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Tennessee williams

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  1. I noticed you pooted a little when you seen all that money. I was scared to show you how much my bunkhouse boss had earned for fear you'd crap your britches.
  2. Sometimes I "run out of gas", sometimes I get lost or see something scary on the passenger side of the car. Atleast I don't cut a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket....anymore.
  3. I sure do appreciate you taking up for me and setting the record straight! That's mighty good friending right there. Matter of fact, I appreciate it so much I won't tell anybody about your hemorrhoid surgery you're having tomorrow or about that time you got to 2nd base with your double first cousin Martha.
  4. Creeker I love ya but here it is quoted by PWB from 4 months ago. You were in that discussion too.
  5. Took me a second but I found it. Here ya go.
  6. Sorry was at my daughters' practice. You would both be in the wrong to start the shooter in that position. This is the reason for the covenants. To keep everything level. Any exception to the SASS default(covenants) only applies to the exception. NOT all of it.
  7. Stage instructions say, "begin at position 2 with hands on hat". The shooter gives you the line and has hands on hat with body bent over the first long gun to be fired at position 2. What is your next action?
  8. Difference in wording and some of our conventions.... Stage instructions- Starting position: Begin standing behind position 1 with one thumb on your nose. This means- You are to stand at position 1 with 1 thumb on your nose. The rest of you must be at SASS default position because that is in our conventions. You may not have a thumb on your nose and be bent over double over your rifle. Stage instructions- Starting position: Begin standing behind position 1 at shooters' discretion with 1 thumb on your nose. This means you are to stand behind position 1 with 1 thumb on your nose. The rest of your body may be other than SASS default position because of the specified "shooters' discretion". This does not mean you can be touching gun(s) or ammo because those specific conventions weren't overridden by the wording. So I have to partially disagree with Creeker.
  9. The above is what I was saying. You just trying to be contrary to me?
  10. It HAS to be specific to that particular convention for reasons I specified above. If it's doesn't directly override a SPECIFIC convention, can we just choose which one we want it to override? No
  11. I wasn't there this year or last(did I hear someone say, yay) but for what it's worth: Conventions say long guns staged on a table will be staged FLAT on the table. It's true that SPECIFIC stage instructions stating otherwise can over rule that convention;however, "staged anywhere safely" is not a specific instruction that would override that convention. That phrase is used quite often when the stagewriter wants to convey that the shooters can stage a particular firearm at any one of several possible locations. In order to override that convention, the instructions would have to be specific to that convention. I.E. "Shooter may stage the long gun on the 2x4, or long gun may be propped up on rail, or something SPECIFIC like that. Otherwise the shooter would be able to stage the long gun flat but really far back on the table, or have the rifle kick-standing up on a saddle ring. To disallow ALL of that, they would ALL have to be addressed in the instruction. That'd be lunacy. Bottom line to me with THIS situation is the stagewriters, match officials, prop and stage builders only have so much they can be responsible for. They can't ultimately hold each Posse Marshals hand. If they could do that, they wouldn't need them in the first place. The officials can give direction and make a reasonable attempt to make sure all parties understand what's conveyed to them. They can take note of what problems they have with a Posse Marshal, or prop, etc to make whatever change is necessary to keep it from happening again. This is a good group putting this match on and they have shown they're not afraid to make changes to put on a better match. I have confidence they'll continue to do so.
  12. He's a scoundrel is what he is! The onliest reason folks put up with him is he brings Shootin' Sharyn with him. She says if he didn't do the reloading he wouldn't even make a good cart boy. I remember one time we were on a posse marshal walk through for a state or regional match and BB got just a touch too close to me and I slipped a chicken foot in his pocket at about stage 2. He walked the other 8 or 10 stages with that foot on him and got hoodoo'd. It was funny watching him. He'd trip every know and then, or drop his shooter book, or step in a pile of what was that. Or atleast that's what he kept calling it. All in all they're a great family. Even if they do bring Cap'n BB with them.
