TheThe GLOCKGLOCK ReportReport® The Newsletter of the GLOCK Sport Shooting Foundation® Volume II, 2002 The GLOCK That Rose Again the dirt and debris to be discarded. InsideInside Investigating further, the crew discovered a GLOCK Model 23, wrapped in a rag— The GLOCK That no sign or piece of identification with it, Rose Again page 1 and nothing in the surrounding area to shed any light on its history. The local GLOCKs Go county Sheriff’s Office was called; they took to the Range page 1 possession of the GLOCK and returned it to GLOCK, Inc. The G23 was sent to the Warranty Department, headed by Important GSSF Chad Mathis. There, it was assigned to Information page 2 ecently, a GLOCK pistol whose condition Technician Dan Williams, who determined Rraised some eyebrows showed up in its status and ability to be repaired. Attention! GSSF our Warranty Department. As you can see Law Enforcement from the picture, the GLOCK seems to Officers… page 3 have been treated rather poorly, as we say here in the South. In a rural county in north Georgia, Remaining a construction crew was clearing and GSSF Matches page 3 leveling some ground to prepare for new homes and businesses. It was approaching Match Results the Christmas holidays and they were pages 4-5 moving briskly in the chilly air to finish their work. Suddenly, one of the crew GSSF League Results/ noticed a small bundle half-buried in (Continued on page 2) Schedule page 6 Member’s Corner pages 7-12 GLOCKs Go to the Range www.gssfonline.com s the weather clears, and the temperatures rise, GLOCK pistols will be front and A center at many major shooting competitions with expert shooters swiftly and safely shooting for victory in several disciplines. Let’s review some of the different championships, some GLOCKS to be used in them, and some of the hot shooters behind them! July 20th-23rd, 2002: The USPSA/IPSC “Factory Gun” Championships This is a first for this organization, although IPSC-style shooting could be arguably WIN A said to have been invented in the U.S., and has been practiced in some form for GLOCK! decades. This year, the U.S. organization, USPSA, has elected to run a Factory Gun See Page 14 Championship. GLOCK is proud to be a sponsor of this seminal event. There are two major classes competing, Limited 10 (referring to magazine capacity in usually (Continued on page 13) The GLOCK Report® / Volume II, 2002 © GLOCK, 2002 page One (Continued from page 1) In Dan’s own words: “I received the pistol, and noted that the slide was slightly out of battery (slightly open). Following standard safety precautions, I first removed the magazine, and then pulled the slide back to check the chamber of the barrel. It was empty, but I noticed that the trigger had reset, so I pointed it in a safe direction, and pulled the trigger. It seemed to release the firing pin in the normal manner. Because I knew some of the background of this particular gun, I was curious to see if it would fire. Retiring to the Warranty test range, I took all the proper safety precautions, loading one round and placing it behind a safety barrier before I attempted to fire. At the activation of the trigger, it fired! I observed no damage, so I loaded and shot around 50 rounds of factory ammunition with no problems. The pistol groups inside of 3" at 15 yards, within normal specifications.” So there you have it! While we by no means recommend or countenance this sort of abuse, it is amazing and gratifying to see that “you can’t keep a good GLOCK down (in the ground)!” Important Information from GSSF 1. The GSSF staff requests that, whenever possible, GSSF members bring their latest GSSF membership card to each match. It has been noted that the memberships of a number of members who do not pre-register for a match are later discovered to have expired prior to the date of the match. Without a membership card there is often no way to discover this and to collect the appropriate membership renewal fee at the match itself. It must therefore be collected after the match, thereby diverting the GSSF staff from processing the match results. 2. The primary purpose of the GSSF Match Pre-registration process is to cut down on the administrative tasks that must be performed at the registration desk at each match, and thereby speed up the registration process for all members who attend the match. Lately a significant number of individuals have been mailing or faxing their pre-registration forms to GSSF without including any provisions for the payment of the appropriate membership and/or match fees. These will usually include a note to the effect that “I will pay when I get to the match.” The effect of this is to slow down the registration process at the match itself, thereby defeating the primary purpose of the pre-registration process. Effective immediately, all