brother bad

honestly, i hit the mag release w/the middle finger of my right hand; i don't break my grip, per se as i only have to move the tip of the finger slightly to hit the release. haven't seen any other shooters doing this, but it's always worked for me. (long fingers, bony hands) ymmv.

hopalong makes some good points above. the revolver squad was an excellent group to work with; they're the kind of shooters none of us mind running, imho. check the temperature in barry these days; damned shame we didn't start the match yesterday, no? the heat wave that came thru this year was exceptionally harsh; it's usually not quite so bad, tho it IS a tad warm, sometimes. as for squad numbers, i agree; twelve is good, fifteen isn't bad, either. eighteen wasn't as bad as i expected, but i think it's a bit deep. the final shooters in squads of that size might be at a disadvantage, as has been mentioned previously. on the other hand, not everyone in the squad has to tape/set steel the entire time and turnaround time is, by and large, very short. 714 shooters in 5 days (2.5 per match). pretty good pace, overall. and, yes, there are five divisions and each one deserves recognition, in my opinion. (not that anyone listens to me, mind you)

it took years, but a couple guys at my club came up w/a popper design that is nearly windproof (unless you've got 50 mph gusts, of course). the pivot for the popper is made of round stock, attached directly to the popper itself across the bottom. the popper fits into a detachable base which has angle iron pivot points supporting the round stock; they basically 'cup' the stock. btw, the wind blows in southwest oklahoma about 357 days a year and it's not a gentle breeze, as a rule. prevailing wind direction is from the s/west, but that also varies, sometimes wildly. you can knock these poppers over w/a .22, btw, but they'll stand up to the average oklahoma/texas area winds all day long. also, for what it's worth (since it's been suggested that steel be spot painted after a competitor completes a cof) we repaint poppers/steel on every reset; then there's no question about where the hit is located. not everyone does this, i'm sure, but it's to your benefit to do so if the range officers on a given stage don't or can't do it for you. <shrug> ymmv

works for me.

what was non-standard about the perf??? and if it was non-standard, should everyone that hit it also get a re-shoot? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> no one else hit it. perf WAS notstandard; the target was defective. nothing for the rm to 'buy'; it was simply a mis-stamped target. (not something you normally run across). <shrug> so it goes.

hey shred, stage 16 didn't remotely resemble last year or the year before, in that bay. yeah, it had a door; beyond that, any resemblence to previous stages is merely coincidental. moreover, in the second match, the door didn't activate anything.

yeah, it was a trifle warm this year. i didn't mind the squad sizes nearly as much as i thought i would, tho i DID hear some shooters who weren't pleased with it. the issue wasn't so much the walk thru/air gunning time as the wait to come to the line. we allowed the shooters to play on the stage a bit before the walk thru and, by the time the post walk thru 5 minutes had passed, most, if not all, the shooters were back in the shade. most of the squads ran very well, taping, etc, with a couple exceptions during the two matches. as many of you stated above, there wasn't as much time to socialize as in previous years. some nights we didn't leave the range til after 7pm.