A few important details regarding our 3 man 3 gun Sunday:
The schedule:
8:00 we will finish set-up - all help is appreciated
9:00 - 9:20 Captains check in at the stat shack. If there are any changes in division be sure to let us know at check in.
9:30 Captains briefing - I will take all of the captains around for a really short stage introduction.
As soon as the captains return from the stage tour we will do a short match briefing and send the squads out.
- All firearms must be unloaded prior to entering club grounds, and remain that way all day, unless under RO supervision. Your vehicle is not a safe area. If you are a CCW holder please leave it locked in vehicle. If you're using you carry gun for the match unload it at home and keep a loaded mag handy.
- It is acceptable to carry long guns from stage to stage in cases, on carts, or muzzle up. We just don't want to see them carried haphazardly. We will require everyone to use a chamber flag in all long guns. We will be giving them away at the stat shack if you don't have them.
- We will be preloading shotguns on some stages, but only under RO supervision. Even then the guns must have empty chambers. You will be instructed when and how to do this. Don't do it until told by an RO.
- Whenever a gun is staged on a table, or laid down during a course of fire it must either have the safety on, or be unloaded with an empty chamber. The penalty for leaving a firearm in an unsafe manner will be a match DQ. At no point in this match will anyone be downrange of any guns loaded or unloaded.
- Unsafe gun handling will result in a match DQ. If you don't know be sure to ask.
- At times your team will firing from a common firing line at the same time, be especially mindful of the 180 in these situations. The stages that require this will be set up to be extremely safe, but be careful, especially during reloads, draws etc.
- Stacking of shots will never be allowed on any of the stages. It will result in a zero for the stage. An example of stacking would be on stage 1 where 6 shots are required on each target, and each shooter is supposed to shoot 2 on each target, some team decides the fastest way would be for the first shooter to shoot 6 on each of the first 4 targets, then the second shooter to just shoot 6 each on the next 4 targets, then the last shooter to shoot 6 on each of the last 4. On this stage every shooter must engage every target at least twice. Stage 6 also requires two shooters to engage the same targets, so both shooters must engage each target there at least twice.
- We will be using palm pilots for scoring. On the palms clay birds and drink bottles will be scored as "steel". One pellet hole in either a clay or a drink bottle will count as a hit. If a drink bottle is knocked down but doesn't have a hole in it we consider it a miss, not a range equipment failure.
- At this match you may never shoot paper with a shotgun. The penalty is one procedural for each occurrence.
- At this match you may never shoot clay birds with either a rifle or a pistol. The penalty is one procedural per occurrence, and you will be responsible for damage to clay bird holder(s) if there is any.
- At this match you may never shoot steel closer than 80 yards with a rifle. The penalty for this is a match DQ, and you will be responsible for any damage to the steel.
- We do not allow green tip, AP, API, penetrator, tracers, steel core, or any other kind of bullets that may damage our steel, or are more prone to ricochet at our club. The penalty for using this ammo is a match DQ and you will be responsible for any damage caused by it. FMJ, HP, polymer tip, or soft points are allowed as long as the core is lead, sintered materials, or something safe.
- If a member of a team is DQed, the rest of the team may continue without him.
Just so you know, we've been running these 3 man 3 guns for years at York, and no one has ever been DQed. We just want you to know ahead of time some of the things that are unacceptable.
- The minimum caliber for pistol is 9mm, rifle is .223, and shotgun is 20ga. We will be scoring everything as major.
-Everyone on your team must meet division requirements and shoot in the same division. Change them at check-in if you need to.
Divisions we will be using:
Limited - iron sighted handguns, iron sighted shotguns, rifle may have iron sights or one non-magnified dot scope. No porting on pistol or shotgun. Shotgun capactiy 8+1. Pistol mags limited to 140mm in length.
Tactical - iron sighted handguns, iron sighted shotguns, rifle may have one scope, and it may be magnified (or dot with magnifier). No porting on pistol or shotgun. Shotgun capactiy 8+1. Pistol mags limited to 140mm in length.
