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I know they said that, but 10.3.5 covers a DQ that happens after completion of the main match — not during it. DNROI and RMIs have both maintained that point at other matches. For most side match competitors here it was a side match during the match, not after it. That’s a made-up exception, not an application of 10.3.5

And you don’t want too wild a side match — since side match DQs apply to the main match,

Me too. My best clean time historically was 1.55. My on-demand time is a couple tenths off that. I saved myself $20 and just watched in appreciation.

Exactly that! The Timer RO was lazy with data entry for non 6A, for understandable reasons (they couldn’t win), so those got entered a little haphazardly. And I didn’t mean to come off as aggressive: the winning time did land one in the miss-catcher on a USPSA target. Of the fastest times, all of those shooters had multiple attempts, some even faster, however not clean.

it was scored on paper. You can debate the winning time (5 in a grapefruit sized group, 1 in the upper A), but I’d rather marvel at the achievement. For most people with low numbers it was 4-10 attempts. I saw some 1.5x with 1 of 1 attempt, although there was a disqualifying C hit. I suspect the best on-demand time was 1.6X clean.

draws around .6, splits <.14. I don’t think anyone put out a draw faster than high .50s, a few people had .11-.12 splits. Nobody quite managed to do both across six shots (since .60 + .60 = 1.20).

Haha, you all ran that double bay well. That particular stage flattered me: would that it were reflective of overall match performance!

For 3 and 6, the scoring zone of the NS and the A line up perfectly (nice job setup crew!). The surface beyond the perforation doesn’t exist. The only scoring area available is a C. So C/NS. For 1 and 8 there is no target available outside of the NS — the perforations overlap, and so there is no delta. 4 is an A because the bullet impact extends to or beyond the perforation, and the scoring zone *next to* the NS is an A on that facet. You need to merge your understanding of scoring overlapping targets with your understanding of perforations.

Be aware that missing your grip slightly or weak hand transfer will come with added risk of spontaneously ejecting your magazine.

I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you, to discover that a thread about what’s great in USPSA becomes a discussion of what’s wrong in IPSC.

Piggybacking on the original comment: mutual intelligibility of USPSA across regions and local club cultures. Because of rule and division uniformity, and hit factor scoring, I can reasonably understand results of a match I did not witness at a club I have not seen. I’ll add the classification system. That’s a massive benefit. It gives us little folks grinding away at our small local matches a quasi-objective measure of improvement, an interim goal, and the satisfaction of attainment. Lot’s of people find lots of other reasons to keep shooting, but for new folks especially I see classification as the tie that binds.

I had a front sight fly off. I didn’t replace it. Ultimately I realized that it flew off because the front lip of the slide cracked slightly: which became obvious when the bushing walked out under fire, despite the roll pin being in place. I’ve seen several other S2s crack at that lip, and I suspect but can’t prove that aftermarket bushings contribute. On that slide I had a small channel etched, and then welded the slide back together, and the bushing welded in place. I have zero confidence it will hold, so it’s mostly a dryfire gun now. Typically my fiber flies out, and not replacing it is preferable to me: in bright sunlight the bloom of the fiber can distract my eye from the target. 99% of the time I do not notice that the front sight is there, with or without fiber.

Awesome, thank you!

Hello! A friend recently picked up an MPA DSA9 and is trying to get the right DAA insert block for an Alpha-X holster. Anyone know off hand which of the options align best with the MPA guns? I’m assuming they are profiled the same as CK guns, perhaps erroneously. DAA hasn’t replied to direct info request. Thanks!

@Reds_Dot still right there with you. I think Cha-Lee said, “everybody just looks at the results until they find their name.” Sometimes we don’t have to read many (any) names. And sometimes we have to read a lot. It’s a rare bird that reads past their own. Looking forward to updates from iron sights.

The fact that the auto mod still fixes the division / PF combination that shall not be named makes me smile.

I was very vocal in that moment, but I did not direct it at the RM (or anyone else, not my style). As a level 3 run under “covid rules,” perhaps it was a more exceptional event than I understood. I can say categorically that steel calibration was delegated to CROs at that match, since I was a CRO on another stage.

I can’t speak for all RMs, but at multiple majors I’ve worked RMs haven’t checked all steel, and have instead instructed the staff for that stage to during the staff walk through. In this instance I should have checked it myself.

I shot a level 3, that I was working, on staff day. Arriving at our first stage that had been set by the crew responsible for it and cleared by the RM, we were hurried to get started because they had added four paying shooters to our RO squad. I was the first shooter. I center punched two full size freshly painted poppers through a port and left before seeing them fall. I got to the last position, with four pieces of steel. *dingdingdingding*. Four center hits on 2 minis and 2 full size poppers. One mini fell. Rest were still standing. I shot two of them again. Still standing. ULSC call for the RM. Forward falling steel. First two full size poppers go down. Mini in the front position goes down. The 4th piece of steel that they calibrated, with 2 hits about 2 inches apart in the center of the calibration zone, finally stays standing. I get my reshoot. My ammo was 138pf in minor. It happens. I would have been very sad to start a match I was losing money to volunteer at with 5 mikes because the steel had been profoundly improperly set.

Your interpretation is correct. It’s a true 10 for any start specified as unloaded in the written stage briefing.

Understood and thanks!

so where do people congregate now? where can someone find the 2005-2010 benos experience that I got into the sport too late to enjoy?

Rob Leatham is a living exception. Calling someone exceptional is the opposite of underselling their accomplishments, but we will just have to disagree here.

Very lucid explanation! Not at all carving out excuses on the basis of age. Mostly empathizing with @Reds_Dot explanation of limitations. Negotiating constraints is essential to skill development, age and physical ability only being one such constraint. Personally, the greatest limitations on my development are a) lack of insight into process; b) lack of time (maybe 15 hours/week to shooting in total); c) inept practice; d) physical decrepitude, in that order.

you, and Jason Bradley, and a few others are the exception that proves the rule. Generally there are hard limits, especially in iron sighted divisions. also, to be clear, you were already there.