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  1. I like the green. Been shooting green fiber on production and limited guns for several years. Bought my first Holosun 507comp and decided to try the green. I now have 3 in green.
  2. Dominate Defense is hands down the best belt system I've ever used. Inner belt has an elastic piece in it so even when ratcheting down outer belt it won't bunch up.
  3. When I had my Czechmate it ran best up around 174PF. I did have 2 poppels in the barrel. I would imagine if you want to go lower with it you'll probably need to change springs. Probably get down around 7-8lbs for a recoil spring.
  4. Nationals slots won't matter if this continues. They won't have a hope in hell of filling up a Nationals with awarded slots. Be able to walk on the day of the match and shoot.
  5. You have a point here. I didn't really think about the extra money to put back into the clubs. It might not even be just the big clubs that like the extra revenue. My club has run 2 hit factor matches in January. We have more money to spend on targets than normal and took advantage by ordering extra with the money that would have gone to USPSA. I think what will bring the demand back to USPSA is shooters wanting the classifications. Especially the newer shooters and with the turnover that USPSA generates there are always new shooters coming to tryout USPSA and older shooters fade away.
  6. I missed that this is in a Steel Challenge forum. Disregard my comments as we are a USPSA club. No experience with steel challenge. But I do see at the one in Indiana that they have people signup for 2 divisions on the same squad all the time.
  7. This is the strategy that the club I help manage has decided on. We renewed our charter in December but have been running hit factor matches. No real change in the structure of the match. Just not advertising it as USPSA, not running classifier and not sending results/activity fee to USPSA. All the people in charge are still USPSA members and are RO/CRO with enforcement of safety.
  8. My club quit allowing it. Several years ago we did and we had a few guys shooting 2 guns on the same day. Guess what shooters were always in the back at the safety table screwing around with storing one gun, getting another gun out, swapping rigs, filling twice as many mags. We have normally capped our squads at 12 shooters. Get a 2-3 of those guys on the same squad and everything grinds to a halt. Now we run a match and it is 2 days. Come on Saturday and shoot 1 gun. Show up again on Sunday and change division for $5 and shoot another division.
  9. What they are doing now is not sustainable. Everything seems bloated compared to where it was 10 years ago when I started in this sport. Used to have a part time president, managing director and a couple people in the office doing paperwork/affiliations. They used to have 6 divisions and one club was taking care of 2 of the nationals every year. The classification system wasn't as fast but that was ok since most people were only shooting a couple matches a month and they could wait. Practiscore wasn't even around and we used to carry around paper to score a match. The one constant that hasn't changed is that on the whole the national org does nothing for the local clubs. I just got my club's new charter and it came with a fancy charter, a $200 cert from Brian at Hunter's Gold and some stickers/patches. No affiliation discounts so my club can buy more steel, no coupons to buy targets. Basically, thanks for the $50 and make sure you get in your 7 matches and 4 classifiers so you can have the honor of sending us $50 again next December.
  10. prosystemarmory.com Overseas but looks to be available.
  11. My club is going to hit factor while we are indoors for the winter or the board gets things straight. Basically USPSA ruleset with divisions recognized. No classifier and no report of the match to USPSA. Just uploaded to Practiscore.
  12. I'm probably the only weirdo in the country that actually have a Limited gun setup for .357sig. I took a 9mm barrel for a CZ TSO and rechambered it to .357sig. Shooting 135gr S&S Casting at major is actually softer than .40. Just took the same gun and put an optic on it. Plan to mess around in LO this indoor winter season shooting minor. Stupid soft shooting in a heavy gun.
  13. My club did similar. We are going to hit factor matches as much as possible and will shoot the minimum 4 classifiers per year to stay an affiliated club. If things change at the national level we will then consider coming back to full status.
  14. No issues from my club. We have been using the newer style with small base for about 3 seasons. Haven't even had to swap any carriage bolts due to spall. Only issue that hasn't been mentioned is that these will not work well if you are running an indoor range unless you make some sort of wider wood frame to distribute the footprint and not have the base move every time it gets shot.
  15. The new version has no welds. The popper comes out of the base so they can lay flat on a shelf. We stack our poppers up on a pallet rack shelf in our equipment garage. The bases then interlock so they take up very little storage space. The club I buy for is in the process of moving all of our steel over to Rangemaster. We are local to Ray so we don't pay shipping. He either brings us steel if he shoots our local or delivers to us at the IL Section match.
  16. The design has been changed significantly. The small bases and the poppers are an awesome design. No welds anywhere on them. Don't even need tools to adjust. The older stuff like they have at Pinetree is 1st gen stuff. What Ray is doing now is much better.
  17. True. I like shooting major and the points advantage that it gives. Not everything in this sport needs to go to minor. The last 3 divisions that have been introduced have all been minor only. Leave the option of major in open, limited, SS, revo and Lim 10.
  18. Issue there is open guns are built the way they are to handle major PF and comps/popple holes won't be effective with minor ammo. My open guns don't run reliably on minor ammo and I am already only running 7lb recoil springs.
  19. I don't find CO to be a very interesting division the way it is. I'm an Open shooter the last few years and it just feels like when I shoot CO it is still only 1 reload on a course of fire. A change to 15 rounds would make it more interesting then it would be the new production with an optic. Also take out the need for magazine extensions. What is the round limit for Production-Optics?
  20. Now they need to roll CO back to 15 rounds.
  21. Had a Titan a few years ago. Sold it pretty quickly. At those new prices for 2024 I won't be owning one any time soon. There are a few custom builders out there that are in those price ranges and you get to pick your parts/finishes.
  22. I also use the #5 so far in a couple practice sessions. #6 might be a possibility in bright sunlight conditions. I do like the green but I've been running green fiber on my iron sight guns for years so I figured it would be a easy adjustment.
  23. Who did you have mill your slide? Did you have a plate installed?
  24. The GX holsters are great products. I have a couple of them but I wouldn't wait most of a season to get one. Guns come and go too fast sometimes. When I buy a competition gun it means I want to shoot it and not have it sit waiting for a holster.
  25. I just bought another one this week. Got the newest generation and it is a bit of an improvement over the older style one in the way that the hopper attaches. I use them with a riser and the proper die for flaring/powder drop on a Hornady LNL press. The newest one will be dedicated for .44 magnum. The only better measure on the market is the case activated Hornady powder measure. By the time you are done setting up 1 of those you can buy roughly 5 Lee powder measures. I think I'm currently at 3 Hornady and 4 Lee powder drops. Both are great.
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