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If you want to express concerns about these rules so that it's heard by the people making the rules who do you contact?

I shot and ROed at Sig Academy this weekend. It was a heck of a match with some great stages and 340 shooters to run. The day the ROs shot was miserable with heavy rain on and off the entire day. While running between tents my guns fell out of the holster (unloaded). It spent a good 30 seconds in a puddle in the rain before another RO brought it to me. Yes I tightened up the holster, it loosened over the years. I took it to the cleaning area in the Academy and one of their instructors asked me what happened and when I told him about dropping it in the mud he said we'll take care of that and got on the phone trying to find someone. Jay, one of the range masters, to detail strip and clean my gun for me. He took the frame and slide apart and cleaned the entire gun and replaced all the springs for free and I was able to get back to the match and finish. The trigger is much smoother now and I got home without any rust. It was going to be days until I could clean the gun since I had to RO the weekend so it could have been bad. I just wanted to share this positive experience.

Very excited to try out a new Savage 16FHSS in .223 that I got. I bought this Leupold 1-piece base which as far as I can tell is correct for the gun. It only has three screw holes (receiver has four), and the rear ring actually sits over the edge of the ejection port, but I checked and it seems like it wouldn't interfere with cycling. It comes with three Torx screws, and one of them is longer than the others. Where I am supposed to use the longer screw? I tried to RTFM, but didn't find an answer.

I purchased two pairs of the GDT sights, have yet to shoot either successfully yet. On the first pair the rear sight could actually rotate on the jigger that is used for elevation and change position enough to bug me. I fixed that by putting in some PTFE tape and now it jiggles but always returns to the same spot. Ugly as sin but functional. The second sight set I bought did not have that issue. The rear sight will rotate right on the pin, but returns to the same spot. It will not rotate left (the other rotates in both directions). One thing I am noticing is that the front sight is a tad crooked relative to the wings. Assuming I can successfully sight these in I would say not bad. For the price you could buy several to get a good one.

I was going to go on top. I want to try out a dot and see how that works for me compared to the 1-4x. How far forward/back should I mount the dot? If I do it all the way at the back I will have a wider field of view through the scope but the dot will cover more of the target? I know that would be a problem shooting plates or clays.

Thanks for your help. I was able to persuade it to go on. Now to figure out what rings to use for my Ultradot 30.

Thanks Dan that is what I am going to go with.

Hi Dan, These aren't changes for the match, I am going to go as is. The GDT offset irons are DD clones. See GDT on Amazon. Stag 0H uppers are the same as 1H just not shipped with a rear sight so it is 16" barrel flat top. Thanks [edit] I found that the Troy Alpha rail has an ID of 1.36 so that seems like a stretch. The 1.56 of the Samson evolution is tight, but I think I can minimize the gas block that far. Anyone with more experience?

It's definitely pinned. I live in Mass and had to get it that way. The YHM two piece doesn't look like a very solid platform for a front sight. The Troy and Samson rails look attractive. I can't find the ID of the Troy rail and the manual link is broken. Also not sure which Troy I would want, the Alpha rail? TRX requires a new barrel nut?

Thanks. Hack saw actually. When I talked to JP they said that their 15.5 inch would leave just the comp exposed. They have photos of guns configured that way. I looked at the Ranier and Samson and the ID is 1.5 inches instead of the 1.75 ID that JP has. Can't tell the ID of the troy hand guards and they also have a confusing number of options. I am not sure I can make my gas block that low profile?

I have a post ban Stag 0H upper with a pinned muzzle brake, GDT offset irons, and a Nikon 1-4 scope. Everything is mounted on the receiver since the handguards have no rails. Sight radius for the irons is poor, they are interfering with scope placement, and the scope is interfering with accessing the charging handle. Being a n00b I now have an ummm... low profile gas block, but I just realized I still can't get the new barrel nut that most new handguards require over the muzzle device and gas block. Is there a hand guard, free float or otherwise that I can mount a sight on in this situation? A longer 15 inch hand guard would be a plus as well as a light. I am also open to some other offset sighting mechanism that works with a pinned muzzle brake.

Michael, if you want me to add you to the project so you can commit your changes PM me your Google account name.

I would love to see this happen. Lowering the barrier to entry is a good thing. It's easy to say that you don't want to let this new equipment in, but it isn't like S&W is selling new 5" 625s anymore. Remember how this sport works for the people who don't already have their equipment.

An easy way to hack it up would be to replace the system volume jigger (which may not even be right anymore) with new text and implementation that adjusts this value.

getMaxAmplitude() is doing the same thing. The MediaRecorder is reading in the samples and keeping track of the max sample. The disadvantage of that approach is that it doesn't differentiate between a short loud sound and a long loud sound. You also can't accurately place things in time because you can't control when getMaxAmplitude() will be invoked (although realistically it will be regular). By reading the samples directly you can count samples to determine exactly when something happened. EDIT Ok maybe I'm wrong. I tried to look up the implementation of GET_MAX_AMPLITUDE and it looks like it is implementation specific. There is none defined as part of Android. http://www.google.co.in/codesearch/p?hl=en#MDtG1cTEFDc/android/author/authordriver.cpp&q=getMaxAmplitude%20package:git://android.git.kernel.org&d=2 There is no real description about what the value return is either http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaRecorder.html#getMaxAmplitude()