fireball7709

For shotgun makeups?😆

Good detail and humor, well done!

If someone is going to cheat, they'll find a way around it. It's been my experience in CAS, that those that truly try to do things outside the rules, are never the top 10 shooters. And lets call them cheaters, not gamers, there is a difference. My comment about weight was directed at magazines. You get a couple dozen shooters at a state level side match, and I used my current mag "collection" number of 26 to weigh(some shooters have more), that is over 600 magazines that would need to be weighed in.(plus the 24 guns) That is a bit burdensome at 7-8am in the morning before the match starts. Add to that that most folks show up with mags loaded. So after weigh in, now your 24 shooters are going to be standing around loading all their mags....600 times 5 or 7 rounds. Meanwhile, the cheater just starts loading the other "heavy" mags in his cart?? A weigh in is ridiculous. Shooters mags are collected for them after shooting a stage, someone will notice if they are significantly weighted. Address it then by calling it, there is a rule in place. The minutes conclude that a safety check will make malfunction clearing(MC) safer. Has no one thought that through? The thumb safety is never engaged because of the rules of the way the sport is shot. The grip safety will be depressed most likely during a MC, or the gun has probably left their hand.(there's rules for that) That leaves the drop test safeties(depending on gun series) that are unlikely to be checked, because I'm not letting you drop my gun to test it. Someone is hand wringing, carrying a grudge or has another agenda with this whole "safety check". The minutes conclude "gamesmanship will return" without weigh in and safety checks. I must not be much of a gamer, I can't figure out any time advantage to guns with safeties that don't work. To take that a step farther, I don't I see any safety issue with guns being used that the safeties don't work, because of the narrow rules within which we currently use the 1911. I'm open to hearing about how I'm wrong though. I'm not clear on who "they" are, in your last comment, when you reference gaming in regards to PF, but you can't call it gaming or cheating if someone is playing within the rules(making PF). Just stop. The minutes make no reference to pistol PF needing to be addressed. How would raising PF on the pistol make the sport better anyway? I don't like all the rules we currently have either, but as a sport/business, it's my opinion Wild bunch/SASS is struggling to get things in place to address that. I don't even know a WB TG in my area to talk to, so until there is some hierarchy actually in place we're all just talking.

Wait, what? "Safety is a great concern with current version of the SHB. There are no mandatory checks for Pistol safeties before matches. This could lead to unsafe situations during malfunction clearing. These checks seem to have been totally disregarded in recent issues of the SHB. Again, if pistols safeties are not checked and both pistols and magazines not weighed, undesirable gamesmanship will returns"(Highlight mine) What "safety" are they proposing to "check" that would make the gun "safer" during malfunction clearing???? I can see "weigh in" before a match..... "sir, are these 26 mag's all you intend to use?!"🤪

Personally, I prefer the quality awards. I'd prefer a quality concho, like Ethan posted, over a pewter like/chromed/painted trucker buckle any day, the Mollys buckles are kind of a benchmark for a quality award and wear/display better in my opinion.