Chuck Anderson

Info from Dave regarding the class, "We’ll cover a lot in one day and shoot several drills I use to train for practical shooting sports. If space allows for it, I like to set up two drills angled away from each other in the same pit. You’ll run a drill twice in a row in some cases. This maximizes the number of rounds fired and minimizes downtime between shooters. Some other drills may allow for up to three at a time and others will have to be one at a time. However it goes, plan on firing 700+ rounds. It will be fun for everyone and I look forward to working with you guys. "

There are only two slots left for the Dave Sevigny Class. Now's the time if you want in. Info from Dave regarding class, "We’ll cover a lot in one day and shoot several drills I use to train for practical shooting sports. If space allows for it, I like to set up two drills angled away from each other in the same pit. You’ll run a drill twice in a row in some cases. This maximizes the number of rounds fired and minimizes downtime between shooters. Some other drills may allow for up to three at a time and others will have to be one at a time. However it goes, plan on firing 700+ rounds. It will be fun for everyone and I look forward to working with you guys. "

Only 2 slots left. If you want in, now's the time. Chuck

From Dave, "This will be a USPSA course covering mechanics, technique and mindset. " I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem with Open or Limited shooters.

I've just got it confirmed that Dave Sevigny will be teaching a one day class in Dundee, OR on June 15. For those unfamiliar with the area Dundee is about 1/2 hour from Tri-County Gun Club. This will be a great opportunity to tune up with a World Champion before the match and a chance to get some great instruction from one of the best shooters in the world. The class will be $250.00 for the day and will be limited to no more than 10 students. There are only five openings left in the class now. If anyone is interested in participating contact me as soon as possible so we can get you on the list. The slots will not last long. Thanks, Chuck Anderson

I've just got it confirmed that Dave Sevigny will be teaching a one day class in Dundee, OR on June 15. For those unfamiliar with the area Dundee is about 1/2 hour from Tri-County Gun Club. This will be a great opportunity to tune up with a World Champion before the match and a chance to get some great instruction from one of the best shooters in the world. The class will be $250.00 for the day and will be limited to no more than 10 students. There are only five openings left in the class now. If anyone is interested in participating contact me as soon as possible so we can get you on the list. The slots will not last long. Thanks, Chuck Anderson

That's great except I know several competitors, even a couple from Canada, that do have trigger jobs done. I know for a fact that several DA/SA guns that competed at the World Shoot had some pretty extensive trigger work done. Several of the guns on my squad had 5-6 lb DA pulls and 1-2 lb SA triggers. IPSC rules say that you can change factory parts but can't modify them. What about CZ factory trigger parts that require fitting to work. Apparently that's allowed. IPSC hasn't figured out what they want to mean by their trigger work restriction. I guarantee that there are a good number of shooters, at the IPSC level, that have trigger jobs done, and there's no way to tell.

For anyone that thinks a minimum trigger pull will solve any bickering, check out the issues that are still going on over IPSC's Production rules. It seems like every week or so there is a new argument over some facet of the IPSC Production rules. Whether it's refinishing the gun or being able to replace parts and actually fit them. They can't even decide on what minor detailing or polishing is. I'm not saying that IPSC rules are worse than USPSA. What I am saying is that just adding rules doesn't fix anything. I personally don't like the idea of a minimum trigger pull weight. I shot a Glock with a 6-7 lb trigger all last year and only recently switched to a lighter trigger. I've also just received an SP-01 that I shot for the first time today. I certainly see both sides. With no minimum, striker fired pistols have an advantage on 12 shots at a 12 stage match. Pretty minimal. If you put a trigger limit, like IPSC, at 5 lbs, then the DA/SA guns have the advantage for every other shot at the match. The only way a trigger pull limit is equitable is to have different pull limits, i.e. DA first shot 5 lbs, SA 3 lbs and striker fired 3 or 4 lbs. This would be a pain in the butt to enforce. And for the folks that don't think that striker fired guns should be in Production, I figure I'm on pretty even ground shooting a mostly stock Glock 17 against "true" DA guns like the 40 oz SP-01 and the Beretta 92 Steel.

