol Finals All divisions.txt Pistol All divisions.txt

here are the text versions since some were having issues with a zipped file. you know - it is VERY quiet at the range when no one is here. :-) TN06_2010_09_25_Limited.txt TN06_2010_09_25_Limited_10.txt TN06_2010_09_25_Open.txt TN06_2010_09_25_Production.txt TN06_2010_09_25_Single Stack.txt

Attached are the preliminary results through Saturday...... TN Section Preliminary.zip

To over-simplify the answer: If you think of trying to get faster and still have decent accuracy, there are three components of that equation: (1) accuracy, (2) speed, and (3) combination of 1 & 2. Since accuracy and speed go together like oil and water, you have to work on those two independently and once you have a good grasp on each, then you can begin to put the pieces together. By shooting limited, which is inherently slower than open, you have essentially put a "speed limit" on yourself. By shooting open, you have raised that speed limit some and that new "speed" is becoming more natural to you....thus why going back to limited you are able to do some things faster with the same (may be better) accuracy. The analogy I like to use is running. If you are only able to run a 10-minute mile TODAY but yet attempt to run a 6-minute mile, you will end up on the side of the road gasping and returning your lunch to nature.....long before that one mile mark. If you listen to some folks, they will tell you to slow down so you can finish the mile while running. The problem with that thinking is - if you keep running at that same pace, you will always be a 10-minute runner. But if you start running with folks that already run a 6-minute mile and you train to keep up with them - soon you will be an 9-minute runner, 8-minute, and etc. That is what you are seeing from shooting open - you were simply running with a faster crowd and thus can now go faster as a result.

Just in case the email system isn't working..... ......I just consolidated the squads. Please double check to make sure that everyone you needed to be squadded with is still good and please verify your division. Thanks.......bg

From a classifier perspective - there is no real disadvantage in using a 40 vs a 9mm flavor. I made M and was a 0.2% from making GM having only 10 rounds in my magazines while living in Hawaii. The real disadvantage is going to be differences in how the two calibers times and recoils.....the 40 isn't going to be as quick and/or as flat as the 9mm flavors due to size of the round. But then again, the 40 isn't going to keep in you C-Class if you have Master class skills.

While the "you" factor is probably the largest component - but there is also the gun component. So many times a trigger job is setup with light trigger return pressure and part of that reason is to keep the overall trigger pull weight as low as possible. Combining that with a lot of movement in the trigger (over and under-travel), the gun could easily be a component folks have with trigger jams. I cannot tell you have many folks have come up to me saying they are trigger-jamming and when I take their gun the to safety area, make a few quick tweaks on the sear spring, and ensure that the screw in the trigger itself is set correctly will all usually alleviate, if not eliminate in some cases, their trigger jamming. So you might want to have someone take a look at your gun to see if some improvements/tweaks could be made to help you in this area. However, "you" are probably the largest component of this trigger jamming, just don't forget that the gun could be a material component as well.