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Wow glad you are OK JBD!

My neighbour(Toronto area) knows I am involved with IPSC and is vacationing out there. She took the following pic as she thought it was cool to see an ipsc shooter out there. She told me the guy's head was full of staples. Must be you. LOL..

 
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Thanks for putting words in my mouth, appreciate that.
If you knew me you would not make such a comment, I guarantee that.
Am I not able to put my opinion out there in Cyberspace? My comments are not as valuable as yours? Laughable. Its MY OPINION that "there was something for everyone"
Stop taking yourself so seriously
 
My post was in response to Euxx original post complaining about the Range staff and that he had to witness a guy bleeding severely for 10 minutes. It really ticked me off that he could find fault in how Roger handled the situation. I am not sure whether he was complaining that we should not have bothered interrupting the stage in order to save my life. Or that roger did not do a great job as he was only able to control the bleeding not stop it. Either way I was ticked. Roger did well in keeping me from bleeding out.
The paramedics could not stop the bleeding hell it took a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and an operating room to actually stop the bleeding.

I was thinking when I was in the ambulance that this was a pretty extreme challenge for the Restigouche gun club and they had done very well in managing it.
 
Wow....

Good on the range staff for taking control...and glad you are OK...

JBD said:
I was the guy that got the head injury and I am real proud of my club in how they handled it. They had properly stocked first aid kits immediately accessible in each range bucket. Roger Levesque the RO assessed the situation. He controlled the bleeding and had someone call the ambulance. The range master had someone meet the ambulance and lead it back to the range. Ranny Rankin Stayed with me till I got to the hospital and notified my family. That head injury was severe and if I the bleeding was left uncontrolled I would have bled out. Accidents happen, but it was handled very well by the folks at the restigouche range.

This was no paper cut
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Madness said:
Nice to see someone else who isn't afraid to speak the truth, glad handing and kissing ass won't improve how things get done. There's two choices learn from the customers criticism or cry foul and go on thinking you are doing everything perfectly
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i must have missed you at this years match Mike. Eugene is pissed because he put in an arbitration or attempted to in regards to a target he could see behind and above a 7 foot wall. Ya know...some times the rule book has its moments. All walls go to infinity....up and down apparently.

Eugene....

Ya really get to know a person based on how they act in person...and over the internet behind a computer. Sad....even pathetic. Don't ever ask me to shake your hand again. ...I recall your lame words last year at the Nationals..."will you shake my hand Mo?" I felt bad for how no one wants to talk to you....and was even being polite to you this year. I was mistaken thinking you had learned to have some manners.
 
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euxx said:
No question there was a lot of work put into the match and number of stages increased, but it seem like it had affected several other aspects of the match.

To me the match didn't feel like it was up to the promise and the previous years reputation. So, it looked like this time Restigouche club put on a first class circus.

It was very ironic to hear from the match director at the banquet how they appreciate competitors from Ontario drive 16 hours to the match and then see how we are treated as second citizens, e.g. splitting 4 people who drive together all in 4 different squads. More over, intermediate results or score verification reports wasn't posted during match and when I asked MD if we could get our scores verified before we take off for out 16 hours drive, I was told that stats office is busy entering scores and he won't be interrupting them. Guess I was asking too much.

The food at the banquet was decent and the prize table looked good, but you had to wait for the prize draw for 3 hours, including listening to long and repetitive speeches. For Christ's sake, limit the time for each speaker... It is good to recognize sponsors and show them appreciation, but having NFA guy mumble at the stage for 30 minutes and going in circles how we should fight for our rights was way over the top, besides, he didn't say anything we didn't know and most people wasn't really listening. At least for some of us it was a major competition and a sport's event, so having to stay past 10pm to get up at 6am wasn't respectful to match participants.

The match organization wasn't great either, with squads waiting up and jumping ahead of each other, creating even more road blocks to other squads. People taking off earlier, leaving their squad mates to officiate and reset stages for smaller squads (that is not even counting DQs and injured people, including competitor who ended up at the hospital).

Stages were typical Summer Slam stages (house, labyrinth, plane/submarine, tanks, phone booth, we all seen them in several previous years), generally decent and with some options, but this year they have added a twist by introducing conditions which targets in the plain view you can or can't shoot from certain positions (that was the case for at least two long stages).

