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- The new Record Rating: rankings built stage by stageThe rankings on The Record now run on **Record Rating**, a skill model built from every stage you shoot instead of from match percentages. The full write-up, with live numbers, is at zumbroriver.com/method **How it works
- The call you still think aboutEvery shooter has one: the hit on the edge of the line, the 180 that was or was not, the procedural you never saw coming. Tell the story without names, per the house rules. What was the call, and was it right?
- How did you get into practical shooting?Everyone has a first-match story. Where was yours, what did you bring, and what do you wish someone had told you before the first stage?
- Match directors: send us results, and photos of scored targetsTwo ways to help, both take a minute: Results: zumbroriver.com/submit. Drop the file you already have: the PractiScore match file, the report you upload to USPSA, a spreadsheet, or a photo of the score sheets. We clean i
- Which shot timer does your club run, and does it talk to the tablet?Bluetooth timers that push the time straight into the scoring app are among the most-read topics for match directors; one support thread on them has 13,700 views. Which timer does your club use? Do your ROs send times ov
- What should match results software do that it does not?We read the public PractiScore support board, 951 topics going back to 2020, and grouped them by theme: zumbroriver.com/talk/requests The most-read requests are about finding your own match history, searching matches by
- Where the points go: misses, no-shoots and procedurals by divisionThe last 12 months of stage scores on The Record, per 100 stage runs: | Division | Misses | No-shoots | Procedurals | A hits | |---|---|---|---|---| | Limited | **94** | 13.6 | 10.1 | 71.6% | | Production | 66 | 12.8 | 5
- Fields are getting bigger: 29 shooters a match in 2021, 36.5 in 2026Average entries per posted USPSA match: 31.6 in 2020, 29.2 in 2021, 30.8 in 2022, 32.4 in 2023, 33.1 in 2024, 34.7 in 2025, and 36.5 so far in 2026. Over the same stretch the number of posted matches rose from about 12,0
- Limited Optics: 5,400 shooters in its first year, 13,700 this yearLimited Optics became a USPSA division in 2023. Here is how many different shooters (by member number) shot at least one posted match in each division: | Division | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 so far | |---|---|---|---|---
- Welcome to TalkTalk is an open forum for practical shooters, built next to the results. Reading is free and needs no account. Posting takes a one-tap sign-in. Every match, club and shooter on The Record has a page, and discussion on th