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Jodi Humann

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

As long as the safety is on

June 30, 2022 by Jodi Humann

I think I said that phrase to almost every squad at 2-gun nationals in response to the question as to whether they could re-holster their loaded pistol during the stage. But this also applies to a couple situations in USPSA Competition matches as well. Let’s talk about those.

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Filed Under: Rules Q&A

Lead by example

June 16, 2022 by Jodi Humann

Being a certified official and a competitor sometimes causes conflict. What if you are shooting a stage and do something you know should be a penalty or a disqualification but the RO doesn’t call it? What do you do? Do you keep quiet? Do you kindly educate the RO about the mistake and take the proper score?

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Filed Under: Free Advice

Arbitration basics

June 9, 2022 by Jodi Humann

USPSA matches allow for competitors to challenge scoring and penalty calls and a couple other things, but there is a process. The goal of this post is to provide some basic information to both range officials and competitors about how arbitration works. Arbitrations rarely occur, but everyone needs to know how the process works for when it does happen.

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Filed Under: Rules Insights

Was that an extra hit?

June 2, 2022 by Jodi Humann

In this Question of the Month, we scored an array of targets from a Virginia Count course of fire. Did you score the two targets correctly?

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Filed Under: Question of the Month Results

Slicing and perforating

May 19, 2022 by Jodi Humann

The USPSA rules allow for cardboard targets to be cut to reduce the amount of available scoring area (see 4.2.4.2), but let’s talk about a few things you need to keep in mind when doing this.

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Filed Under: Rules Insights Tagged With: cut no-shoot, cut target

Magnet mania

May 12, 2022 by Jodi Humann

Now that magnets are allowed in all divisions for magazine retention, there is still some confusion about magnet use and how many mags can be on one magnet. Let’s look at some common questions and the answers.

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Filed Under: Rules Q&A

Intentional grounding

May 5, 2022 by Jodi Humann

How is your USPSA Multigun rules knowledge? Have you kept up on the recent updates? If you haven’t, you probably got this Question of the Month incorrect. Let’s take a look at the question and the results.

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Filed Under: Question of the Month Results Tagged With: multigun

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