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Jodi Humann

Do you DVC?

September 16, 2021 by Jodi Humann

Do you know what DVC is? Have you noticed those letters on the bottom corner of the USPSA logo? Do you understand what they mean in relation to our sport?

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Filed Under: Stage Design

Handling dropped guns

September 9, 2021 by Jodi Humann

Regardless if a gun is dropped during the course of fire, or outside a course of fire, it is the job of a Range Officer to oversee its retrieval and return to a safe condition (see 10.5.14). But how should a RO go about this?

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Filed Under: RO Best Practices

Gun swap Q & A

August 19, 2021 by Jodi Humann

The recent post about getting RM approval to swap a broken or unreliable firearm brought up a few follow-up questions. Let’s look at those questions and answers.

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Filed Under: Rules Q&A

Schrodinger’s PCC Flag

August 5, 2021 by Jodi Humann

We have received multiple questions about whether a PCC that is transported between stages in a case and is only out of the case during the COF needs to be flagged. So, for the July Question of the Month we posed the following question: A PCC competitor comes to the line with a cased PCC. After you give the Make Ready command, he opens the case and you see a PCC with the bolt locked back and no chamber flag inserted. What do you do?

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Filed Under: Question of the Month Results Tagged With: PCC, pcc flag

When the gun breaks, the RM must be called

July 29, 2021 by Jodi Humann

If you shoot enough matches, eventually you will have a situation where your gun breaks and becomes unreliable or nonfunctional. But what to do now? Do I just get my backup gun and carry on? Do I need to notify anyone? What is the proper way to handle this per the rules?

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Filed Under: Rules Insights Tagged With: gun change

Tending your fault lines

July 8, 2021 by Jodi Humann

No, this is not a foot faulting post, at least not directly. One of the things I see at major matches are stage crews not maintaining the fault lines. As hundreds of competitors go through the course of fire, certain corners are getting buried by dirt and gravel that is kicked up as people stop in prime shooting positions. Is this an issue? If a competitor earns an unfair foot fault, it sure is!

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Filed Under: RO Best Practices

Unloaded starts

June 10, 2021 by Jodi Humann

We don’t see a ton of unloaded starts in USPSA matches, but when there is one, the Range Officers usually have to advise the competitors to get the firearm in the proper ready condition. And usually it is a fair number of competitors who need some guidance. So, let’s chat about unloaded starts and what that means for pistols, revolvers, and PCCs.

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Filed Under: Rules Insights

Zero score?

June 3, 2021 by Jodi Humann

Now that magnets are allowed in all the divisions, most competitors have added them to their gear, but some run afoul of the distance of the magazine from the inside of the belt. Which is why we asked this Question of the Month: During the course of fire, a Production competitor places a mag on a magnet that is attached to a mag pouch. The magnet is on the side of the pouch opposite of where the belt attachment is which puts the edge of the magazine, that is retained by the magnet, 2.5 inches away from the inner most surface of the belt. What is your call as the RO?

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Filed Under: Question of the Month Results

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