[2011 Area 8 Championship - Sept. 1-4]

Its too bad I did not get a sponsorship request letter from Area 8 since we sponsored it last year. Guess no free Rudy Project Glasses this time. hint hint.... LOL

Kevin,

Rudy Project is the official eyewear sponsor for the 2011 Area 8 Championship. I contacted Chris Lupo back in February and he approved the sponsorship. I believe he CC'd you on the e-mail. I'll forward you what I have. Glad to have you guys on board again this year. Let me know (via e-mail) if you have any questions.

Eric Paradisi

2011 Area 8 Championship

Sponsor Coordinator

[11 In The Mag At The Start Signal]

You have to bump the shooter to open. Be nice about it and explain why. An experienced shooter should understand, and the new shooter just learned a valuable lesson and maybe a rule.

[Cm 06-03 Can You Count?]

Shot this one today as well;

8.64 sec. 100 pts. 11.5741 HF.

Any idea what this runs out nationally? I tried the Ohio calculator but this classifier isn't in their system.

Phil Strader ran it in 6.39sec with 97 points, HF 15.1800. This was from last years Area 6 Championship. This should give you a ball park of where your score stands, approximately 76%

[Reshoots At Nationals]

It's funny that you mention the wind holding the popper up.  That was the reason that one of the re-shoots was given.  But here's the rest of the situation.  The shooter is also shooting L10 nats.  His Production load was a 200 gr. 40 at about 670 fps.  He was having some accuracy problems with the load so he was setting his mags so that every time he had a long shot, he was using his 40 major ammo for the L10's.  This was really obvious by sound, pff, pff, bam, bam.  He was using the heavy stuff when he hit the popper. 

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Do you have to declare that you will be shooting multiple loads during the match. Do each of the loads you use have to go through chrono? Just curious. Never seen anyone use multiple loads before.

[First Time Nationals]

on our way home, we stopped at white castle. another guy and i split a 20-pack...it felt like i swallowed a boulder. neither one of us ate for 24 hrs after that!

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I'm still not right after that. White Castle...BAD!!!

[Reshoots At Nationals]

Do you actually know the true reason why either reshoot was granted???

I think a better question is, Is there any reason ANY shooter should be given a Re-Shoot in the examples given?? I also saw these two stages. And I was under the impression that if you dropped the steel (even with multiple shots) you bought it. If these shooters felt there was a problem with the steel then they should have left it standing, and called for a calibration.

What is a good reason for getting a re-shoot in these situations? A big gust of wind held up the popper?? Does that fly?

I followed the Production Super Squad through a bunch of stages, camera in hand. I was on those stages for both. I don't remember what caused the re-shoot, but I do recall that when I heard why, I did not have a negative reaction. All I recall is the thought: "Sounds reasonable to me."

Patrick, what were the reasons you heard the re-shoots were issued?

Yes, the top dogs do occasionally get away with something. But the usual result of one of them "getting away" with something is that the rest of the squad rides them mercilessly and even viciously about it for the rest of the match.

Sign me up!! Sounds good to me!! I know our squad "ribbed" & "rode" each other for 18 stages and the chrono. So I think it would be a good trade to "get away" with somethings if the consequence is a little "ribbing"!!

[Nationals 2005 - Lim Prod Rev]

All I know is that I am looking for Jim Martin to win High Super Senior in the Production Division!! Any Thoughts??

[Area 8, 2005]

Kirk, it was nice meeting you on friday.

Thanks. It was good meeting you as well. We had a great squad. I guess we should have taken a minute and had a BE introduction. Now there are 4 members in our squad. Thanks for the compliments on the gun. Too bad the shooter sucked so bad.

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Now there are 4 members in our squad.

Lets make it 5. We did have an awesome squad. If we all shot half as well as we pasted, set steel, etc. we'd be much happier. It was one hell of a match.

-- Eric