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You highlighted a correct part. Lots of support and stability offered up by Mother Earth. Not while the shots are fired. What is the stabilizing object that allows you to make that leap?

You highlighted a correct part. Lots of support and stability offered up by Mother Earth. Well said!!

Appendix A3: Fault Line . . . . . . . . . .A physical ground reference line in a course of fire which defines the limit(s) of the shooting area. Leaping up and down does not change where your feet make contact. If the feet make contact outside the shooting area on the way up and contact outside the shooting area on the way down then you are outside the shooting area. So to make an extreme example we will take a shooting area that is narrow. If the shooter starts from outside the shooting area and leaps across the shooting area without ever making contact with the ground inside the shooting area then any shots fired while their body is in the air over the shooting area are still considered procedurals. You can't have it both ways so as long as you "start in" OR "end in" you are "in", IF you "start out" AND "end out" you are out.

We may or may not have a classifier. The deciding factors are what do the shooters want, when did we last have a classifier, is someone taking the responsibility themselves to set one up? We shoot 8 to 12 a year between practice nights and monthly matches so we are not lacking on classifiers.

He never let go of the grip. Had he let go it would have gone straight down. It was close though because there is a point where you expect the gun to stop and you start to relax your grip. He was quick to realize the gun was not snapping in like it was supposed to and tightened his grip back up as the holster came apart.

I've had shooters stop themselves and I gave them a reshoot. One came around a barrel and immediately noticed that some steel had fallen over. They stopped without firing a shot and asked me to come around behind them. I also saw the steel down so I officially stopped him. It would have been so easy to just pop a couple of rounds in that general direction and I never would have known the steel was already down. It is nice having shooters with integrity who know the rules and who want to earn their scores honestly.

We could fill pages with all the people who have gladly handed over guns, mags, ammo, parts, or just donated their time in fixing a gun. That is what makes this sport what it is. Our willingness to help our fellow competitors.

I increase my charge when it no longer makes PF. The first thing I would try is to make some dummy cartridges that are NOT crimped and see how long you can load them before they no longer fit in your magazines. I would then shorten them just a bit and crimp just enough to remove the bell and then see if it fits in your barrel. Usually it is the magazine that is the deciding factor for OAL but occasionally you run into a barrel that has a short chamber. Now you know your max OAL and can experiment with different charges and OAL's until you find the loads sweet spot. You might also find that your sweet spot is related to your PF. My most accurate loads run around 175 PF. If I lighten the charge to around 165 they start to spread out. If I increase it to above 175 they stay pretty close but the recoil gets stiffer. What determines PF? It is speed times bullet weight, so when I get to around 940 fps the bullets seem to mesh well with the guns barrel length, rate of twist, guide rod, recoil spring, and Heavy magwell. I have tried a couple of different bullets and the key factor seems to be getting at least 925 fps or better for 185 gr or 1050 on 165's.

We had one shooter come REAL close to getting DQ'ed. Holstered his gun after Make Ready and unknown to him the screws holding the holster together had backed out. When he holstered the gun it popped the screws free and the gun started going straight through. He had enough of a grip on the gun yet that it did not make it all the way through the holster before he was able to stop its fall. Had him ULSC, bag it, and then sent him back to repair his holster.

I use the Competition Electronics ProChrono Digital Chronograph. I had problems to start with using it indoors so I bought the indoor light kit. I use that kit indoors and out and I have not gotten an ERR reading since I started using it.

On my tubes they all like to hang up around 16 to 18. I then smack it against my hand while applying a bit of pressure on the top round to bounce it past the flashing and they all take 20. Two are #8's and are the hardest to get 20 into but take 19 easily, two are #5 followers and take 20 real easy. One of them I bet I could get 21 but I am not going to push it that hard.

Last fall I shot the same load out of both my 16" and my 24" across my chrono. Memory serves it averaged about 350 fps difference. I believe it was a combination of factors like the 8" of extra length, the 1-7 twist to a 1-9 twist, the 5.56 chamber to a Wylde chamber.

I do not have one myself but if I ever felt I needed to pull several bullets I would use this instead: Collet bullet puller

I keep the gun closer to a straight alignment (no cant) while putting more bend into my elbow. The Saul Kirsch method.

Does it affect his freestyle grip? If it does I would be inclined to assess no penalties being as the disability negates any overall advantage. He has an advantage shooting strong hand only on weak hand only strings but is at a disadvantage when shooting freestyle strings.