Open - scopes and porting allowed on all guns. Rifle may have more than one scope. Shotgun capactiy 10+1. Pistol mags limited to 170mm in length.
Outlaw Open - anything goes, unlimited capacities, drums for Saigas are fine.
- No guns may be used on full auto, though if you keep the selector on semi it is OK. Full auto = DQ. Supressors are encouraged in Open and Outlaw.
- We will have food and drinks available for purchase. Bring some ones and quarters please.
- Please drive slowly entering and exiting the club grounds. The club speed limit is 10mph.
Stages http://yorkiwlaipsc.com/forms/York_3m3g_stages_Spr2011.pdf
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Pictures from today's match
I don't have the results back from the stats guys yet, but here are a few pictures. The match went very well today. Gary S. did a great job designing the shotgun stages today. Be sure to give him all the blame, I mean credit for them.
Staale preparing to load his pump shotgun on the fun shotgun stage.
Logan working the tough side of the barricade.
Mark C. ROing a shooter on the rifle range. The slug shooting on this stage ate everyone alive.
The unofficial results I saw at the range had Ben T. winning open.
Phil G. tore Production up!
Staale preparing to load his pump shotgun on the fun shotgun stage.
Logan working the tough side of the barricade.
Mark C. ROing a shooter on the rifle range. The slug shooting on this stage ate everyone alive.
The unofficial results I saw at the range had Ben T. winning open.
Phil G. tore Production up!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
March Fun Shoot
This month's funshoot is this Saturday, the 26th, and we are back in full swing, with lots of steel, poppers, floppers and the wicked wheel. Our old friends choose your own (modified this year), PPC/Bull's-eye, the gallery, and two stages I'll just keep to myself. Super simple scoring. No pre-registration is necessary for this shoot.
An important change this year, I am lifting the 6 round minimum capacity requirement. this means that if you want to bring your Lady Smith, bring it, you just cant shoot for score, and will only be able to run 5 rounds on the 6 round stages. This doesn't apply to single shot things like TC's, that would just take way too long.
Pistol caliber carbines are welcome.
Round count is around 100, setup at 8:30, registration 9:00 to 9:30, shooting by 10:00.
Fee is $15 for majors, $5 for minors
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
As always remember the range safety rules
http://yorkpistol.blogspot.com/2009/03/range-safety.html
General info about the funshoots
http://yorkiwlaipsc.org/FunShoot.htm
Hope to see you Saturday, Gary
An important change this year, I am lifting the 6 round minimum capacity requirement. this means that if you want to bring your Lady Smith, bring it, you just cant shoot for score, and will only be able to run 5 rounds on the 6 round stages. This doesn't apply to single shot things like TC's, that would just take way too long.
Pistol caliber carbines are welcome.
Round count is around 100, setup at 8:30, registration 9:00 to 9:30, shooting by 10:00.
Fee is $15 for majors, $5 for minors
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
As always remember the range safety rules
http://yorkpistol.blogspot.com/2009/03/range-safety.html
General info about the funshoots
http://yorkiwlaipsc.org/FunShoot.htm
Hope to see you Saturday, Gary
Sunday, March 20, 2011
March USPSA matches
Sunday, March 27th York Izaak Walton league will be hosting two USPSA matches.
One will be a pistol match consisting of at least 4 stages and 116 rounds, and maybe a 5th if the weather cooperates. It will cost $20, and you can shoot it either at 10:00am or 1:00pm. There will not be a classifier this month, and we will recognize all of the normal USPSA divisions and carbine. (pistol claibers only)
The other will be shotgun match and according to Shotgun Match Director of the month Gary Swope will consist of "4 stages, 35 shot, 8 slug minimum, and I stress the minimum. Slugs to 50 yards, shot to 25 or 30. Expect a fair amount of loading, movement and rudeness. Make sure you are on your game". This match will also cost $20 and you can shoot it at either 10:00am or 1:00pm. We will recognize 4 divisions of shotguns. Pump (4+1 capacity), Limited (8+1 capacity), Open (10+1 capacity, porting, scopes) and Outlaw Open (anything goes, even drums)
To sign up for either or both email us at yorksignup@gmail.com and tell us your name, USPSA #, which match or matches you want to shoot, your division for each (they are two seperate matches so you can shoot two different divisions) and any squadding preferences.
