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RO Best Practices

Certified Ammunition

December 19, 2024 by Troy McManus

With the 2024 shooting season coming to a close, and the 2025 season not warming up yet (see, because it’s winter, and cold, “not warming up yet”), I thought it might be helpful in planning to publish some information on USPSA’s Certified Ammunition Program.

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Filed Under: Free Advice, RO Best Practices Tagged With: Best Practices, Rules

Timber!!!

October 10, 2024 by Kevin Imel

We’ve all done it. Moving along through life and everything is going our way and suddenly we are landing on the ground not really sure how we got there. All well and good, usually, with nothing more than our pride bruised or maybe a minor scrape. But what if this happens at a match, during a stage, and we are the shooter? DQ? Let’s step back from the dust cloud and look the situation over.

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Circlestack? What the heck?

August 29, 2024 by Kevin Imel

Revolvers get referred to by a lot of names. Circlestack, Wheelgun, and more. The revolver, typically in a .38 variant or .45 ACP and the 1911, generally in .45 ACP although .38 Super was around as well, were the foundation firearms of our sport going back to the very early days before double stack magazines, comps and, optics. At that point the 1911s were using surplus magazines so were 7+1 vs. 6 rounds in the revolver so there was not that much disparity. As revolvers were still the duty guns for most law enforcement agencies at the time they were very popular in the sport and readily available. Now, they are a rarity in our sport, especially USPSA, and it is not uncommon to run across ROs that aren’t “Revolver Aware”. They are a bit different from a rules standpoint so let’s stroll through the book and take a deeper look.

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Always be prepared

July 11, 2024 by Jodi Humann

We emphasize in the CRO course that good CROs arrive at the stage they are working with a basic toolkit. But after working a few major matches recently, I am thinking we need to remind all CROs and ROs working a stage. Always show up ready to maintain your stage!

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That second beep

May 30, 2024 by Jodi Humann

For Comstock and Virginia Count scoring, time ends with the last shot. But in Fixed Time scoring, the time ends on the second beep. But what if the competitor doesn’t hear the second beep? What if the RO doesn’t hear it either?

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Counting Shots: When and Why?

May 9, 2024 by Matt Waite

At our recent monthly club match, three of the six stages used Virginia Count scoring.  There was a bit of good-natured grumbling about it, but the stages turned out to be very interesting.  A 20-round medium course had a lot of comments and groans from the competitors.  

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Enforcing the start position

April 18, 2024 by Jodi Humann

Range Officers are not supposed to give the “Are you ready?” range command until the competitor is in the proper start position. But what if the competitor isn’t in the start position? Does the RO say something? Stand there in silence? What is the proper course of action?

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So, YOU Get to be the RM today

February 8, 2024 by Kevin Imel

Ask anyone, especially those that have earned their RM card but also a lot of CRO level folks and they can tell you the story of their first time working as the RM at a match. And, if you stick in the sport long enough, stay abreast of the rules, and help run matches at your local club(s) then it is probably going to happen to you. Here are some tips and some advice to help you in that journey.

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