Welcome to the Kansas City Shooting Masters

Match This Saturday June 26, 2010

Match will be held this Saturday June 26 at 10am. Bullet Hole Range, Overland Park, Ks.

SOs are Joe Mulligan with help from Bob Bentz and Billy Miller with help from Don Lehman. We have had some really good matches the last few months and look forward to more of the same.

Last month we had 31 shooters with 3 shooters competing with 2 guns. Our accurate shooters were George Sims (down 6 points total) & Clint Ancker & Chuck Northcott both with 9 points down. As a well known trainer says, "Don't shoot fast, shoot good". Good shooting guys.

SO's please remember, we want you to be able to shoot the match, which can be difficult when we are running a lot shooters through our stages. Get some help to allow you to rotate out and shoot both your own stage as well as the other stages. If you can't find help, ask one of the Board members to help or to find some help. When you are a SO or Assistant SO, when you put in your score sheet, make sure to tell them you are working the match and to move you to the top of the list. This is club policy and there shouldn't be any issues with this practice.

I want to give Mike Widebrook a huge thank you for creating some new lightweight walls. These should make it much easier to setup matches. Mike worked very hard getting rid of the old heavy walls and then building the new ones. We are looking at some other ideas to help make it easy to build walls and vision barriers for our matches.

Current BOD members are:

Jim Hewins, President
Jim Barber, Treasurer
Tommy Herken, Match Director
Steve Hoober, Secretary
Mike Widebrook, Quartermaster


jhewins on 06.23.10 @ 08:07 AM CST [link]
 

BUG Match Saturday April 24, 2010

Don’t forget the match this Saturday. We will have our annual “BUG” match. Do you know what a “BUG” is? BUG stands for Back Up Gun. It is a division within IDPA reserved for local matches only and utilizes some of the “little” guns we sometimes carry in our pockets. If you need more info go to http://www.idpa.com/Documents/IDPARuleBook2005.pdf and read pages 26-27 in the IDPA rulebook. The BUG stage will be a separate event from our normal match. If you have a pocket gun you carry, bring it out and see how you do with a gun you probably don’t shoot very often. Try to bring something you actually carry and not necessarily something that just fits within the rules. The course will modified for those not shooting a BUG gun. So bring your regular gun as well as your BackUpGun and see if your system works. If you don’t have a backup gun there are generally several at the match willing to lend their gun. You probably will have to buy some factory ammo, but hey it’s a gun store and they sell it upstairs. See you Saturday.
jhewins on 04.20.10 @ 06:51 AM CST [link]
 

Safety.. Safety.. Safety

This is our primary focus during our matches. Yes we like to have fun, yes we like to a good time with our friends and yes we want to spent time in the Bullet Hole looking at new items we can take home and put in the safe. But our main focus during the match has to be safety, especially when we are handling firearms in the classroom or on the range. Sometimes we think safety just happens and we don’t have to think about it. This can happen to ANYONE.

I have been shooting competitively since 1983 and consider myself a safe shooter. This past match I was disqualified for a safety violation. It was deserved, and actually I DQ’d myself as soon as the incident happened. I knew it was wrong and I had made a mistake. I am not making any excuses for what happened. For just a moment I forgot where my primary focus was suppose to be, and a problem occurred. Those folks behind me looking down the barrel of the shotgun we were using, didn’t care that it didn’t have any shells in it. I’m sure some were ducking as the barrel started to come around as I was trying to sling the shotgun and transition to my pistol.

We can’t afford an accident. We all need to remember to focus on safety, and not let our guard down. Especially us old-timers!!

Results have been posted, but the stage descriptions may not be done yet. Stay Safe!

jhewins on 06.12.09 @ 07:21 AM CST [link]
 

Upcoming Events

Don't forget the match this Saturday at the Bullet Hole. Start time is 10am.

The SOs this month are a couple of our Board members, Tommy Herken and Steve Hoober. Jeff Sutton will be assisting Steve, and Chuck Northcott will be helping Tommy. Next month we have an opening for a SO. Please see Jim Barber at the desk if you would like to help out. Also at this time we don't have anyone scheduled for the July match. Again see Jim if you can help.

To see who out schedule of SOs & ASOs as well as when we need additional help, go to:

http://www.kcshootingmasters.com/calendar/index.shtml


We have a couple of new certified Safety Officers. Andy Garwell and James Randolph completed their training in early March. Congratulations to both of you for taking the initiative and time to become certified. It can only help our club become stronger.

See you on Saturday.

Stay safe
jim
jhewins on 04.25.08 @ 05:55 AM CST [link]
 

Photos of March Match

I brought the camera to the range today, and took several zillion photos.

I made no effort to get every shooter, but plenty of folks are in here. Enjoy, and tell me if you need a full-resolution version of anything:

http://shoobe01.homeunix.net/~shoobe01/gun_photos/5121.html

shoobe01 on 03.29.08 @ 06:28 PM CST [link]
 

Ramblings from the President

We had a good turnout at the last match. Hope everyone that wanted to, got a chance to shoot Doug’s BUG match. We try to have at least one BUG stage a year and Doug’s match is always well received. It’s good to shoot some of those guns we don’t shoot often, but may have them with us when we are out and about.

