MemphisMechanic

Move the gun well inboard of your shoulder pocket, keep your chest square to the target instead of bladed off toward the side, and put the heel of the stock on your pectoral muscle pretty much below your right eye. Shoot chest-mounted instead of shoulder-mounted. This may require you to shorten your stock. I run nearly fully collapsed these days. Most shooters have the gun recoil up and out away from the centerline of their body because the gun is mounted into the shoulder, so it has the leverage to twist your torso as it recoils. (If you were able to mount it dead-center on your chest it wouldn’t move laterally at all.) As best as I can currently run a PCC, my current stance looks like this:

Agree with the above: I’d toss a 15.5lb spring in it and be done with issues. That’s what I ran in my equivalently set up gun when it would eat CCI Magnum primers like candy. You’re talking probably 1.0-1.5 pounds of DA weight and no discernable difference in single action. You won’t notice it when the timer is running at all, only when slowfiring it at the bench. And it’ll run for thousands of rounds like that, and still be reliable as things wear.

You don’t need to shoot faster. Your splits are fine. You need to get the gun snapped to the next target sooner. Your movement is off only because you’re standing up rather tall. Get low and learn to stay there. It takes a lot of work, but a low COG is the key to accelerating sooner, stopping more smoothly and quickly, and shooting on the move better. You don’t need to do things faster. That’s what you’re missing. Be more efficient. Do it all sooner. My shooting on the move always stunk, so I put a little work in on that as outlined above. If my thighs aren’t burning a little bit from being low and in a wide stance the entire stage, I can use that to tell I’m giving up mobility. Here’s where I’m at right now when shooting on the move: getting hits on easy targets is something I’m now confident in. (Dropped 3 C’s on this entire stage.)

Things I picked up on: Transitions. A good Open shooter facing two or three targets side by side in a field course sounds damn nearly full auto and not bangbang... bangbang... You tossed a few seconds away in a stage or two by not setting your feet up in a way that would let you hit all the targets in one port without shuffling you feet for each one. Each time you move your feet it adds roughly 0.5 seconds to the following shot, if not more. You stand up tall when shooting on the move — and wind up pausing a footfall in order to make a hit because of the resulting bouncing in the dot. Watch videos of chris tilley and JJ Racaza (the most dynamic open shooters) and you’ll see how low they get. Your footwork. You shuffle and often times have nearly all your weight on one foot. Plant and aim for 50/50 weight distribution whenever it’s practical to get it. The big one though, you know about. A lack of aggression due to you halfway memorized stage plans. You look like you’re trying to recall what you’re supposed to do next while you’re shooting or moving... instead of moving decisively.

Have you asked you local M or GM for advice, or if they’re interested in coaching you if you put the work in and offer to pay for a lesson? I will say flat out that you need to learn to memorize and visualize a stage plan, based on what you said. It took me three seasons to be able to execute a stage plan consistently on the first try, but learning that was a huge help. You also need to decide where your focus is: to advance in classification you need to work on gunhandling and speed shoots. But it sounds like your hangup in match placement is executing stage plans. That’s largely a separate thing.

This one, I assume: https://tarantacticalinnovations.com/tti-sti-sv-ultra-thin-1-follower/ I’m on this. We’ll see how well Walthers like them soon, and if 24 will fit. On the points of reloadability and running dry... of course I agree with you Charlie. Those are obvious. I was only asking out of simple curiosity.

You’re probably well aware that I’m up to speed on the mechanical side of things, and heavily invested in carry optics. Your suspicions are correct in that 24 in a mag is rare, and I’ve never heard of it being reloadable. 23 is the goal in every other platform, and seldom is it reloadable. Does the gun still lock open on empty with those followers? I run a TTI +5 on a Walther 15rd tube. With the grams spring and follower for a P320 it gets me 23 reloadable, but you do have to disable the slide stop. Deleting the lock-open isn’t a huge issue with 24 in the gun, but as a longtime Production shooter I always want that feature when I can get it.

The only thing silly is the guys who are let down by a brand new untested red dot which has the exact same teething issues that all of them have had. Just because they make the RMR doesn’t promise that all their other products will be equally rugged. Gotta give them time to work the bugs out and for the dot to prove itself.

Here’s Stoeger’s run. Caption explains how he designed a stage plan specifically around the stubborn steel. Never something you want to have your mind on at a major.

With a hammer-fired DA gun, flush primers are high primers. The federal-primed ammo in the background was seated at “flush is good, right?” depths and wouldn’t run in my Tanfoglio. The winchester-primed ammo in the foreground was seated .004”-.006” below flush and ran great despite having harder primers.

You’ve got race safeties and race hammers and race triggers and red dots and comps (those last two come as soon as someone bothers to ask DNROI if they can have them) in production now. A race triggerpin is no sweat. Bolt a thumb rest on it - and a laser to the other side - and it’s probably still legal. Because replacement part.

Eww. M&P 45 in a match? No thanks. 1911 w/ 10rd mags? All day long.

He’s shooting a striker gun like an M&P or Glock or somesuch with a manual safety. Also, unlike CZs? Tanfoglios will let you do that. You just aren’t aware of it because there’s no reason to do so.

Read the first line of .5. Until you actually see what it’s saying. This is extremely simple.

Read the first line. You’re overthinking instead of reading what is written. It plainly states that 8.1.2.5 only applies to guns in 8.2.5.1 and 8.2.5.3 It does not address the double action guns (which start hammer down) which are addressed in section 8.2.5.2 It skips right over them intentionally and specifically.

Don’t overthink it. In all divisions, a double-action gets to be hammer fully down (half-cock not allowed) and safety off. If the hammer is back, the safety is on. This is true regardless of division or gun type.

It’s in the “I don’t want to get f###d by karma when I make the mistake and this guy has the buzzer” section. Near the back, in the Appendix C. For Common Courtesy. If you have the ability to restart a guy who accidentally jumped the timer, or hit him with a penalty, that goes to the RO’s Golden Rule: Don’t be a dick.

I found no difference in velocity between CCI 500 and 550s in a 135-137pf 9mm minor load. I would err on the side of caution in an Open load and work back up, just in case.

Normal search for “wasp waist.”

That might fall into the “tie gun to a tree and pull the trigger with a string” category of load development.

What is this “store” you speak of? I’ve only bought components in 5,000-20,000 quantity lots online, because my local retailer’s prices are hilarious. Both locally and online, federal primers carry two separate hefty premiums: they’re impossible to find, and the also carry a higher price. (Given that all of my guns are striker-fired or AR9’s which hit hard enough that I can feed them CCI Magnums, there’s no benefit to Federals in my specific case.)

There is absolutely no reason to waste preciously soft federal primers in Open. Save those for your wheelgun where they make sense, and load cheaper CCI 500s or a small rifle primer. (Remember, next year is an election year. Stock up on components before prices get dumb. Don’t dip into your stockpile.)

.160” is the height I’d go with if I were building another gun. My .140 had the rear pretty bottomed out.

Right now the Deltapoint Pro is indeed the best option. Expect to have issues at some point… I’m over 5000 rounds without any so far. But I’m aware I’m on borrowed time and ready to buy a back up.when needed.