You should receive an email in a day or two confirming your entry and containing more details.
Do not hesitate to get signed up, we are only taking 36 pistol shooters and 24 shotgun shooters for each time slot. We expect these matches to fill up quickly.
One will be a pistol match consisting of at least 4 stages and 116 rounds, and maybe a 5th if the weather cooperates. It will cost $20, and you can shoot it either at 10:00am or 1:00pm. There will not be a classifier this month, and we will recognize all of the normal USPSA divisions and carbine. (pistol claibers only)
The other will be shotgun match and according to Shotgun Match Director of the month Gary Swope will consist of "4 stages, 35 shot, 8 slug minimum, and I stress the minimum. Slugs to 50 yards, shot to 25 or 30. Expect a fair amount of loading, movement and rudeness. Make sure you are on your game". This match will also cost $20 and you can shoot it at either 10:00am or 1:00pm. We will recognize 4 divisions of shotguns. Pump (4+1 capacity), Limited (8+1 capacity), Open (10+1 capacity, porting, scopes) and Outlaw Open (anything goes, even drums)
To sign up for either or both email us at yorksignup@gmail.com and tell us your name, USPSA #, which match or matches you want to shoot, your division for each (they are two seperate matches so you can shoot two different divisions) and any squadding preferences.
You should receive an email in a day or two confirming your entry and containing more details.
Do not hesitate to get signed up, we are only taking 36 pistol shooters and 24 shotgun shooters for each time slot. We expect these matches to fill up quickly.
Friday, March 18, 2011
The welcome back nice weather shooting tip
So Spring is here and you're itching to burn up the ammo you've been loading all winter. We all are. But take this friendly advice to heart. Start out slow and simple. Don't expect to be as fast as you were at the end of last season. Months of TV and holiday parties didn't make you any better. In fact, if you're human like the rest of us you're rusty.
Start off with the basics. Every Spring Ben and I do an entire practice working on the draw, the reload, and shooting nothing but As. We start off ridiculously close to the targets and work ourselves away from them progressively, only as fast as we can hit all As. We also put a lot of emphasis on being smooth and efficient in both the draw and the reload. The mechanics are more important than the speed at this point. In fact we only use the timer for a start signal. We go as fast as we can shoot all As. No faster. If we're not shooting all As we're either going too fast or too far away. It's better to slow down on this set of drills. Time doesn't matter until you are nearing perfection. We try to work our way back to 50 yards doing this. If we're shooting well enough we make it back there pretty quickly. If we're not we stay close as long as it takes.
These simple skills are used on every stage and are the foundation you have to build properly in order to do everything else well. Transitions, and movement are equally important but wait until you put a day or two in on these basics and it will pay off in the long run.
Start off with the basics. Every Spring Ben and I do an entire practice working on the draw, the reload, and shooting nothing but As. We start off ridiculously close to the targets and work ourselves away from them progressively, only as fast as we can hit all As. We also put a lot of emphasis on being smooth and efficient in both the draw and the reload. The mechanics are more important than the speed at this point. In fact we only use the timer for a start signal. We go as fast as we can shoot all As. No faster. If we're not shooting all As we're either going too fast or too far away. It's better to slow down on this set of drills. Time doesn't matter until you are nearing perfection. We try to work our way back to 50 yards doing this. If we're shooting well enough we make it back there pretty quickly. If we're not we stay close as long as it takes.
These simple skills are used on every stage and are the foundation you have to build properly in order to do everything else well. Transitions, and movement are equally important but wait until you put a day or two in on these basics and it will pay off in the long run.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Steel Challenge results with payouts
First, let me explain the procedure we used for figuring these out:
All divison winners get $40, and in divisions with 10 or more shooters 2nd in division gets $30. In divisions with 15 or more 3rd gets $20 unless they win their class which pays $20 anyway.