I read Voigt's post and #37. Why Voigt chose not to actually address the issue I don't know. Simple thing to say, DOH is legal. Instead he uses a bunch of vague terms. If the Board and NROI are going to decide that the DOH is a competition holster, well that wouldn't really surprise me. I'm doing the sponsor coordinating for Area 1 this year and one of the things that I've found is that there is a lot of hard feeling for USPSA from a lot of vendors. There are a lot of folks that either supported USPSA or built products for USPSA and then got crapped on by them. S&W being the first one that pops to mind. It took years for S&W to want to jump back in the game and they're back in big time with guns that are very competetive in 4 out of 6 divisions. Does anyone think it's a good idea to tell another manufacturer, hey, we've been using your products for years, you spent alot of money on them, we even just had an article in Front Sight about how good they are, oh by the way, they're illegal now. And once again, USPSA looks like they want to mess with one specific vendor, i.e. Vanek, and not address whatever their perceived problem is. How many other Kydex manufacturers offer holsters that bring the holster body away from the shooters body, most of the guys that actually mold kydex. USPSA has a rule that covers this, there is no reason to change it.

I'm missing something. Is the DOH legal or not? I'm not shooting the match but it does concern me since I use a DOH in Production as well. I think that the rules cover this part pretty well. There is a maximum distance from the torso the holster can be. If you're one of those skinny guys, the DOH may not work for you, but this has been the rule for a long time. Speaking for myself as a larger (alright, great big fat guy) shooter, The DOH is well within that distance. The TEK-Lok and belt loops shove the holster into my body.

I spoke to Larry at CCF the other day. He said that the only US patent Glock has left is on a relatively insignificant trigger part. He said that there shouldn't be any issues with Glock, although they have sent several letters threatening to sue. It doesn't sound like they have any teeth though. After talking to Larry it seems like he's got a pretty good idea what he's doing. There was talk of complete guns but that's still a ways out.

I got my updated trigger bars last year around this time. If you do a search I posted regarding it in more depth at that time. Bottom line is that large pistol primers tend to be rather insensitive. The large surface area contributes in part. The other half is that there is a wide range in primer cup thickness. Some European ammo is very tough to set off. The longer trigger bar was just to get a bit more oomph. We run a few million rounds a year at my dept. and never had a problem. Until we got a lot of Win WB 45 ammo that we had numerous failures with. The same guns would have no problem with the Win Duty ammo, or any other brand of ammo we tried, just this one lot. I wouldn't worry a whole lot about it. You should always shoot any duty/carry ammo before trusting your life on it. If it goes bang when you try it, it should work for you.

According to the most recent article I read in Police Marksman, the internal lock, and this I don't get at all, is an LE only option. The malfunctions that I had initially have all sorted themselves out. No malfunctions in the last 300 rounds and the hitch in the slide travel is gone. Must have been an internal burr that just needed to be smoothed out.

I zero at 100 yards top of the dot at 3x. This puts point of impact about the center of the dot at 50 yds and 200 yds and within an inch or two of the bottom of the dot at 300 yds. This is using 68 gr BH ammo and a 20" bbl. Setup has worked very well for the last several years.

For me it would depend on the type of match. If it was a typical USPSA match and they were only bonus type targets or didn't mean a great deal, I'd go for all the poppers first. If it was like SMM3G which is what this question was about I'd definitely think twice. Each unhit pigeon there was a 10 second penalty. On stage one I shot popper, static target nearby then pigeon on both flippers. On stage 7 I took the close poppers PP-CC. On the ones that were more of a swing I did PC PC

Would this prohibit whipping out your knife and prying the round you loaded into the mag backwards from the chamber? We had it happen on our squad today.

What's really bad is when you look at the Revolver top 20 list. Check the guys in the master column, they're a little on the low side.

Not sure. I'll check with the MD and get back to you.

