MemphisMechanic

DPP 2.5 MOA. Was on most of the top 10 guns at Nats for a reason. RTS2 around 6 MOA would be my second choice.

Mine did. Lefthanded shooter.

I’m a heavy equipment mechanic. Bulldozers and such. Hard work that’s tough on hands. My other hobby besides shooting is climbing. That means you dust yourself with chalk and then hang from fingertips using holds coarser than your gun’s grips, slip, slide, and skin everything on your way up. So I personally feel VERY qualified to speak on this one... ...Working Hands is the best stuff ever. Use it. Nothing heals without being greasy girly stuff like that product does. and second on the athletic tape til you toughen up. Routinely expose yourself to the rough grip so your skin builds toughness, but use tape before it begins to get tender. (Also, nothing develops grip strength like rock climbing. I was lifting weights 8-10 hours a week, and getting into bouldering made me feel like a weak little girl. Climb two routes and 12 minutes after you get there, your forearms are so cooked you can’t make simple holds on a really basic climb.)

No, it’s highly helpful to have the offhand OUT on the handguard to support / stabilize the muzzle. I like a position roughly described as “stretch out until the elbow is locked out, then pull your hand back an inch or so” so that you have some bend in the elbow, which lets your bicep and pec drive the gun back into your chest harder. For me, the key to shooting on the move is to be low with the torso forward - not upright in legs OR chest. Nope, lower that! Try again! If your thighs don’t feel a deep burn, you’re definitely up too high. Just like a handgun, shooting fast is an active thing that involves muscles working; grip the handguard hard - and drive it back hard. Drive shoulder forward into stock hard. Chest far enough forward over hips that you’re somewhat on the balls of your feet, legs bent enough it’s not comfortable and there’s some burning being felt.

You want the stock in on your collarbone (its actually resting on your pec) underneath your dominant eye. You can REALLY wrench the gun hard back into your chest to keep it flat, and it doesn’t torque your body to the side with recoil. Biggest tip for shooting PCC? Move. Keep moving. Shoot poppers at twenty yards on rhe move. Don’t post up like you’re running a Production gun. You have a rifle and speed is king just like Open.

Sarcastic advice? Don’t confuse the novices that might be reading this, man! Or... wait. Go right on ahead.

CZ Tac Sport Orange or used Edge for a season or two. By then you’ll know what you want to buy to replace it, and these guns hold their value exceptionally well. You’ll get most of your money right back out of it. If you buy a custom gun right away, it’ll inevitably have the wrong options and you’ll spend money reconfiguring it. Shoot a basic gun until you become a discerning enough shooter to know the difference. also: hint. 90% of the guys who wear a jersey full of logos? They paid money for that shirt. Their “sponsorship” amounts to a 10% discount because they paid $100 to wear that companies name. The sponsorship thing is a small joke with most of us veterans who know better.

I didn’t make that clear. They don’t sell the reamer, they sell the service; I’d imagine they’ve had to have custom tooling made. I know I had to hunt down someone who could make the reamer I wanted. Particularly because mine’s carbide, not HSS (highspeed steel.) Tanfo barrels cut like butter, but I wanted to throat guns like my Walthers which have nitrided barrels. I’ve done a few Glock Gen5 and CZ Shadow2 barrels for friends, because it’s impossible to find a smith with a hard enough reamer. If I were you I’d send my barrel to Patriot on a Monday. You’ll have it back later that week in most cases. I can do it as well, but I only really do this if fellow shooters ask. I’m not doing this for an income source and I like supporting our Vendors. Especially good shops like PD.

Personally I like to cut my own. I use one of the high end skateboard products when doing grip tape on a gun, like Mob or Black Angel or similar. I just buy a sheet off amazon sized for a skateboard deck. Black Angel 33" x 9" Premium Skateboard Grip Tape, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0728HRR21/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_RBhUCbM285RKT That said? I do epoxy and silicon-carbide grit if I have the time. Grippier, and never wears off. Grip tape? Wipe the gun down with acetone then wear gloves while peeling the backing off, handling the gun, and warm the gun and the tape up with a heat gun or hair drier as you install it.

I don’t shoot Glock in CO, I shoot Walther. If I had the option of a reliable aftermarket 21rd mag? I’d run four of those 90% of the time (three on the belt, one spare in the bag) and have one pair of 23rd extended mags for the rare stage where it saves you a reload. Just to prevent wear on the $$$ mags.

Not at all in the past four years. Have gone from midpack B to lower A at a glacial pace because of it. Shooting matches on free weekends is a priority for me; training I simply do not have time for. I’m lucky to fire a gun 25times a year - but each time I make I make it to a monthly match, it makes me wish I had the time to make a push for an “M class within 12 months” kind of goal. They only stretches I’ve dryfired consistently? Those were the time periods where I bumped into B class, and out of it into A class. Funny how that happens. I’ve never been able to livefire train more than 2 times a month, ever.