The scoring this month was done a little different from normal. I scored it as three matches; Tommy’s stage, Doug’s BUG match, and the third was Doug’s match for those not using a BUG gun. One issue that continues to come up when the scoring is completed is the division the competitor is shooting in. It has to be marked on your score sheet in order to be scored correctly, otherwise you are scored as UNKNOWN. If you are new to IDPA and aren’t sure or don’t know which division your gun puts you in, then make sure you ask one of the board members.

I will be holding an IDPA safety officer certification course on Saturday March 1. It is an all day class and you must be a member of IDPA. If interested please let me know as soon as possible. I can be contacted at jphewins@yahoo.com. The class will be held at Camp Naish Boy Scout Reservation located in KCK. Cost will be $20.

Classifications are earned by shooting the IDPA Classifier course. The classification course is a 90 round, 3 stage match. It emphasizes a number of basic skills that we all should possess, including weak hand shooting, strong hand shooting, shooting on the move, reloading, shooting from cover, and shooting from a distance. If you need further info on the course you can go to http://www.idpa.com/classify.asp and get additional information. It takes about 20 minutes to shoot and doesn’t lend itself to being part of a monthly match. We try to set it up after our Saturday matches when we get requests for it. If you need to shoot the classifier you can contact a member of the board. You have to be a IDPA member to have a classification.

Why would you need a classification?? If you go to any sanctioned matches you will need to be a member of IDPA and have a classification. There will be two sanctioned matches in Missouri in June of this year as well as one in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma. If you are interested in the Missouri state match, here is a website you can access and get the info. http://www.benchrestidpa.com/missouristatematch.htm

I have mentioned the Board of Directors a number of times. So who are these guys? Current members are:

Jim Hewins President
Jim Barber Treasurer
Steve Hoober Secretary
Tommy Herken Match Director
Mike Widebrook Quartermaster

Please let us know your concerns and contact us at any time.

Next match will be held starting at 10:00am on February 23rd at the Bullet Hole.


jhewins on 02.14.08 @ 08:00 AM CST [link]
 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!!

This Saturday is the first match of the new year. Hope to see you all at 10am at the Bullet Hole. Tommy Herken and Doug Smith will be the SOs. I know they have a couple of good matches scheduled try to make it to the match.

Doug will be conducting a BUG (Back Up Gun) match. BUG rules will be followed. If you don’t know if the gun you want to use is legal for a BUG gun, go to the IDPA website (or your rulebook) and see if it’s listed. Other items of interest for BUG matches; no more than 5 rounds in any one string, no reloads, no drawing from a holster. We know everyone might not have a gun meeting criteria, but I am sure someone will have one you can borrow. You might have to buy the ammo upstairs in order to shoot the stage, but it can be done. I’m guessing if you have some factory 38 special available, you will be able to find a gun to shoot the stage. For those of you that don’t have a gun and don’t want to shoot the match as a BUG match, we will allow you to use your regular gun to shoot the stage, but you will be scored separately and won’t be listed in the BUG results.

January is the time of the year to renew your membership in the club. This will require several things. First it costs $20 to join the Kansas City Shooting Masters. This will allow you to shoot at the member rate of $8.00 per match instead of the non-member rate of $13.00. You will need to be a member of the Bullet Hole range so bring your card – more on this in a bit. You will also need to show membership in a 2nd Amendment organization. The most obvious is the NRA, but it could be Gun Owners of America or others. Bring proof of current membership and we will decide if that organization meets the intent of this requirement. Last and certainly not least, be prepared to run or help run 2 matches this calendar year. It is a lot of work putting on these monthly matches and this helps spread the load to all of our members. New members shouldn’t be concerned about this requirement. We will match newer shooters with those with more experience. The experienced shooters will be the SOs and the new shooters will be Assistant SOs. This will allow the new guys to get some experience and next year they can run the stage as the SO. Those of you that have been ASOs for the last couple of years; well it’s time you became SOs. If you have problems designing a match, we can work that out. The BOD can help you design a good IDPA match; you can set it up and run it.

Remember if you are working on a stage, it is your responsibility to arrange to have it setup, run it, and tear it down and put the equipment away. We are guests at the Bullet Hole and the BH staff expects us to clean up after ourselves and put all the equipment back in an orderly manner. Make sure it is locked up, the door to the storage room locked and the key returned to the desk upstairs. Get a couple of friends to help out and it really doesn’t take too long to setup or tear down.

Important!!! We have changed the procedure for match registration this year. You will have to show your Bullet Hole membership card at the desk EACH month. Don’t go off and forget you card. Jim Barber will want to see proof of membership each month.

Thanks for all of the help you give to the Board every year. Let’s make this year a great year and above all, Keep It Safe!!!!

jim

jhewins on 01.25.08 @ 12:37 PM CST [link]