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That's one of the best things this place has going. I'm down in MD, here on the eastern shore.

So here I travel about 120 miles each ways to shoot a level 1 club match where most shooters are not on my radar as competition. There are a couple of these a month, I probably shoot one a month at most. There are a couple level 2's around 200-250 miles from me. There will be no national champions at these, but you'll likely see the top guys in the region here and a few of them might make the super squad. There are maybe 3 or 4 of these a year, if I push it to 3-400 miles I get a couple more options. My Area match which is the closest level 3 is just shy of 400 miles away. That's probably the only chance to shoot against national champions, and even then it depends on what division you shoot. Nationals this year is about 800 miles away. And consider, I'm on the east coast which is pretty densely populated. Guys out west are probably travelling much farther than I do. Most USPSA shooters don't travel to level 2+ matches, and classifiers give them a idea of where they are at on a national scale without needing to drive 800 miles each way to get to a national championship match.

I got one of these about a month ago now and so far I'm pretty happy with it. I've 3D printed a 2011 grip, added lead to it to get it up to about 43 oz, which is about the same as my unloaded gun weight. Added the same grip tape I'm using on my real gun, and printed a new trigger and sear. It's still not a perfect representation of my 2011 but it's getting the job done I think. It also fits my holster so I can work on draws too. I believe it is helping and will continue to train with it pretty heavily.

@-JCN- yeah I agree, and I like running classifiers in practice. It gives you a benchmark. I could setup some random thing shoot it and assume my run was good or bad. But if I find a classifier that works the same skill, now I'll for sure if my performance is good or bad. Typically though I'm to lazy to build a classifier in practice lol.

I think this is part of why classification is bigger here. The US is a really big place, we have states that are bigger then Finland. The state I live in is smaller in size but even then we have 1/2 million more people then you do. So for many of us it's not as simple as just go to a match and see how good you are. Things are so spread out here that many can go to their local match and never shoot against anyone who's M or GM let alone a national champion. How will they know how good they are? Enter classification system. It's not perfect but it's something and gives you a idea of where you're at. If someone tells me their classification I have a pretty good idea of what they can do.

Cool to see SC has those now. I'm running one in my LO gun and it's been great so far. I had to order it from over seas and took a while to get here.

You just need to make sure you're oriented with your hips down range before you pull the gun. But, getting caught at a club match especially is pretty unlikely. Your body is between you and the SO making it really hard for them to tell when the gun clears the holster.

I'd confirm the club allows AIWB, around here 90% of them do not allow it.

I'd assume from reading his post the shooter had the gun at 12 or 1 as is fairly typical for AIWB. If you're right handed and start facing 45* to the left, So you're looking at 10-11:00, you gun you're gun is likely pointed past the 180 the instant it pops from the holster. Some where around the 7:00. Not sure IDPA's rules on this, but in USPSA even if the muzzle is down you can be DQ'd the instant the gun pops from the holster while the top of the holster in pointed past the 180.

When shooting DA/SA I always noticed the DA, I'm not sure how you wouldn't. I spent a lot of time in revolver so DA didn't scare me and I never really had a problem with it. I never burned the first shot because of DA and never changed my plan from fear of taking a hard 1st shot. I do remember my first match with a DA/SA gun, 1st stage, 1st target was like 35 yards away. I remember firing that first shot, then the trigger being setback in SA I thought "s#!t something is wrong....no wait it's just SA now"... and continued. It likely wasn't noticeable watching me but that split I'm sure was slower than needed even given the distance. Never happened again. I dryfired a lot back then, I think that works this stuff out really fast. Pull through the DA shot, then don't fully release the trigger so it doesn't pick up the DA notch. This helps a lot to simulate the transition from DA to SA.

The training company I mentioned reported local ranges to zoning when they were building a new berm to try to get them shut down. Why? Because they didn't let them do classes on that range. I just found this out over the weekend. They consider themselves to be the biggest and the best in the area and they will do anything to hold onto that. I imagine I'm on their hit list now too, as I worked with them some then told them I was going to do my own thing.

