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  1. For that finishing touch, Casey's Aluminum Black works really well to make the engravings match the shotgun a little better. Took about 15mins. http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/metal-prep-coloring/blackening-browning/aluminum-black-prod4941.aspx
  2. A lot of us marked DNF were staff that just didn't have time to shoot through the match or shoot with the ROs earlier in the week.
  3. Results are here for inquiring minds ---> https://practiscore.com/results/?uuid=e43ec539-7fc6-4229-a84a-71b2764c7393 Many thanks to the folks at Niffty Bytes / Practiscore. Now if we can only talk them into per-stage results for Time-Plus matches like they have for USPSA and Time-Plus-Points match formats. ;-)
  4. Practiscore does an awesome job at what it does. Most amazingly for the price we all get it at thanks to the generosity of it's sponsors. The app does not need enterprise level security. Folks as is can have enough problems just getting it up and working. For big matches, just bring in the appropriately tech savvy people to run them if you're concerned about security issues. You can still do a private network which is locked down to your Nooks MAC addresses only. There are plenty of control steps to take on the network and match admin side to keep it secure and not try to burden Ken & the Practiscore guys with core security stuff when they could be off adding new score statistics, match types, and other usable features for the niche it fills so nicely. @ Nifty Bytes & Practiscore, thanks again for the app and the continued development. I'd still like to see some score posting/integration within our own club websites though. ;-) Even an iframe link would rock...
  5. Practiscore Wordpress Plugin -- I'd love to see a simple Wordpress plugin we could use on club websites to publish results. Uploading, organizing, and keeping match scores has been a common requirements with every club I've deployed squadsignup.com with so far. I even wrote a tool for folks to upload and publish your results.zip to their site but it's still fairly manual. Some sort of off-the-shelf wordpress plugin to display your clubs prior match results within our own websites would be awesome.
  6. Good enough for me, ordered one. But I'm just an amateur at this 3Gun stuff.
  7. The regular Nook Simple Touch definitely seems like the "perfect" device. They seem to survive all abuse except being left in the cold. Our first Practiscore match, a February match, and we left them in the truck overnight. All 11 fully charged NSTs said dead-battery with 100+ competitors assembling around us in the morning. We fired up the truck, set the heater to max and turned on the seat warmers, shortly thereafter, all were ready to go with the batteries mostly recovered. We've done a few Nook Simple Touch Glows, they're great for night matches but are definitely less reliable. We have to reboot them more often. http://squadsignup.com/the-tough-little-nook-simple-touch/ As far as wifi goes, we see some of the same issues with NSTs not auto-reconnecting. Although we've never had an issue manually reconnecting by simply tapping the icon up top & selecting the wifi network. For a big match, we hung a dd-wrt flashed router, running on 12v batteries, about 35ft up in a tree to keep several stages connected. To get better range and a more reliable connection we found these wifi router settings helpful: (wrt54gs router) Essentially these settings take the router down to the most basic function without much overhead. We also do a half-C network, I assume it helps the devices "find" one another quicker. mask 255.255.255.128 No crypto B-only 1-2 MBps Rate Burst = off 200 mW radio output 3218 ACK Timing Afterburner = off Auto Preamble (check using SHORT) DTIM = 9 Beacon = 150ms http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Advanced_wireless_settings
  8. Thanks for the mention of SquadSignup guys. That's my project, and while it's my own 'after their 9-5 gig' it's been scaled up slowly and gets tested several times a month now with the Tarheel 3-Gun club and some smaller ones. We aim to be the most practical shooting oriented event registration offering out there and have really focused on self-squading (with division switches) lately. If your club needs online registration, invoicing, Practiscore integration, for 3Gun, USPSA, or IDPA check us out.
  9. That article was sadly lacking in terms of photos of this new toy, was hoping to see details of the lifter, rear site, and picatinny rail (top optic rail) they added to it.
  10. I realize this thread is a few weeks old now - has anyone heard anything more on the versamax 3-gun edition or more production info or images of it released?
  11. I checked the Kindle Store, I do not see Practiscore listed. I don't think the Kindle PaperWhite is an option for Practiscore use unless I'm missing something.
  12. Yeah, we start our match outside at 630pm. During the summer, we'll have to contend with daylight for an hour or more hence I'm asking about the cheaper e-ink options before spending my budget on Nexus 7 tabs. Once rooted, can the NST with Glow get the Glow/backlighting option to work?
  13. I don't see a lot of doc on those Kindle readers - are they generic android once rooted? Anyone seen practiscore running on one?
  14. I need to buy two tablets for match scoring (Practiscore) at a weekly night match. I'm looking for something with backlighting - the NST with Glow doesn't have the Glow lighting working once rooted. Any other tablet solutions to suggest? Fallback plan is for a pair of Google Nexus 7 tablets but was hoping to spend a bit less than those two. Simple Touch on a clipboard with led reading lights perhaps?
  15. Same at our range. We run matches at the end of the range, right up against the berm. Public/open hours are the main concern, with an RO and SO both watching the shooter we get a pass for matches.
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