Ha! If it does you can call it the shootout at the I'm OK Corral.
It’s possible it will just be so cold she’ll be mad at that, instead. We’ll see! If you see a non-Novotny lady, say hi.
Ha! If it does you can call it the shootout at the I'm OK Corral.
It is supposed to warm up pretty nicely tomorrow
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Yesterday was a great time. Squad 7 ran nice and smooth. Shame that the complaints are rolling in on the "competitiveness" and the "advantages". I understand why, we are all wanting to do our best, but the divisions are just going to get hard to manage I fear. It's not hard based on how you send out the scores to look and compare yourself to others and their gear. Getting to know the small community hasn't been hard so learning names and their gear takes a little effort but goes a long way.
The lack of "coaching" from the ROs is another sad loss for beginners and on something like Stage 5 yesterday might have helped. Lot of people on the squad before ours timed out that I saw before making it to the star, having someone just say "you're low" or "left" might have helped some just get through the stage.
Overall, I think this has been a huge success and is a ton of fun.
I agree with like all the points Mike made. Texas Star setup cost could be dramatically reduced by letting people reset it mid-stage. I don't mind paying more as a non-member, but then again, I am probably gonna get an AGC badge by the end of the month.
Now, topic of divisions... I was not the one who pointed out that he was running a stock CO gun against an Open division race gun, but I absolutely did notice that in the match. I get that people don't want complexity in divisions, but 1) it IS a competition and 2) trying to compete with dudes who have an SAO gun with frame-mounted sight, a giant comp, and a huge magwell isn't really fair to the folks who tossed an RMR on their CORE or MOS and called it a day. Better guns/gear won't save you from having no skill, but if two guys have equal skill and one of them is running WAY better guns/gear, the second one has a non-trivial advantage.
The BIGGER problem I saw with divisions was people not following mag cap rules. If you're shooting Production, you're starting with 11 in the gun, not whatever you can stuff into your ~140mm magazine. I really think some people were ignoring that, and it provided some serious advantages on some of the longer stages.
IMHO, long-term goal should be to sync up with sanctioned Steel Challenge divisions. I am perfectly happy to volunteer to write up literature and even answer questions from participants about what kinds of guns/gear are legal in what divisions. Just tag me in!
I'd need to do a little more research for the rimfire stuff, but I'm pretty up to date on regular USPSA divisions. Keep in mind, I'm not advocating super strict enforcement - if someone wants to run a WML on their pistol or they have some tiny carry magwell, I don't know that I think bumping them to Open is a good response to that. I just see better division usage as a stepping stone to sanctioned matches down the road and promoting fairer matches. We can keep the Stages of Madness and just run them as non-classifiers.I would defiantly like to use you as a resource on this. The rule book is crazy with a kazillion different special conditions, etc.
I think if you simply told people what the limits were, they'd respect them for the most part. There's also a little time between safety brief and the actual shooting at 9AM where ROs could do a fast division check to make sure everyone was in the right one. I concur that this is not a problem for normal stages if you don't have horrible accuracy, but the Stages of Madness do count towards final ranking in the match, so it is a real thing.As for the magazines, I’m not sure how to handle or enforce that one, because different divisions have different limits and it is tough to get all of our ROs on the same page. Not sure that magazine capacity makes all that much of a difference on the normal stages (at least for those in the top 5 of their class). Something to talk about for sure.
If it became sanctioned, yes, they would need to start adhering to the real set of steel challenge stages, and you would need to comply with division rules.If these become a sanctioned event does that mean we will be shooting standard steel challenge setups in addition to only being able to run 10 in our mags if we are listed as production.
I would defiantly like to use you as a resource on this. The rule book is crazy with a kazillion different special conditions, etc.
(copy of email sent to shooters)
1. Set up on Fridays and run a two day match - half the shooters on Saturday and half on Sunday. This is a long term solution because we would need enough demand as well as another 15 or so volunteers. We aren't even close to this one.
2. Limit all shooters to just 1 gun up until a few days before registration ends, only allowing 2nd guns to be registered at that time if space is available. This has the potential to be a logistical nightmare for the Event Director or whoever is managing Practiscore.
3. Eliminate the 50% discount on 2nd guns. This would allow those who really want to shoot twice to do it, but at the same time dissuade other shooters from registering two guns just because it is cheap to do so.