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  1. just want to say what an awesome time i had. it was my first match and my goal was to be safe have fun and complete the entire course with out DQ'ing. i can say i achieved all three and can now say i am hooked. 

    Vlad gave a great intro to the first timers and during my safety check ensured everyone knew i was new and to lend a hand. And lend a hand they did. I just want to thank everyone on squad 5 for guiding me through and helping me understand the courses and look out for some of the gotchas while remaining safe and having fun. you guys have an amazing skill that i hope to reach one day. I must admit it was a bit daunting watching some of you run and gun so fast and smooth as well as be able to see the course differently than another shooter and shave off even more time.

    anyway, just wanted to say thanks again and hope you let me squad up with you again in the future.

     

    I also shot a mail to the directors as well.....

     

    Oh, side note. i signed up for USPSA membership, and while some people have pending next to their names on the score sheet mine is blank. is that normal? should i contact someone? i did pay the 40 bucks and put Join on the registration...

     

    Thanks Again,

    Vinnie

    Vinnie, I will add pending  when I post the final scores and submit to USPSA.

     

    Jim


  2. May 2016, Old Bridge will have two matches.

     

    On May 22nd we will have our regular USPSA 7 stage match. Register on SteelScoring.com. Members of OB registration opens May 8th. Non-member registration opens on May 13th.

     

    On May 29th we will run a three-gun match. Register on SteelScoring.com. Members of OB registration is open now. Non-member registration opens on May 6.


  3. March 27th, Easter Sunday USPSA 7 Stages. Register at SteelScoring.com. Registered members of OBRPC have a week to register before the mach opens to the general public. Open registration starts Sunday Morning one week before Match Day,

     

    Set-up starts at 0700. Looking forward to seeing you all on the range!


  4. We do not have machines in place at the club, what we do have is a large field with three shooting cages and you can either mount your own machine on a stantion or wheel your electric out to where ever and have at it. We don't have a 'Trap House' or 'skeet towers' but the regular matches are along the lines of a 5-stand match and as said, you can set up as you like in off hours. Even on the fullest Sunday, you can probably set up Shotgun after 1pm,opening time at a lot of ranges, and shoot until closing.

     

    I am currently serving as Vice-President and have been Co-Chair of the USPSA match for about 15 years, You'll be hard pressed to find a better group than you will find at OBRPC.


  5. OK,I shoot, I wear glasses. When I started I had a single prescription and all was good in the world. THEN... I got my first pair of progressives. It was a pain. Could not get my head in the right position for USPSA style shooting. Fast forward, got a person that knew what to do. We used a set of handheld lenses to until the front sight was in focus. We did this for both eyes. I do not subscribe to the different focus distances. Shooting action you find yourself on quite a number of occasions shooting weak side, weak side eye. Now, that said, my eyes are not so bad as many peoples. I can see targets at distance with my shooting glasses, not well enough to shoot iron sight rifle, but I don't stumble over my feet either.

     

    You can accomplish the fitting in multiple ways. I have carried a slide and used it, however I now do it by just holding a pencil out as if it were my pistol and focusing on the point. We do this for both eyes. I then verify this at my optometrist by using a set of trial lenses. Now, if your vision is really bad, this may not work for you, you may need the unbalanced lenses. Also for Open, this does not work as the 'dot' is focused at infinity and you get a starburst with the short focus lenses. For Open you'll need a pair of glasses focused for distance and a pair of readers for loading mags or writing scores.

     

    Shooting a scoped rifle is not an issue, merely adjust the diopter ring to focus the reticle


  6. After many years Vlad is entering into semi retirement. Steve and Harry are taking over. They really deserve our support. Having been a match director for many years, I can tell you it is an easy job, IF you have support and a HELL on earth if you don't have support.

     

    What is support you may ask. Support comes in a couple ways. At the most basic it is showing up on time, not bitching and saying thank you. BUT for a match to survive this is not enough. A Match Director needs people to design stages and to build them, he needs people that will step up and RO and a,so manage their squads, He needs people to stay after the match and ger it put away. When this ceases to occur the MD burns out and the match goes away.

     

    When we lose a match, we generally lose the venue and it is very difficult to resurect a match that has fied out completely.

     

    So step up to the plate fellow shooters and lend a hand. Design a stage, Build a stage, RO your squad, stay after and help put it away. DO this and we'll have matches for as long as we want. Stop and the matches go away. We lost Southern Chester, we lost USANA, we lost Topton, We have not truly replaced them even with the return of Onteleaune.

     

    See you all on Sunday.


  7. Looking ahead at Old Bridge

     

    October 25th is our regular USPSA Match, but with a twist. If you want to, you will be able to shoot the match with a Pistol Caliber Carbine. Two additional divisions have been added, PCC Iron and PCC Optic.

     

    November 22nd USPSA

     

    November 29th Action Shotgun

     

    As always we are looking for Stage Designers and Builders.

     

    Registration for our maches is on SteelScoring.com


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    Well, I do stay after to help clean up the stage and I do also input scores into the tablet. However, I don't feel experienced enough to run the timer or design stages. I'd help build stages too, but I have a two year old son at home who demands his daddy-son time in the mornings. I would love to design a stage though. I'd make it a 30+ round count stage.

     

      

    I don't know. Just never got into shot guns much. I don't think they're annoying or anything like that. It's just not my thing.

    Sig, my comments were aimed in general, not specifically at you or anyone else. Just for the record, anyone that ever designed a stage at one point designed their first stage and I can assure you everyone felt they were too inexperanced to do so. SOme of us really were, but we learned. If you aor anyone else designs a stage the only things we will do to it are make sure it is asfe and witin the rules. We may offer a liitle advice to make it work better if you build in movers.

     

    Home time with the kids is the number one priority, you'll be surprised how fast it will pass.


  9. Volunteering takes many shapes. Design a stage, Show up early to help build a stage, Lick up the timer. You don't have to run the match, just help out a little. If everyone that shoots drew one stage a year we could never hope to shoot them all! 30 additionaminutes at the range in the morning on match day can get the match started earlier and therefore finished earlier.

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