Sep 02 2010
I even wear my STI hat kayaking (-:
Reminder: 7:30 AM load up at our closed range.
8:15 Setup at Sheriff’s Range.
Jim and Jon will be away for this match, so it will be me, Brian and Bob trying to get things together. Help would be appreciated (-:
We will be using the Palm scoring now that I’ve found the scoring computer (dry and working – yippee!) after my unfortunate house watering incident.
Directions and stages can be found here.
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Aug 27 2010
The Shootmobile is heading north and south
Saturday:
I will be shooting in Cedar City with Drex’s club on Saturday. I plan to arrive there around 0900. Departure here… TBD. If folks tag along we generally meet up at St. Helens in Washington for breakfast and then carpool from there.
Sunday:
Sin City in Las Vegas is moving to Palm scoring, and I’ll be attending there to help them have a first successful use. It will be a 6 stage classifier match only.
Just e-mail or call me if you want to tag along either day. 435 703 2897 or kn@kennelson.com
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Mar 20 2010
Wichita Falls, Tx…. 28 degrees, 30+ MPH winds, and freezing rain, hail and snow. Oh… and a thick layer of wet clay mud adding 5 pounds to each shoe.
Hey… let’s go shooting!
Conditions were just above intolerable. An “experience” for sure. It should be 50 degrees tomorrow… fingers crossed. I wish I could say it was “the same for everybody” but those that had Friday squaddings got 70 degrees and sunny.
We probably won’t come back to this one unless they move it to June. The stages are fun, but 5 years of bad weather in a row makes it tough to risk a 1200 mile drive (-;
As to our shooting… a mixed bag. When our guns ran, and our fingers held on to magazine during reloads, we shot high 65% to 75% level runs (compared to Max Michel on sunny Friday) But on a couple stages cold weather gave the guns a bad time and made cleaning magazines impossible. But that seemed to be the course from GM down to D shooters. Everybody was having fits, but was generally taking it in good cheer. That said, something like 25% of the shooters dropped out (from anecdotal reports). Our squad lost more. Some lost none.
6 more stages tomorrow… looking forward to shooting in better conditions. It will, unfortunately, still be muddy.
Update: Sunday was darn cold, but dry. 30 MPH winds continued with 30 degrees temperature. At stage 11, and 12, it became warm enough to finally shed the coat when you were on-deck.
Word is the match will move to May or June. Good call.
Update II – ALWAYS verify time and hit factor before signing the Palm (or any score sheet). I would have done a lot better if I’d caught a 937 second error had been caught when it happened, rather than when I was already home and checking results online. 100 stage points lost and a number of positions in the rankings. )-:
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Feb 02 2010
Dixie Open Schedule
The range will be open Friday for final setup, Some Staff Shooting, early check-in and your inspection from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm.
The range will open again Saturday morning at 7:00 and match check in will be between 7:30 – 8:30. Shooters meeting at 8:30 and the shooting will start at 9:00 am. If you are selected as a range officer- squad leaded please check in and be ready for a RO stage briefing By 7:45 am Saturday.
Sunday we will start shooting at 9:00am
We are using the Palm scoring system at this match if you are familiar with the Palm scoring please be ready to help as we move through the match. The following link will help you familiarize yourself with the Palm scoring system. http://www.southernutahpistol.com/?s=palm
Shooting Schedule:
If you haven’t signed up yet for the Dixie Open, you can sign up here.
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Jan 06 2010
As many of you know, I hate the way EZWinScore handles squad assignment. Most of you aren’t where you can see the computer screen, but my grimace as I repeatedly try to move shooters around probably sends a clear message.
Fortunately, my squadding torture ends next match. Rod Cassidy, author of the StageScore scoring software we use on the Palms, told me how to set squads on the Palm. He says his club in Albuquerque never do it in EZWinscore.
Here is how… First, from the main menu:
Choose “View Competitors/Squad”
Down in the bottom right of the next screen is a “Move to Squad’, pull it down and pick a squad. Pretty simple (-:
So as you take your Palm over to your stage, you just look at who you are shooting with, move them in, and you are good to go. If somebody needs to move squads, just move them. Easy. And to accommodate late arrivals I will add walkin blank shooters in squad 99 automatically. Just move one in if somebody joins you after shooting has started.
As an aside, Rod is also working on adding backup of each score to an SD card as it is entered. This is a feature I’ve discussed with him over the last few weeks as a means to avoid using thermal printers, or hand written summaries, as backups in case of a Palm disaster. Printers are hard to find and are expensive, so their need is an investment keeping clubs from using the Palms for scoring. We should be able to test this feature at our first February match. As someone who runs a software company, I really appreciate that Rod’s attentiveness to customer requests is a rare treat in the industry.
The nut of it is that, if all goes to plan we will have 12 Palms, with SD card backups, ready to score the Dixie Open in March. This will mean regular updates on the scoring as the match happens and immediate results when over. That should make for happy shooters (-:
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Nov 22 2009
Here is how you can use the Palm scoring software (StageScore) to randomize your shoot order each stage.