  13. Widder's birthday is today. Nearly a hunert years ago his Daddy was out in the waiting room when the Dr came out and told him, "I sure am sorry sir. We tried all we could try but he lived." Yep, Widder is so old he was one of the waiters at the last supper. He's also the only one I know who has an autographed copy of the Bible. It must've been a good childhood for him getting to play in the Sahara forest like he did. Widder is at the age where he's been there and done that, he just can't remember what it was. He still has all the females chasing him around though. The fact they're all female mosquitoes has no bearing on that fact. He is super talented though. For instance, he's the only one I know who can cough, fart, sneeze, and pee all at the same time. All jokes aside, we all like to make fun of Widder. Happy Birthday pard!
  14. You know, the funny thing is I have boxing gloves from my time raising game chickens. They're rubber and you put them on the rooster's spurs to keep them from killing each other when they spar. At one "show" there was fella with a sheet over his cage. He claimed his bird would whoop anybody else's bird. Finally a big mouth guy that had been hitting the bottle pretty hard and had real good birds got tired of hearing him and hollered out he'd put a hundred on it. He agreed and pulled that sheet off to reveal a big ole owl! Big mouth didn't say a word, just paid up.
  15. Yessir. That is why I was confused by your comment below. Watching my shooter is a LOT more important than getting my stopwatch out to count how many times my timer has rolled over and reset to zero. It doesn't matter how many times it rolls over anyhow because it will be more time than the maximum scorable stage time anyway. If it takes them 20 minutes to fix their firearm, they will still only score 5 seconds per target plus 30 seconds. Not really fair to the shooter who keeps their guns and ammo functioning if you ask me. Jmo
  16. But, ultimately it IS the fault of the shooter their gun broke or their ammo malfunctioned. The typical stage is 10-10-4. The time limit(Synonymous with maximum stage time) for that stage is 150 seconds. That's 2minutes and 30 seconds, almost a full minute under the limit of our timers. As a TO, I have a LOT more important stuff to do other than get my pocket watch out and keep track of the timer rolling over especially with a shooter working on a live firearm. That is nowhere in the RO1,2, or 3 manual.
  17. I brought up a very unpopular but logical question a while back: SHOULD a shooter who takes more than the MAXIMUM scorable time for a stage still be counted as clean as long as no miss or other penalty? (Currently there is nothing I know of rule-wise that says they are not) Here is the relevance to the original post: Shooters "generally" participate in our sport/game for one of 3 reasons beside the commeraderie. Speed, dress authenticity, or to shoot clean. The question in my mind is this. Is it fair to the other shooters who shoot to be clean who stay within the stage's maximum allowed score time for someone to potentially (not likely)take 5-10 minutes to repair their firearm? Before you answer, consider this. The maximum time our pocket pro timers will "time" is 3minutes and 20seconds. Now, we all know what general practice is when we don't have a recordable time such as the last shot in the stage not being recorded. The shooter must reshoot to get a recordable time. I'm not saying the following is the norm but it IS possible. The shooter striving for clean gets a P or miss and then their gun locks up and they take 7 minutes to "fix" it, then finish the stage. They don't have a recordable time because the timer only records 3mins 20sec before starting over. How many times has the timer wrapped over? See where I'm going with this?
  18. Mainmost thing is watch out for no-good, lowdown lying scoundrels that frequent the wire. You've spoken to a couple of them on here already. One of the worst is Deacon KFC. Shore I might've taken a nanner split from a youngun, but Deak paid me $5 to do it. Besides you can't trust a fella what wears an upside down bucket of KFC chicken as his cowboy hat. That's how Deacon got his name ya know. You'll know him if you ever shoot with him. He wears a big ole feather behind that bucket. Whatever you do though, don't smell that feather no matter how much he wants you to. Hey, I don't make this stuff up.
  19. I just tole someone today I wasn't above taking these splits off long enough to whoop their azz. I hated to get angry, but I think she learned her lesson. I should be out of these splits in plenty time to get ready for THE TN State match.
  20. You're out of the loop. He's the one what put us up to it!
  21. Fun fact. Widder used to have dark colored hair. But, one year I loaded Widder some shotshells to use at the TN State speed shotgun match. Well, there was 1 out of about 500 I put some super high powerful blackpowder in. His hair had turned white about 20 minutes after he fired that one. The TO got the shakes and 3 soiled doves found Jesus and took up a mission trip to Zimbabwe.
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