Short Work Party–10AM Saturday

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

I got confirmation today that the dozers are ready to hit it hard to finish up our bays right away. Great news!

Jon C. will be at the range at 10AM on Saturday to lead cleanup of the overhead cover currently stored in front of our range. It needs to move so the dozers can dig in there.

If you can be there for, say 1/2 an hour, that should do it. The plan is to use a truck, chains, and a bit of manpower to move it over to the parking area where some wire reels are stored now.  We can move it, likely put it up, inside the range later when work is complete.

If you can help, we’d appreciate it.  I have plans to shoot a Cowboy match, as a tune-up for the Cowboy Nationals in Feb. So I’d prefer to do that.   But if nobody can show, then I’ll ditch that to get this done.

RSVP to me by text or cell (435) 703 2897

Thanks!

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New Competitor Instructors Wanted

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

As Brian’s shooting season approaches, I realize that I’ll be away/traveling a lot in the coming months.   But I’d like to keep having our New Competitor Classes each week.

So I’m seeking volunteers interested in helping with that.   It’s fun – I love doing it and will keep doing it when I’m in town.  But it’s important and I don’t want it to falter as I act as Brian’s Practical Shooting Chauffer.

Requirements:

  • number one is that you like meeting people and have a pleasant demeanor.
  • number two… be good with people!
  • some level of skill with practical shooting. But not really that important. I can train you on that.

I’d like to find 4 or 5 people and then setup two or three training sessions where I can train you on the curriculum, diagnosing shooter problems, and the big 3 or 4 corrective things that can get shooters on track quickly.

E-mail (kn@kennelson.com)  or call me (435) 703  2897.   Once we have 4 or 5 folks, we can work on scheduling training, which will probably be before new competitor classes so that you can train with me for a bit.

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Work Party: Clearing for dozer work out front

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

The work on the front bays will commence soon.  I need some helpers to move the steel overhead cover that is stored in front of our bay so that the dozers aren’t slowed by it.

If you can help, just text or call me (435) 703 2897 to coordinate.  I’m thinking sometime tomorrow or Friday.

Thanks!

Ken N.

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STI 2011 Wanted

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Mark Brough, a new shooter, is going all in on practical shooting. He wants to get an STI double stack, and is looking for a used, but good condition gun.

He is looking for a race ready STI 40cal. pistol.  He would like to purchase a whole setup (mags, speed holster)  if available.

Contact:  

Mark Brough
801-656-7272
Mbrough1@gmail.com

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Concealed Carry: Class and Live Fire

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

 

Landon Jorgansen has a CCW class coming up:

Feb 18th, 10 am @ the Zion HD in Coral Canyon. $50 for the class, $60 for the BCI fee. Includes everything they need for the application, as well as 2 hours of live-fire afterwards.

Great deal for the permit and 2 hours of training!

Landon, if you don’t know, is an excellent trainer. He was a Marine Corp CQB trainer prior to leaving the service a couple years ago.

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Match Results: 21 Jan 2012

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

17 brave souls dared the icky weather. I only heard about it… I was in Vegas for the SHOT Show 3-Gun which, unfortunately, was winded out (40 MPH steady winds and 70MPH gusts).

Match Results can be seen here:

http://practiscore.com/match-results/uuid?uuid=A2AFD389-6A4E-479A-98EA-82802A495225

NOTE:  If you don’t have a USPSA # listed in these results, please send it to me.  I’ll need it before posting the final results (with mulligans entered) to the USPSA classification system.  

Also, you can check your hit factor for classification ranks at cmcalc.com

Posting scores would have happened faster but the apostrophe in Stage 3 “Brookout’s Boogie” caused an SQL injection error in the new Practiscore.com posting.  SQL Injection is a bad problem and I’m glad we discovered it now. Google it if you wonder why…

BTW: I’m very pleased… once the SQL injection problem was solved, posting the scores online involved a single button click from the iPad we synchronized all scores too. It couldn’t have been simpler, or quicker.

Congrats to Jeff Bailey for taking 1 and 2, and Chad Larsen (Production) for 3rd. Chad will be a force once he gets the finer parts of this game down.

We also welcomed visiting shooters Chad Johnson, Burton Smith and Mark Hepworth, they came down from SLC area.   And our first time shooter was Cyle Brooksby – congrats on your first match!

I’m pleased that Jeff was able to run the match and PractiScore stuff without issue.  It will be in the App Store on Tue or Wed, available to the public, and this was a good final test.