After locking the stage you are about to shoot, choose Enter Scores from the main menu. You will see the list of shooters in the squad you are scoring:
Now, Click on the arrow next to the word “Sort” and you will get a menu:
Choose “Random” and it lists the shooters in a random order:
Random is random – the same shooter could shoot first again. If you don’t like the order you get, pull it down, choose “Name”, and then choose Random again. Repeat until you like the order.
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Nov 21 2009
We enjoyed a great turnout and wonderful weather today. Many thanks to all who came, and especially those who helped setup and tear down.
Congratulations to Jeff Bailey who took Overall and Limited. Bob Anderson took Limited 10.
Welcome to new shooters Rob Richards and Micah Evans!
I will not be sending the classifier results in until later this week so as to give time for a few shooters to e-mail me their USPSA numbers.
Nov 21
Match Date: 11/21/2009
Combined divisions – These are NOT official results.
Place Name USPSA Class Division PF Age Points Stg %
1 Bailey, Jeff A44837 A Limited Major 563.8048 100.00%
2 Allen, John A43458 A Limited Major 532.8095 94.50%
3 Meade, Jim L2578 B Limited Major 426.2421 75.60%
4 Wotkyns, Charlie A63417 U Limited Major 383.3888 68.00%
5 Mann, Adam TY31131 B Limited Major 378.9308 67.21%
6 Nelson, Ken A64062 U Limited Major 376.8985 66.85%
7 Nelson, Brian A64106 U Limited Major Junior 330.6293 58.64%
8 Evans, Micah U Limited Major 307.2183 54.49%
9 Thomas, Steve U Limited Major 287.5276 51.00%
10 Anderson, Robert TY37367 C Limited 10 Major SSenior 243.5287 43.19%
11 Farwell, Dan U Limited Major 233.1777 41.36%
12 Evans, Daniel U Limited 10 Major 227.4378 40.34%
13 Brown, Steve TY54930 D Limited 10 Major SSenior 225.4038 39.80%
14 Seegmiller, Colby U Single Stack Major 168.9525 29.97%
15 Farwell, Melody U Limited Minor 139.0623 24.66%
16 Abbott, John A60240 U Limited Minor 118.6733 21.05%
17 Aleman, Daniel U Revolver Major 98.1038 17.40%
18 Richards, Rob A61640 U Limited 10 Major 22.3949 3.97%
Printed: 11/21/2009 4:03 PM
Oct 03 2009
Thanks to all who helped setup and tear down today. Perfect weather made today’s match pure shooting joy. Thanks, as well, to all who learned the Palm today. It sure made getting these results easy.
John Allen, 3 Oct winner, takes on stage 3
Congratulations to John Allen as the Overall Champion. Limited went nip and tuck between Adam Mann and Ken Nelson. Ken had Adam going into the last stage, and shot it pretty well. But Adam stepped up and went for broke and pulled it off, scoring 40% better than Ken and John Allen. He took Limited by a hair.
Place Name USPSA Class Dig PF Lady Mil Law For Age Points Stg %
1 Allen, John A43458 B Open Major N N N N 379.5296 100.00%
2 Mann, Adam TY31130 B Lim Major N N N N 348.9700 91.95%
3 Nelson, Ken A64062 U Lim Major N N N N 343.7081 90.56%
4 Wotkyns, Charlie A63417 C SS Major N N N N 251.4163 66.24%
5 Nelson, Brian A64106 U L10 Major N N N N Junior 240.3362 63.32%
6 Christensen, Jon L2419 C SS Major N N N N Super Senior 216.6737 57.09%
7 Anderson, Robert TY37367 C L10 Major N N N N Super Senior 194.2524 51.18%
8 Evans, Daniel U Limited Major N N N N 161.2656 42.49%
9 Farwell, Dan U Limited Major N N N N 124.4427 32.79%
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Sep 30 2009
COM Holster and Mag Pouch
Brian and I faired well at the Prize Table at the Utah USPSA Championship.
The gun was gone, but we were still early when we went up to the table and were glad to see the gift certificate from Center of Mass Tactical there on the table. We snatched it up.
They make excellent holsters and other accessories, and I needed a new holster for a Commander sized S&W 1911PD I intend to shoot in IDPA.
I e-mailed COM asking questions, and Rick Palmer, the owner, answered them the same evening. Awesome!
So I called and placed an order for one of Rick’s custom Kydex belt holsters and also a custom 1911 dual mag pouch.
COM will be at the Gun show in Vegas next Saturday (Santa Fe Casino) and Rick also said he is going to try and get out to Desert Sportsman and shoot the USPSA match Sunday morning.
If you can’t get to the gun show just visit them online at www.comholsters.com
Thanks, Rick, for running such a customer and result oriented business. And thanks for being one of the sponsors of our state match.
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Sep 24 2009
The Palm software has really made scorekeeping a breeze. I can generate match results in just a minute or two on match completion and shooters like seeing their hit factors for comparison as the match is underway.
The next step is to educate shooters so that we can hand them a clipboard with a PALM on it and they can score as easily as a clipboard with just paper on it.
To help educate our shooters on using the PALM, I made a video showing how to select a stage, pick a shooter, score, and verify the score on the PALM.
You can practice scoring by downloading the StageScore emulator and running it on your own computer.
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