You can’t use a Browell’s reamer on a Tanfoglio barrel due to the polygonal rifling. You need one with a pilot .001” smaller. FYI. I have one that works. Patriot has them too.

Good thought. I personally would take the firing pin block and overtravel screw out of any malfunctioning Tanfo and test it that way, to verify those aren’t problems. There’s no reason to run an overtravel screw in a Tanfo, and *definitely* no reason to run than a full turn of slack when setting it.

Personally, I don’t see this as being any bigger a factor than bright sun vs clouds, morning vs noon, or wet ground vs dry terrain. I’d argue that it will actually affect top shooters *less* than novices. Their superb memorization means they already know where the target is going to be without visually acquiring it, and the gun is already up and tracking a couple of steps out. C through B class guys might be motivated go bring the gun up “less late” if they can see it earlier. I suppose. Maybe. (As a lower/mid A-class, I cay say that having the gun up and knowing where I’ll be when the target is available was a huge factor in getting better than my B-class days.)

In a day filled with guns displaying 38 ports, shark gills, and Limcat’s “we have a huge fetish for the ball endmill” aesthetic... ...This slab-sided look is pretty cool. It’s the same reason I like the Atlas Titan. All business. It says “We want you to be able to rack the gun easily, both front and rear. We got the slide weight right. But we skipped the window dressing.”

I hate disappointing my friends.

...until Wednesday.

And just yesterday you were dead set on going Carry Optics. I guess Wednesday is the day you reset your Division Of The Week counter? “I’ve had it! I’m shooting [brand name] in [division name] for the rest of this year, because I’m done switching guns! ...Or until Wednesday. Whichever comes sooner.”

John bought a wheelgun and is learning their tricks and gunsmithing ways. Just remember, Tanfo shooters have won well over a dozen times at Nationals and World Shoot... with no shims involved. This is hardly necessary. Our retired old friend just enjoys tinkering for tinkering’s sake. John... When do Patriot or the Pro Shop come out with some Brass trigger shims to help add weight to the gun and look sexy?

I’ve been running one for two years without an issue. It probably has an honest 3,500-4,500 rounds as a slideride, another 1,000 mounted on a Ruger 22/45 for steel. 99% of owners don’t report because you don’t chat online about something working the way it’s supposed to. Here you see the problems. Now. That said. *EVERY* competitive slideride dot seems to die within 8-15k. The DPP is the most reliable, but current tech just isn’t going to take that battering for much longer than that. All the guys who placed highly at Nats brought a spare gun, or optic, (usually both) with them. That says something. Whenever mine dies I’ll order a replacement and send this one in for warranty to keep as my backup optic.

A girl I used to date is the bloodsucker you encounter when you go donate blood. She gave me a fistful (a box of 100 is like $5 to $10) and they have all kinds of uses. Never knew how handy a box of tiny, hollow, razor sharp disposable picks would be!

Listen to the GM who just won Battle in The Bluegrass. This is the way to go. You don’t need to do more than a 4.5 striker spring, a minus connector, a striker block spring, 13lb recoil spring, and a good set of sights. Stop spending money at that point. Polish her up inside, get some grip tape on her, and keep it just like that. It’s done. @wtturn is a good example of a pretty good sizes number of M/GM Glock shooters I’ve talked to who run a nearly stock gun like this. There’s a reason why.

130-133 pf ammo through your production handgun WILL BE 140-145 powerfactor through the rifle’s 14-16” barrel. So yes. Exactly that. One load, which runs the PCC a little bit harder and keeps the gun cycling briskly with a heavyweight buffer system & buffer spring. It’s a slight bit more recoil, but it’s just as flat. It’s nice knowing you’re throwing an extra 50fps at poppers, too. I never wait to confirm a heavy or forward-falling one will go down when shooting PCC, like I will sometimes with a minor handgun if I’ve seen someone else have trouble with it.

@muncie21 that was my first thought too. Hell, a ten drop average on my $40 digital Lyman scale is already more accurate than any auto powder drop is ever going to be, so we’re good to go with that. If I can get a 2” group out of my ammo at 20yds and it chronos with an SD below 10, I’ve exceeded the requirements for shooting USPSA, and I’ll lock the press down and not think about the reloading side of the game any more.

Why? IMO there’s a reason a 115 to 124 running around 140pf is really really common among verteran AR9 guys in USPSA. It’s flat, accurate, and it runs the gun quickly with heavy & shortstroked actions.