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Color me convinced. Federal it is! I mean as I said above too, there was a massive dent in these misfired primers so I am hesitant to go tightening up my springs.

Well nobody is intentionally trying to circumvent rules, I'm just going into the stage knowing it is a 12 shot stage and I don't want to shoot more than 12 shots. I haven't seen a rule anywhere that says you have to bring as much ammo as you can hold on your person.

Well what about this. If I am on a 12 round stage, can I just bring one speedloader? So in other words, walk up to the line with ONLY 12 rounds? Would the rule still apply?

Light strikes are not a common occurrence, and I retrieved the round. My GP100 crushed that primer in something fierce but it just didn't go bang. Now, I am using Winchester primers and that's probably a mistake.... I wasn't aware of rule 3.6.5 applying in this situation. Let's say I leave a shooting position with only one shot on a target that needed 2. Would I have to go back to the previous position to finish the shoot?

I really blew two stages of my local match this month. Went home cursing my crappy ammo and hating REVO division, but on reflection I think it was due to poor planning on my part. IDPA match had two 12 round stages and on both stages I suffered a hard primer fail to fire. On both of these stages, I did a reload and finished the stage, but today I'm thinking why the heck didn't I just take the -5 points down and be done with it? On one stage I am embarrased to say I actually cycled back through the cylinder to hit the primer again, then reloaded, then got back into the port I was shooting through to finish shooting the last shot for the stage. *bonk* Obviously if you're shooting over a steel or trying to avoid a FTN or something you might have to reload, but if you've already got a shot on every target is it always going to be the smart play to take the -5 in these situations?

Thanks for the replies. You helped confirm what I was thinking.

Hi everyone, I am about to move down to SC into an area where an outdoor range will go from a 5 minute drive to a 45 minute drive. As a result, I am going to need to likely make dry-fire training a bigger part of my regimen than ever before. Right now I shoot a GP100 in SSR IDPA, and I do like shooting the revo, but all the fun dry-fire tools are mostly available for the pistol market. I was wondering if any other revolver shooters had experimented with the SIRT and the LASR software or other options in dry-fire, and whether or not they had seen gains as a result. Now, I fully realize that the BEST gains would likely come from dry-firing with the same platform you use in live fire and competition, but I am really asking about the potential for cross-over gains on things like bill drills, target transitions etc (not reloads obviously).

I think this could be the pro tip I'm looking for. I've also struggled to find the best way to get rid of the loader, and what you're describing could very well be what I experience. This could also be why I haven't really reproduced this in practice, because in my dry-fire I'm not in the habit of chucking my speedloaders across the room. Thanks!

Sorry title should read: "How to make speedloader reloads more consistent" I'm still new to the game, but I'm at my wits end with my stock revolver reloads. The aspect I find most frustrating is that I can achieve no consistency when reloading .38s with my jet loaders. Very often, I'll get a quick reload, only to discover that a round has not gone into the chamber completely, which necessitates that I manually push it in with my thumb before closing the cylinder. This costs me tons of time over the course of the match. I can imagine multiple things causing this. For example, cylinder length for .357 and carbon fouling in cylinders from the shorter .38s, but how do people actually prevent this to get consistently fast reloads? I am also frustrated at the difficulties in trying to duplicate a true revolver reload in dry fire practice. Issues like case expansion and sticking cases don't come up in dry fire, but they are a constant problem in matches for me. Thanks!

This makes a lot of sense. As I said in my original post, I know there are probably plenty of practical realities people have discovered. It seems from some of the replies though that those who have done this enjoyed the experience.

I think its interesting that in IDPA and USPSA (among others) you get a detailed walkthrough and opportunity to plan the way you want to attack a stage. To me, this is probably the most impractical aspect of practical pistol shooting. However, I know there has to be plenty of good reasons for why you don't do "blind" stages. Maybe some wiser shooters could provide some of those reasons?

Whew that's a pretty advanced concept. I've got some work to do!

Thanks for the replies. I don't want there to be confusion though. I'm not saying that I would work the trigger without sight alignment, I'm just saying that practicing some drills that work on fast or wide transitions against a par time, I find myself accepting less than ideal sight alignment while moving from one target to the next. I think this is encouraging me to "go fast" rather than work on being smooth so that I "am fast". This is what makes me wonder if practicing my trigger stroke at the same time as transitions is realy a great idea.

This is actually very helpful. I just need to reduce these times significantly so that I can have good trigger mgmt. I tend to get sucked up into hitting a certain par time rather than my personal best times. Thanks!