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Title: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on May 15, 2014, 11:58:59 AM
Eastern Nebraska Gun Club is excited to again host the USPSA Great Plains Sectional match in 2014! This is a 9 Stage Level 2 Match that will take place on Sunday, July 13, 2014. This match requires every participant to be a USPSA member (https://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-join-renew.php). It will be held at ENGC (Directions (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Eastern+Nebraska+Gun+Club/@41.016299,-96.107645,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87940c55bc3772af:0x77a8e343f5e43062)) near Louisville.
 
Registration: Registration must be done via mail. A link to the application and instructions is here: http://easternnebraskapracticalshooters.com/2014Sectional/2014-sectional-registration-2.pdf (http://easternnebraskapracticalshooters.com/2014Sectional/2014-sectional-registration-2.pdf)
Please note that you must check-in with match staff at the range prior to shooting!

Match Fee: $75 if postmarked by June 30, 2014. Juniors are $50. $85 if postmarked by July 1, 2014 or later, including juniors. Cancellations after July 1, 2014 will receive no refund.

Shirts: Match Shirts (nice performance shirts, not t-shirts!) are also available for $25 each and are available in sizes from S to 3XL. If you'd like to purchase a shirt, please indicate it on your match application. Shirts must be ordered by June 30, 2014 (and we need to have received payment by the 30th also). Unfortunately, there will be no shirts for sale at the match, only what is ordered at registration.

Stages:
Schedule Is As Follows:
Equipment You Will Need:

Not sure what division you have the equipment for [see Appendix D]? Want to get more in-depth with the rules? Read more here: http://www.uspsa.org/document_library/rules/2014/Feb%202014%20Handgun%20Rules.pdf (http://www.uspsa.org/document_library/rules/2014/Feb%202014%20Handgun%20Rules.pdf)

List of Production division approved handguns: http://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-NROI-production-gunlist.php (http://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-NROI-production-gunlist.php)

More information is always available on the Great Plains Sectional webpage: http://easternnebraskapracticalshooters.com/2014Sectional/2014sectional.htm (http://easternnebraskapracticalshooters.com/2014Sectional/2014sectional.htm)

Also please join us and "like" us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GPSectional (https://www.facebook.com/GPSectional)

If you have any questions please reply to this thread or PM me! I will do what I can to help you out. :)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on May 15, 2014, 12:21:42 PM
I am REALLY hoping to go to this.  I've never shot in anything beyond a Level 1 match.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on May 15, 2014, 12:23:04 PM
Quote from: bkoenig on May 15, 2014, 12:21:42 PM
I am REALLY hoping to go to this.  I've never shot in anything beyond a Level 1 match.

You'll love it, Brian. It's a great match! Hope you can join us. :)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: abbafandr on May 15, 2014, 01:39:24 PM
Quote from: bkoenig on May 15, 2014, 12:21:42 PM
I am REALLY hoping to go to this.  I've never shot in anything beyond a Level 1 match.
Definitely shoot this if you can, it will be a blast. With or without the blue kool aid.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on May 25, 2014, 05:43:00 PM
Stages 3 and 4 are now up!
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on June 03, 2014, 01:52:31 PM
Stages 5+6 are now up!

Also, please join us on Facebook and "like" us! https://www.facebook.com/GPSectional (https://www.facebook.com/GPSectional)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: JTH on June 03, 2014, 06:48:22 PM
If you haven't registered yet, and you are planning on getting a match shirt, you had better get it done!  Only people who get their registrations (and match shirt orders) in by the cutoff date will get a shirt---we aren't ordering extras or selling any at the match, and they DO look cool...

Cutoff date:  Match shirts must be ordered and paid for by June 30th.

It's a performance shirt, not a cotton T---if you saw the RO shirts last year at Area 3, those are the types of shirts you are going to get! 

