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Thanks - that's what I suspected. Right, but since sight radius is not relevant with a red dot, that's not really a factor in CO. Again, so many factors involved in slide motion and muzzle rise that it's hard to isolate any one characteristic and attribute better performance to it... so just curious about general impressions and any actual results with full size vs commander/carry length.

I'm thinking about getting into CO Division, and am curious on what's been working best for people in terms of slide length. As a long time Master in Open and Limited, I'm very familiar with the two primary benefits of a longer slide in other those divisions....longer sight radius (for iron sights), and more muzzle velocity with a longer barrel (advantage for making major PF). But for a minor gun with a red dot, neither of these are really a factor. It could also be argued that, at least to some extent, a longer slide provides more static weight in the dust cover to mitigate muzzle movement in recoil... but this is offset somewhat by also having more reciprocating mass in the longer slide, as well as more heft to slow down transitions. So many variables to consider here, that it's probably best to leave this factor out. So what do the CO shooters among us prefer, and why? Full length slide, or commander/carry length slide?

I'd vote for Freedom Gunworks - his guns are rock solid. Also, I have a Matt Cheely 9 Major that has run without a single malfunction for going on two years now (!!)

Yep, I could. But it would be kind of a pain to do, so in the mean time I have just been doing manual PractiScore updates.

I'd love to see some integrated in-app upgrade capability... I maintain 8 Nooks, and have them all set up with the same Google account; only a couple of them will let me download PractiScore updates from Google Play (long story, but it's apparently related to the devices thinking that it is already installed since it has already been downloaded/installed on the other Nooks set up on the same Google account). For all the others, I have to go to the PractiScore site, download the apk, and install manually.. not a big deal really, but annoying to have to do over and over again on multiple devices.

I think showing the HF on the list screen is a good idea - it verifies that a time was entered, and gives a good quick reference to verify that it's in the right ball park.

I've tried MG 121s, Zero 125 JHPs and MG 115 JHPs. The 115s were definitely softer-shooting. As soon as I tried them, I knew there would be no going back... more powder = more gas = taking more advantage of the comp. I currently use Vectan SP2 - when I run out of that I'll either go back to Silhouette, or try HS-6. In terms of accuracy, the MG 121s were absolutely amazing... like 1.5" at 50yds. But the 125s and 115 were also very good.

A class from Mike would be awesome - I'm sure he's an encyclopedia of 3-gun knowledge. But as far as the basics of using the BRT reticle, there's not much too it... Chrono your loads, run your load data in one of the established ballistic calcs (like JB, or "Shooter" for Android), and figure out a center cross hair zero distance that also zeros you at 300 at the first hold-over line. (This will depend on your load, but for most that I've seen, the center cross-hair zero ends up between 150 and 200 yards.) With this approach, the drop is very linear out to 500 yards, so I am spot on at 300yds at the first hold-over (1 mil drop), right in there at the first hold-over dot (2 mil drop) at 400 yards, and damn close to the second hold-over line (3 mil drop) at 500 yards. And at medium range, pretty much any load will be very flat from about 75yards through about 200 yards, so there's no issue with holding center POA on steel all through this range at any magnification setting. There are some other tricks I use if I want to get real precise at any particular yardage, but the 1 mil spacing for the hold-overs on this scope makes the basics very easy to work with.

What about an upgraded trigger?

I've found the data from the Swaro program to be a bit off... I called Swaro and had a good chat with both the reticle designer, and the software engineer, and confirmed this.

I've seen a lot of misinformation on the BRT measurements... the real data is as follows: Dot size is 1/3mil, or ~1.1moa at 6x... (2mil ~6.9moa at 1x) Cross hairs and hold-over lines subtend 1/8mil (~.43moa) at 6x; heavy posts subtend .5mil (~2moa) at 6x Hold-over dots are the same as the center dot; they subtend 1/3mil (~1.1moa) at 6x Distance between each hold-over point, center-to-center, is 1mil (~3.438moa) at 6x Bracket width from heavy post to heavy post is 12mil (41.3moa) at 6x Hold-over line widths are 2mil, 4mil, and 6mil at 6x (windage markers bisect each half of the hold-over lines)

That was fast... like Open-gun fast... but probably not sub-.10 Sweet stages in that match, by the way.

I guess doubling and bump-firing are different, and shouldn't be confused with one another... but whatever it's to be called, the two shots you're referring to in the first video do not appear to me to be two intentional "presses" of the trigger.

Nice shooting - those are some very fast splits in the second video... (which is impressive to me only due to the fact that they were combined with really fast transitions too) However... in the first video, it sounds like the gun doubled. And in the second video, I'm thinking that the timer must have picked up an echo... (I've seen doubles recorded at .08 on a timer before, and they sound distinctly different than fast splits.)