MemphisMechanic

Echoing what was said? Learn to run with a gun in your hand. Or even jog a bit. Young guys have the speed advantage and healthy knees. Use them! Drill reloads on the move left / right until they’re automatic, and learn to RUN. That could easily pull you 20% up in the standings right there. Set two targets up 20 feet apart and video yourself moving between them. Then work on moving from A to B until that movement (don’t worry about the reload when learning how it feels to run with a gun) is as fast as youtube video of Max Leograndis or Nils Jonasson or Dave Sevigny. Guys who move with gusto.

There was a full year or two where Stock IIs were absolutely impossible to find.

With the arc it travels in DA, I don’t think a flat trigger would make any kind of sense.

You’re thinking of a DA/SA gun correct? They’re discussing a Limited gun which is single-action and the platform the EGW sear is designed for.

Why spend money or unbolt the ramp - either one? Simply use your fingertip to push the little chrome arm upward out of the primer wheel as you raise the shellplate. Free. Fast. works 100%.

Dude, search! This has come up multiple times very recently I

EAA sucks at maintianing a consistent supply. In a month or two another shipping container will probably land, and they’ll be everywhere for $900ish again. Right now, however... it’s a seller’s market.

Scales 2.0s are extraordinarily thin up top, and only widen to (still thinner) than the wood grips near their base. If the wood grips are too fat for you, but not massively so, they’re a great option.

As long as you want the second thinnest grip option out there - they’re almost as thin as Grauffel’s grips.

I have been so insanely tempted to get LASIK done. Man, between a few of you offering experiences and things @CHA-LEE provided as far as technical details? I’ll pass. I keep hitting 20/15 in contacts each year, anway.

Not with polishing compound like Flitz or Blue Magic, no. Just makes it REALLY feel like she’s running on ball bearings.

We widely accept that it’s sensible to install different triggers (curved, flat, short, long) in 2011/1911s to accomodate different sized hands. Same for different stock lengths on an AR pattern rifle. Try extending that belief to safeties as well - it’s perfectly logical. The way my hands interact with thumb safties means that even if I weren’t lefthanded... I would still run an ambi on a 1911, 2011, or Tanfoglio/CZ production gun. I love them. But plenty of top level shooters don’t have grips which play nicely with them, and choose not to run them.

Stoeger said he was running a 6 when he visitied Memphis to teach in 2016, too. Your gun has to be well broken in or superbly polished in order to run with a spring below 9-10 pounds in my opinion... but that’s based on a sample size of 1 firearm. It didn’t run on an 8 initially, needed a 10 pounder to be reliable. 2,000 rounds and another round of polishing later? It ran more smoothly on an 8 pound than it did with the ten when it was new... but I settled on a 9 pound spring based on feel and how the gun patterned for me in bill drills.

FAA regulations require that the owner of the firearm is the only one who can have the ability to unlock the case. As someone who flies with a checked handgun a few times a year, your CC instructor was telling you accurate information. You do not use “TSA” locks which the agents have master keys for. These are required for all other baggage, but not allowed on a firearm case. (Also show up early enough that you can drop your bag off at the counter then hang around for 10 minutes or so before going through security just in case the TSA agents want to take a look inside the case.)

At 21 SD, a small black hole opens up and promptly consumes your gun. That’s why we care so much.

The interesting thing here is that in my little Walther PPQ experiment? USPSA proved to me that it’s a superior gun to CARRY to the M&P shield. Because it’s shaped better to be held onto by someone desiring to shoot it fast, I performed twice as well with this gun in USPSA conditions as I did with the SHIELD which was my old carry gun. We can and should use USPSA type stages to help decide which lil’ guns are actually suitable to fight with. But that doesn’t mean we need a Subcompact Minor divison with a 7 round capacity or anything like that. A gun like that fits into existing divisions perfectly, it’s just not a competitive choice. And that’s fine. Accept it on the front end and shoot the match anyway.

Or do what I did. Sack up, and shoot the gun you want to shoot in an existing division in USPSA. Last weekend I shot a Walther PPS (an 8rd singlestack just like a S&W Shield) from appendix carry concealed. Five mags on my hip and a gun under a T-shirt. I didn’t complain that we need an “appendix carry SS minor” division. I shot what I carry, and had a blast doing it, and sucked it up in Limited Minor due to the holster’s position. I have video of this hair-brained adventure I’ll slap on youtube. Eventually. Shooting your carry gun is fun. But some guys carry a G34 IWB or a fullsize 1911. Some of us carry subcompact 9’s. Making a “carry gun” division is a horrible idea given that much diversity. Let them play in SS or Production or Limited Minor where they currently fit - not that many guys are dying to have the disadvantage of the smaller gun. Trust me.

No one NEEDS to play in shooting competitions either. This entire hobby is all about wants, not needs. The rest of us are just jealous of the guys who have robot from The Jetsons making their ammo for them.

Interesting. I found steel challenge to be highly helpful in shooting USPSA stages cleanly. Here’s the difference: in Steel challenge you get a mulligan, which somehow lulls pretty much everyone into shooting 1-2 misses they have to make up on every other run. They’re shooting faster than they are seeing. Just barely out of control. Your average B/C class is shooting out of control trying to go fast, because speed is the goal right? Speed. Much moreso than they’re actively trying to clean the plates. Here’s the thing. In USPSA you need to shoot the steel targets at the pace you’d shoot steel challenge in order to shoot four 100% clean runs in a row. Take the “mulligan mindset” away and go shoot some steel for practice. Your goal is to waste no time while shooting 5+ clean runs in a row. If you actually try that... you’ll be amazed how differently you operate.

Stop shooting Major.

We shoot second gun ... after first gun has concluded. Form a couple new squads and go back through everything as a new group. First gun is usually 10a-1:30 or so pm. Then if you want to go back through the whole match again? Great . Swap guns, eat a quick lunch, and stay out there til 3 or 4! Have fun. But we aren’t waiting around for you to swap guns and step back up to the line on our first pass through 6 bays.

I’ve never seen an M class Production shooter with his sight hanging off the right side of the gun, or a gun “that shoots left.” Plenty of them began as novices who struggled with that issue - using the exact same gun they now shoot as an M.

I cerakoted a set of black chrome Scale 2.0 grips for a Tanfoglio in my garage with an airbrush and they held up perfectly. Any good cerakote applicator is going to sandblast them first to give the finish some tooth, which is what I did.

Follow this video’s adjustment procedure. It will fix it.

@matteekay... Out of curiosity, why did you choose to pay more to feed a Limited gun than if you’d built it in .40? I’m guessing you didn’t already own and and did not want to purchase dies / components?