Class winners within each division get $20 with a 3 shooter minimum (not counting division winners) 2nd in class with more than 7 shooters gets $10. We're not doing payouts smaller than $10 so third is irrelevant this match.
We had a lot of classifed shooters so that part was easy. To classify people without USPSA classifications I used the average scores of classified shooters and assigned classifications to those witout them based on whether they were better or worse than those averages.
Is it a perfect system? No, but it does get some people further down the list some money back for their efforts, without relying on dumb luck scoring(lewis) and it gives unclassified shooters a chance to win too. Many of them did.
Winners: Your envelopes will be available at the next York USPSA match or Steel Challenge.
Rimfire scoped
46.96 Ben Thompson M $40 (1st division)
48.72 Robby Orent A $30 (2nd division)
58.40 Louis Lara M $20 (M)
59.52 Brian Stupar M
61.20 Brian Shanholtz M
69.08 Michael Shoemaker B
71.66 Paul Nowotarski A
71.93 Brian Shank B
74.30 Bill Hearne M
76.91 Kent Gittings C $20 (C)
100.24 Will Hearne C
104.88 Bob Schmelz C
106.93 Angie Jordan C
150.91 Jared Jordan D
Carbine
60.21 Mike Stephens C $40 (1st division)
61.40 Kirk McWilliams M $30 (2nd division)
64.81 Bill Hearne M
69.09 Howard Thompson A
72.64 Rob Burkendine B
76.31 Gary Swope C $20 (C)
77.61 Colin Wynne C
78.97 Bryan Charboneau C
81.33 Kent Gittings C
87.14 Jeremy Missimer D $20 (D)
92.69 Mike Albanese D
95.11 Dave Albanese C
98.58 John Zeigler C
128.35 Jerry Missimer D
Open Centerfire
61.97 Ben Thompson M $40 (1st division)
69.62 Louis Lara M $30 (2nd division)
77.49 Tom Gallup A
80.09 Gary Parsons B $20 (B)
87.87 Dave Minnich B
88.77 Michael ShoemakerB
91.86 Mike Gottlieb B
104.46 Dave Scordy C
133.46 Darryl White C
140.50 Art Lee D
Limited
63.84 Greg Jordan M $40 (1st division)
108.16 Paul Ellis B $20 (B)
114.19 ColinWynne B
117.54 Brian Stupar B
121.22 Gerry Velasco C
160.30 Tom Levenhagen D
Rimfire Irons
64.69 Brian Shanholtz M $40 (1st division)
66.86 Howard Thompson A $30 (2nd division)
77.84 Dave DiFonzo B $20 (B)
78.02 Kirk McWilliams M
79.16 Mark McCullough B
79.24 Mark Cooper B
89.70 Walt Romaniw B
92.93 Dan Stumpf C $20 (C)
101.21 Gary Swope C
128.51 Roger Beardsley C
149.76 Kevin Myers C
150.22 Nina Williams C
164.49 Chet Wise D
Production
99.36 Lucito Lara B $40 (1st division)
100.59 Rob Burkendine B $30 (2nd division)
104.44 Paul Ellis B $20 (3rd division)
104.69 Steve Mease C $20 (C)
106.67 Walt Romaniw C $10 (2nd C)
107.71 Marty Kalister C
115.57 Bob Schmelz C
117.88 Mike Stephens C
118.50 Glen Mattheu C
119.04 Bryan Charboneau C
119.52 Darryl White C
119.73 Logan Brown C
127.22 Debi Buffington D $20 (D)
131.38 Jim Stauffer D $10 (2nd D)
143.39 Bernie Fallert D
144.19 John Lerch D
146.69 James Evans D
147.11 Roger Evans D
148.17 Jeremy Missimer D
152.84 Paul Krick D
171.69 Bob Spangler D
177.57 Ed Reinhart D
183.89 Jerry Missimer D
201.49 Greg Hofstrand D
217.14 Phil Matte D
234.54 Bob Whiteford D
257.06 Lee Hankey D
389.38 Sonia Williams D
All divison winners get $40, and in divisions with 10 or more shooters 2nd in division gets $30. In divisions with 15 or more 3rd gets $20 unless they win their class which pays $20 anyway.
