MemphisMechanic

This. Our MD is in the clubhouse setting up squads and taking payments while 10 or so of us design stages on the fly. Well, I usually have mine all sketched out but many of the other guys pull theirs out of their posterior orifice on the spot. Part of delegating means not being a perfectionist: trust your good shooters to give the guy who only sets up “one way to shoot it” 8-8-8-8 stages through four ports a really hard time. Let him do his thing, and learn to set up better stages. ”Stage setup at 8am, walkthrough and shooting begins as soon as stage setup is complete so come help out if you want an early start!” will get more people out to help set up. Offer to help them design a good stage the first few times after they’ve brought some steel or walls out onto the bay if need be, at first. Eventually you’ll have 3-4 guys skilled at stage design whom you can ask to help a new guy not set up an illegal stage. Or which features a dozen 45yd shots on mini-poppers during a hard lean. If you have to set up 6 stages in the hours or evening before a match on your own? You WILL quickly burn out.

The grip is about halfway between a G19 and G17. Hands that big are likely going to find the grip length too short and their thumbs all OVER the slide stop. The slide stop is everywhere, and unprotected. As a wearer of size L gloves, I can flick it either with my strong or weak hand thumb, and I’m in love with it and the ease of reaching the mag button. Go to the local gun shop that stocks Walthers and pick up an ordinary 4” PPQ. There is zero difference in the frame, controls, or trigger between that and a Q5... except that the Q5 trigger is molded from blue plastic.

I actually ground a small notch in the top of the clear plastic tube on one side so that there’s no way the switch could get stuck after it jammed up three times in one loading session. No problems in the following 40-50,000 rounds.

No. But you simply shave off the tab that would lift the slide stop when the gun went empty and make sure that corner is nice and round. Very simple and obvious.

I bet the Stock 3 would fit, and certainly LOOKS longer, although that photo is almost worthless in this regard.

I dont know what the 1’s button looks like. If you have the stock 2/3 style one and want something even longer (and therefore are probably out of luck)... or if your gun came with a shorter one off of an ordinary Witness and the Stock 3 one would be an upgrade. Stock 3 mag catch: (In the gun backward, because lefty)

As @SoCalShooter69 said, look at CZs. Which means this is the thread you’re looking for

I’m running factory pads for Production right now. Will switch to Springer’s 3/8” longer pad eventually because PPQ mags are *short.* I use the above kit (TTI extensions and grams P320 guts) for a boringly reliable, reloadable 23+1 in Carry Optics. Aside from the slide not locking back it works 100% like a factory hicap mag. (The P320 slide-stop ledge on the follower is in the wrong place, so you have to dremel it off.)

I find the Walther mimics the square & upright 1911/2011 grip angle much better than the M&P or Tanfoglio did. I absolutely love the way the PPQ / Q5 frame points. The sights are just *there* when the gun comes up, in a way I didn’t know was lacking. ”Points really well” is usually the first comment from anyone who fondles mine.

Do your reloads pass the plunk and spin test in the barrel after you remove it from the slide? That is absolutely step #1. And the brass expands when you fire a round - that’s why the very first act when reloading is to run it through a sizing die. Getting stuck in the Chamber is normal.

I typically put together a couple of stages for my locals. By the time I’m don’t staking everything down, the consumer-only types have already spent 10 minutes per stage doping out exactly how to shoot them all. I haven’t even looked at my own, let alone airgunned all of the others. If you only arrive to pull triggers and run off after it’s done, it’ll be easier to focus on your single selfish task. How much that matters, I don’t know.

...And since you’ve only been around this group of shooters for a couple of weeks, offer to bring him to the range early so that one of the seasoned ROs can evaluate him to see if he’s ready.

“Points your competitors to death.” - read that somewhere on BEnos.

This is what makes Production a slippery slope. No one who has been around competitions for six months wants to shoot a Tanfo CZ or Glock with the factory sights and recoil spring, without any grip tape or stippling. Most of them want to some minor work to smooth out the trigger, or else drop in a full-house aftermarket kit. Somewhere, you have to draw a line, and no one will ever agree where it should be.

I absolutely love the Walther. Just like each of the three Guns I’ve competed with before it, my mind has decided it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

A 115gr FMJ over 5.65gr of WSF at 1.130” makes 139pf in a Glock 34. It’s pretty cheap to reload and feels exactly like the 147gr Federal HST I carry: I have stagger-loaded a magazine and you can’t tell which is which. At all. No need to buy JHP bullets to practice with the ammo you carry. It took me three tries to develop that load, but once I figured it out, I load some up whenever I want to practice with carry ammo.

Switching back to what I shot for a decade (plastic striker guns as a group) went ten times easier than switching to DA/SA was. On match day, well, we all show up with competitive Glocks and Tanfos and Walthers and 2011s. The winner is the one who puts the most work in. Shoot the gun you love the most: you’ll practice more with it, and that is what makes you improve.

@casarez I mostly bring the chair in case my girl wants to sit down... or if I'm there long enough we shoot through the whole match again ("second gun") and I want to plow through my remaining snacks during the break, for a makeshift lunch.

It’d be ridiculous for them to give any other answer.

Spin the bullet faster, and it flies straighter. Shocking. Steel falls more assertively, the gun shoots more accurately, and runs more reliably. These are the reasons I like ammo at 133-135 power factor more than powder puff 125.001 stuff. Espcially when you don’t actually shoot the slightly lighter ammo any faster, contrary to what you want to believe.

Titegroup is also pretty smoky entirely on its own. Switching to another powder will reduce the smoke, even with jacketed rounds.

PVC and cardboard work just fine for use at the house. I use two of these, leave a gap in between them to simulate a port:

Correct. Pretty much every pair of grip panels out there is legal, btw. As long as you don’t modify the frame. The EGDs have really good traction and short of not running any grips at all, they’re as thin as you’ll find. They are also downright gorgeous.

+1 ... Definitely suggest grabbing the roller handle when you’re paying to ship that bracket!

When it comes to grips for small hands, you might want to look into the EGD / Extreme grips. They’re the thinnest on the market by far and incredibly well made.