skeeter

Hmm, Many years ago I did a stage similar to this with Gravity turners. If you do the math, a very good draw and shoot 2-A and quit shooting since missed do not count due to a disappearing target. 1 second draw 10 points= comstock around 10. Depending on the number of targets and their sequence it may be to your advantage to not shoot at any other targets. Jay Jay would that stage be from the 1996 Area 5 match? i remember having a good run shooting it the way you designed it, only to have it pulled when they gamers found a better way Yep. At the end of Saturday the stage leader was a GM and the second place shooter was a C class shooter who screwed it up. Tossed due to lack of competitive equity, and bad acting. yep what a great match. my first area match and i got to swing from a parachute while engaging targets, shoot on the same squad as Jerry Barnhart and won my class. i even meet a guy named Brian Enos who seemed like a pretty good shooter

Hmm, Many years ago I did a stage similar to this with Gravity turners. If you do the math, a very good draw and shoot 2-A and quit shooting since missed do not count due to a disappearing target. 1 second draw 10 points= comstock around 10. Depending on the number of targets and their sequence it may be to your advantage to not shoot at any other targets. Jay Jay would that stage be from the 1996 Area 5 match? i remember having a good run shooting it the way you designed it, only to have it pulled when they gamers found a better way

speer 124 grain +P makes major out of my 17L at 1340 fps. some old Corbon 115 grain +P+ makes it to at 1450 fps. years ago i shot some Triton 124 grain that make it too. but to be clear this is with a six inch barrel with really expensive +P and +P+ ammo so while you can you don't really want to.

while i agree that we can't have video on the range to maybe catch a DQ. i've always thought that if a video was taking that clearly shows that the RO got a DQ call wrong then it should be used to get the right call. while i know that it can't be used for everyone but if there is a chance to get the right call one in a hundred then we should.

here you go, old farts stories. back in old days i'd shoot a popper and if it didn't fall i would call for a calibrating shot, i would loss everyone of them too, 20 or 30 times at least so i changed to a hit them till the fall gang, sometime if might take 4 or 5 hits but down they go. then one day i hit the popper that's was near the end of the stage well it didn't fall so i give 3 fast ones and it still won't fall, well i can't have that so dump the rest of the mag with no luck. so like ever smart guy and gal here i know when i'm whipped. but maybe i'm not as smart as i think i am i reload and dump another 18 rounds on the popper then i reload with my barney mag then shoot till i'm out of ammo and can't finish the stage. turns someone had kicked something up against the popper so it fall if ti wanted to. i got my first rehoot in 10 years and totally tanked the stage but that was one of the funniest matches in years

with most of the gas's going down the magwell and out the extractor it's not all that common for the slide to be alright. although take a real good look at the outside of the chamber, mine had real small cracks on both sides. tightgroup is a fast burning powder that doesn't take up very much room in the case, can you get a double charge in the case? with that much damage done to the frame it sure sounds like an overload.

at a match back in 97 or 98 my glock m24 kaboomed on the forth stage of the match. i dropped it like it was a snake that had bitten me. at the time my hands stung like someone had hit them with a 2x4. and yes i got a DQ for dropping a loaded gun, although the gun had done a pretty good job of unloading it's self. it was the right call. i've seen 4 differnt guys blow up their guns and they all dropped them execpt one guy and his was the worse one by far, he got a good superface out of it, thank god for good glass's

if you can get a good high grip and not get slide bite then you don't need one. my fat hands get the crap bit out of them though, till i learned how to make my own beavertail.

to bad they don't make gen2 with the light rails

like a lot of others my thumb rides the slide release. in uspsa it's no big deal because i'm reloading before i get to an empty mag. in idpa or when a uspsa stage goes to hell and i run out of ammo then i reload then rack the slide to chamber a round, if you know that's what your going to have to do then it goes pretty fast.

Possibly the big base pads on the FNP-45 competition model is too blame. i think that may have been it.

for the most part i think the rule is fine the way it is. but(isn't there always a "but")at our section match a couple years ago a shooter on my squad was shooting an FN 45 in prodution. even though the gun was stock and on the list for some reason it wouldn't in to the box. so he got bumped to open, and even though his ammo made major he was scored minor because he declared it minor for production. this seemed a little harsh to me.

back in the 90's a buddy of had a 9x21 pistol, and with brass being costing so much he'd use9x19 all the for practice. he shoot at least 10 times as many 9x19 rounds than he did 9x21 and never has a problem. i'd said go for it.

when i got my kkm barrel i was sure that i would loss some speed, but when i got to the range and chrono'd i was pleased to see that the kkm go 50 to 75 fps faster. i think that the extra comes form the tighter chamber.

looks nice i don't know if you call it a bite, but the slide rubs my hand in the same spot that it will be raw and hurt like heck. then i'd get a scab then the next time it would rip the scab off and bleed like crazy. at the 2000 nationals the blood flowed all the way to my elbow, and the RO's thought i'd gotten hurt some how. i've also put a beaver tail on my 24 using the same method, but i used a two part putty.