Texas State Air Rifle Championship Sept 21

[Innocent]

cedestech...a girl should win. Congrats to E., sorry to be my supposed favorite son Garrett though, must be long ride home in the Steiger mobile.

Innocent

[psteiger]

As promised a special award for everyone who beat Dustin INCLUDING one for Dustin himself.

[Jason]

Jerry and Elizabeth seem to be enjoying beating Dustin more than the others...

[psteiger]

left to right, Chris Cawthorne was still in shock as he posted a best ever 52/60 and won 1st Master handily in Open, Larry Engle was completely paralyzed with stress, even though things ran well, too well, he KNEW the other shoe was gonna drop, Dustin gave E and Jerry the worst all weekend, trying to psych them out. Poor Bill Motl was sicker than a dawg, and dear old Bruce Finley was going "what's the big deal, I beat Dustin all the time".....Evelio delivered Dustin's new SB rifle just before Sporter and between relays, people would go over, look at it and touch it. That cost him some animals and by Open he was toast. It was a grand weekend. Poor Robert LaGrone, our chef, was sideswiped by a lady late for church this morning and lost his truck. Fortunately, lunch was recovered from the wreckage with minimal losses and was delicious. Better news is all parties were fine. Thanks to all our friends who came, and to the ones who couldn't, we hope toy see you next year.

[Innocent]

You mean only one Steiger beat Dustin? Whats up with that?

Innocent

[Bob259]

Sounds like a great match.. Congratulations to E and the others...

[dustinflint]

As promised a special award for everyone who beat Dustin INCLUDING one for Dustin himself.

HA! Look at all those people that beat me!!! I'm just glad that Dee didn't beat me. I had to ride all the way back to Baton Rouge with him and he's insufferable!

This was a GREAT match as always. Thank you very much to Larry, Greg, Paul, Robert, Bill and everyone else that worked hard to make this match another great one. Even Pat! Although I found it a little difficult to concentrate on shooting with him in the middle of a bank of targets whispering in my ear "Elisabeth just hit 14 turkeys" or "Elisabeth just hit 13 rams." Would someone that is close to him please send him a PM and tell him that he is a pain in the ass? Dont tell him I said it!

It was great seeing all our Texas friends. Congrats to the winners. I can't wait until next year's match! Hope to see everyone in Zwolle.

Dustin

[Sancho]

Hi folks,
Here are some links to videos of the match. There is some serious A grade acting in these clips....

http://youtu.be/k80FEke22E0

http://youtu.be/8GSJvJ9C21A

http://youtu.be/JZ3Ui1gjQFI

http://youtu.be/YHU3rFRqqT8

http://youtu.be/KMKIy7hHCXQ

[atomicbrh]

Sancho, Thanks for those youtube video links. A question. The video of Dustin and Dee with Bruce and Jerry in the background was very high quality for the conditions. Jerry and Bruce were in good focus and their audio was great for the distance from the camera. Also no wind noise. We have the first grandchild on the way. So we are in the market for a new camera. What camera/microphone was used for that particular video?

It is difficult enough to shoot a match and work with a camera but what would really be cool was a split screen showing the hits on the animals also.
Thanks,
Bobby

[Sancho]

Bobby,
I used a Sony Handycam HD (HDR-XR160) with no external microphone! I did have it on a tripod about 8' away.

I'll figure out how to do the dual video thing someday, right now Robert is Bayou Rifles' top video editor!

Jack

[GregG]

Jack,

I right answer for video editing is "Mac"

Greg

[Jason]

That was true 10 or 15 years ago. That was due to the superior hardware that Apple put in their machines, which is why the software was usually designed for the Macs. When Apple decided to go for the "consumer" market instead of the higher end market and started putting the same hardware in their boxes that all the IBM-compatible manufacturers did, their hardware advantage was gone and their software advantage followed quickly. I actually ran an Apple service center way back then and sold both Macs and PCs. You can actually get much better hardware in a PC now for the cost of a Mac and anything from Windows 7 and up has a much wider range of devices/cameras/software that works seamlessly than a Mac. Unless you are stuck with a pile of existing Mac software and Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) and therefore heavily invested in an Apple ecosystem, save that extra money and buy a new silhouette rifle.

[GregG]

Jason

I really think you should check your numbers. When I have tried to find similar hardware as the Mac hardware the costs for PC clone is more. This has been confirmed by many published comparisons. I know of many of my development friends that are purchasing Mac hardware just to run windows.

In the base Mac OS the video editing software is as good or better windows paid software products. I know I have purchased many. Stability on Mac is still way better than windows.

[Jason]

I have checked my numbers and do so on an ongoing basis, for purchases as small as one system up to hundreds, since I ran an Apple service center at a university and sold both Macs and PCs to all departments, including the music and arts departments. At the risk of getting too technical while off topic here, I'll delve into the details a bit. If you have development friends who are purchasing Apple-branded hardware only to run Windows, they are spending more than they need to. They can get the same or better hardware with the same or better warranty for less money without the Apple logo on it. I do know many that correctly buy Apple hardware that also run Windows on it so that they can develop and test applications for various flavors of MacOS and Windows.

For home/light hobbyist users, free video editing software for both MacOS and Windows 7+ can do more than is needed. For serious hobbyists or professional users, neither will be good enough and a commercial package will need to be purchased. These packages typically are not cheap, and they are usually the same product by the same company at the same price for each platform, so it is not possible for a built-in package for one platform to be better than the purchased package for another platform. If that were the case, there would be no customers of commercial packages for MacOS. Stability for both platforms is more dependent on what is installed on the system than what platform it is running, assuming MacOS 10.2+ and Windows XP+ (both from 2002, coincidentally) and hardware that either comes from Apple in a Mac or has been through the Windows hardware quality testing (most components that come in name brand PC manufacturer systems). Note that both platforms had crap reliability before MacOS switched over to a Unix kernel with OSX and consumer Windows changed over to the Windows NT core with Windows XP, so any reliability perceptions of either platform relative to recent versions should be taken with a grain of salt. Users of either platform that add in devices or software later also introduce risk for system instability. I concede that my experience is primarily with businesses or professionals whose equipment has to work reliably for them to get paid, so they don't typically install a bunch of kids' games and random browser plugins/toolbars and such things that tend to break systems that are much more available for PCs than for Macs. I also concede that I have little to offer regarding the best models of cameras to use for specific purposes other than what camera models I see in use by serious photographers, which was the original topic for this thread. My expertise is on the systems the cameras and their little memory cards are used with, as that aspect has been my job for the last 20+ years.

[dustinflint]