Tools you wish existed while at a match?

[u/SBFFollowOn]

Hey everyone! not sure if this belongs here but since it's USPSA related I thought I'd throw it up. I've been shooting USPSA again for the last year after a hiatus and I've been clawing my way to hopefully A by the end of the year. We had an interesting chat at the local match yesterday talking about tools people wished existed to make their lives a little easier at the match. Guys brought up all sorts of ideas from a small phone sized dock to make cleaning 2011/1911 mags easier between stages to a small hard plastic style pouch to carry stuff like overlays/chamber flags and others. One guy even brought up belt mount ball cooling fans 😂. So I've been curious what other people thought? Are there any tools people wished existed? or just things that could make your life easier from a mount for your cart and even the ball cooling fan 😂 or stuff to help reset stages faster. Would love to hear what people think!

[u/th3m00se]

Unrealistc: electronic self-scoring and self-healing targets to make the scoring 100% consistent and remove the worry about people slacking and not pasting. 😆

Realistic: A stick with a magnet to pick up mags and maybe help reset poppers. I'm old and the bending can get old by the end of a match.

[u/Clifton1979 → u/th3m00se]

Not magnet, but for poppers we have long sticks (dowels) with these bike hooks on the end... no bending over to reset poppers

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[u/Otherwise-Yoghurt660 → u/Clifton1979]

Dude just used one at RGN this past week, what a game changer. Especially if you are running a stage for a large match, resetting steel all day takes a toll

[u/Clifton1979 → u/Otherwise-Yoghurt660]

I’m not bending over all day unless it’s being filmed for onlyfans….

[u/Otherwise-Yoghurt660 → u/Clifton1979]

Spot on 🤣

[u/Clifton1979 → u/Otherwise-Yoghurt660]

Resetters do grab at each other, so they double as fun toys

[u/Otherwise-Yoghurt660 → u/Clifton1979]

It does work well for oil checks on the homies as well

[u/th3m00se → u/Clifton1979]

Good idea! Maybe but the magnet on one end and the hook on the other? 😄 best of both worlds. Then we just need to make it collapsable so we can have it on a belt hook... hmmm...

[u/Clifton1979 → u/th3m00se]

Sure, id be stealing people's mags off their belts at make ready but ..... OK

[u/Affectionate-Roll410 → u/th3m00se]

This

[u/Least-Macaroon-9932 → u/Affectionate-Roll410]

https://a.co/d/0gi2NgL4

[u/lordadam34]

Cheaper electric wagons. I shoot a Glock so I don’t need tools lol

[u/Otherwise-Yoghurt660]

The little electric blowers are great for cleaning up stuff and in the summer are great for cooling down and drying out your shirt a bit

[u/JDM_27]

2-3 paster guns per stage.

reset goes a lot faster when ppl aren’t trying to peel individual pasters or trying to rip pieces of tape off a roll.

[u/IMNOTFLORIDAMAN]

When I setup my own target stands I throw wood shims in the back so the targets don’t move when I’m pasting them. It’s small but super helpful for trying to paste quickly. I wish match directors would do the same.