MemphisMechanic

Blue Dot, Green Dot, HS-6, or Power Pistol are great for high velocity self defense loads. Green Dot under a 124gr JHP can make for some smoking hot loads and it’s widely avaialable... with 147s it looks like BlueDot is more ideal for a hot round that is not +P pressure territory. Go to handloads.com and choose 9mm, 147gr. Easy way to look up both factory data and those submitted by users:

Also? Buy the sandpaper grit Talons and replace the rubber one. I run rubber talons on my carry PPQ and skateboard grit talons on my Production Q5. There is absolutely no comparison at all. The grit ones offer five times the traction and completely change the way the gun handles.

I started on the 650 as well. Two upgrades to save up for: https://reloadinginnovations.com/collections/led-reloading-press-lights/products/dillon-650-press-lighting-kit ...and a MrBulletFeeder. If you don’t use a Shockbottle hundo to case gauge your ammo? Get one.

Brake cleaner is usually 85% acetone if you check the SDS on it. Acetone works damn well and I think Gallon was $16 at home depot.

Not everywhere though: After my first match in PCC, I spent a lot of dryfiring shoulder-switches on the move. This past weekend (match #2) I fired at least 30 rounds over the course of 3 stages from the weak side’s shoulder.

Spend the extra and run the hyperlight Brigand Arms one. In love with mine. Yeah it’s $300, but the thing weighs an honest 4.66oz on my scale with barrel nut. The hanguard threads onto the O.D. of the barrel nut with a bombproof mounting system which is secured with a jam nut. No concerns about it coming loose at all.

I’m with you @johnbu. A fixed rear sight a feature, not a bug. Adjustable rears are a failure point I don’t desire.

I came to the PPQ / Q5 from a Tanfo, so I’ve been there. You definitely realize when your grip is slacking off with a 28ish oz polymer gun like a Glock or Walther. With a heavier metal gun, it hides bad habits. Its more stable and harder to influence. Practice a lot with your Walther, it’ll make you a better shooter. And keep your grip pressure at maximum, particularly with the weak hand. If you want to get your hands a little higher on the gun and make more room on that short grip? A double-undercut is now legal in Production and Carry Optics, and this made even more difference for me than flaring the magwell.

I have the Springers. A friend has the TF pads, and they feel better in the hand, and are slightly longer. Go with Taylor. If I were buying them over again, I would.

Colt mags. @bmiller magwell. I’m convinced this is the fastest option. Beercan grip a mag located at 12:00 on your belt, and slam it straight up into the bottom of the gun.

@Aasp76 this thread is old enough that I compiled this list of resources before @PatriotDefense had sold their first production part. 90% of it is now irrelevant unless you shoot IPSC internationally, where their parts are illegal.

I just toss failures in the practice bucket. I might have 2 or 3 shockbottle-failures in 500 rounds of loaded ammo. I hate loading ammo. I’m damn sure not going to spend extra time fixing the crappiest of the ammo. I’ve never had a round that passed the shockbottle give me any issue other that a high primer which got missed on visual inspection. It feeds 100% and case gauging is fast with that thing.

You need to update yourself on the rules. Stop with the outdated, incorrect ones. @Gmofftarki, you can run any trigger shoe your heart desires. As of February’s BOD meeting, you can run a hot pink aftermarket trigger, hammer, and safety in Production. You can also grind the finger grooves off your Glock-type guns, and undercut the trigger guard. Those rules took effect 3 months ago.

You mean at Patriot Defense ?

Agreed. At a local match with a brand new timer holder who was just getting heavily involved in the sport I’ve actually done this while running a stage: blam blam blam blam ”that target wasn’t pasted! you need to yell stop or the shooter has to keep going...” blam blam ”STOP!” (Then you get to make sure they know never to stop shooting as the competitor, and to never be hesitant to stop a shooter as the RO. That’s their duty.)

@Hitfactorzero I don’t know. I’ve only ever had two repeats and they’re both currently in my most recent 8.

See @GeneBray‘s reply above. You’ll be an inch low at 11yards so a center hold is all kinds of good. ...Roughly dead center at 15-25yd... ...and it’ll hit pinch high at 30, which is beyond the range I’ve ever seen someone have to shoot at in a Pro-Am.

And the lower one will get flagged as a duplicate, so it won’t count at all. Even if you have a 65% that should have been bumped off instead. The same classifier never counts twice.

At a local I’ll yell “target fell over!” Just so the RO will see it and stop me sooner to save my ammo... But definitely keep going until they command you to stop.

I am zeroed at 20yds with a Holosun 510C. 124gr ammo @ 140 PF. Steel from the 11yd minimum all the way out to 30yds has always fallen with a dead center hold, including some rather small plates.

Sounds like good reason to run over to home depot and pick up some brightly colored duct tape too. Mummify that sucker in lime green or something... Much like my luggage is easy to spot on the baggage conveyor belt because it’s a really unusual shade of vibrant blue.

@sctaylor that makes complete sense. That’s a highly individual thing that you felt, and I did not.

If I had to deprime before tumbling that would be a deal breaker. Reloading ammo is all about trudging through the grunt work in order to wind up with ammo I can go have fun with. Reloading itself I regard as a chore, so whatever is fastest. I am astronished that anyone would care the slightest bit about how clean a primer pocket gets. As long as a new one slides in and goes bang 100%, that’s clean enough for me.

For the record, I never found the scales slightly uncomfortable in the way @SCTaylor said. Probably a highly individual thing.

They should really just totally unlink rifle and wheelgun from the bottomfeeder divisions. They are entirely different manuals of arms. I lose about one classification’s worth of performance shooting someone’s limited gun instead of my production gun. My first match in PCC? I shot a low C percentage, far below the A class finish I would have had with my Q5 in production. Going the other way is true as well: plenty of PCC badasses cannot shoot a handgun well. They’re entirely different to move with, and to shoot. Earn your classification freshly.