Front left chest graphic:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3871/14340719765_22ff870693_o.jpg)

Back graphic:

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14340720155_20175b2362_o.jpg)

Sectional Page: 
http://www.easternnebraskapracticalshooters.com/2014Sectional/2014sectional.htm (http://www.easternnebraskapracticalshooters.com/2014Sectional/2014sectional.htm)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on June 04, 2014, 12:19:39 PM
Just mailed my entry form.  Will we be squadding online for this match?
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: Mudnrox on June 04, 2014, 01:11:21 PM
bkoenig, when your registration is processed, you will get an email with instructions for squadding
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: abbafandr on June 04, 2014, 07:13:06 PM
Those are cool shirts, can't wait to get mine.  Will they be purple? :laugh:
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on June 07, 2014, 09:38:26 AM
Ok, whoever designed stage 7 is a sadist.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: JTH on June 07, 2014, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: bkoenig on June 07, 2014, 09:38:26 AM
Ok, whoever designed stage 7 is a sadist.

You can thank Tom Engel for that one.  :)

(Should be a LOT of fun to shoot!)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: OnTheFly on June 07, 2014, 11:52:56 AM
Quote from: bkoenig on June 07, 2014, 09:38:26 AM
Ok, whoever designed stage 7 is a sadist.

Just be thankful there is only the star and that the Greenfield's aren't bringing the swinging star of death.

Fly
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: abbafandr on June 07, 2014, 05:59:49 PM
Will there be a classifier?
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: tobydog on June 07, 2014, 07:28:25 PM
Stage 9 is the classifier. We'll get it posted soon.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on June 10, 2014, 11:48:07 AM
All 9 stages now posted.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on June 18, 2014, 12:29:04 PM
A bit under two weeks left if you want to order and pay for a shirt! They're gonna be pretty awesome (if we say so ourselves), so get your money in soon!

Also, match fee goes up after the 30th! If you want in, NOW is the time to send in your registration!
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on June 18, 2014, 09:50:21 PM
Just curious, will our ammo be chrono'd at this match?  I'm pretty sure mine will easily make Minor PF but I should probably run it through myself just to make sure.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: JTH on June 19, 2014, 08:16:38 AM
Quote from: bkoenig on June 18, 2014, 09:50:21 PM
Just curious, will our ammo be chrono'd at this match?  I'm pretty sure mine will easily make Minor PF but I should probably run it through myself just to make sure.

Always expect a chrono at any match above a local club match.  Sometimes it doesn't happen at a Level II, but it often does.  (And it'll certainly happen at a Level III or higher.)

And you should always have chronoed your ammo to make sure it makes power factor.  :)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 08:00:13 AM
Ok, I'm going to be that guy and ask more questions....have emails been sent out for squadding yet?  I haven't received one so I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.

Oh, and my ammo chrono'd ok :)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: JTH on July 03, 2014, 08:45:18 AM
Quote from: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 08:00:13 AM
Ok, I'm going to be that guy and ask more questions....have emails been sent out for squadding yet?  I haven't received one so I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.

Oh, and my ammo chrono'd ok :)

Hm.  I bet you missed it---it would have been sent pretty much the day Julie got the registration in to USPSA, which was probably within a day or so of her receiving it.

Squadding here:  http://www.uspsa.org/squadding/index.php?action=list&indx=293 (http://www.uspsa.org/squadding/index.php?action=list&indx=293)

That goes for anyone else who has registered but not squadded yet---you can squad at the above link.  (This is assuming you either have a USPSA password already, or got the email with your PIN in it.)
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 04:39:18 PM
Quote from: jthhapkido on July 03, 2014, 08:45:18 AM
Hm.  I bet you missed it---it would have been sent pretty much the day Julie got the registration in to USPSA, which was probably within a day or so of her receiving it.

Squadding here:  http://www.uspsa.org/squadding/index.php?action=list&indx=293 (http://www.uspsa.org/squadding/index.php?action=list&indx=293)

That goes for anyone else who has registered but not squadded yet---you can squad at the above link.  (This is assuming you either have a USPSA password already, or got the email with your PIN in it.)


Ok, it's not letting me choose a squad - looks like the wrong USPSA number is entered for this match for me.  Is there someone who could switch that?
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: JTH on July 03, 2014, 06:11:28 PM
Quote from: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 04:39:18 PM

Ok, it's not letting me choose a squad - looks like the wrong USPSA number is entered for this match for me.  Is there someone who could switch that?

