Hello,

     I just received an email from Dale Hutchinson of the Riverside club in Hudson thru their IDPA Yahoo Group.  He provided a pair of templates to design a course of fire and the various props to use with it.  He also suggested a very good point of taking an inventory of the available equipment and props to use for the various stage setups, which makes sense.  I have cut & pasted the email below for review and attached the two word docs as well.  Chances are most of you already having received this email as well, but in the event that is not the case here, it is.  With the weather breaking toward a milder trend, now would be a good time too repair or build barricades or whatever else might be needed to be done in preparation.  I am available too help anytime.

Stephen Jones.

For all the budding COF designers, I've started a match template and added a bunch of props in a Word document to make it easier for all to create their own COF.  I stole most of the props off of some web site.  If I could remember where, I'd give them credit.  Please send feedback and contribute. 

Another thing I was thinking about is the inventory of what is in the shed.  Specifically, how many poppers, types of action-targets (love those surprise no-shoot hands), and barricades are available.  It could be a problem if we all design COF with more devices than are available.  If someone can tell me how to get the key, I'd be happy to run over and do the inventory.

Regards,
Dale