Something pointed out to me is the timing and repeatability of the RO's start. One who consistently beeps about 1.5 seconds after Standby allows people to start gaming the stage. Myself when I say "Standby" I start pushing the button with increasing pressure as I count. Sometimes it beeps at about 1 second. Most times it is 2 to 4 seconds before the pressure is enough. I have seen others that keep their finger off the button and at a time they feel is right, and predictable, they slap their finger down.

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Why bother putting that in the WSB? It's already in the rulebook. To explain - One of my pet peeves is the inclusion of unnecessary information in the WSB. Why repeat something which is already in print? All it does is waste time and the shooters start to wander off (mentally). Keep the WSB short and to the point, only including the items required by rule (3.2.1). If the shooter doesn't know the rules, well..... it becomes a learning point when he earns a bunch of procedurals. I would agree that the mention of applicable rules would be better accomplished as part of the shooters meeting. More of a Stage X is a legal stage so do not argue its validity. If you want to refresh your memories look at Section 1.2 as well as section 10.2 of the rule books I know you all have in your range bags. I have already designed a couple of COF's under 1.2.2.3 and I expect them to be questioned as soon as they see 5 to 8 available targets from one box.

Also there's a way to get away with only 1 procedural I think. Shoot T1-T6 with one round each, and T6-T1 with one round each. Since T1 was the last target and only one shot was fired "after the point where the reload was required", then only 1 procedural. It is true that they could get by with one procedural. The time wasted making all the transitions will more than compensate for the penalty they avoided.

This is off the top of my head, but I would think that either placing a definitive gap between arrays to suggest a reload point or placing all targets in a continuous array and suggesting the reload before the last target is engaged can be accomplished by writing the rule 10.2.4 penalties into the WSB. "Shooter must perform a mandatory reload AFTER the first target and PRIOR to engaging the last target. Competitors who fail to execute the mandatory reload will be assessed a procedural penalty for each shot fired at the last target prior to reloading as per rule 10.2.4."

I should expand a bit on some of the shooters who disappear before the last shots are fired. We have a couple who are gone before the last shooter has shot, BUT we know they are leaving and they are some of the hardest workers when it comes time to set up. We know that given a choice they would stay but they have other commitments they need to take care of. We also know that many others would say I do not have the time to spare and would not show up at all. Just this year we have had several people show up just to help set up even though they needed to leave shortly because they only had an hour to spare. We've had others who have shown up announcing that they did not have time to load anything up for the week or who just got back into town and didn't have time to run home and grab their gear so they were going to be the designated RO for the evenings practice match. So find some good people, let them play to their strengths, thank them when they do things like I mentioned earlier in this post and try not to burn them out.

When looking for the core group spend time finding those who are also good at woodworking, steel fabrication etc. They may not necessarily be part of the core group but knowing that you have someone who can do some welding or build some props can really come in handy. Most clubs have 3 tiers. Core group who do a lot of the match work. The workers who are good at building stuff or helping out with the occasional setup. Those who are there to shoot and who might lend a hand breaking down but many times are gone almost as soon as the last shot is fired.

First if you get your club up and running you will find a core group of 5 to 6 that do 95% of the work. Work hard to bring in fresh blood or they will burn out quickly. If Friday and Saturday are the same match then it is all scored the same. If you run classifier heavy you can decide to allow them to shoot through twice, shoot separate divisions one on Friday the other on Saturday. You can also do like we do, anyone who wants to shoot the classifier in another division just pays an extra fee and shoots it twice. We will frequently set these shooters up so that they shoot early so that they can go back and change guns. They then shoot the re-entry after everyone else has completed their first run.

My first mag is in the middle, that is the mag I put in at make ready because I mostly hit mag 2 if I am doing a reload. I have on occasion grabbed mag 3 instead of 2. My tilt lessens as it closer to my hip so mags 2 and three are less than an inch apart at the basepads.

Our usual outdoor range filed for bankruptcy last fall so even now we are doing all of our shooting indoors. It is tough designing challenging stages when you cannot shoot steel and cannot fire off to the side unless the design allows for a cross range shot that still impacts the backstop. That said I do as much as I can to design stages that allow for multiple ways to engage the targets and either allow them to start anywhere in the shooting area or specify a rear center start that forces everybody to choose their best order of engagement. Thanks to this thread and its rules discussion as well as some other threads along the same lines I think I can now put together some challenging Speed Shoots that are fully rules compliant.