Class winners within each division get $20 with a 3 shooter minimum (not counting division winners) 2nd in class with more than 7 shooters gets $10. We're not doing payouts smaller than $10 so third is irrelevant this match.
We had a lot of classifed shooters so that part was easy. To classify people without USPSA classifications I used the average scores of classified shooters and assigned classifications to those witout them based on whether they were better or worse than those averages.
Is it a perfect system? No, but it does get some people further down the list some money back for their efforts, without relying on dumb luck scoring(lewis) and it gives unclassified shooters a chance to win too. Many of them did.
Winners: Your envelopes will be available at the next York USPSA match or Steel Challenge.
Rimfire scoped
46.96 Ben Thompson M $40 (1st division)
48.72 Robby Orent A $30 (2nd division)
58.40 Louis Lara M $20 (M)
59.52 Brian Stupar M
61.20 Brian Shanholtz M
69.08 Michael Shoemaker B
71.66 Paul Nowotarski A
71.93 Brian Shank B
74.30 Bill Hearne M
76.91 Kent Gittings C $20 (C)
100.24 Will Hearne C
104.88 Bob Schmelz C
106.93 Angie Jordan C
150.91 Jared Jordan D
Carbine
60.21 Mike Stephens C $40 (1st division)
61.40 Kirk McWilliams M $30 (2nd division)
64.81 Bill Hearne M
69.09 Howard Thompson A
72.64 Rob Burkendine B
76.31 Gary Swope C $20 (C)
77.61 Colin Wynne C
78.97 Bryan Charboneau C
81.33 Kent Gittings C
87.14 Jeremy Missimer D $20 (D)
92.69 Mike Albanese D
95.11 Dave Albanese C
98.58 John Zeigler C
128.35 Jerry Missimer D
Open Centerfire
61.97 Ben Thompson M $40 (1st division)
69.62 Louis Lara M $30 (2nd division)
77.49 Tom Gallup A
80.09 Gary Parsons B $20 (B)
87.87 Dave Minnich B
88.77 Michael ShoemakerB
91.86 Mike Gottlieb B
104.46 Dave Scordy C
133.46 Darryl White C
140.50 Art Lee D
Limited
63.84 Greg Jordan M $40 (1st division)
108.16 Paul Ellis B $20 (B)
114.19 ColinWynne B
117.54 Brian Stupar B
121.22 Gerry Velasco C
160.30 Tom Levenhagen D
Rimfire Irons
64.69 Brian Shanholtz M $40 (1st division)
66.86 Howard Thompson A $30 (2nd division)
77.84 Dave DiFonzo B $20 (B)
78.02 Kirk McWilliams M
79.16 Mark McCullough B
79.24 Mark Cooper B
89.70 Walt Romaniw B
92.93 Dan Stumpf C $20 (C)
101.21 Gary Swope C
128.51 Roger Beardsley C
149.76 Kevin Myers C
150.22 Nina Williams C
164.49 Chet Wise D
Production
99.36 Lucito Lara B $40 (1st division)
100.59 Rob Burkendine B $30 (2nd division)
104.44 Paul Ellis B $20 (3rd division)
104.69 Steve Mease C $20 (C)
106.67 Walt Romaniw C $10 (2nd C)
107.71 Marty Kalister C
115.57 Bob Schmelz C
117.88 Mike Stephens C
118.50 Glen Mattheu C
119.04 Bryan Charboneau C
119.52 Darryl White C
119.73 Logan Brown C
127.22 Debi Buffington D $20 (D)
131.38 Jim Stauffer D $10 (2nd D)
143.39 Bernie Fallert D
144.19 John Lerch D
146.69 James Evans D
147.11 Roger Evans D
148.17 Jeremy Missimer D
152.84 Paul Krick D
171.69 Bob Spangler D
177.57 Ed Reinhart D
183.89 Jerry Missimer D
201.49 Greg Hofstrand D
217.14 Phil Matte D
234.54 Bob Whiteford D
257.06 Lee Hankey D
389.38 Sonia Williams D
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