Tuesday
Night Steel
Match
Director
Assistant
Match Director
3:00PM
- 7:00PM Signup Every Tuesday
Match
Fee - $12.00 Guests, $10.00 Members
6:00PM
Mandatory Safety Class before you can shoot a match
The class
is free. Click for the
course outline
Previous
matches can be retrieved by putting the date after the above match name in the
format of YYMMDD.
For example, to retrieve the Jan 4, 2011 match, go to
http://www.riopractical.com/text/tue_nite110104.pdf
Tuesday Night Steel is a competition with rules based loosely on
the USPSA handbook.
Expect 120 - 170
competitors, plan for 1-1/2 to 2 hours minimum at the range. Round count
is generally held to less than 20 per stage, so there will be about 80 required
hits to complete this match.
Steel reactive
targets are predominantly used throughout the four courses of fire presented
for the competitor every Tuesday night. Scoring is time-based, with penalties
of +5 seconds assessed for targets not engaged with the required number of hits
or other procedural errors. Successful participants will compete based on their
equipment being used (Open, Limited, Limited-10, Revolver) and their ability to
execute the courses of fire in the match (Master-, A-, B-, C-, D-, class and
Novice).
Advancement through the classes is determined by the "3-win" rule -
win your class three times, move up one class. Competitors may elect to move
down one class on January 1st each year. Pins are awarded for class wins, and
ribbons for 2nd & 3rd places. Match winner gets a free shoot.
The match is
moderately physical with standing, sitting, squatting, leaning, and prone
positions sometimes required to view the targets. In most cases, you will draw
your gun from the holster and will reload from the belt. It is recommended to
have at least three magazines, four if limited to 10 rounds or less.
Participants are challenged by hundreds of different courses during the year,
with posted course descriptions outlining required hits and shooting positions,
leaving execution decisions up to the competitor.
First time participants are asked to attend a 30 min safety instruction class
to explain the procedures of the match and cover safety concerns. New shooters
will be escorted by an experienced club member through their first match. You
can see the Safety Class Outline here.
We will no longer have Limited 10, this will be replaced with Single Stack.
Definition: Single Stack will be any 1911 using single column magazines,
and you can only have 8 rounds max! This means for 9mm or 40s&w, you can
only put in 8 rounds. We have no major or minor when shooting steel so we will
stick to 8 rounds max for Single Stack. For all of you guys and gals that want to shoot your 1911 10 round mags, you can now sign-up in Limited.
Next will be Production.
We will have a Production Division. Without getting
too far into the rules, I will make this as
short as I can.
Definition:
Production
will be any production gun unmodified from the manufacturer.
Examples are Springfield XD, CZ 75, Beretta 92, Ruger P89, Sig
226,229, Smith and Wesson M&P, or Glock. You can only have
10 rounds maximum in the magazine. For a better
definition, please go to www.uspsa.org
Lastly, please remember to be both
courteous and safe in the New Year. We have had a number of issues
relating to RO duties, brass pickup, and safety issues recently that do not
reflect well on our range and that discourages people from enjoying this
sport. Have a good time but please do your part to keep our range fun for
everyone.
Thanks and see you out
at the range!
Mick Darren