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Mounting the gun the same each time sounds real good, except real hard to do when you are in any position other than standing. Skeet and trap advice is good for skeet and trap, but we don't really do that. Just something to think about.
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My thoughts are if you really don't like cumulative time scoring, don't shoot matches that do that. Lots of scoring systems out there and lots of matches. Personally I don't like it, but if I sign up to shoot a match that does it, I am kind of saying I will abide by it and really can't complain about it.
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First off make sure your pattern is centered on your front bead at around 15-20 yards or so as you naturally hold the gun. It may not be hitting where you think it is.
As for sight focus or target focus you will get all sorts of different answers. I am very sight focus driven for everything. I always stare at the front sight even for aerial targets, bird hunting, skeet, trap, sporting clays, 5-stand, etc. It works for me.
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Here is another take. If you like the way the gun feels recoil pulse wise, and it never hangs up due to ejection, don't worry, be happy, and burn that barrel out and buy another and repeat. Way too much is made of "ejection patterns". I actually like mine to kick out forward, as I find I can crowd the ejection port closer to the ground on a roll over prone situation as opposed to a 3-5:30 pattern, but once again if you like the feel of it, shoot it!!!
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Maybe there are more lessons than that. Maybe if you are interrupted do a quick press check before "dry firing" a "sight picture".
Maybe get out of the habit of dry firing a sight picture at the load and make ready.
Maybe re unload and show clear to your self if you must dry fire your pistol before the load and make ready.
John was as safe as can be, and still a round got in there. The hit on the plate was dead center, so we all know it was a good press. This is why rule number one is so important, and why all the steps we go through to lamar and ulasc are so important, but even then you still have to follow the other 3 rules and for that I commend John. He was never unsafe!
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Fair market price would be 1000.00 for the 28" gun and another 400.00 for the extra barrel....don't go cheap on the spare barrel! If you offered all that for 1500.00 you would be right there!!! M1 rule in my opinion!
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Bryan has lace underwear as well Dan...
I've got 3 M1A,s and 1 real M-14.... so 3 practice rifles....not carbines.....and 1 match rifle!
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If you don't like the "look" of a standard sight there is no help that I know of, but Decot is still there for glasses. After using M-14 style sights since 1974, I just can't get my head around a globe front sight for what we do. Maybe for a bullseye target, but not for this!
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Well played my friend, well played!!!
As for cost of real irons, about 80.00 for the front and 60.00 for the back, and never a battery cost, so if you can get a real cool red dot for 140.00, crack on!!!
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Doesn't everyone have 3-4 M-14 Dan???
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No offence Pat, but that is one UGLY rifle!
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Oh now!!!! It is now "de re guer" to cook bacon, not toast! Come around hand!
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Mr. Bacus, I'm pretty sure my point was that Mark doesn't recommend stuff that he hasn't tested and tried AND likes. The cool part is that he and I expect about the same for our gear, so if Mark says its good, I usually like it too. We may disagree on a few technical aspects, but if Mark likes it, it is usually "adequate to travel".........cool guy way to say " good to go"
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Well with all this light hearted banter going on, I've got to jump on Mark as well. I'm really surprised at the ease in which he switches his views on products always trying to find the next greatest thing, and then recommending the stuff he has tested and proven. Preposterous I tell you!
I am a bit surprised, however, that no one has mentioned the great sight setup of Decot and J.P. Day light visible, precise adjustments, repeatable, and no batteries......oh wait you said best "OPTIC" for iron sight division.....hmmmm!!???
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Yes, I have a practice rifle and a match rifle. I don't hold my practice rifle to the same accuracy standards as the match rifle, but both have won many matches. I like to take the practice rifle overseas, because it won't hurt nearly as bad as loosing my CTR-02 if it doesn't show up. Matter of fact my practice rifle has won a couple Nordic Rifle Championships over there.
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You just missed a big one over in Italy.
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It came free with the lace undies he bought.
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Outstanding, any reason to shoot more is a good reason
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I'm a life member of the NRA and never got a single email about this match, and thats ok. Shooting a lot is a good thing to keep you good at shooting. I know for sure that I'm not shooting the matches you shoot, because I haven't seen you at the matches I have shot, so on that point I agree. As for the value of 3-gun, it is a small little nitch in a really big pool of shooting sports that happens to offer a fairly good prize structure which attracts some fairly talented shooters who can at least pay for a shooting vacation if they do well. That is the value of 3-gun. It is a chicken and egg argument. I feel that the good shooters came because of the prize structure, not that they shot 3-gun and became good shooters.
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I don't see any of the top SASS guys in the roster at all, perhaps the match wasn't marketed in that area, oh and by the way SASS IS 3-gun as well....you know rifle, pistol, shotgun....so I am missing your point entirely. Are you saying that only 3-gun with modern weapons has value?
All the top guys in this match love to shoot. They aren't just 3-gunners. I see state sporting clay champions, USPSA pistol champions, sniper match champions, Bianchi Cup Champions, bulls eye and camp Perry champions....etc. In many cases they are all rolled into the same guys, but it isn't because of 3-gun, it is because they love to shoot. You know them through 3-gun, but that isn't what made them great. The love of shooting vastly different gun games and applying that knowledge to all the shooting disciples made them great. Don't over value the venue, value the ability.
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What it says is something about the "value" of shooting three separate platforms a lot. It says nothing about the "value" of 3-gun as an entity, hobby, or sport. Congratulations Bruce! Great job!!
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Mark I'm pretty sure that Senior Standard Semi Auto is a division and is recognised by the IPSC governing body. That is kind of the feeling I got standing on the podium and getting a trophy and Silver medal for it. Nick Alexicos seemed to think it was as well. And I'm almost certain that Senior Standard Semi Auto teams are recognised as a seperat division from the other team awards. So while in the overalls (which IPSC doesn't do) we were not in the top 10, I am almost sure that we were third in the team division and I was second over all in the division I was scored in which was Senior Standard Semi Auto. Those indeed are "TOP 10" finishes.
To save you the trouble of looking it up I was 44 overall in Standard Semi Auto with the same old shotgun I built for SOF in 1996 with the same old 9 round tube and soldered in LM choke. Unless you were there to see some of the adversity we went through you probably wouldn't understand how proud I am of that finish loading from caddies and with no way to change chokes.
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Not all of them are too tough. I got a silver medal in my division, and the U.S. senior team got Bronze. With that many butts that were for the most part European, I'd say we tenderized quite a few.
350 rounds of shot. 40 buckshot and 40 slugs.
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It is held every 3 years. Next one is projected to be in France in 2018
I'm terrible with a shotgun. There, I said it....
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Having a few sporting clays championships and a couple of Trap championships myself I can really attest to the fun of the clay sports. Having won a few level 4 and 5 I.P.S.C. shotgun championships, I can also say that action shotgun sports are great as well. I can also say that I focused on my front sight for each and every shot. I do it for my pistol, I do it for my rifle, and I just don't see changing that system for my shotgun. Like I said it works for me, I also said there are going to be a lot of different answers.
I myself know a couple good shotguns, a couple of them have done Skeet in the Olympics. In questioning them it is about 50/50 of those who sight focus and those who "target focus", so whatever works.....oh and YES rear sights are good! Especially for slugs and for those times you can't get the perfect mount, like kneeling bending over, prone etc!!!