Finally, the Summer Slam really outgrown the idea of the CROs walking and shooting with their squads. That severely affected stage consistency between squads, especially given my previous point.
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yep..there was some bottle necking...
not bad for the match director seeing as this is his 3rd year in IPSC, and also that he had this match put in his lap as the former match director was stuck out west making $ to put food on the table.
 
my only comments are --------------i attend shoots at restigouche club ( rifle and shotgun ) they run those events well..............

to the folks who didnt enjoy your ipsc event / summer slam ...............ok your points are heard------------ perhaps next year consider NoT going ??
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to the volunteers at the restigouche club ....

thank you !!
 
maurice said:
i must have missed you at this years match Mike. Eugene is pissed because he put in an arbitration or attempted to in regards to a target he could see behind and above a 7 foot wall. Ya know...some times the rule book has its moments. All walls go to infinity....up and down apparently.
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I was there in spirit, I know how much I'm adored ip there B-)
 
Let me just say that Ill be the last to say that it was perfect. It was anything but thats for sure. I appreciate it all the constructive criticism. The bottle neck is on me and so is the banquet. All things I'll work on for next year. As for you Eugene, don't bother sending in a registration next year. It will not be accepted. Your negative influence is no longer welcome on our range. Everyone else, thanks for attending and I look forward to seeing you next year.
DVC
Trevor
 
maurice said:
Eugene is pissed because he put in an arbitration or attempted to in regards to a target he could see behind and above a 7 foot wall. Ya know...some times the rule book has its moments. All walls go to infinity....up and down apparently.
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1) I didn't realize that was not a shooting skill competition, but a quiz who knows the rule book better. However I accepted my failure there, you guys tricked me

2) for the record, the intention of the rule 2.2.3.1 is to prevent people from shooting targets over a continuous wall (as it happen last year at the labyrinth stage where walls were under 1.8m). Even MD had won the argument as per the the rule book, but the given target was in a plain sight from the start position was practically asking to shoot it from there.

3) with that target at 2m above the ground and a 1.8m height partial wall in front of it (which you supposed to lean over), how can you tell that competitor is leaning far enough to not shoot though the wall?

3) what I can't accept, is that I wasn't the first who shoot over the wall (I know because I was ROing that stage and had to patch holes at the wall where others shoot it) and wasn't the last, because I know that several people got reshoots for the same thing (confirmed with the squad CRO who ordered them; MD was informed too, but declined to talk to that squad CRO) and more over, everyone after my squad was warned by the stage helper person NOT tho shoot that target over the wall (i.e. not the same stage briefing for everyone and it is the same every year over and over again)

4) it wasn't the only stage where they told you which target you can and can't shoot from given positions. The house was another one, e.g. all but one targets beneath second floor were visible from 2nd floor, but you're told that you can only shoot them from the first floor.

5) it was not me who did the lousy planning. So, have the balls to admit it (regardless of the reasons) and learn from that

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Eugene....

Ya really get to know a person based on how they act in person...and over the internet behind a computer. Sad....even pathetic. Don't ever ask me to shake your hand again. ...I recall your lame words last year at the Nationals..."will you shake my hand Mo?" I felt bad for how no one wants to talk to you....and was even being polite to you this year. I was mistaken thinking you had learned to have some manners.
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Mo, you don't know me and completely missed the irony last year... Now you'll have to take a ticket to get in line of people who don't want to shake my hand. But speaking of pathetic, putting 200 primers on a prize table that was pathetic. It was less than the round count of that match and most people shoot more than that during a single practice practice.
 
Eugene...you could be the best shooter in the world. ...but you won't. Even if u could outperform everyone in the world....no one would want to be your friend; because of how you treat other people. You #### on them for their efforts. I heard a comment about you last year, and i thought it was too harsh. I can see i was wrong. "I wouldn't piss on Eugene if he was on fire"- anonymous.
 
JBD said:
My post was in response to Euxx original post complaining about the Range staff and that he had to witness a guy bleeding severely for 10 minutes. It really ticked me off that he could find fault in how Roger handled the situation. I am not sure whether he was complaining that we should not have bothered interrupting the stage in order to save my life. Or that roger did not do a great job as he was only able to control the bleeding not stop it. Either way I was ticked. Roger did well in keeping me from bleeding out.
The paramedics could not stop the bleeding hell it took a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and an operating room to actually stop the bleeding.

I was thinking when I was in the ambulance that this was a pretty extreme challenge for the Restigouche gun club and they had done very well in managing it.
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Jason, you misunderstood me. I was simply telling the story as it happen back then. I did not care about the stage delay because of that (you missed all the delays on a second day). Roger (a CRO from our squad) and George (CRO from a previous squad) were doing all they could to stop the bleeding. You should thank them for saving your life. My point is that people who designed and built that stage allowed this to happen with you and it is not the first time happening there. I have my own scars to prove.

You have survived it, but during my short career in IPSC I already seen shooter died at the range, so I can't take these things lightly
 
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