Chuck Anderson

I'll be there shooting production.

"How then do we explain the steel being downed with one shot of minor 9mm?" Simple, they fixed the steel between when the three shots were fired and the calibration shot was fired.

Yep

It's interesting that there are so many people that seem to think that it's fair to tell a shooter, you got good hits on the steel, you're easily making your power factor, the steel is clearly out of adjustment, tough luck, go away. As an RO I've always given the benefit of the doubt to the shooter. If it's a question and I'm not sure that he was faulting a line, no procedural. If I'm not sure that he broke the 180, keep going. But to have people with a straight face say, well yeah it sounds like the popper was broken and should have been fixed, but the guy already shot it down during the course of fire so tough. Speaking as the shooter who went right after the wind popper, I'm glad they came up and fixed it before I shot.

That would be him. I'm not sure if he only had them at that match as a favor to David or if they are a regular stock item.

To be honest I'm a little embarrassed but I don't know the name of the guy that I bought them from. He's been a vendor at several of the matches this year, Area 6 and Nationals for sure. He's a bigger guy, my size, with long curly brown hair. For those that went to Nationals he was in the corner of the tent and had the pink AR comps. Anybody know who he is?

I've had great luck with the poppers designed with the round rod and angle iron. The poppers that I saw at PASA had the skins bolted onto a 90 degree piece of metal that acted at the hinge. The bolts would loosen and steel wouldn't drop.

I love my Warren sights. Had them on since Area 6 and I'm not going back

This rule only applies to an arbitration. None of these instances were brought to an arbitration. The implication that the shooters in these cases in some way brow beat or harassed the RM's into giving re-shoots is groundless and false. For someone who wasn't there to make up this kind of conspiracy theory does a disservice not only to the shooters but also the RO's. I think most of the arguing for the re-shoots were done by the other shooters on the squad, the guys that would most be negatively effected. The shooters in both cases did not harass the RM, and frankly if they did I think the Ray and Troy would most likely have shut them down fast. They plead their reasonable case and the RM's sided with them.

I'm not sure why you're complaining about the awards. Sure, the match booklet specified 1-16 would be recognized. But, I'm sure that was only for the main match and didn't include the Production and Revolver side shoots.

A note on Minor scoring. I talked to Dave during the Production match. He said that he was going to shoot the Glock 35 in Major. He said that the Major scoring would, on average, add about 2% to his score. He said that he needed it and it looks like he was dead on the money.

The Winchester White Box shouldn't shoot to a different point of aim. My 17 shoots just about anything from a factory box into the same spot. 115, 124 and 147 gr. The gun is sighted in at 25 yds but I was still hitting steel at 130+ yds with 147gr a couple weeks ago. If you have to drift the sight all the way over there are a couple options. Make sure it's the gun and not you, have some other people shoot it as well. If it's the gun, you might consider calling Glock and sending it back to them. Their standards are for the sight to reasonably centered. Otherwise try one of the adjustable sights. Don't go with a fixed sight if you have to have it drifted away from center. It'll just mess with you trying to get a good draw and on point shooting close targets.

Angus shot L10

It's funny that you mention the wind holding the popper up. That was the reason that one of the re-shoots was given. But here's the rest of the situation. The shooter is also shooting L10 nats. His Production load was a 200 gr. 40 at about 670 fps. He was having some accuracy problems with the load so he was setting his mags so that every time he had a long shot, he was using his 40 major ammo for the L10's. This was really obvious by sound, pff, pff, bam, bam. He was using the heavy stuff when he hit the popper. Three times in the calibration circle before it dropped. There was a shooter who watched the popper start to fall and then rock back forward with the wind (FWIW). Is it really fair in a match to tell the shooter, thems the breaks, when there is clearly a problem with the calibration? The issue with the US Popper comes from the crappy design that PASA uses. The ones with the bolts on the bottom loosen up. When you shoot a popper it moves back a bit then the second shot knocks it over. There's no way that you will win the calibration if this is the problem. It's already almost going to go over. And so you know, I didn't have any problem knocking any of the steel over with my Rem UMC 115 gr FMJ factory ammo. We also had a reshoot for another shooter that started without hearing protection. The shooter continued with the short stage, not knowing that he needed to tell the RO he didn't have ears. Is there some kind of advantage to not letting him reshoot? Does that make it more fair? Is there anyone who thinks that he started the day without ears in an effort to gain some competetive advantage? Of course not.

Yeah, I don't like the 34. It feels like it has more muzzle flip to me. The 17 does everything I need it to and feels faster.

On the Production Super Squad at Nationals there was only one guy not shooting a CR Speed belt. His looked a lot like a narrow duty belt. I like CR Speed especilally with Production. There's no need to reset the 1/2 dozen mag pouches or holster and every time I put it on I can make sure it's good with the points of my hips. Wearing a belt through loops puts you at the mercy of the belt loops for spacing.

Go down and handle the different varieties that you are considering. The tangs on each fit my hands differently. The other thing to consider is the safety type. They make a decocker variety and a standard safety. The decocker would be good for Production but with my grip I keep activating it when I don't want to. Also I have a hard time reaching the safety with my stubby little thumbs in case it is inadvertantly activated. The most important thing is ergonomics. If it was another division you could modify the frame to fit your hand, but not in Production. Make sure that it fits and that there are no sharp edges touching that are gonna make you bleed. There are a couple for my hands.

This is all I have for the guns of the Top 10 Production: 1 Dave Sevigny Glock 34 2 Angus Hobdell CZ SP-01 3 Matt Mink CZ 85 4 Chuck Anderson Glock 17 5 David Olhasso Beretta 96 6 Roger Sherman Sig 226 ST 7? 8 Pete Milionis CZ SP-01 9? 10?

Dave Sevigny really is on a different level. This was the first time that I've had to see him shoot more than a stage or two at a time. Wow, he just doesn't make mistakes. It's going to be an interesting World Shoot. Angus would have been a lot closer at this match if not for some problems on a couple stages.

This won't happen with USPSA. You can only be classed one lower in every other division from your highest. So you A L10 shooter would automatically be bumped to B in Production once he got his A card. One of the reasons I'm staying out of revolver. I'd pretty much get killed in A class.

Your squad will pretty much decide what order to shoot in. I've shot on squads at Nationals where it was random each stage. But, most picked an order and just rotated. Don't worry, a good bunch of the folks on your squad will have been to Nationals before and can help you through. Stay hydrated. Nothing will sap your energy and mental game faster than dehydration. Don't wait until you are thirsty, if you do you're already dehydrated. Keep drinking, water, gatorade, whatever...not soda. If your not taking a whiz every stage or every other stage drink more.

Congratulations to Keith Tyler...again. I figured that after a year of shooting open that his single stack skills might have slipped a bit, nope. We had around 120 shooters and 8 stages. Match ran very well and they even gave away 4 Springfield 1911's.

The Columbia Cascade Section match is held August 6 and 7th just outside Portland Oregon. The Oregon Section match is in Southern Oregon the same weekend. That one is probably in driving distance from Oakland.

Yep, I've got lightening cuts in the slide of my .40 SVI. Every now and then someone will try to tell me that it's illegal, but I've shot it at 6 National championships without a problem.

If you're thinking about removing any metal from the rear of the slide like with the G18 be very careful. My smith tried this and got a little ambitious. He cut into the firing pin safety tunnel. For lightening I would suggest you look at the front of the slide first. The sides have a bunch of unnecessary metal that can be cut away up front.