Fall Back! - Oct 30, 2006 - 9:46:39 PM
By Jerry the Geek
October is not only the time to carve pumpkins and take in the garden hoses.  It's also a time when we look back over the preceding IPSC competitive season, consider winterizing our guns, and complain about the increasing price of almost everything.

Seller's Remorse - Aug 11, 2006 - 10:09:47 PM
By Jerry the Geek
Why do you buy guns?  To sell them?  Me either.  When you find someone who wants it more than you do, what do you do? Me too.

Multi Gun as seen by The Shooting Wire - Aug 5, 2006 - 1:04:23 PM
By Jerry the Geek
Professional writers do a much better job of writing up a National Championship Match than do Amateurs.   That's why we refer to them from time to time.  Thank You, "The Shooting Wire"

2006 Multi-Gun Nationals: Final - Jul 31, 2006 - 9:21:37 PM
By Jerry the Geek
After watching three days of a USPSA National Championship, what impressions might the casual observer form about Multi-Gun competition?
What do you need to know that might make you interested in trying this new Shooting Sport?

Or, what information might cause you to decide that it is Not For You?

2006 Multi-Gun Nationals - Day 1 - Jul 29, 2006 - 10:05:59 PM
By Jerry the Geek
When you're a naif, there are many lessons to be learned.

When you begin with some assumptions, you must un-learn the things you THOUGHT you knew before you may begin to know the truth.

Multi-Gun competition is such a mileau.  Before you propose to know the rules, you must consider the antecedents of the sport.

2006 USPSA Multigun Nationals, Day 00: Setting Up Is Hard To Do - Jul 27, 2006 - 10:10:37 PM
By Jerry the Geek
Setting up the range (and the stages) for an ISPC match is not easy.  I've done that, I know what it's like.

2006 USPSA Multi-Gun Nationals - Day Zero - Jul 25, 2006 - 11:22:53 PM
By Jerry the Geek
Do YOU know the difference between a "Multi-Gun" IPSC match and a "3-gun" IPSC match?  Neither do I.

Taking his pride and image firmly in hand, Jerry the Geek exposes his ignorances and takes you to the scene of a "Multi-Gun" IPSC match, in the hope that at least ONE of us learns what it's like to shoot an entirely different rifle/shotgun/pistol competion.

  This wil be a five-day continuing series, there's only on thing you need to know about this and related articles:

It ain't gonna be pretty.

Ronnie Barret, King of the .50 Caliber Rifle, and E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year - Jul 17, 2006 - 8:53:59 PM
By Jerry the Geek
He has been vilified, bad-mouthed and back-stabbed, but the creater of the .50 rifle emerges from the LA Tar Pit looking good and smelling like roses

Gun Permits For Life - Jul 11, 2006 - 8:18:50 PM
By Jerry the Geek
Indiana now allows their citizens to acquire carry permits for life, rather than have to jump through the hoops all over again every few years.  Your state probably doesn't do that.  Why not?

Booger Hooks and the Bang Switch - Jun 29, 2006 - 8:50:33 PM
By Jerry the Geek
Rule Three: "Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot."

Is that so hard to do?

Apparently so ....