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  1. LEO showed up to the match a bit late, first match and missed the briefings. once on stage asked where to clear duty gun.. and i guess change something. (not my squad). and gets DQed. I thought I recalled some allowed for this type of situation this but cant find it. anyone know?
  2. personally: too old? not yet at 59.. but slow improvements from experience are diminished by slowing reflexes, pain in the feet and knees, diminishing endurance, diminishing eyesight / visual focus. in general: too old? no as long as your are safe and can do your part. once you are too old to paste and tear down then its time to move on to other games.
  3. most of our bays are sandy.. I typically use the same starter mag all year.. and it gets cleaned every time it hits the ground. all match mag get cleaned between matches, disassembled and allowed to rest until the Friday night.
  4. After 6 years of matches with irons, 10ish matches of dot and now back to irons i seem to be able to track the front sight much better now than before working with a dot.. I think the dot taught me to stay target focused while softly tracking the sights / dot.
  5. Well, carry optics put a huge dent in limited.. leaving only the serious fans.. and LO is killing off the last hold outs. 100% of the limited guys I shot against are all at least trying the dot with mixed results. This trial period may kick back a few into irons, but will certainly hurt the local numbers long term. IMO limited will be like single stack and production. a few fans who prep for a major for a while, but then flip back to a dot once the major season is past. I can see chatting up the old limited guys for a match now and then to get out the irons now and then.
  6. hmm... I'm rather glad I'm in the dark. At this point it seems the BOD is worried about someone making uspsa look bad (or being critical), but from where I sit in my dark room its the BOD that has that rep... overly heavy handed. I rather liked YML.. and the open book way he was doing things. very refreshing. I'de like to hear his side of the story. Ill go back to u my locals now.. having a blast.. and sans the back office drama.
  7. collect 9mm brass and trade for 40 brass with guys getting out of limited. ive picked up some good deals on brass projectiles and powder during the downsizing
  8. I love 40.. I'm picking up brass and projectiles now on sale from shooters moving to other divisions for 1/2 the price .. cutting my cost to reload to sub 9mm. just saying.
  9. for my tso40 I ran 1.135 for 180 and 200gr blues.
  10. Last year I had Jeff Abernathy at TommyGunsUSA make me a 9mm 6" upper to pair with its 40sw big brother. Its a caspian 6" slide with 6" kkm bushing barrel.. a few cuts here and there - many of which caspian does in house - and it handles fantastic.. 42oz with aluminum cheely l2 frame and brass magwell. definitely not nose heavy.
  11. for a range toy imo the TS2 Orange. I wouldn't suggest using a competition guns for home defense. If you have that in mind then the DWX.
  12. I ran a TSO in uspsa for a few years.. and as I began to speed up and really push the gun harder I learned the hard way that my hand is just a bit small for the frame and my trigger finger's reach a bit short. This resulted in my pairs spreading out considerably as I pushed the gun hard. I then tried and switched over to 2011's starting with an Atlas Nemesis 2011 with a PT evo grip with short trigger.. and a year later to a 6" lightened 2011 with an aluminum cheely L2 grip with short trigger. both of these are amazing shooters for aimed shots, but also at speed... and it seems to me the pairs hold tight at speed. I tribute this to the grip frame and trigger fitting my hand and being well balanced to the load, recoil spring and my grip pressure. I also found safeties, mag release buttons, thumb rests and sights that I really really like. So with this in mind.. For a range toy I'de lean to the TS2 orange.. better trigger out of the box - looks like a soft shooter. not very practical. For home defense / pseudo practical and great shooter Ide lean towards the DWX. a much better all-around pistol. If you plan on potentially racing either it really depends on how well your hand fits the frames and your trigger finger fits the trigger... and can your thumbs manage the safety and mag release buttons. It wouldn't matter much at the beginning, but as you get faster little things start to matter more. Then down the road as you start to tweek the little things you may discover the 2011's modular design / standards allows for more options and variety. Tweeking gets pretty spendy - especially if you discover your base gun never fit you well.
  13. Having helped RO at two staff reset matches we had our 5 man staff arranged into 3 assistant ROs that would reset targets with each assigned to a zone, a scorer and a tablet guy. The scorer and tablet guys were not needed to reset. At the last one our turn around time per shooter from range is clear to all ROs back and the next shooter being called to the start position was 35-38 seconds unless there was discussion on a perf hit.. and thats with a stomp box and two movers. running the shooters is no-less difficult/work than resetting... and the CRO gets the pleasure of DQing people / calling the RM to dispute things etc. I'de much rather be an indian.
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