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I just looked at the results. Looked like a lot of DQs. Anyone know what happened?

Check Dawson and Speed Shooters Specialties. I don't know if they have exactly what you want. I think Speed Shooters may make custom sizes.

Accuracy was pretty good, I didn't drop many points. But I was slower than a glacier. Getting it off my chest helps. Thanks.

What is the Novak rear on the PRO like? Is the rear totally flat or is there an inset part like some of Novak's other sights? Serrations? Thanks.

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I am very happy with the trigger job I did for myself on a regular M&P. I have been using it for Production. I performed sear mods (for reset and to lessen engagement with the striker), plunger reshaping, striker polishing. This smoothed and lightened my trigger and shortened reset a bunch. It may be a little crisper, but maybe not too much. Is there any difference in what needs to be done on a Pro? Same basic technique and same changes? Is there something greatly different? I think I will get a Pro to use for Production now that they are out, and would like to do the job myself. Thanks.

Speed Shooter's Specialties makes custom height front sights. They can probably help you figure out what height you need. http://www.speedshooterspecialties.com/

Thanks. USPSA tells me that club hasn't turned any scores in for a few matches. You all were right.

In the past six months I have shot matches at the same club, each of which had a classifer. I was a member of USPSA for at least three of them. No scores are posted on the USPSA website. Where should I start? The club? USPSA? Is there a lag? Other people who shot those matches have scores up. Thanks.

Try other knifemaker's supply websites, too. www.texasknife.com

The least expensive gun that will be good in Sporting is the Beretta 391. An 1100 is a good gun, but less reliable than the Beretta and more prone to breakage. But you can get a nice Browning or Beretta O/U used for somewhere around $1100. Other makers make nice O/Us, but Beretta and Browning rule that roost, and will be more saleable later if you choose something else.

You can get a single gun that will be damn good for skeet and sporting clays, but it will be a good bit less than optimum for trap. Trap requires the most specialized guns of the shotgun sports. All trap birds are taken on the rise. Your lead will place the muzzle of a neutrally set up gun over the birds, blocking them out. Most shooters don't like that. So trap guns have high combs and ribs that are high in the back so that they can lead the birds and still see them. They also like really long barrels, even as much as 34" on an O/U. This setup isn't good for the other games. In the end, most sporting shooters go with a O/U. They like the balance, and like having two chokes. But a noticeable minority use a gas auto, almost all choosing a Beretta 391. In an O/U, they like 30" and 32" barrels. In an auto, some will use 28", but many like the 30" even with the longer receiver of an auto. Either gun will be a good 12 gauge skeet gun. But if you get into "real" skeet, you have to shoot all the gauges. Some shooters shoot the 20 in the 12 gauge, thinking the lower recoil more than offsets the fewer pellets. I am not a serious skeet shooter, but I agree. I hit the same number of birds with either, and the 20 is a lot softer. Skeet shooters like O/Us with replaceable tube sets to shoot the different guages because this gives them the same gun feel in every gauge. In short, you can do quite well for 12 gauge skeet and sporting with one gun. (Sporting shooters all use the 12 - there will always be a few shots where you want every pellet you can get.) That gun can be used for trap, but will be more at a disadvantage there, if you get serious. Look for a used gun. You can get a good used O/U for $1000 or $1200. They last forever and clay shooters trade guns frequently. You can probably find a Beretta 391 used for $600 or $700 if you look.

Allowing competitors to modify frames would also violate one of the guiding principals of IDPA which is to not permit highly modified (read expensive) racey guns. If they were permitted, eventually someone would come up with a modification that was so successful it would become required to be competitive. The basic idea is that competitors use guns that are commonly available, and something that would be practical, and readily available. (I don't think it is unreasonable that that includes relatively affordable.) I know that a shortened STI would be a modification that duplicates a factory issued gun, but allowing that exception would be a slippery slope. People would soon be arguing that some other modification wasn't really that much of a departure. It's a game. It has rules. In some sense all the rules are somewhat arbitrary, but some are more arbitrary than others.

Comp-tac. I mostly have doubles, but I have some singles, too. Doesn't make much difference to me. I guess the doubles are spaced right for me.

Who are the shooters in your avatar? Thanks.