MemphisMechanic

Agree with you; guys that just whine about anything athletic? They can go ahead and whine. But shooters with a bad knee or hip? Those guys deserve an alternative option at your local match. Place a shooting box out in the stage well forward of the main shooting area, over by a side berm, where it can see the ‘prone’ targets. Put it close enough to the targets and far enough from the rest of the shooting area that running there is slower than shooting through the low port. Of course, you’ll want to deny the ability for someone in the shooting box to see anything else from that position. Pretty simple to do at a level 1, really.

Continue to shoot, use, and enjoy. You’re fine.

Not the Polymer competition frame guns. They’re 2/3s the price of a Stock II. https://grabagun.com/eaa-corp-witness-p-match-9mm-4-75.html

@Acer2428 With the gun heavily polished and everything perfectly tuned; A 13lb spring sets off Winchester primers. A 15.5lb PD sets off CCIs. The 16lb Xtreme Medium hammer spring will light off anything. ...if they primers are buried. Remember, flush primers are high. Gotta be .004” deep, minimum. All of that presumes a perfectly polished action, and flawless function of the firing pin block, etc. If you haven’t spent at leash 6 hours (yes, I mean that sincerely) polishing every internal component until it looks like wet chrome? Consider your gun stock, and increase the required hammer spring in the above chart by one notch. I eventually settled on a beautifully polished gun (at least 10 hours worth of time working internals with a dremel) and bumped back up to the Xtreme Medium hammer spring. As @goshimu said, that results in a really damn shootable combination which eats anything. Nothing wrong with a 7 pound double action that’s smooth as glass and chews through Tula primers.

@MikeBurgess put your vest on, and shoot it the way we told you to.

My Carry Optics gun is a 4” Walther. I’m the only guy running a CO or Production gun with a barrel length under 5 inches that I personally know.

The ability to delete positions with distance is half the fun of running a dot and highcap on any gun - rifle or not. Nothing wrong with that! It’s what makes the sport great. Just pointing out that stage designers should back up a bit and look at their stage to see how it changes, if they are going to skip the rear fault line.

This is obvious, but for any novice stage designers reading... Make sure your PCC shooters won’t be able to back up 10 yards and delete all of the hard leans, taking pretty much the whole stage from one or two positions back there. Don’t neglect the ‘rifle factor’ when determining if you need rear fault lines.

It does if you switch sports. I shot my Walther PPS (7+1) from appendix, concealed, in USPSA Limited division. As a racegun division, you have no holster or mag position restrictions. I shot the gun to slidelock a lot, and speedloaded when I could. It was a blast! And yeah, I had 4 mags on my hip in order to make it through 32rd stages.

Just cut or sand off the tab so that you have straight plastic down the side of the follower. Extremely simple. It just needs to avoid contact with the inside of the gun when an empty mag is inserted. Stick it in, and you’ll see what to shave off.

@IHAVEGAS And hey, do not give me wrong. If I visit a match with seven stages, in at least four of them I’d like to see over 25 rounds. I love to shoot just as much as the next guy. If I wanted a match full of 18 rounders I *would* still be shooting IDPA. But a blistering fast 16 to 21 round stage which features all of the field course challenges *and* a breakneck pace where every single point is at a premium? That’s an entirely different challenge. And a lot of us appreciate that enough to really enjoy it when they crop up once or twice in a match.

Who on earth said anything about classifier crap? We’re not talking about shooting flat footed or around either side of a barricade at all. If anything, you better move and shoot faster and straighter if you want to win a *well designed* medium field course , than a long one.

Even though the change is always scored the same and isn’t even really a change, they should avoid simplifying the targets... just because some people will still manage to lose their minds over nothing? I *will* miss the guy who landed a shot right on the B/C line urgently appealing a hit called “Charlie” by the RO. ”Hey man, that’s a bravo!” ”My mistake. Bravo it is!” Enjoy you score of... exactly the same points, buddy.

A Whopper costs less than a superbly cooked filet mignon, and it’s bigger. Let him enjoy his fast food simplicity.

