MemphisMechanic

If you never played with the length and powder charge of your load in increments to find out what makes your gun like your reloads the best, this is the typical result. Most guys find an overall length all their guns like then figure out how much powder makes "about 130" power factor. This then becomes their production load. Oftentimes a somewhat hotter load,or a shorter/longer load, or changing powders, or an adjustment to the crimp, or a change to a .356 bullet instead of a .355... ... can result in much more accurate ammo. But until you do the testing for group size, you'll never know. And factory ammo will probably outperform your loads.

1. Eye protection. I've been hit an inch below the eye and again in the neck with fragments from 9mm non-jacketed ammo off of good steel (supposedly safe setup from frags). Twice in 10 years, but enough. Two friends have had their glasses knocked clean off and one was shooting into a dirt berm! If you shoot without eye protection long enough, you WILL eventually lose one. Keep them wherever you keep your belt and ears, so you have no excuse not to grab them. 2. You drop your chin on the draw. Bring your gun up to the natural position of you eyes. Right now you're moving eyes AND gun and trying to get both aligned, which is less consistent. On the draw nothing should move except for your hands/arms. 3. Replace those sights with a plain black rear, fiber optic front from Dawson or Warren Tactical. I've been shooting M&Ps a long time, and those are the best options. Everyone at USPSA will run back rear & FO front, there's a reason for this. 4. The semi-drop in Apex barrel is a good choice. Don't go with anything else. 5. You have really slow hands on the draw. A half second is eaten just in the time required to grip and present compared to a guy whose hands move in a blur... but that's a good thing. It keeps missed grips from causing you to get a finger on the trigger or dropping a loaded firearm. Accept that speed until the form and muscle memory is built, then work on really getting those hands moving. Safety before speed. But speed nonetheless. Eventually.

Don't switch guns (or constantly mess with yours) in search of a better match result. Leave it mostly stock - whether it's an Edge in .40 or a Production gun - and shoot and practice your way to A/M/GM. Most of us spent thousands on guns and internal parts we shouldn't have. You'll be winning matches when you invest in a whole lot of ammo, a training class, and practice often. Not when you get that $5K custom gun.

Your 1050 makes all the difference. Primer depth with CCI magnums was huge for me. A flush one still won't light consistently (maybe 80% of the time in DA) with my gun set up the way it is. On a 650, I think shimming the bracket on the frame for the primer seating ram with a small washer really helped. Before that, flush was about as far as I could go. @CarlB86 I can promise you one thing... Swap the PD 15.5 out with an EGD Medium spring and your trigger pull won't get too much heavier, and it'll light pretty much anything in one strike. If you really really want a glock-like Tanfo, it's the spring to use.

Can you point to a major (Area and up) where PCC hasn't lost HOA to Open? Once the big names start showing up in each, that has yet to come close to happening. Local matches and small Level 2's are a different matter.

Whether you like it or not, I'm going to have to disagree. Around a half-dozen local guys dropped USPSA years ago ... but they're back now with 9mm rifles. I see some good friends around at matches again due to PCC. And many more of us are going to build/buy one soon. Why do I want to? I'm very comfortable operating pistols at a high level of stress and skill due to USPSA, but toss an AR at me and I'm a fumbling novice. PCC is a great way to change the way I'll be able to handle the 5.56 sitting in my safe someday, if I have to.

Its been that way for years. This is what I ditched the M&P for - a shot of my Stock 3. Tanfoglio and CZ have been producing guns which are legally within the rules of Production yet completely miss the intent. The shadow 2 is custom built ready to rock in Production even moreso - at least I had to tune the sights and trigger parts in the Tanfo. As soon as you define the rules for a competition, someone is going to build a car or gun or whatever that barely barely fits within them. (sidenote: After many months of matches with both, I'm convinced there's no actual advantage. Plastic transitions draws and loads faster. Stable heavy metal guns mow down plate racks and closely spaced distant targets faster.)

This is always the case. Moving from position to position kills novices. My standard advice is to set up a couple targets (or use lamp shades and light switches) in your largest room and dryfire at two over here, run, then two targets over there. Even if it's from one end of the sofa to the other, this still works, although longer distances are better. Prop your phone up and record yourself. Youll be stunned how fast it FEELS to ... shuffle slowly. And how shockingly fast you have to run to actually be running, from the perspective of an outside observer. Huge learning experience that takes 15 mins.

What are your options for sights? Sources? Small frame or large? Does it take readily available CZ or Tanfo mags? Fit a standard CZ model's holster?

How is the gun setup? Sounds like it's 1pc sear, bolo, Titan, etc from the previous posts you've made. How aggressively are the CCIs being seated in reloading - how deep do they measure?

If they were allowed Tanfoglio and CZ would have come out with gamer guns featuring insane tricked-out version of factory porting. It would be pretty much required to finish well, and then you have an equipment race like all the other divisions.

@mpom was giving good advice. Peen / dimple the sight until it's a tight fit then liberally apply loctite to the sight, dovetail, and setscrew.

If you replace your trigger springs. I've seen two of them fail, although I'm pretty sure one was upside down/backwards.

Stare at your first target whenever the starting position allows it. Consciously bring the gun up in front of your eyes on the draw and don't bring your eyes down to the gun. Move only your arms. Classifers are a golden opportunity to practice this.

Sexy. I need to save @jcc7x7's account name somewhere when the time comes to buy a ghetto Witness. The "Stock Zero" if you will.

Obviously not.

It's a feature, not a bug. Enjoy.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I was kicking around the idea of a BoloTitan Witness Steel for IDPA slumming. Crushing Wilson Combat souls with a $300 pawnshop beater has a certain appeal... My biggest concern was really the inability to install a FO front sight, but I'd get over that.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I was kicking around the idea of a BoloTitan Witness Steel for IDPA slumming. Crushing Wilson Combat souls with a $300 pawnshop beater has a certain appeal... My biggest concern was really the inability to install a FO front sight, but I'd get over that.

More proof that primer seating is more important than primer type and gun setup. A Winchester is harder to light than a Federal. No one disputes this... until only one of the two isn't buried in the brass. <Hands a plastic gun owner his first Tanfo> "Hi, welcome to hammer-fired guns. Flush is the new high primer."

No one does. But we hope that changes someday.

Remember that CCIs are taller than Winchester. A slight indentation like that isn't going to hurt. Many of mine have it with the same 650/shim/Winchester SP combo, and they run like a champ under a 13lb spring with a Fully Uber Optimized(tm) BoloTitanTanfo.

It's not something I'd envision ever seeing in a competitive context. If for no other reason than it isn't an inner/outer belt setup - otherwise the Velcro sandwiching all of your belt loops will keep it from rotating on the hips like that. And all of us seem to love our 2-piece belt setups because they won't let your gear slide around sideways on your hips.

Thank you for posting the fix! Too often guys just get the gun running, and stop replying to the thread.

More like a "fundamentals of tearing apart an apparently solid shooter" class. I arrived as an A-class wondering how Ms and GMs were smoking me on some things. Couldn't see where the time was going. I left fundamentals almost surprised that I was ever able to hit a target and with a list of things to clean up or totally overhaul. Thats money well spent, right there.