Peally

Apologies if this is a repeat, but congratulations to Mike Foley on the win! Now go right this flailing ship http://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-announcements-details.php?USPSA-Runoff-Election-Results-232

I would just be happy with something that friggen works longer than a year and can stand a light misting of rain.

Very common issue per the CED RMA folks I've interacted with. If it's fully charged and the beeper is still dead it needs to be returned. I'm on my second one, when it dies I'll just be going back to the old Pocket Pros. In a world where we can have any Glock handgun go through a billion rounds reliably it's a little surprising all the timers on the market are unreliable to one degree or another.

Wesquire you really seem to focus your threads on whether age and the assorted physical conditions associated with it affect your ability to win. Pro tip: (Within reason) age doesn't matter. Weight doesn't either. If you can grip a gun and pull a trigger straight back better than someone else you will beat them, assuming the stage doesn't involved a 100 meter iron man dash against track athletes. 95% of the time your limiting factor is your practice and how well you can self diagnose. I'm 25, in fine shape, A class production. I still get beaten by fat old over the hill guys because they're simply way more competent than I am.

No need. I guarantee even if you did create the rule that the same usual people would be destroying the same matches just with slightly different triggers. I'm not well traveled around the country USPSA-wise but the sole, massive, horrifyingly gigantic handicap that's blatantly obvious for most shooters is they'd rather pick their nose at home than practice once a year. At the higher end of the game those folks are just plain old badasses no matter what gun they end up practicing on. I would like to be able to put my low profile slide release into my HK so the dang thing functions correctly with my grip, without violating production rules, but you can't win em all. ETA: I do shoot a 45 in production and I don't feel like I have a big handicap being scored minor for what it's worth. With reloads that would make major I still feel like 9mm in many popular guns has a sharper recoil hit, but maybe I'm just used to what I'm used to.

Everyone must also have the same body mass index and have blue eyes.

Grab gun, load, top off mag, holster, ready. Doing the same thing every time can help calm your mind before the beep, but at some point it becomes ridiculous and hilarious. I've seen videos online of shooters practice drawing, sight picture, practice reload, practice reload again for extra round, seat the slide with a bump, check the chamber, seat the slide with a bump, reholster, airgun the entire stage from the start position, rest their hand on the gun, and THEN take it off and they're ready. Those sort of people require their heads removed from their behinds, there's quick and effective pre-run drills and there's acting like a dancing twit for a literal 30 seconds while everyone stares. I won't post videos, but from what it sounds like no one here has one that's THAT bad.

Hah! By that I mean "not Hi-Point, Keltec, Lorcin, Jennings, etc"

I made production A class with a stock HK45, and when I practice I'm still highly unimpressed with myself and see massive room for improvement. Practice destroys gun choice a million times over assuming it's something quality like a CZ, Glock, etc.

L10 really just needs to be called Production Major Shooting the HK45 (and other assorted OTC 45s that aren't 1911s) it's the only division it really fits into. Production style guns are what attract me to shooting, personally I couldn't care less about being fast with a race gun or even with mag wells.

If true you kinda answered your own question. FWIW I'm 25, been shooting for maybe 2 years max, and am trying to break into IDPA Master within the year. I've hardly practiced until recently; as long as your vision and strength don't completely fail you I don't see why you can't succeed if you dump in the time. The real kicker is dumping in that time and making the practice sessions actually matter more than dumping rounds and a cursory glance at the timer.