Poppa Bear

Just make the hits count. I am slower on steel because it dies not have a C or D zone, it is either an Alpha or a Mike. Take the time needed to call your shot. The quickest way to speed up is to improve your ability to hit a 2 Alpha or an Alpha Charlie at a longer range. When you start getting close to the same hits at 5, 10, 15, and 20 yards in roughly the same amount of time your overall times will drop considerably.

Just make the hits count. I am slower on steel because it dies not have a C or D zone, it is either an Alpha or a Mike. Take the time needed to call your shot. The quickest way to speed up is to improve your ability to hit a 2 Alpha or an Alpha Charlie at a longer range. When you start getting close to the same hits at 5, 10, 15, and 20 yards in roughly the same amount of time your overall times will drop considerably.

I cannot use mine indoors without the IR screens. With them I have always gotten solid readings. I have always made PF and they are real close to the readings at a major match. I use an old surveyors tripod as its base.

The only extra penalties possible above the extra shot or hit are those for on the line procedurals. Foot fault, mandatory reload, SH or WH etc. The Virginia count penalties are defined under their own rules.

I think Nik meant one per target.

I want to challenge you to shoot Strong hand or Weak hand or some other NON freestyle challenge, without setting up a classifier, I can set up a standards exercise that uses its own rules for a WSB. The rules are strict in terms of what i can and cannot do but I can set up a stage but it does NOT have to be a classifier.

When I am sure they did not engage it. Some targets are grouped such that you cannot say with 100% certainty that they failed to shoot at a specific target because it is available from so many places. Some are only available from a specific location so it is easy to see if they index on the target or not.

The toughest memory stages have identical targets sitting side by side. The easier ones have different heights or some marking on the targets that makes it simple to identify which target it is. Sometimes that marking is nothing more than that one target was hit accurately so that it has a big group of pasters in the A zone and the one next to it has them spread out, or it has a target stick that looks different. Find the things that make them different and visualize those defects as you plan your walk through.

My RO was local because we were the ones putting it on. I traveled 8 hours each way for my CRO course because that was the closest available.

In no way would I say that the call is 100% black or white. As an RO we have to make judgement calls based on what we see and hear. We also do not have time to play 20 questions as we try to determine if the competitor fully understood what is happening and why. We will sometimes get it wrong, but I hope that the great majority of the time we get it right. If I were the RO I would have to determine if the competitors knowledge of the English language was sufficient to fully understand what is being said. If it is typical to the shooters I deal with in my club the answer would be I do not know if any of them actually speak anything BUT English. That said if I was dealing with a new shooter I would make sure that they understood what the question was by repeating it with some slightly different words ie. "So you just now put your thumb safety on now? And not before you put in in your holster?"

Our sport is one that requires hearing protection. That protection can make it difficult to always hear the actual statement used, and we will at times respond to what we think we heard. You asked if he had just engaged his safety. His answer is what got him DQ'ed. It is possible he did not hear what you said. It is possible he heard the actual question and misunderstood what you were asking. We do not know. It sounds like this was his 6th match, so he should be a relatively new shooter. It is possible he is still learning our terminology. That said what you did is correct. He volunteered information that lead to his being DQ'ed. His later explanation put doubt in your mind and you overturned your DQ. It could have gone either way. You could have just as easily upheld your DQ based on the original question asked and answered.

Collapsible wagon which holds both my gun bag and my cooler. Three legged chair for relaxing while the previous squad finishes up, slides over the handle of the cooler so it stays in place as I pull it from stage to stage.

Yes it would be legal. Rule 2.2.3.3 States: Unless otherwise specified in the written stage briefing, all such barriers, walls, vision barriers and snow fence barriers will be considered to go from the ground to the height as constructed. This means that ANYTHING constructed to hide a target exists from the ground to the height constructed.No Shoots are NOT considered vision barriers. They are targets. So any portion of a target that is visible around a barrier, over the barrier, or over/around/under a NS or HC target is legal to shoot.

If shot over or around a wall it is legal. Under is not unless WSB specifies it as a legal location.

I use one myself. I cut the bottom out and it fits perfectly into a 5 gal pail. Spin and ALL of the media drops into the pail. Pull the basket out and pour the media back into the tumbler.

As others have said just lay down a narrow shooting area using fault lines. Keep the path fairly straight from position to position so that there is no incentive to try and navigate the course by cutting corners. This will be safer than a potentially slippery plank, and it will be more challenging for the shooters because their mind will say they can navigate the course easily, while the reality will be them having a tough time keeping their feet inside the fault lines. I predict a number of procedurals for shots fired while one foot or the other is outside of the fault line. Maybe vary the distance between the lines so that as the shooter is moving they have to keep part of their attention on how wide the shooting area is.

I ended up replacing the trigger, the hammer, and installing new pins along with the obligatory polishing and fitting. The pins were the only "Requirement" the rest was just putting in the style of hammer and trigger I prefer.

Does it just feel gritty or does it also feel inconsistent? Mine fluctuated and we determined that the pins had a slight taper that allowed the parts to shift a bit. With new pins it became a consistent 3 lb 3 oz pull. It had had several hundred rounds through it by that time so shoot it a bit to get it broken in and then look at the trigger job and any other issues that still feel off. As to the slide, oil the hell out of it, the barrel, the linkage and any other part you can get it into and work the slide a couple of hundred times to see what can be smoothed out that way and what needs a bit of polishing to get smoothed out.

It might be a little late but you could also email off your registration for the Great Plains Sectional which takes place this Sunday. Including me, many of the same people will be shooting both matches.

What Matt said!!! We understand the challenges of being a new shooter. Your squad will welcome you with open arms and gladly walk you thorough the match. You will have many new friends by the time the match is over with.

A reading comprehension problem. I missed the word frame.

D5 22 prohibits drilling holes for the purposes of lightening the slide. •Slide lightening, cuts, ports, or any milling deemed to provide a competitive advantage. So I would say it is dependent on the RM as to whether he will judge those holes as slide lightening. I myself would not judge them as an attempt to lighten the slide but as an incidental means of making a gun that is competitive in both Bullseye and USPSA SS division.

I think you need to read the rule again. It states "allowing the muzzle....", there is no verbiage that I see that states "when you have control". It's under "Unsafe Gun Handling". If the gun is not in your hand, you cannot be handling it. Still not seeing anything. You have a rule number you'd like to share that confirms what you're saying? From page 60 of the rulebook: And from page 47 of the rulebook: Doesn't say you have to be holding it, just that the muzzle points at part of the competitor's body during a course of fire. When the gun is on the table, it is no longer holstered. Holstered is the only exception to the sweeping DQ. You have control over the gun and you have control over where you place your body parts. Intentional acts that place your body parts in front a muzzle of a gun placed for a table start will be a DQ under 10.5.5.because you do have control over your own body.

I use a piece from a copper chore pad. Push it through the barrel and it strips the moly out.

You are thinking to hard. Between consciously looking for a proper sight picture and consciously counting your shots, your brain cannot multitask that fast. When the target placement and distance is short enough that you can shoot that fast you need to let the sight picture be an unconscious action. At a greater distance you will only shoot as fast as you can see the target.