Pictures from a recent Magpul Dynamics Pistol 1 & 2 course

[DocMedic]

Jeff,

If you download and use the image software Google gives away for use with a Picasa photo account, you can add watermarks without much trouble.

http://picasa.google.com/

+1

[Hoosier]

Everything I do on a computer is repetative and very time consuming.

I have Photoshop elements 7.

Here's a video explaining "Actions" aka macros. The short version is, you load up a sample picture, hit the Record button, then resize, auto adjust levels, add a watermark, and save the image using the desired settings (leave the filename blank, save it in a new directory) and then hit stop recording on the action. You can assign a hot key to actions, so I always assign F2 to whatever temporary task I'm doing. Once that's done, load another image, hit F2, make sure it does what you want. If it does, then you can load large batches of the images and just process each with a single keystroke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SluBrFdA4kw

Or google for Batch Image Processing software like the Picassa stuff that was also mentioned.

And remember, anytime you're doing something repetitive on a computer, there's a way to automate the boring bits.

H.

[USMC03]

Thanks for the follow up info gents. Greatly appriciate it. I spend entirely too much time on the computer doing repetative work.

[USMC03]

[USMC03]

Mark is a solid shooter, great dude, and life of the party ... rockin' out with either Costa's or Travis' pistol (if memory serves me correctly):


Ninja fast ... note the brass that is still in the air to the right of the target to the right:


A little 1911 action:

[USMC03]

[USMC03]

[Graves]

How'd his XD run? Couple folks here who think an XD couldn't possibly make it through a real course.

[USMC03]

I don't know, I was on the other side of the line.

Generally I see a fair number of problems with XD's at work and in training classes (and for the internet guys who are absolute about every word I write ... I didn't say a "high number", I said a "fair number").

XD's either seem to run or they don't. Per capita I see many more problems with XD's than with Glocks or M&P's.



From my experience if an XD is going to start having problem it usually shows its self between 700 and 2,000 rounds



Just my personal experiences.

[USMC03]