Vulture

I can't support it with a rule and i don't care. If the score keeper is behind me and i lose control of a shooter and can't see what is going on and safety is compromised i may yell stop. Now i have yet to do it and i have been hit with slag many times and have never lost control of a shooter. But you must reserve the right to do so if the situation arrises. An experienced shooter that you have shot with many times is one thing, a newbe is another. Like i said, i have never done it. But in a certian situation i would.

Our club has a lot of steel so we frequently have 32 round all steel coures, which also can be used as a shotgun side match after the regular match. We had one a few weeks ago that was basicly a poor design, the steel was at minimum distance through the whole course. An RO got smacked in the face with hunk of lead and lost control of the shooter. The shooter just continued on oblivious to what was happening behind him and finished the course basicly without an RO watching him. The RO was not too far away but his eyes were watering so bad he couldn't see what was going on to the extent needed. I have started telling new RO's that if you can't do your job as the RO, it is ok to yell STOP. The shooter may be wondering what he's done but if you tell him he will get a reshoot because you have a hunk of lead imbedded in your skull, i think he will understand. The RO must be able to keep control of the shooter at all times and if i was bowled over by a competitor or slipped and fell or was hit in the face to the extent that i can't do the job i would yell STOP.

If the COF specifies no mags on belt then the RO can't give the "Are you ready" command because the competitor is not in the specified starting condition. He has not yet "Made ready." The competitor should have asked what to do with his mags, just to avoid complications.

It used to be a miss for me on a classifier would cause it to be an unusuable one. Well now my shooting has progressed to the point that if i get a miss it will still end up being a lower C class. Earlier in the year i had a few classifiers that i had misses on and figured "no biggie, they wont count anyway." Imagine my surprise when i think i've got B class locked up and i have 3 classifiers in the high 40% and low 50% and three in the mid to high 70% so my overall is 57%. Still in C class. And just to get to those low ones i have to go through 2 of my high ones. So i don't think there are enough classifiers left in the season up here to clear out the rubbish before winter comes. Now i know. If i miss on a classifier, i better plug the no shoot once or twice just to make sure it don't count...The only problem with that is i never look for holes so if i have a miss it's too late to do anything about it.

1/10 of one grain. If your loading 2.8 grains, try 2.7 and chrono it. it really isn't that big of a deal. Like Trevoro said, you could just stick to your old load, but playing around with it familiarizes you with the the process. If you don't have a chrono then buy one and experiment within the safety zone of the cartridge your loading.

We need to get technical here. Like how fast can you disassemble (no disassemble Stephanie) a 1911 blindfolded and then reassemble it divided by how many times Kyle has closed one of your posts for violating forum rules times the number of times you have answered the same question in the beginners forum ..... or something like that.

Just be happy you have primers. As Aristotle said work up a new load. It should be about a 10th less than your current load. I have gone from Win SPP to Fed mag primers to Rem SRP to Rem SPP. This primer issue better go away by next year or i will be going away. This sport is fast becomming a money pit that i no longer want to feed.

I had this same problem a number of years ago and i hoped it would go away like everyone else. of course it didn't. My liver enzymes were off the chart as well as blood in my urine. Never go to a urologist. I still have nightmares about the wicked witch, a turkey baster and a Propeal pocket fisherman. But anyway, i could actually feel it comming on, slowley building up until i was doubled over on the floor. Scared the daylights out of my wife. This went on for more than a year until my wife said "your going". One thing i found was if i drank a soda sometimes it would calm down my gall bladder and the pain would go away. Surgery was easy, i didn't even take pain pills after. I took it easy but didn't need any pills. You will be glad when it's done, but it's not a hard road.

Take your thumb of your left hand and place it on the left side of your nose and your pointer finger on the right side of your nose and slide your fingers down the outside of your nostrals. Then rub your powder funnel with said fingers and wa-la problem sloved. Just remember the outside of your nose not the inside.

Thanks Mick, your check is in the mail. He can't tune a piano, he can't tuna fish, he can't carry a tune, but he can tune a mag. So i will vote for Howard as well.

I think i must be backwards. When i put stuff in the corncob (green) it comes out frosted. When i put it in walnut (red) it comes out shiney. I also tried to wash some walnut when i was getting too much dust. Although i did it outside and let it air dry. It did not solve the dust problem so i chucked it and got new stuff.

Here we go.

We had a plate rack at a match once and people were hitting the bullet deflector and causing a plate to fall, which end up as REF and reshoot. That stage backed up the whole match. Haven't seen it since.

In summer when daylight lasts longer we have side matches after regular league ends and sometimes we do snub guns, 3 inch or shorter barrel. They are kind of fun but i wouldn't want them to be a division.

How's that old saying go...Shoot em 'til they crack, then shoot em once more. Those look like you could use them for a weekday league.

This seems like a fix for a nonexistant problem. If you used a CRspeed for a carry holster i could understand the fix, but the only time you have a loaded gun in the holster is 30 seconds before you are going to draw it and shoot a course of fire. Then you will ULASC and holster an empty gun. I have used this holster for years and have never had my gun fall out. While I applaud your ingenuity in creating a device which will secure your gun permanantly, it is kind of like putting airbags on a fighter jet.

Flex's song? and it's not Rick whatsizname.

He shoots a Glock because he hasn't learned how to clean a real gun.

I come back from a 4 day weekend and go to the hate forum and look at all those red x's. I wonder who has the most? I'm sure the Mods have a bald spot on the side of their head from pulling their hair out, but i find it entertaining.

You should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express

Once in summer league i was helping set up on a hot day and drank 3 Cokes in about 30 min. When it came time to shoot i was shaking so bad i couldn't line up the sites. I wont do that again. I work nights, and often i go from work right to a match. So every now and then i drink one of those 5 hour energy drinks. They don't have the crash that caffine based drinks have, or the jitters either. They are basicly B vitamins so i don't know if there is any real benifit. Although if i take it about half way through the match then i don't loose focus on the last couple of stages, which has been a problem for me sometimes.

We have this problem in the winter up here because it is impossible to pound posts in the ground for walls. We don't have wall sections that are free standing. We usually have fabric (weedblock) attached to 2x2's that attach to posts we pound in the ground. So in the winter we have courses that could be named "illeagle as hell" and "Illeagle as hell II" Most people understand we are making the best of a bad situation but some have a hard time letting go. We try to stay as leagle as possible but sometimes you have to put language in or movement restrictions or whatever that make a course technically illeagle.

7 on, 3 off, 7 on, 4 off. Until the end of time. No such thing as holiday's here. Although working the mid shift means i'm the only one here.

I just got a set of Dawson Tuned Mags with SNL +1 basepads and STI followers. I can get 19 in one of them, 18 in 2 others, and one i can only get 17. I'm hoping that they will give me more room after some use.

Dave, up at scapsa we have walls that use this system. If you come to the match this Sat i can show you what we have. Basicly it is a piece of rebar in the shape of an L. The 2x2 wall frame has 1/2 inch holes in the side and you hook the short leg of the rebar through the hole and the long side has a small loop that you can pound a spike through if you want. It works ok but if you have a port it can sometimes limit your target placement because you don't want the rebar in the bullet path. SV