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Club Culture and You

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(Be a Do Bee, Not a Don’t Bee)

As you may have noted, USPSA membership is growing and so is the number of affiliated clubs, both Steel Challenge and USPSA.  With growth comes growing pains, naturally, but there are a few things you as an experienced club member, range officer, club contact, match director, section coordinator or Area Director can do to help alleviate some of the common issues.  This will be especially necessary with the advent of “The USPSA Experience”, a web site dedicated to cleanly and simply introducing people to our sport.

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STOP! (Before the DQ)

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We all understand that the individual shooter is responsible for his/her actions, and that a disqualification is on the shooter, not the Range Officer that calls it.  As an RO, a shooter having a DQ should be a disappointment, not an achievement. A DQ is ultimately the result of something that the shooter did, not something that the RO caused. “You didn’t DQ him, he DQ’d himself, you just stopped him for it” is a common description of the situation.

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Timer settings for Fixed Time

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One of the most important things for running a Fixed Time scored stage is having the timer configured properly to beep when the par time ends. The timers from Competition Electronics and CED are easy to configure and have been used without issue for Fixed Time for years. However, there are a couple settings that need to be changed to use the AMG Lab Commander Timer to time a Fixed Time stage without issues.

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Timber!!!

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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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