Well, it turns out there’s no connectivity in this hotel, so This will all be old news by the time you get it. There is a “web-tv” deal here, but I’ll go ahead and just assume that it doesn’t have vim and ssh, so it wouldn’t do me much good anyway. I have sampled a web-tv at a hotel previously and it’s really irritating, so I’ll save my $10 US/night and have shrimp with my steak.
Open Air Assault: Well here’s a rep’s nightmare: Federal donated a bunch of frangible ammo for the pistol portion of the event and it was complete trash. The .40s had a little problem wherein the bullets broke into two pieces at the case mouth, and the .357 Sigs were apparently coming out of the barrels in a bunch of little pieces. Even my pistol, lovingly hand built by Todd Jarret and my gunsmith that will feed empty cases or Remington ammo without a hitch broke one. My last round fed, but felt wrong. Before I noticed what I was doing (and remembered that I only had exactly as many rounds as I needed) I had smacked the magazine up into the well smartly and started racking the slide. I remembered where I was and slowed down to see a case come out and then half a bullet. I could not process properly what I had just seen and spent several seconds looking around for my last good round I needed (60 second penalty for a miss, bleh) before I gave up and left my shooting position.
Anyway, seeing as the organizers had mandated that the competitors use the evil ammo they had a scoring nightmare on their hands. The teams that used all .40 S&Ws and .357 Sigs and had several missing rounds were up n arms about the multiple 60-second penalties, the teams that were shooting nine mike-mikes weren’t so sure that the bad rounds would have been hits anyway. After what I suppose was some amount of iberation the Powers That Be decided to scrap the whole event. Our übermensch friends from San io expended a lot of energy rolling, smoking and stubbing out the butts of everyone else for
Super SWAT Cop: The scoring for the day came down to the results of the Super SWAT Cop. Our boy “Supa” had a blazing run but due to an unhappy miscoincidence between bullet and plate and the Draconian penalty scheme, came out a bit behind the freakiest of the freaky: Frank from S.A.
I guess the water and salad scam is paying off for those guys.