Who Is This Maass Guy, Anyway?

 
                                                                                         (Right photo by Bill Chunn)

 
Nobody in particular. Why are you wasting your time reading this page?

I'm Jeff Maass, USPSA Life Member L-1192, and I've been shooting USPSA/IPSC matches since 1992. I am currently USPSA classified A-Class in Open and B-Class in Limited. My two open class match guns were built by Matt McLearn at McLearn's Custom Machines. They are MCM Signature Series built with Caspian frames and slides, C-More red-dot scopes, Schuemann 5-port, 1:32 twist Hybricomp barrels  in caliber 9x21. These guns have proven 100% reliable when I do my reloading chores well.  George Smith and the folks at Evolution Gun Works (EGW) are now charged with keeping these guns running perfectly.

When I was having a .38 Super gun built in 1993, I started asking shooters and poring over published articles, gathering loads on a list. When I actually got an Open class gun in 1995, it was in caliber 9x21, and so I started another list of loads. When I ventured for a time into Limited class, I started a list for .40S&W. As I've found other loads from published and unpublished sources, I added them to the Lists. These are the "Loads Lists" presented on this site, and previously on many other sites on the Web.

I served as USPSA/IPSC Match Director for the Pickaway County Sportsmen in Circleville Ohio from 1993-1995,  assisted in 1996, and was MD again for 1999-2002.

Designing courses of fire has always been one of the fun parts of our sport for me. I'm certified as an NROI Chief Range Officer (CRO), and while recovering from back surgery and during frustrating periods when my job kept me from shooting matches in 1997, I started re-drafting some of my favorite stage designs and creating some new ones. This became the "Unofficial Sourcebook of USPSA/IPSC Courses of Fire - Volume 1", which has been available from the USPSA site since March 1998, and now is available on this site. 

 Another of my hobbies is Amateur Radio. I've been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission since 1970,  and since 1976 I've held the callsign K8ND.  My tower is a 68-foot high Rohn 45, and the antennas  are a Cushcraft XM240 2-element 40 meter yagi at 79 feet,  a KLM KT34XA triband yagi at 69 feet, inverted-V antennas for 80 and 40, and an inverted-L and Beverage receiving antennas for 160 meters. Inside, the station includes a pair of Yaesu FT1000MP transceivers and a pair of Alpha 91b amplifiers, which I'm in the process of configuring for Single Operator Two Radio contesting. My primary interest in Amateur Radio are Contesting and 160 Meter operating. I'm a member of the Mad River Radio Club (MRRC), and the Caribbean Contesting Consortium, a group of contesting Radio Amateurs building a contest station called Signal Point on the island of Curacao in the southern Caribbean.

In my working life, I'm a Senior Software Engineer developing embedded software for LayerZero Power Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of power monitoring and switching systems.

I can be reached by email here.