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  1. I'm probably going to fill in as match director for some USPSA matches in a few months. I'm CRO certified and have been set up crew for years. I have zero experience doing stats. I'm going to be able to do OJT with experienced stats people. I want to get a baseline knowledge before I start this. What are the best videos that include getting setting up the match in Practiscore, setting up the tablets, collecting the data after the match, and uploading the data to USPSA and the Practiscore site?
  2. Every couple hundred rounds, a 9mm case gets under the plate on my Dillon 650 case feeder. It's the most common stoppage on my machine. Are there set up things I can do to minimize this?
  3. I did this to the gun. 200 flawless rounds yesterday. No problems with dry fire. I'm glad I looked at this. I would have tweaked both sides of the spring instead of just the right side.
  4. Trigger feels great. Very smooth, as I'd expect for this SKU. Trigger is heavier than my other guns. I suspect it has a 13# spring. My other guns have 11# and a CGW reduced power trigger return spring. Spring is under the trigger bar on both sides.
  5. I have 2 91030s. The oldest, almost 100k rounds and 5 to 10x that in dry fire trigger pulls, is getting hard to keep running. So I went looking for another one. I found one on Gunbroker. It was used, as is. Pictures looked like new and I was buying from a gun store. I bought it. It came in and dry fired fine at the FFL. It looks brand new. The next day, I was going to the range and I was having problems with the trigger. If I racked the slide, without feeding a round, the trigger would occasionally be dead with the hammer back. I can reproduce this sometimes with the hammer back. With the slide off, I can see this happening. The problem is that the trigger bar isn't coming all the way up. If I am shooting the gun, this doesn't happen. I suspect the more violent action on recoil loosens things up enough that it works. I contacted the seller. He contacted the person who sold him the gun, a regular customer. Both of them deny any trigger work on the gun and claim very little use. This is consistent with inspection. In troubleshooting this, I intend to get a new trigger bar lift spring. Is there anything else I should try?
  6. I’m a super senior B class CO shooter. I’ve been doing USPSA for 10 years. I started training in dog agility a year ago. I am finally getting where I can control my dog well enough to take on complex courses. For USPSA stage planning and make ready routine, I generally follow Steve Anderson’s “script”. is there anyone out there with both USPSA and dog agility background who has or can point me to similar procedures for prepping for a trial course?
  7. Really stuck. I tried pushing through with primer rod. No go. It’s about a once for one end with the priming compound facing the short end.
  8. I had already watched this particular video. I did miss the angle he put it in at. That helped. I can't get the trigger end of the trigger bar into the gun far enough to put in the trigger pin to hold the trigger in the gun.
  9. I am getting towards this attitude. That said, I bought a new trigger bar and can't get it in. The old one takes a little finesse. I can't make the new one work. Any help?
  10. Welcome from Newberg Oregon.
  11. I've got about 100k rounds through my 2 SP-01 Shadows. I run an 11 pound recoil spring with an 11.5 pound hammer spring. I'm shooting 125gn SNS conical flat points. Anything lighter and I see no improvement in gun performance and get occasional, but rare, reliability problems.
  12. I put in a new lifter spring. Ran fine for the 92 rounds I took to the range. When I did my normal unload and show clear before bagging the gun, it didn't work. I popped off the slide and found that the lifter spring was slipping out from under the trigger bar. I think the trigger bar has worn out some. Time to order another part.
  13. I disassembled the gun down to a bare frame and cleaned it. Then I put it all together and compared things to my other Shadow. Seems very clear that the lifter spring isn't as stiff as the spring in my other gun. Everything else looks good. I am surprised that the spring went from fully functional to non-functional as fast as it did.
  14. I have a 9 year old CZC Shadow Custom SP-01 Shadow ( P/N 91030). It has close to 100k rounds of USPSA minor ammo through it. Last week, the trigger was intermittently failing to fully reset during live fire. This could happen shot to shot or after I manually decocked the hammer on a loaded chamber. I field stripped it and cleaned it and could not recreate the problem in dry fire. Back to the range this week and the problem is still there and happens most of the time. I still couldn't repeat the problem dry fire. The next morning and It's 100% failure in dry fire. The gun has a CZC short reach trigger kit in it. That's been in for about 7000 rounds. I put this in when I decided to change my finger position on the trigger. It also has a CGW adjustable sear. I put this in about 1000 rounds ago when it seemed that the original sear had worn out.
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    ACT-MAG in Shadow

    https://gregcotellc.com/cart/cz-factory-mecgar-actmag-c-173/actmag-cz-75b-85b-sp01-shadow-2-9mm-15-rd-co-vt-45203-p-1874.html I've been using 2 of these, with CZC base pads and springs, in Carry Optics for about 6 months. Zero malfunctions. They pass my case gauge. They are cheaper than Mec-Gar and have witness holes for all rounds. Anyone else use these? What do you think?
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