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Archives for July 2022

New Competitor Orientation

July 28, 2022 by George Jones

Local matches are the first step in the USPSA shooting experience.  New competitors arrive knowing only what they may have seen online or what a friend has told them. They bring whatever firearm they might have and enter the match with some trepidation, hoping to learn as they go.  Wonderful!  But what about the match staff?  How do they prepare or deal with these new competitors?

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Filed Under: Match Directors

No-shoot vs. hard cover in stage design

July 21, 2022 by Jay Worden

Over the years I have designed over a hundred courses of fire shot at all levels of our sport. Many people have made a comment that I seem to use a lot of hard cover targets rather than no-shoots. A good friend of mine Ray Hirst once told me, “A hard cover target is the waste of a perfectly good no-shoot.”

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Filed Under: Stage Design

NROI Tips – Significant Advantage

July 14, 2022 by Jodi Humann

Want to learn more about what constitutes significant advantage when using props for support and foot faults? Check out this NROI Tips video:

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Filed Under: NROI Tips

Outer Limits penalties

July 7, 2022 by Jodi Humann

Outer Limits is the only SCSA stage with movement on the clock and plate engagement requirements from each box. But what happens if the competitor doesn’t follow the stage procedure? In this Question of the Month we asked: In a SCSA match on the Outer Limits stage, a competitor shoots all plates from the left side shooting box during one string. How many penalties did the competitor earn?

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Filed Under: Steel Challenge

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