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The club has been around for awhile and we already have a 30'x30' equipment shed at our home range for all our stuff.

We have room for 35-yard stages, but getting five stages initially and then getting the remaining three later was something that we're considering. We'll be setting up and tearing down for each match.

My local USPSA club just had its yearly board meeting and I think I may have convinced people that the club should start running a Steel Challenge match. But to do that we need to get a Steel Challenge target set. I found some places offering targets: Rogue Shooting Targets, $3,400, AR500 steel Challenge Targets, $5,500, AR500 steel Blue Steel Targets, $6,080, AR500 steel Red Stitch Targets, $6,495, AR550 steel MGM Targets, $10,191, AR550 steel SI Targets, "Contact for pricing" & I haven't yet. For those of you who've run Steel Challenge matches: 1) Have you used any of these brands and have a recommendation to either buy or avoid them? 2) Any brands I'm missing? 3) Is getting AR550 steel over AR500 that important? I guess it will last longer, but is it really worth the extra cost? I can understand AR550 for rifle shooting, but this is just pistol calibers. 4) Is there anything else we should consider other than price?

Thanks everyone for their opinions/input. I guess I'll start pestering the local Open shooters to try out a mag or two from their guns. And yes, I reload. All my 650 does is crank out 9mm minor Titegroup/Blue Bullet loads.

I've shot a G17 in Carry Optics since 2015 (other than a short fling in Limited with a G24). Oh and I guess I occasionally shoot PCC, but that's not a pistol so it doesn't count. Anyways, Open looks like fun and so I'm thinking about getting a 2011. My problem is that literally every semi-auto handgun I currently own is a Glock, and I don't really know much about 2011's. When you buy a Glock you pretty much know who made it, how much you're going to pay for it and what you're going to get.This is obviously not the case with custom 2011's. For example, what am I getting for the price difference between something like this Bul for ~$3600, versus this this MPA for ~$4500, versus an Infinity for ????. (I'm guessing "Infinity" probably refers to the amount of money they want for it.) I've handled and shot a mag through an acquaintance's 2011 awhile back, and it seemed pretty nice but since all I shoot are the aforementioned Glocks, I didn't really have anything to compare it to. When going from say, a $3k 2011 to a $5k 2011, what is that extra $2k buying you? Aesthetics, or reliability/durability, or ...?I think I want a 9mm Major gun instead of .38 Super or some other more exotic chambering, since I don't particularly desire to become a goblin chasing after my precious all my empty brass.Other than that, I don't really know what I want, and more importantly, I don't really know what questions I should be asking in order to figure out what I want. Let's say I have a hard limit of $5k for the base gun before optic and mags. What should I be looking for? I'm not necessarily wanting specific manufacturers or models, but characteristics and specs.

When is Nationals registration supposed to open?

Wait, so an MD looking at a video after the match is over and penalizing a shooter after the fact is OK, but if during the match someone is penalized for breaking a rule, they're disallowed from introducing video as evidence to support their appeal, as per rule 11.1.5. That doesn't seem right.

Instead of taking a single-stack gun and trying to make the grip thicker, just use a double-stack gun that already has a thicker grip. A Glock 26 sounds like what you want, it's basically the same dimensions as the Glock 43 in all the dimensions except thickness (and therefore grip circumference).

I think your idea is a good starting point, but making Group A .40 caliber-only would piss off a lot of current Open shooters.