Dlister70

There's a wall, and there's a barrel next to the wall to obscure a target. However, you can see daylight between the barrel and the wall because they're not overlapping or screwed together. If you shoot the target through the gap between the barrel and the wall without hitting the wall or the barrel, is it a hit? If not, why? Someone cited 2.2.3.4 "Shots cannot be fired though the barrier except at designated shooting ports or other designated openings." because the crack was not a designated shooting port. I think that rule doesn't apply because you aren't shooting THROUGH a barrier, you are shooting between barriers. If you shot through the barrel or the wall, then that rule would apply. Obviously the course designer put the barrel there to make you have to run to a different spot to shoot the target, but they should have overlapped the barrel with the wall to eliminate the gap between them. I say, if there's a gap, you can shoot through it. I wasn't even at this match, so I have no dog in the fight. It's just a discussion that I'm involved in with some other ROs.

Well the "shotgun pattern" of the red dot appears to be the fault of my eyes and not the red dot. I had my wife look through, and she can only see one dot. If I squint, the pattern starts to come together into one dot. If I take my glasses off, the pattern gets worse. I made an eye appointment to check for astigmatism and hopefully correct so that I only see one dot. I took it to the range and sighted it in as best as I could, but the fuzzy dot pattern completely covers an 8 inch steel plate at 50 yards, so it was hard to be super accurate. I did get it ringing the 8 inch and 4 inch plate at least. Couldn't hit the 2 inch plate. I was hitting the 2 inch plate with the iron sights with the same gun, but I really had to focus and go slow. I was hoping that the red dot would help with speed, but it looks like I need to work on my eyes first. Not sure why they put a Leupold sight in a Romeo prize box, but hey, it was free to me, so I don't really care.

I googled for manufacturers beginning with the letter L since there was an L on the battery cover, and it looks pretty close to a Leupold DeltaPoint Pro minus the shroud that has the stamping on it. I guess I should have thought of that before posting.

This sight was won at the prize table at a match. The person who won it tried to install on their gun, and couldn't get it to fit, so they gave it to me. The red "dot" is massive and looks like a bunch of dots in a shotgun blast pattern. I tried to download the manual to figure out how to adjust the dot to be as small as possible, when I realized that this thing looks nothing like the one on the box. Is this even a Romeo sight? There are no manufacturer stamps on the sight that I can see. No Sig stamp, and no up/down arrows on the side to adjust the brightness. I now wonder if someone has stuck a different sight in a Romeo 3 box to make the prize table seem better? I don't know what I've got here, and I don't know anything about red dots, so I'm trying to find the manual to figure out how to adjust it. Does anyone recognize what it is? I googled the number stamped on the side 141474AG but that didn't get me anywhere.

I really just want a Kadet to shoot, but my only CZ is a CTS and they don't fit. I figured if I got a new CZ gun in .40 then I could maybe run it as a backup in limited class USPSA matches. I don't really want another 9mm. I'd like a flat trigger, and a trigger job (preferably single action only), but the hammer spring can't be so light that it won't ignite the .22 rounds. Any advice on which CZ to pick?

Thank you very much for taking the time to measure the mag! Mine were all higher than 9.8, mostly higher than 10mm. I adjusted them to 9.8mm in the front and back, and they ran great when practicing today! I appreciate the time you took to do the measurements, as I couldn't find anything officially stating them! That was very helpful!

I'm having some feed issues that may be mag related. When I try to check them with a caliper, it seems that they all have slightly different measurements. They've been dropped on concrete floors plenty of times, so I imagine they've all been slightly bent, and I want to return them to factory specs. However, I can't find what measurement they are supposed to be. What should the front and back of the mag measure on a stock TS mag when checked with calipers?

I always stand at arms length at the start, and try to stay close as I can during the run. I guess it just bothers me that there may be a situation that i can’t stop. But if I’m aware of a new shooter, I always review what I expect them to do at each command. That may have helped. I will certainly make it a point to tell new shooters to holster slowly. No point in racing at that step. Come out of the holster fast, sure, but put it back slow and safe.

I wasn’t there, but one of the local clubs had a guy with a negligent discharge while holstering with his finger on the trigger and he shot himself through the leg. This has me spooked now to RO a new shooter. I mean, you think you have control of the situation, but if the guy holsters quickly, you only have a split second to say stop if you see a finger in the guard. I always holster really slow with my finger completely off the gun so the RO can see it. But what if someone goes from taking a sight picture to holster really quick and you don’t have time to react? Or what if you yell stop and that startles them into jerking the trigger? I haven’t been ROing for very long, and it’s typically with guys that I’ve been shooting with for awhile who I know are safe, but this situation hits close to home and makes me want to pass off the timer if an unknown or new shooter comes up. What would you do in this situation? Yell stop? Say stop in a softer and less jarring way? Do you try to grab the guys arm to keep him pointed down range?

What I've seen done at the matches that do them would be to create a new name with a number on it. Your first run and the rest of the match is Bob Smith 1, your second run with just the classifier is Bob Smith 2. Both names have your USPSA number on them. But I don't know what happens with the data once it's sent to USPSA. I would assume that they take the best score, but maybe they just take the first score.

I had heard that the rule changed where you can't just re-shoot a classifier into the ground until you get a good score. Most clubs that I go to have stopped letting you re-shoot multiple times, but some still offer one re-shoot while others say that you can't do that anymore. I can't find the rule in the book regarding this, and am seeking clarification before I offer it at a match.

Bringing back this topic from the dead.. I saw that the NRA Visa card gives 5% cash back on "sporting goods" purchases. I wondered if online places count as sporting goods? Has anyone used this card for buying primers/powder online or making a firearm purchases from somewhere like Grabagun.com? It'd be pretty cool to get 5% cash back on my gun expenses instead of the 1% category that "other" usually falls into!

For each of the stages that I design, I run through in my head to try to see how I'd shoot it with a revolver and change things if it seems like the revolver shooter has to shoot a much harder course of fire than the open guy. I had one stage that you could see a target from two shooting positions, so technically, I was within the 8 shots per position.. but a revolver shooter would have almost *had* to shoot it from the far away position due to other activators and such that had to be shot from the closer position, or else they would have had a standing reload. So I changed things up to try to make it more fair to my 8 shot shooters. In the end, I'm probably over thinking the design, and should probably quit trying to be "fair" to every division, and just make fun stages. Besides, Jerry Miculek with a six shooter would still beat me with a PCC, so it's more about the shooter than it is about the gun.

Wow, this one kind of got off the rails! I wasn't necessarily looking to "handicap" the PCC shooter, I was just trying to think of a fair way to cost the same amount of time to be burned before the first shot. In my mind, the time taken for a good pistol shooter to turn and draw and fire should be matched up with a similar time consuming task for a good PCC shooter so that they are on equal footing to start the stage. Low ready and stock on belt both seemed quicker based on the matches that I've participated in, so I was looking for another PCC start option. But as has been pointed out several times, since PCC isn't really competing with the other divisions, there is no need to make the starts "equal".

Could you really do that? I didn't think that I could start them off at different distances from each other, but honestly, I'm not sure.