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If I recall correctly, the PASA contract calls for only one nationals per year to be held in Barry. Even though the pistol nationals were one match last year, the 3 Gun nationals were held in a different location. I guess the two years the handgun nationals were held in Bend must have been another of those multi-year sweetheart deals, eh? PASA received no more remuneration than any other location where nationals have been held. Arnie

Hhhhmmm, that is odd, Rob. I asked my Area Director about the minutes and he replied that he had already voted on the minutes. Arnie

It would be nice if it was that easy! Unfortunately, if you have 700 shooters, competing over five days, that means 140 shooters per day. I don't believe there is enough time to run 140 shooters per day. Plus, that would not allow one division per day. Limited and Open would need two days each which would mean only one day for Lim10, Rev and Prod. Surely there would be more than 120 shooters who would want to shoot Lim10/Rev/Prod. I guess there is never an easy answer. Arnie

That would be one idea, but then why would clubs pay mission count which enables them to get slots to Nationals? Without the mission count money, USPSA would go broke. Arnie

One other disadvantage is the number of shooters per day. It is only physically possible to run about 120 shooters in a day. So, if you have one division per day, that means that only 120 shooters will be competing in each division. Slots to the nationals would be in very high demand. Arnie

The 2005 Area 3 Championship will be held July 1-3, 2005 at the Mill Creek Gun Club in Lenexa, KS. The Match Director will be Scott Hattrup. Scott can be reached at hotrodss@aol.com Hope to see all of you at the match! Arnie

Yes, you do get to see the financial reports from Nationals. Dave Thomas is not yet able to produce the report, however, as there are still bills coming in from the match. I am cautiously optimistic that Nationals will show a small profit this year. Arnie

Hey Sterling, A couple of things..... 1. How would stats know who the BE people were? 2. Is there a place to even enter this info in EZWinScore? 3. You tell stats they have to do this extra little chore! Arnie

The event is scheduled for Friday, after shooting is over. The location is near PASA Manor. That is the white house just down from S&W Hall. You will be able to find it without any problems. Arnie

I would read "no extended slide stops" to mean that the slide stop cannot be extended in length or width. I would say that your slide stop is not legal. Arnie

One question, Whizz. As for the start procedure, in the IPSC rule book under 8.1.1, I see nothing about Condition 1 (one of Vince's pet peeves) for the handgun. What would that be? Arnie

Should the AWB sunset next week, the director of Area 3 will not be voting in favor of eliminating the 10 round restrictions in Limited 10 and Production. As a matter of fact, I doubt that any Area Director will be asking to remove the round restrictions in Limited 10 and Production. Arnie

East Bumf***, MO, what are you talking about? Linn Creek is a burgeoning city of 280 people!!! And, I think they must have hidden the town diner, when Denise and I went downtown the other day we could not find the diner. Actually, we had trouble finding downtown. You mean the new phone we bought without a hand crank won't work in Linn Creek? Ruh Roh Rorge!!!! Arnie

TriggerT, Greg Lent was the chrono guy at A3. I can't think of anyone who has more experience at setting up and running a chrono than Greg. Maybe your "high" results over other chronos were because of poor chrono conditions? Arnie

So, I call Southern Bell a couple of weeks in advance to get the phone line hooked up in the new house in Linn Creek, MO. No problem, they say and set Friday, September 3 from noon to five pm. Great, Denise (dminor) will be staying at the new house in Linn Creek and even though we get there on Wednesday evening that will be only a couple of days before we can access the internet again. So....... 4:45 pm on Friday - no phone installer. I call the phone company and they check. "Still slated for this evening, sir, we work until dark". Okay, it is dark - no phone installer. Call the phone company - customer "service" is closed for the day. It is Labor Day weekend now - this doesn't look good. Saturday morning call the phone company at 8:00am - not open. At least a message says they open on Saturday at 9:00am. Call back at 9:00am - customer "service" guy tells me the installer had problems and he has to get a part for the "neighborhood service box". It will take at least a week before they can install the phone now. Everyone else in the neighborhood has a phone that works - the people who owned the house before us had a phone that worked. What is up with this? So, there sits Denise with no internet access. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Arnie