The best part about a truly good, interesting 17-round stage is the complaining you get from guys who equate round count with a stage’s difficulty and quality. I personally relish that part. Take a great stage, realize there’s only 21 shots in it... and keep adding targets til you hit 30 rounds? Congratulations, you just upped the hit factor enough to take the challenge out of shooting really accurately, while nailing your movement with sufficient precision to have a competitive stage time.

Agreed! If you have an activator, put it in a sequence that gives people the chance to decide <how many> targets they can squeeze between steel and the moving target. Press a couple targets into service that you can take backing out of that array, or on the move to a second position, which has a few more targets. Total rounds? 12-18. Doesn’t bottleneck your match like a 32rnder with lots of steel and movers does. One reload gets even Production through the stage. It’s similarly quick to set up: a wall or a couple of barrels at either end of the shooting area, and 6-8 targets. Savvy competitors will get into the challenge posed by these fast stages. There’s no room for error in your execution if you want to win it. Simple. But not easy. Lowers the round count on 2 of your stages and INcreases the difficulty... while still leaving a safe (flatfooted) option for novices to stroll through easily. Stop letting your stage designers make everything 26+ rounds with a maze of walls and fault lines.

We do 6 stages, sometimes 7. Classifier included in that count. We set up the morning of. There are a handful of us who LOVE setting up our own ideas - and who all love legal stages with multiple options. Start nailing stages down at 8:30ish. Shoot at 10ish. The MD rarely has to set up more than one stage, sometimes he isn’t involved at all.

Damn, you guys think too hard.

The sun shades have kept this kind of issue from happening on 100* match days for us down here in the southern heat so far. We also generally toss it in someone’s cooler between stages while we walk to the next bay and do our walkthrough - which I also do with my phone if it gets to feeling hot. (Obviously not a cooler which is swamped with ice water. )

Don’t use pins. That way there’s still a little carbon residue inside the case mouths. Your Ammo doesn’t care if the case was shiny on the inside or not, it shoots the same. And that carbon residue will act like a dry lube to help prevent the cases from sticking even slightly, onto your polished powder funnel.

Correct; well... you still have to make Minor. Most of us shooting CO have gotten our mags to take 23+1 very reliably. My Walther does, as does the Glock platform. You have to do two reloads per stage even less often than a Limited shooter. Shooting .40 costs you 2 or 3 rounds per mag versus 9mm, generally speaking.

This is normal. They love CCI and Federal, and S&B run really well. Don’t even bother buying Winchester anymore unless you want to deal with the frustration. Mark the spot directly above the hole with a sharpie, take the cover off and drill a small hole in it. You can use a small allen wrench or toothpick to straighten cocked ones and it makes clearing jams very quick. I second the idea to use 800 then 1,500+ sandpaper to polish the hole slightly. Helps a lot. Just take the stupid plastic locking key out of your vibraprime’s bottom permanently - I don’t even know where mine is. Slide the tray in, hold the primer tube square against the bottom of it, and fill it up. Goes much faster.

What load are you shooting? With a coated bullet and dirty powder, you get some serious buildup in the comp. it also occurs even with an FMJ due to the exposed lead on the bottom of the bullet. With a plated bullet or a JHP? You’ll be shocked how much cleaner the gun runs overall. Both in the junk that isn’t building up in the upper and especially in the comp.

I thinks lot of us got into the sport desiring to be proficient with the guns we carry. And they’re carrying an iron sighted gun. In addition to not identifying with CO (much less Open) because they aren’t carrying 24 rounds and a fat Deltapoint Pro every day? ...just outfitting the gun you start with is a $500-1,000 proposition. Full $300 worth of belt rig. Then come sights, extra mags, trigger work, all the new range bag and squib rod type gear, and then very quickly following, a reloading press and a chrono? It adds up. $500 worth of optic and basepads can be skipped if you rock your Glock in Production or fill its mags and run Limited Minor for a while. The only guys who come directly into CO around here are the tactical types who were carrying a Glock or M&P with an RMR, and the slide milled with a set of shark gills or a big window in the side. Their gun already belongs best in CO.

We have a few, but yes most wind up in Ltd minor or production. Or PCC, but most of those showed up wanting to shoot a PCC before they ever saw a USPSA stage in person.