pre-registration applications must be accompanied by the proper provisions for payments or they will not be accepted. Applications that are mailed must either include a check or money order or VISA, Discover, or MasterCard credit card information for the appropriate fees. Applications that are faxed must include the appropriate VISA, Discover, or MasterCard credit card information for the appropriate fees. If payment is by credit card but the applicant has incorrectly calculated the proper membership and/or match fees required, GSSF reserves the right to make the appropriate corrections and charge the appropriate amounts. Pre-registration applications received without provisions for payment will not be accepted. Members making such non-acceptable applications will be required to NEW register at the match itself and pay the appropriate at-the-match registration fees. 3. The “Volume 1, 2002 GLOCK Report,” page 11, includes the section “Definition of ‘Amateur’” to define those GSSF RULE!competitors who are “Amateur” class versus those considered to be “Master” class competitors. Item 2. under this section reads “As an individual competitor’s past performances at GSSF (matches) may dictate as determined by GSSF.” Although never published prior to now, the criteria historically used by GSSF under this section is that an “Amateur” competitor may win a total of three (3) GLOCK firearms as “high over all” in any or all combinations of the “Amateur Civilian,” “Amateur Law Enforcement,” “StockMeister,” “Subcompact,” “MajorSub,” “Competition,” “Unlimited/Master” category, and/or the “MatchMeister” award. Upon award of the third such firearm the competitor is thereafter considered to be a “Master” class competitor. “Master” class competitors are limited to competing in the “StockMeister” and “Unlimited/Master” categories only and are eligible for the “MatchMeister” award under the “StockMeister” category. (It should be noted that those Amateur competitors who win firearms awards under the “B,” “C” or other “non-A” class or “non-High Overall” categories at GSSF matches are not included in determining “Master” class status.”) There have been recent situations where an “Amateur” competitor has won one or two “High Overall” firearms at prior GSSF matches, and then at a single match places as “High Overall” in two or more competition categories at a single match. This raises the question whether that now “Master” class competitor should be awarded only one or two firearm or firearms from that match as the case may be, giving him/her his/hers total of three, or if he/she should be awarded all of the firearms he/she “won” at that match, giving him/her a total of four or more. In such cases it is hereby determined that each such individual will limited to three firearms only. The other firearms at that match will be awarded to the second-place finishers in those categories, at the discretion of GSSF. Such firearms awarded to second-place finishers will be included in the determination of those individual’s status as “Master” class competitors as well. In past years there were individuals who were awarded more than three such “Amateur” firearms before they were promoted to “Master” class status. This was because GSSF did not at that time have the necessary tools to properly track the respective status of individual members so as to “promote” them at the proper time and thereby prevent them from competing as “Amateurs” at subsequent matches. Now that GSSF does possess the necessary tools the “three gun” limit will be enforced. Past exceptions to this will not be considered to have set any precedent in this regard. page Two © GLOCK, 2002 The GLOCK Report® / Volume II, 2002 ATTENTION!ATTENTION! GSSFGSSF LawLaw EnforcementEnforcement OfficersOfficers WinWin aa GLOCKGLOCK Pistol!Pistol! he Peace Officers Association of Georgia (POAG) will give away a GLOCK Tpistol to one of its members who competes in the Law Enforcement Stock category at the September 2002 GLOCK Annual Shoot IX held in Atlanta. All law enforcement officers who meet GSSF qualifications for this category will be eligible to join POAG as active or associate members. An award certificate will be issued by random drawing from all participating POAG/GSSF members. For more information, contact John or Marion Conley at: (800) 617-3484 or (912) 557-4793 FAX (912) 557-3253 www.POAG.org, [email protected] Remaining ® MatchesMatches August 3-4 Westhampton, L.I., New York Sept. 28-29 Atlanta, Georgia Long Island Practical Shooters Association South River Gun Club Long Island Regional Classic IX GLOCK Annual Shoot IX August 17-18 Shelton, Washington Oct. 19-20 Piru, California Shelton Rifle & Pistol Club International Shootists Institute Northwestern Regional Classic XI ISI Ballistic Challenge V and August 17-18 Topton, Pennsylvania Oct.