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Good luck and have fun!!

If you run limited, there is no ammo limit.....

You can load 11 rounds into 1st mag(leaving 10 rounds after loading chamber for run) and then only 10 per mag after that....

I would think no more than 5 mags would be needed. They are limited to 10 rounds by rule and most competitors I've watched carry no more than 4. It never hurts to have an extra mag or 2.....

Actually, only 3.5% of donations to WWP go to veterans, as per last tax statement......

Wow! Do you also support adding time (+2) to the score sheets of shooters who don't help with teardown? (-2) scoring for shooters who do help with teardown? (-4) scoring for shooters who help with setup? Seriously, you would take a customers money for the match fee, then fail to deliver the services/product by "losing" their score sheet? If said scoresheet is lost as a result of club bias, are the match fees refunded, otherwise that's outright theft. Just for the record I always help with teardown, help with setup when I can (I live 2+ hours away from some matches 3+ from others), patch, set steel, RO, etc... But I consider your clubs tactics as unacceptable and unbecoming a volunteer sport! Wow....that flies in the face of what this sport is all about. I understand what its like to watch people just shoot the match and leave without helping clean up afterwards, but that doesn't give you the right to "punish" them by "losing" their score sheet. That is despicable and bordering on illegal. If I caught a range doing that to me, there would be he!! to pay......On our range, they require all brass to be picked up and either taken home or put in the brass buckets. Some of the shooters bring tarps, (I actually just bought the black mesh one) and lay them out as we shoot. At the end of the match, those that want their brass (especially the 38Super guys), we divvy up between us...everyone has been very cooperative and easy going about it. I'm thinking of getting the brassmower as well, as I can't bend down very easily anymore...LOL

Does anyone here in Florida know if there are any ranges that host Pro Am shoots, other than the championship?

I just finished watching Hot Shots on the sportsman channel and they had Max Michel shooting at the ProAm in USA. That looks amazing. I'm glad to hear its going to be here for 2015, however, not sure I'm up for running and gunning steel in 100 degree heat and 90% humidity... . On the other hand, I did shoot the steel challenge 2x a month since May of last year, the summer was pretty brutal tho...but I did survive....I'm going to be shooting my first Nationals here in march for the US Steel Nationals. I'm very excited about it. I may try the ProAm, it looks like too much fun......

I clean my gun/guns after every shooting....................

I RO'd both my son and my wife. It was the first time either had shot in competition. I prefer it, as I'm the most skilled of us. I taught my wife the rules of firearms, long before she got a gun. I have taught her how to shoot and have been with her every time she has fired any guns. The rules ALWAYS have to be enforced, whether its your wife or girlfriend, friend, stranger or even enemy.....

I have only been shooting competitively since May of 2014. I am shooting the steel challenge. The first time out I shot my 9MM, after I saw how much ammo I shot, i decided to go for .22. The first couple of times, I was squadded with other new shooters and didn't see a lot of progress. So after that, I found out who the best shooters were and squadded with them and thats when I found out 2 things. 1 I sucked worse than I thought, it was very humbling, but with help from them I got better. Every match my times improved. After finding out my range will be hosting the US Steel Nationals, I went back to shooting the 9MM. At first, it was hard getting used to the stronger recoil, however, after shooting the .22 for 6 months against much better shooters, my skills improved as well when I went back to the 9MM. The first time I shot the 9MM I scored a 265 for 6 stages, the last time I shot a 171 for 6 stages. I credit my faster times to shooting against the best at the range and watching and listening closely to them.

VCGHC looks like they will be hosting the nationals from here on out....Which I think is great, since I only started shooting competitively since May of last year. Now I can shoot in the nationals and its in my own backyard! While I'm not very fast....actually, more like turtle slow, but, it will be fun to compete against the best shooters in the country.

I shoot a CZ 75B SA for centerfire and have a Kadet kit for shooting rimfire.