MemphisMechanic

Slapping it isn’t bad if you’re getting the hits you need. Are you getting the hits you need on the targets you’re throwing quick pairs at? Also. Are you calling your second shot? Do you know where it went?

That’s because it’s not grip tape. It’s epoxy underneath silicon carbide. Permanent.

I can tell you that your theory is valid. My carry optics gun: A 4” PPQ with 3oz carved out of the slide to direct-mount a DPP. The DPP weighs 2oz, so I’m 1 ounce lighter in reciprocating mass than a factory gun - AFTER you factor in the weight of the optic. (The frame has 4-5oz of tungsten epoxied into the backstrap, too. This gun was crazy light before I did that.) I’m not gonna lie. The recoil is pretty vicious with Limited-gun slide velocity and none of the 2011 weight to soak up the recoil. But if you grip it hard, it does shoot very flat. Mark Housel at L&M Precision did the work. The dot is right where my irons used to be so switching over is quick. He cut so deep you could see 2” of firing pin to pull that off. He can’t do this to a Q5 - only to a gun without factory adaptor plate. If I were you I’d sell the Q and get a 5” PPQ with the oval slide cuts. They have lighter slides so it’s a benefit even in Production, they sell for less, and can be cut super deep for Carry Optics. Q5 vs PPQ M2 slide weight from my Instagram:

Sounds like that’s what he’s describing yes. The vertical legs of the walls protrude from the top, then they basically have a bracket to keep them from spreading apart far enough to flop around, or for people to shoot through the gap. Our club uses the “flat plate with three metal pipes welded together” system. The pipes are 12” or so tall. I’d definitely go no shorter than 8 inches.

Walther SIG and CZ are tripping over each other to figure out how portly they can get Production division guns, and you’re over here trying to strip weight off of yours!

Particularly when you’re new, it’s pretty much always worth it to make up a suspected mike. Even if you have to run back a few steps and burn a couple of seconds to do it. The faster you are and the higher the hit factor of the stage, the more they become questionable to make up... but new shooters don’t move nearly as fast as they think they are moving. If in doubt, make ‘em up!

Are the walls covered in something solid that catches the wind? 3/4” steel isn’t that strong in a six foot length. Snow fence material doesn’t catch the wind much. I think that’s crucial.

Ever hefted a wall made with2x2s? There’s a reason we switched to our 3/4” steel tubing and snow fence setup. These things are light. We use three pieces of steel tubing welded to a flat piece of sheetmetal for the legs. Just drop the walls into the feet. Seldom need to stake them down, and there are no diagonals to trip over. What steel are you using that bends? Conduit or the like?

You messed up and asked publicly. IDPA is hard at work making this action _officially_ illegal as we speak.

If you’re strong at shooting on the move or sniping distant targets (Stoeger) one or two targets visible from multiple places can come into play in between positions or to avoid taking the time to move closer. If you’re strong at hosing and you sprint ultrafast (like John Vlieger) you may race up to that same target and crush it as part of an array visible from that spot. There’s little to no time differential to be found between those two. I’m going to have to poke a hole in your “one way is right, others are mistakes” theory; watch videos of two top guys run stages in the same match. They’ll do things differently, playing to their strengths and their personal style. If another method of shooting the stage were 100% faster, they’d have learned this years ago and chosen that plan of attack. (Unless you believe you know better than people with names like Racaza, Michel, Grauffel, etc. ) At lower levels, not even accounting for differences in style? If you’re shooting production, a creative stage plan involving skipping the obvious sequence of targets (and stacking a few of the “visible from several spots” targets into a later magazine) might let you choose a risky plan where you delete a reload but push to 10 or 11 in every single mag if you’re really accurate. Or allow you to choose a safer plan with that extra mag change, and a couple of extra rounds in each mag if you are not. Targets that are visible from multiple locations are just one example of things that are a godsend for SS/Production/Revo shooters... and most stages are designed by Limited/Open/PCC guys in many places. And they just don’t think through stage designs the same way a guy with 10rds in his mags does.

Do some googling on the Sig M17. Yes. The military spec’d a DPP footprint. In a perfect world that would become the standardized footprint, and from this day forward all optics would be interchangeable. Never going to happen. But it would be ideal for us shooters.

You will likely find that combination will need to be shortened down into the 1.090”-1.110” range in order to fit the short-chambered Walther guns. There’s a reason I had a carbide reamer made: All my Walthers will eat anything out past 1.150” now. These barrels are HARD and will destroy most chamber reamers.

That’s pretty typical and pretty solid for a first time at a match. Keep it smooth and safe for another match or two, then begin asking the more experienced locals what to work on in order to improve.

Rear sight broke. It appears to have been rigged to make it through a match.

So have I. Mine works wonderfully, however.

And go slowly. A little goes a long way when it comes to fitting a disconnector. I prefer to paint the face with a sharpie, then remove material until it’s all silver, test, and repeat. This process helps in keeping the surface flat and square. Then paint it again when you test-fit and things are close to working so that you can see where the internals are actually making contact.

I would give the Americans 6 months or so to beat the hell out of them and allow Trijicon time to troubleshoot any known issues before I paid to import one internationally.

Then let’s all assume that it borrows from the 1050’s sliding powder bar system, and not the 550’s. I loved that upgrade when moving from the 650 to the 1050: it always works, you have actual control over seating depth, and it doesn’t spit out primers when a case is absent.

CHA-LEE is getting 24 reloadable with a grams spring and the TTI ultra-thin follower. If you read the followup posts, that same TTI SV follower is getting me an easily reloadable 23 in a Walther mag. (When I combine it with a Grams spring for the P320 and a TTI +5 extension.)

Take a cutoff wheel in a dremel to it if you like. It’ll cut just fine.

There’s a 6” spread between his highest and lowest shots, he’s sent multiple shots at each of those points, and this is only 30ft away in slow fire. That’s not sights.

Possible Cause 1: It’s likely that you’re subconsciously pulling the gun downward - trying to drive it back down on target when it recoils. The only problem is that you’re a millisecond too early. Work on gripping the gun HARD with both hands. As in, make a guy receiving a handshake from you wince. Seek to control recoil passively by having your wrists, hands, and forearms sprung tautly because of this grip pressure. The gun will fire and simply snap right back on target. It’s much more efficient than driving the gun back down with a muscle twitch after the bullet is gone. Possible Cause 2: Something is causing you to pull the gun downward as you pull the trigger. Things to try: (1) Again, grip extremely hard. See if anything changes when you make a grip alteration. (2) Try shooting another 9mm gun. A Glock or P320 or Walther or whatever. Some guys just don’t jive with some guns, and that’s okay.

Then you proved my point. There’s no advantage to a dot, even at the highest of skill levels, when the targets are close and fast. Kinda like the scenarios people see in defensive carry.

Replace your mag springs. This is the first sign they’re getting weak. I *theorize* that what happens is the stack of rounds in the mag bounces back downward a millimeter or so when you seat the mag due to the weakening spring, and your slide closes over top of them. However. I can say from actual experience (on two different gun platforms, neither of which was Tanfo) that replacing the mag springs fixed my “dry chamber auto forward” issue.