You need to contact Julie about that---Sectional (and USPSA) work a little differently than Practiscore.  Send her an email at dcjulie@windstream.net and give exact details of the problem, and she'll get it fixed.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: abbafandr on July 03, 2014, 07:46:11 PM
Quote from: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 04:39:18 PM

Ok, it's not letting me choose a squad - looks like the wrong USPSA number is entered for this match for me.  Is there someone who could switch that?

Have you tried logging in on the USPSA site?  If you do, you can select the option for self squadding on the member support page. FWIW
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 08:31:02 PM
Quote from: abbafandr on July 03, 2014, 07:46:11 PM

Have you tried logging in on the USPSA site?  If you do, you can select the option for self squadding on the member support page. FWIW

Yeah, I did but for this match it has the wrong number listed for me so when I enter my password it says it's invalid.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: dcjulie on July 03, 2014, 08:45:19 PM
Quote from: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 08:00:13 AM
Ok, I'm going to be that guy and ask more questions....have emails been sent out for squadding yet?  I haven't received one so I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.

Oh, and my ammo chrono'd ok :)

Check your spam folder for your squadding link.  If you don't have it, please email me @ dcjulie@windstream.net and I can resend it.  Thanks!  Julie
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on July 03, 2014, 09:54:41 PM
OK, I got it....I was being stupid.  I thought the password it was asking for was my USPSA website password, not the PIN sent in the squadding email.  Apparently the ID number assigned for the match isn't the same as the USPSA number.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: JTH on July 07, 2014, 10:30:05 PM
We've been starting to build the stages---match is coming up soon! You've cleaned your gun, reloaded all your ammo, and checked over all your gear, right?

(And if you have spare time, you are coming to the range to help set up....?  :) )
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SemperFiGuy on July 08, 2014, 08:16:57 AM
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Wuz pretty warm out there yesterday afternoon @ ENGC until the very welcome overcast moved in and blocked out the sun.

Found a nice, repetitive job to match my own skill set:  pounding in big long nails to secure the fault lines, partitions, walls, targets, etc.   Re-learned that you have to stare at the nailhead in order to hit it.   Same as claybirds.   Stage layout was carried out by the Experts.

Sweat poured.   Felt good.   Lotsa water went down.

Collateral Benefit: Big pocket full of mixed range brass.   (Mixed w/pebbles and pea gravel.)

Goin' out again this afternoon.   Lots more to be done.   

And in the words of jthhapkido:
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Come on out.   See you there.

sfg
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: abbafandr on July 14, 2014, 06:56:03 PM
This was a smoothly run match.  Everything hummed right along.  The stages definitely made you think. 

Looking forward the Zombie match now!
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: bkoenig on July 14, 2014, 09:13:28 PM
Quote from: abbafandr on July 14, 2014, 06:56:03 PM
This was a smoothly run match.  Everything hummed right along.  The stages definitely made you think. 

Looking forward the Zombie match now!

Yeah, the stages did a good job of exposing my stupidity.   :)

Thanks to all the RO's and staff for a well run match.  At least in my squad, everything went off without a hitch.
Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SemperFiGuy on July 14, 2014, 10:26:03 PM
Working on the setups last week was insightful, especially with respect to the actual setups but even moreso with respect to the dedicated crew that was building the match structure.

Two such dedicated individuals--Rich and John--were there all day, every day.   From early to late.   Together they patiently converted the stage layout diagrams into three-dimensional courses of fire.  They were also very patient with us worker-bee members of the Nail Pounding Brigade.   Rich, John, Julie, Tom, Terry, Bill, Becky, and others....   All these folks and the other volunteer officials who were involved really earned my admiration for the professional manner in which they support their chosen shooting sport.

Thanks to all for letting me play in your sandbox.

sfg

Title: Re: USPSA Great Plains Sectional Match (Level 2) - July 13, 2014 @ ENGC
Post by: SeanN on July 16, 2014, 12:07:44 PM
Was a really fun match! I'm glad we were able to keep things moving smoothly for the most part.