I think the MPA guns people are running in IDPA have a v8 style ports, but I don't know the size. I've been wondering the same thing.

The XC is pretty baller, for IDPA. But, I think in my head at least it makes sense ports seem better. Minor guns don't have a ton of recoil, we don't really need the comp to take energy out of the slide. Ports won't help with the "softness" as much but if you stay flatter and can just smash pairs at longer distances it might be more of a benefit.

I don't really think the comp is a total game changer for IDPA but it does make the guns a little easier to shoot. I've not shot a ton through guns setup this way but a few top locals are moving toward ported and/or comped 2011's. They're going to be that much harder to beat now. You're kind of my area, you probably see Sczesny, Fiori, or Cantrell winning all the majors in the area. All have moved to ported and or comped 2011's.

The primary difference is just frame mounted optic, major PF and weight. And I guess capacity unless you live in NJ. Yeah, open guns have bigger comps and more ports. But that's a byproduct of the major power factor.

He's in NJ...and really anywhere in the North East I wouldn't be surprised by this at all. Even gun people are anti 2A here. Example, I know a local training company that makes most of it's money on state mandated CCW training. They typically do 25-50 students a week at 300+ each. I've heard the owner say he's talked to his contacts at the state police (he's retired trooper) about increasing the qualifications required to become a instructor. Why? The two other local trainers just meet that minimum and this would put them out of business. This would likely put lots of trainers across the state out of business reducing the supply of the mandated CCW classes and likely lead to a sharp increase in the cost of classes from who ever remains. Supply and demand after all. In the NE this is the thinking of Pro 2A people, imagine what the other side thinks.

A few IDPA clubs will DQ for that, as their rules allow it. USPSA rules don't allow for that as far as I know. I probably wouldn't report a round over the berm unless the law requires it. Solid chance in most places you'll find ranges in this country it doesn't damage anything when it comes down. But, it is your round and you're responsible for what ever it does hit. I've seen a few go over since I started doing this.

Our club skeet is kind of dying off anyway. It's mostly trap, and 5 stand, soon to be a full sporting clays range. Pistol guys get one 25 yard deep pit maybe 15 yards wide. That's it for a 750 member club.

I like skeet and trap too, but some of the older gentlemen at our club do not like pistol guys at all.

I've had clubs mention they keep track if you send one over the berm. Then if anyone comes asking about a round at a certain time they can point them at you. PS pretty much logs this anyway. If what you're saying is true, I'd say who ever asked doesn't want uspsa at your club. Might just be a scare tactic. Your club have a lot of skeet and trap shooters?

How much is considered bulk and what kind of price are we talking? I think I get 147 coated for like 7.xx cents or so. 125's might be 6.xx cents.

It's pretty lame they wont even work on their own guns. Probably a place I'd avoid.

My stock Staccato CS doesn't like these primers. It's possible they were seated 100%, but my other 2011 with a 15 lbs hammer spring and ext. firing pin has no trouble with them.

I wonder, do the number of guys who are classified in a division they don't really shoot screw with your numbers on how many should be classified where? Looking at my numbers, I'm G in a couple divisions. But Production I'm 73% M. So the system is seeing me as way over classified based on the small sample of classifiers I've shot in that division. This is a really common thing to see. So it's not crazy to think a lot of those limited shooters that look over classified don't shoot limited a ton. Plus the fact that limited is basically dead, so there could be a lot of really old classifier data in there. If those people don't shoot anymore or switched to a different division they could be better now then there were then and it not be reflected. Really neat page to play with.

It's all feel and what you like. I think light weight guns might benefit from the perceived softness of heavy bullets. Where as a lot of these new LO 2011's that are pretty heavy might be better with the faster feeling lighter bullets. But it's all pretty subjective and what you like. In reality once you get used to your load it's not going to have any real effect on the outcome of your match assuming it works in your gun 100% of the time.