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Volunteers for the 2012 Area Championship

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

This area match will require a lot of staff – both certified range officers and other helpers.  We are bringing in most certified Chief Range Officers from outside our area, since they are a fairly rare certification that is required by rule to run a Level III match.   We have filled out the range officer staffing with a mix of regional range officers and our newly trained (this year) local range officers.   We now have a full set of certified staff to run the match and give RO’s a break each day.

I’m now looking for folks to help with a variety of tasks:

  • helping keep score (running the iPads, iPod Touches and Androids we will use for scoring).  This will require watching some video training online, and being fairly comfortable using a mobile device. If you have a smart phone, you quality and will have no trouble sorting out the scoring system.
  • helping firearms vendors run demo bays. We will have a variety of vendors demoing their guns.  Including STI, Glock, Sig, CZ,  NAA, American Shooters, Tactical Solutions, Colt Competition, and Powder River Precision.   You should have some firearms comfort/experience to help these vendors.   Hint… you will probably get to shoot some cool stuff. (-:
  • helping reset slow or harder stages. In particular the gully stage, but we may also place some helpers with All Day Friday squads to make their day a bit easier (shooting the entire match in 1 day can be pretty demanding)
  • general match aids – emptying trash cans, delivering water, batteries, tape and other supplies, coordinating with the food vendor, and coordinating the vendor area (a place where company’s can market and sell goods).

So there is a mix of jobs, with firearms / USPSA knowledge ranging from nil to modest.   So you, as a shooter, can help, and your family, friends, people who owe you money,  anybody that is of solid moral character and doesn’t mind following instructions.

Our match budget is tight due to the cost of trucking in these out of area CROs. So I can’t promise much other than my heartfelt thanks.   I am pretty sure we will be able to provide you with match t-shirts, and I’m hoping for more, depending on how the other costs break out.

If you can help, sign up here.  It is a loose commitment, I’ll be coordinating more with you in the months and weeks ahead and volunteering now isn’t a hard commitment if something comes up.

As a reminder the match dates are 25-30 April.  I’m looking for volunteer help on the Fri/Sat/Sun.   You need not help all days.  There will also be opportunities to help during the 4 Saturday’s preceding as we build the match.

Thanks!

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Reminder: All Classifier Match tomorrow

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

6 classifier stages. You can shoot up two 2 Divisions.  Cost is $15 since we have to pay USPSA more for this all classifier match.   Extra gun is $3.   Reshoots to attempt a score that better reflects your skill are $1.

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Feedback welcome on PractiScore.Com score posting

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

 

One of the hardest things for a stats guy to do is to post score results.  With PractiScore on the iPads I can know the results immediately, but it can still take me 15 or 20 minutes to prepare them for online posting.

We are about to release PractiScore into the App Store for general use, and one of the new features we are adding is online score posting directly from the phone or iPad. 

An example of this, using the State Match data, can be browsed here.

Searching is currently on a record basis, so for instance “Ken Nelson” means “Ken” and “Nelson”. We are changing it to mean “Ken or Nelson”. With “or” you can compare friends easily, for instance “Brian Ken Jeff “ would find three guys who traveled to a match together and compare them instantly.

We will be adding personal stats for each shooter as well in the next few days.  That will list, per shooter, their results on stages in a single view.

Feedback welcome.  Note that this is under development, so it could change or break as you use it.

Note: Also, it may look funny on some versions of the Firefox browser. We are working on that.

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Next Match: Special Classifier Only Match

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

 

All Classifier Match:  21January2012,  68 rounds.

Setup & Staple Targets:  8:30 A.M.
Signup:  8:45 A.M.
Shooter’s meeting:  9:00 A.M.
Commence Firing:  ASAP Thereafter

This is the one to attend folks, if you can.  Shoot this match and you will have enough classifiers to get a USPSA Classification in one or two guns.   You may shoot two Divisions in the match.   So bring enough ammo.  Please make small squads so that it goes quickly.

Note that all classifier matches permit “try agains” if you feel your run did not reflect your true skill level (for instance a jam or other malfunction). These cost $1.  We will note mulligans on paper score sheets for later entry.  We will use the first run as the Saturday match score, and the best run for what is submitted to the USPSA for classification.

I will not be at the match as I’m staff for the SHOT Show 3-Gun Match.  Jeff Bailey will serve as Match Director and Scoring-meister.

CM99-23:  Bay 1, 12 rounds
CM99-48:  Bay 2, 12 rounds
CM99-57:  Bay 3, 12 rounds
CM99-62:  Bay 4, 6 rounds
CM03-02:  Bay 5, 12 rounds
CM03-04:  Bay 6, 14 rounds

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