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Treadmill time this week was good. Shortchanged the dry fire part because...well...in the long run the exercise will be better for me than the dry fire. Still did some, but not the solid 20 to 30 minutes that it takes. Next two weeks will see even less shooting/dry fire as the end of tax season nears.

Wonder if shooting indoors makes that number grow. If they tell you to stop sucking your thumb tell 'em you'll need to replace that with beer. Either way, fix it.

Exactly how does a lottery rid those above an beyond the initial competitor limit of a last minute notification?

RW...Cool!

Except maybe the quality of restaurants right by the hotel.

Good workout today, especially since I didn't even come close to feeling like getting on the treadmill. Did. Pretty mellow dry fire session. Workd on getting the grip right during the draw from both hands at sides and surrender. Need to keep working on getting that solid left hand grip without taking (wasted/counterproductive/bad bad bad) the time to lock out the elbows.

Thanks Stu Wish you were there to School me. On second thought. Wait til the Qualifier series is over

Match day again today. Quite the drive to get to this range, but they did us right with some very good stages for their Qualifier match. Nearly two hours of driving gave me plenty of time to decide my strategy for the match...especially since Nationals made it quite clear what the strategy should be for all but the Aurora matches. Shoot at 90% until i'm capable of knowing exactly where that is. Then, go to 95%. So, for today, told myself 90%, see the dot, good grip. Shot every stage at 90% except the last stage (4) of the day for me. Had a swinger start up prior to activation and had to shoot the stage again. So, decided I'd make sure I didn't throw away my good match on the last run. Shot that one at about 85%. In retrospect, 90% would have been a sweet deal: I missed out on winning Open by less than 8 match points. Oh well. Shot the match clean. Reloads were good enough. 93% of available points. No Mikes or No Shoots. Had 3 D's, but two of them were on stage 4 and I took those intentionally so I'd stay away from no shoots around a swinger. Didn't win even a single stage but in the end, the results were AWESOME

Match day today. Shot OK, especially considering the setup and other duties that make the home club a long day. Best part of the day was "learning" some of the intricacies of shooting prone. Went back and did it a couple of extra times just to get the feel of it. I was quite depressed that I had too many D's and 2 M's on 99-09...and all of them (except 1 D) were on the prone string. By the 5th time shooting that string the points and time were good enough that I know if I get the pleasure of shooting that classifier again I'll get a 90% or better.

Not as much time on the treadmill, but setting up tomorrow's match will more than make up for it.

Site the rule. ? 9.1.5 says it's scoring zone is covered by an impenetrable target. The picture above witht the NS not stapled to the underlying target is poor stage setup. Under your definition, even placing black tape on the target wouldn't keep it from being scored as an A unless the black tape was far enough into the C zone that no bullet diameter could touch both scoring lines.

Same routine today, but a much better mindset for the dry fire. Dropped one reload the entire session. For me, that's tetons.

Agree wholeheartedly! Flex is the master at finding these things.

You're placing the if in the wrong part of the rule book. There is no "if" in 9.1.5. There is nothing in the descriptive addendums that change the overriding definition of the scoring area as being impenetrable.

Sure it can. It's the basic definition of tangent. This is real simple to test. Grab two pennies. Stack one on top of the other (flat). Now, you can still touch the edge of both pennies...even though one penny seems to completely cover the other...the edges (equates to our perfs) are still touchable. Sure, if you cut the target at the perf you could touch the side of the perf. But, stacked on top of each other, you can never get to the top/leading edge of that second penny/perf...only behind it. That entire leading edge of the bottom penny is completely blocked by the penny on top because the scoring area of the bottom penny/target is completely behind the impenetrable area of the top penny/target. It's pretty clear that even in your example, you would not be able to show contact with the scoring edge of the bottom penny.

The key to this is the "scoring area". Unless the A zone's scoring area is outside the scoring area of the no shoot, it is behind the impenetrable part of the no shoot and therefore the bullet cannot hit the A zone.

OK...Scoring area includes the perforations. Scoring area is impenetrable. A perforation directly below another perforation cannot be touched by the bullet, by definition. Yes, it ends in a colon... 9.1.5 Impenetrable – The scoring area of USPSA scoring targets and noshoots is deemed to be impenetrable: But none of the rules sub this statement alter the initial statement in any way. They only provide examples of how to apply the rule. No perf, no points.

So, it would be the same if, instead of a no shoot, it was hard cover then right? Under this interpretation, there is no such thing as a scoring border unless it is more that one bullet diameter from what the desired edge should be? Doesn't make much practical sense to me.

40 on the treadmill and 20 dry fire for the last two days, although I probably would have been better off just quitting the dry fire today....

Hopefully it's "just" a cut...and you get to shoot that last match.

Congratulations!

Treadmill and dry fire.... Hoping for an hour a day during the week for the next month. Work will get in the way a few times, but most days shouldn't have an excuse.

Cool!

You're the one that jumped into my thread...that started with a very positive message.

Now you're aiming at the right target