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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

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.

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. ;-)

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...

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.

Good enough for me, ordered one. But I'm just an amateur at this 3Gun stuff.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

I don't see a lot of doc on those Kindle readers - are they generic android once rooted? Anyone seen practiscore running on one?

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?

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.

We did the same for our first beta-testing tablet. Planning to add the wake up note plus the hostname on the screensaver to make each one unique & identifiable. Anyone know how to set the wallpaper with the same type of custom image? I know the image has to be a few pixels shorter but I've been unsuccessful applying one as a background. Also, we're going to order another 6 Nook Simple Touches this week - any source to try for a better price while buy 6? Saw them as cheap as $49/ea on Black Friday but didn't get out to get any. Our registration software is also coming along nicely - exporting directly to Practiscore's PSC backup format from online user registrations. * Need another like on Facebook to finalize the name if anyone would do me the favor. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Squad-Signup/541911662487648

Syncing in general works for us too, but on this particular match it just quit at one point. New matches work, but switching back to this match still will not sync on the Android/Nook. We'll see if this repeats on other Android devices or reoccurs at a future match. I assume some score value or DQ entry is somehow causing issues.

Working with pdice on this same issue. iOS 1.5.7 on my iPhone & iPad the Nook Simple Touch is the android 1.0.12 version. We created a 4 stage USPSA match, 20 or so people in it. At the start of the match we pulled this match from the ipad onto the nook. Updated it once in the middle of the match. But have been otherwise unable to pull data onto the nook. Powered on/off, switched networks, switched "master" iOS devices to pull from. I've switched matches on the iphone - and sync will immediately work on the nook again (i.e. it'll sync a new match). It's specific to this match / results.

I've written a match registration solution for our local 3-Gun club, LAMP based, hosted on GoDaddy. Integrates with Wordpress for users and provides an admin side for keeping up with squading, invoicing, and payment. The next logical step is moving toward scoring. I use Practiscore for my own weekly match and have been impressed with it. Looking at the export/backup option output, it's relatively straight-forward, a zip file of two json files. It seems easy enough to write my own match_def.json file. Are there any APIs for Practiscore - in PHP or JavaScript preferably? Is the current JSON data model fairly stable? (I would assume so since users would want a backup this year to work next year in the updated app)

I do. When we looked at switching formats he was the first person I reached out to and was very helpful. I used to shoot his matches on a regular basis but have been busy with my own club duties and helping the local 3-Gun crew lately.

On another note, having looked all over the USPSA website and not finding it, what is the initial and annual costs of being an official USPSA club?

Thanks guys, that last ScoreSheet.zip was exactly what we were looking for now. We will work toward joining USPSA soon. We are a little weekly ~20 person, 2 squad, match where everyone shoots and we mail out scores the next day. Practiscore will probably work well for us since it's non-official uspsa matches for now.

I run a weekly pistol match for a private gun club. We've shot IDPA for years but our hardline IDPA members have moved on and I'm ready to switch to USPSA format matches. One sticking point is easy scoring. As far as scoring software that's free and hardware agnostic, are there any choices beyond Practiscore? I'm very pleased with playing with it on my iPhone but we'll need to do paper scores some nights and have people tabulate scores later - which was easy with an IDPA spreadsheet. (I see I can run Practiscore on my PC with Bluestacks emulation too) Any one have a simplified scoresheet for USPSA matches? We came up with a very simple 4-stage half-sheet of paper shooter sheets which keep match sign-up and scoring after the fact really clean & easy. if anyone want's it, idpa simple score sheet pdf: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19497930/dcwclib/Dcwc_Scoresheets_6S_2up.pdf Eventually we hope to get enough members to join USPSA and sponsor/endorse to become an official USPSA club. (And I guess we'll have to use EzWinScore to submit classifiers at that point)

The match directors have been getting calls lately about openings for this Tarheel 3-Gun Challenge match and wanted to pass the word that a few slots are still open. Round-count and stage details are starting to get posted: https://www.facebook.com/Tarheel3Gun Register at http://tarheel3gun.com/t3gc/Register

Thanks - I expected about as much when I read the slide was steel. Looks like I might go with the new M&P22 then - reports on those seem to be that they run ok.