The downside of Time+ scoring is it really de-emphasizes any short stages there. The difference on Stage 10 was only a few seconds. You could totally blow this stage and still score well with good long range performance. The percentage does a good job of weiging the stage skills evenly. If you do time + all the stages really need to be somewhat close in time otherwise you just end up biasing your scoring towards something else. Although admittedly, if you are, I certainly wouldn't mind it biased towards the long range rifle. I hate to say it because I know it's a pain in the butt and SMM definitely wouldn't go to it, but Comstock really does a good job with this.

I'm not a fan of trying to make matches "tactical". I shoot a 3-Gun Tactical match once a month. I do it because I get practice with my shotgun. I don't do it because it teaches me to be tactical. In fact I'm normally ragged on for not being tactical enough. Although this normally consists of shooting the targets too fast. There are routinely calls at this match that make no sense, along with course design that at best is not "tactical". I shoot IPSC because it challenges me. I enjoy shooting long targets, small targets, moving between targets etc. I also enjoy a good hoser stage. There's nothing wrong to me with throwing a 32 round course with no target past 10 yds into a match. The problem that I have is with matches like the 2002 Area 1 where there was not a shot past 12 yds the whole match. A whole match of hose fests only tests a small range of skills. The guy who can slap the trigger and run a short distance the fastest wins. Keep the one hoser stage but throw in some tests of other skills as well. An 8 round stage doesn't have to be a stand and shoot. Engage a steel and one target from the start and move somewhere else for the rest. There's ways to make them more difficult than 4 targets at 10 yards from one spot. For those ranges that don't have 50 yard bays, there's still easy ways to make shots difficult. Throw in smaller targets. Hard cover or No-Shoots covering up parts of the targets. Use US Poppers instead of Poppers. The 20 yd head shots at Area 2 last year gave several people fits, even some of the big names. Maybe it's selfish to want stages in the US to help prepare our top shooters for international competition. How about just wanting to continue to challenge our US shooters. How difficult is it to hit an open target at 5 yds. Moving, akward positions, whatever. Every shooter should be able to do this. Unless there is some challenge, no one gets better. If you have a match with 5-32 round field courses with all open targets, guess what, you've got a club that's really good at ONE skill.

Glock had a little problem with the Striker setting off some less sensitive primers. They lenghtened it to get a little more run at the primer and it solved the problem

I know that you said that you can't afford a SureFire but the model you'd be looking at, a G-2, with the Nitrolon (plastic) body only retails for $34.00. Not sure what you're going to pay for a Scorpion.

If you're looking for a cheap version of the CR Speed you can take a look at JR Speed. It's a Philipino outfit. I picked up a couple of their mag pouches at the World Shoot and they work great. I'm not sure what the import situation is right now. I know that they have a distributor in Canada, Sean Hansen. I'm not sure about the US. I googled the name and came up with this link, http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976635229.htm Not a bad deal for $20.00. The belts are very similar to the CR Speed with the stiffened outer belt and inner belt.

I cover up the in side of the mag pouches with velcro tape so they stick better to my CR Speed belt. This comes in handy with the half dozen mags for production. Keeps the Tek-Locs in and keeps the belt up.

Not sure who quit on Saturday and came back. I guess our squad quit when it was 5:45 and we had just finished our second stage. We could have maybe shot our next stage, 5, in the dark but we were told by match staff to go home. If there were individual competitors who didn't stay with their squad and got re shoots that would be different I think. On the other hand I saw some of the shooters from the early squads that were pretty clearly in the early stages of hypothermia. It's not worth risking your health for a game. As for the RO's great again as usual. The match did a good job of getting through the weather issues. I also liked the stages this year. On the dark house though it might be a good idea to use the same rubber type backers as on the close targets. The shooters that went first on sunny days were at a disadvantage to the shooters who went last. If it was sunny all you had to do was look for the bright holes the tape couldn't conceal. However, I did think that throwing out Stage 5 was a bad choice. We finished with 12 shooters left to go. By the time we packed up the truck and got over the prize area they had just announced that it was being cancelled. There couldn't have been more than ten shooters left to go. I then took a look at the stats and there were still working on completing the other stages. Another 45-60 minutes and the match would have been actually completed. As it was it took about that time anyway. The time was made up with the substantially lower number of trophies this year anyway. Seems like we got out about the same time we always do.