MemphisMechanic

Shoot the M&P in production. You have the most confidence in it and will enjoy shooting matches with a weapon you're comfortable with.

Where are you currently dropping your points, just out of curiosity? Do you know where you are consistently missing?

Search for "Tanfoglio Tuning" on YouTube.

Wait. You have flush primers with Winchesters? I have my 650s primer ram shimmed further upward and it consistently drives Winchesters in at least .005" below flush. Take the little metal bracket that the primer punch / ram comes down onto and slide a thin washer underneath it, then reinstall it. Takes maybe 10 minutes to do. Try that first and see if it works.

They're Italian. Like Ferraris and Lamborghinis. And like those amazing cars... their firearms perform terrifically, but only once you tweak tinker and curse at them just right.

That is exactly what I was saying. So I understand why the standard duty defense of guns are cut that way. What is interesting is the new guns specifically targeted toward our sport continue to have this same defective "feature". European ISPC guys load heavy bullets too. You would think that by the time the stock three and shadow two came out, they would have addressed this at least for those lines of pistols.

@johnbu they cut their chambers to NATO spec. SAAMI doesn't have any influence over there. Remember, it is a European cartridge after all. At least, that is the explanation that I have heard. It does not account for Glock having long chambers… But then, Gaston clearly prized loose tolerances and AK like reliability over tight and accurate like CZ/Tanfo.

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Time for the pot to call the kettle black: You set up in a position and then push the gun out afterward. You finish the reload too late to have the gun up and mounted as you decelerate. You're better than I am at it, but not nearly as good as a top shooter like Hopkins or Hwansik. I saw quite a few positions where it would have shaved a half second off easily.

Under the heading "CDP" in chapter "IDPA."

Feelings don't matter. [/Stoeger] The human mind weighs stress/panic/anxiousness heavily when determining how much time has actually passed. It is actually very bad at determining how fast things are happening. Don't trust your brain's perception of fast/slow. It's a lying little bastard that's trying to trick you. What I'm getting at is that your first stage is probably one of your slowest. As you relax you'll actually go faster with your mind perceiving it as the same speed. Or you're aware errors are likely during stage 1, and you're paying much more attention to your sights. Or both.

An hour a day dryfiring while gripping hard. Might as well beging weight training to fix shooter's elbow right now.

If you're not shooting IPSC (you're outside the USA) then there's no reason to pay the premium for the Xtreme models.

Ask @PatriotDefense

They will. You might just find a few % more fail to gauge as you bury a 147 further and further back into the case.

It would be ESP legal if under 43 oz. not SSP legal anymore due to magwell mods. And ESP allows full-on magwells and slide and frame milling...

A distant plate between two close paper, aka distance change up. Exiting and entering a box on a distant steel, and medium distance partial paper, with confidence. ... tons of things you can set up with those targets you have listed.

It depends entirely on the powder you've chosen. With 3.2 titegroup you'll be just fine, as would any of the powders I listed above. I did the legwork, loading those powders to 1.110 and 1.150 and found no discernible velocity difference at all, no pressure signs on the case or primer.

What would I do with this gun then? I guess mill the slide and frame until it hits 43oz and sell it as the ultimate IDPA ESP blaster.

Yes. Yes. I know you're only a year or two into loading for USPSA, but I've done dramatic OAL shifts with pretty much every powder I've loaded 9 Minor with. It's part of standard load development for your gun. Tweaking OAL can really affect your group size - another benefit of a reamed barrel is having space to do so. Titegroup. Clays. Solo1000. WST. Prima V... In all of those I saw such a small velocity delta that it was statiscually impossible to say they were actually happening as I changed my OAL. I'm now personally happy setting my press up for 135pf around 1.125, and then playing with OAL between 1.100 and 1.150 and not really worrying about checking every batch over the chrono.

@Tanfastic You should. My reasoning behind it is simply that the deeper you seat a bullet in a case, the more likely you are to have sizing issues. Older brass tends to bulge if you shove a looooong 147gr bullet back in there too deeply. At around .300" deep most 9mm brass starts getting thicker, too, since the walls are tapered. The longer you can load, the less you run into these issues.

Givng up on these grips and switching back? Giving up and sanding them to fit your hands?

Runnjng the sizing die down a turn and a half is hardly a major adjustment.

Shorten up your loads temporarily for this one match, at a guess you'll need to be all the way back around 1.110. Might get away with around 1.120 - blue bullets are very short chamber friendly. Just have to plunk & spin test, to see what fits and spins effortlessly. Then send your barrel out first thing Monday to patriot. You'll have it back by next weekend and you can load as long as you want. The issue with the Tanfo is the pilot portion of the reamer won't fit into the barrel: with polygonal rifling it needs to be a little bit smaller that a reamer for a tradtionally rifled barrel like a CZ.

Seriously run the stage at half speed. Not half of the speed demons out there. Half of YOUR speed. Consider every movement before you make it. Focus only on accuracy and safety, and let the timer be irrelevant. A good example: on your first turn-and-draw, rather than getting DQd you should have chosen the safest possible route: "I'm not even going to touch the gun until I've turned all the way around!" Drawing that early tells me you were busy trying to keep up with the jones's.