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Post #73 by Lynn get there around 7:00 am., start shooting at 8:00 am

get there around 7:00 am., start shooting at 8:00 am I think he means how late will the range be open Friday Afternoon or Evening to Register and look the stages over (For Saturday Shooters)

I think it's the newest one they make, but its been out for at least 6 months, maybe more. The RTS is like the STS but has a bigger glass lens on it.

Since the RTS is a pretty new unit, I doubt that there is going to be much history on it yet. I have one on my new MC open gun with the Cheely frame mount. Only 4 match's so far and all is good. Will let you know if I have any problems or after 10K or 20K rounds. Should know something by then.

Try contacting Taran Butler. Someone said he bought the Bolen parts. http://tarantacticalinnovations.com/

There is 132 slots plus staff on the USPSA Self-Squadding Page

Download your Entry Form and Release and Waiver of Liability at www.casarange.com. Complete both forms and enclose a check payable to Arkansas Section. Mail both forms and check to the following address: Ron Johnston – Match Director 17824 Burlingame Road Little Rock, AR 72223-9631

Looks pretty good unless you just shoot the popper and then have to wait on the swinger to come. Always nice to have something else to shoot. Hard to tell with stages on paper though.

Check with Max at www.gunsteel.com (Home of the Max Trap) He's been making targets for lots of clubs for Local, Area, and National type match's for years.

Look back at post #162

Prob. 1-2pm on Friday Afternoon. Whats traffic usually like on raceweek? Is it early enough to just come in 70 and go around Indy on the 465 bypass. Then head north on 31?

If your coming from St. Louis, what is going to be the best way around the Nascar Indy race and up to Warsaw???

Michelle said at the match that it would be 2 weeks before the pictures would be on the web page. I think they were going to be out of town for another week at least. Not sure why the web page is not working at all, but if it was they still wouldn't be up there.

See Post #155 There will be a prize table for each division based on order of finish. Prize table current value something over $30,000. Ray

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Non- residents must be legally eligible to possess or acquire firearms and ammunition in their state of residence. It is recommended that, in order to be in compliance with all statutes, non-residents transport all firearms: Unloaded, and Enclosed in a case, and Not immediately accessible or broken down in a non functioning state. Above from IL State Police Web-page I would also recommend mags unloaded. I keep gun in a bag, mags unloaded, ammo in separate ammo containers (box's, bags etc.) with all of it in my range bag. If you have a car put your range bag in the trunk, If you have a pick-up put it behind the seat on passenger side. The only trouble you'll get into would be for something else your not supposed to be doing. Like speeding or throwing beer can's out the window.

Any idea how long someone might be at the range Friday Evening either to register and or look over the stages?

He sends a special one with the bullet feeder. I went ahead and used the one he sent. I think it needs a little more bell than normal so the bullet gets started in the case well.

Anything that needs to be seen or done other than the shooting while in the Phoenix area? Whats the best steak house or food? Jeff

I haven't heard how many shooters they have this year, but generally we've been done shooting between 3:00 and 4:00pm.

There is a link for it on the USPSA major match results now that wasn't there last night. So I'm sure they are working on it and will have something up before long.

Maybe make it "start in box A or C" and even it out for the lefties. Never mind, May not work with PP1 and the swinger.

10 stages last year

To give you guys an idea of what has to happen to setup a match with stagescore and EZ Win Score. The day before the match, the stages are set-up on a palm with the stagescore scoring program on it. Lets call this the master palm. Then a new match is started in EZWin Score (EZ)(the official uspsa scoring program running on a laptop computer)that we take to the range. The stage set-ups are uploaded from the master palm to EZ the day before as well. The morning of the match as shooters come in and register we sign them up and have them fill a half sheet of paper out to use as a registration form for EZ, a way to help set-up squads, and for now to write the Palm Stagescore Summary results onto (As a paper backup) I have the form by the laptop and start selecting shooters names into the EZ match registration. EZ has a masternames database that keeps all shooters names on file that have shot at our club before. You select a last name tab, find the shooter and confirm the division and class and PF. Any new shooters are typed in and entered into the match as well. When everyone is entered or you reach whatever cut off time for entering, you download the names from EZ into the master palm (along with some spare walkin slots)thru a USB interface cradle. You now have all your shooters in the master palm but it puts them all in a single squad called 99. As the half sheets start to come in and are put in EZ we start laying them out on a table. We know we have 5 stages and want 5 squads. We know we would like to have 2 RO's and at least 1 or 2 people that can run the palm stagescore. We know we want to divide the total numbers of shooters into 5 equal sized squads. We know we will have a few really new shooters that will need extra attention plus squad reqests to shoot together. So now we have 5 squads layed out together and want to squad them in the palm. (they all start out on 99) What seems to work the best is one guy reads out the names for squad 1 and using the master palm I move them from 99 to squad 1, then same for squad 2, and so on. Plus put a few walkin slots in each squad for a late arrival. You can do the squading in EZ before you download the names to the master palm but that seems to take longer. You could also let each squad pick the names and move people from 99 to 1,2,3 etc. but with limited palm experience it seemed like it would cause more problems. Anyway, once we have done the squading in the master palm then you can beam the stages, and shooter names with squad set up to the 5 palms you will be sending out with the squads. This is done with an IR beam as you put the master palm alongside each stage palm one at a time. Most of this goes pretty quick put it still is a series of events that need to take place. We have been starting signup at 8:30 and been ready to shoot once at 9:30 and once at 9:45 I think. Before it might have been 9:00 to 9:15 just registering and handing out paper scoresheets.

Right now we're interested in getting stagescore working the best we can, not going back to the old way. Maybe that will change later, don't know yet. I'm pretty much always around.