{"id":26,"date":"2002-09-16T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2002-09-16T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/09\/16\/no-connectivity\/"},"modified":"2002-09-16T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2002-09-16T07:34:12","slug":"no-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/09\/16\/no-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"no connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/A> and ssh<\/A>, 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<\/B>: Well here’s a rep’s nightmare: Federal<\/A> 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<\/A> 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<\/A> 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 \u00c3\u00bcbermensch friends from San io expended a lot of energy rolling, smoking and stubbing out the butts of everyone else for <\/P>

Super SWAT Cop<\/B>: 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.<\/P> The really big news is that Face ran the Super SWAT cop event just for grins (he wasn’t our designated points-earner) and dislocated his knee on the first obstacle. He still finished third overall(!), but his knee looks like he’s hiding a football. I’m going to stand in for him and we’re going to hope he’s well enough by Thursday to run the Obstacle Course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}