UW Mitch
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Powder Valley has Winchester Large Rifle Primers available right now! If anyone needs small rifle, I'll turn them down on my lathe for you
(disclaimer: that was a joke)~Mitch
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S4 Tactical in Hillsboro OR had some Magtechs for $5.50/100. Pretty steep, but I guess if you're totally desperate...
~Mitch
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Are you using a stock grip, or a stippled/reduced grip? If material has been removed from your grip I might suggest trying a new one that's stock. Or maybe some relaxation yoga?
~Mitch
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I don't know about the cup hardness, but I do know when I started reloading (and was laughably buying primers by the 100) I bought some magnum primers by accident. They spit more fire than my other loads - it was pretty exciting actually. Something to think about if you're using a light load, short barrel and magnum primers.
~Mitch
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Good luck! Hopefully the primer drought clears up soon. In the mean time, you can set it up and pull the handle and watch the shell plate go round and round.
~Mitch
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Absolutely - even at the "pro" level - or maybe especially at the pro level. I wouldn't be able to put a point value on my integrity. I like what Floyd said "The Rule Thing to Do" versus "The Right Thing to Do".
~Mitch
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uh...make sure the kids aren't playing on that slide when you start shooting
~Mitch
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What if you use the foam and back it with a piece of steel? That way it won't penetrate, andhopefully the foam will help capture the frags?
~Mitch
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Hmm...OK, so basically once the score card is signed, it's entirely up to the shooter (and his/her conscience) whether to accept a correction, and the penalty target?
Yes, that is the bottom line.
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First off, I believe that chrono procedure of "shoot 1 round and if it goes major you're okay" is not correct. That no withstanding, was the chrono guy actually gonna keep everyones extra rounds and shoot it himself later? That would be freaking crazy. If he wasn't gonna shoot other peoples loaded ammo, what the heck was his fit about? That's so weird.
~Mitch
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My hesitation of trying to disassemble and fix a gun at the safe table is that I would loose parts. But seeing someone fussing with a gun/gun parts from across the parking lot would make me more nervous - are they going to be stupid and reassemble that gun at their car? I don't know, and it were me doing the fussing with the parts at my car I would expect it to make other people nervous. So...I keep a towel in my trunk so that IF I need to work at the safe table, I'll be able to lay all my parts down on the towel to try and help keep them contained.
~Mitch
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Maybe just buy a few mags with the insert build in for 9mm? My Witness Match has been working fine with the 9mm mags with the inserts.
~Mitch
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The argument? How do you know it was me that hit it. If the RO/Scorekeeper missed it once, how do you know it hadn't been missed for the last 2, 3, or 4 shooters or so. It's not mine... it's an old, unpasted hit.
Frank
Absolutely - some RO's get into their groove of how they walk and score, and sometimes (unfortunately) that includes not checking all the no-shoots. I shot with a very astute junior for whom this scenario came up. When someone said "hey you tagged this no shoot" - he immediately replied "already signed the form
" No wonder he was so quick to get the paper from me to sign! LOL~Mitch
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What I hate is waiting for the UPS man. What I like is when he/she arrives!
Let the excitement build!!!~Mitch
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They look that way because they're an actual jacket not plating like you might be used to seeing. I pretty much interchange my 9mm loads (not the 9-Major, since I only have 1 load).
~Mitch
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I hate going to match where the either I'm doing all the work, or we have to wait for a squad in front of us that no one is resetting the stage because they're all picking up brass. I can understand if someone has a medical condition where they're a little frail due to the heat or whatever and they need to just sit in the shade (if it really is a medical condition not just being a lazy bastard)...but when someone can spend the entire time scoring brass while other people are resetting, that's just f-ed up. When someone does it after every single shooter so no one gets any brass that's more f-ed up. And when most of a squad does it so they're taking forever and more and more squads are piled up behind them that's even more f'ed up.
Ever shot with the brass vacum cleaning squad? I shot with a group a month ago that by the timeI walked through to score with the RO after I completed my turn, there wasn't a single piece of brass on the ground...and I had to reset my own stages! Argh...
[rant off]
~Mitch
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This will be one for me to track, as I've seen lots of very elaborate and drawn out "Make Ready" rituals. At what point do you tell the shooter, enough already.
~Mitch
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If it were me, I'd make sure my slowest round came in over 130 pf. Good to make sure you've got margin to work with, good for any large poppers should you need a little more zip to take care of steel. In something where you can fail major and shoot minor it's one thing, but as has already been pointed out, if you're going for minor, and you fail, you get no score.
~Mitch
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What's the difference between Fed Champion and GM primers?
The GM (Gold Medal) primers are supposed to be manufactured under tighter tolerance - so your standard dev out of the chrono (all other things being equal) should be narrower. I reloaded some 243Win and was told that if I want accuracy to use the GM primers to help reduce variablility. They are typically more expesnive - back before this primer shortage I paid $27 for some GM pistol primers and $22 for the regular ones.
~Mitch
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Lots of great advice here that's helping me think about my own shooting. Jake's advice is along the lines of my short mantra to myself - I go for the fastest A I can get. When I walk through the stage, if the shots are placed absolutely perfectly in the center of the top half of the A, where I like to aim, in a nice tight group, I know I slowed down too much. If I get Cs or Ds I know I rushed it. For me the learning has been WHEN to go quickly and when to slow down (depending on movement, distance, hardcover, no shoots, tilted or moving targets etc). I've also found that at my level (C in almost everything) the transition between targets and movement is where I can benefit the most over just having fast splits. Eventually I'll string these all together. Thanks for thought provoking discussion.
~Mitch
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NWPPA IDPA club often has a "side stage" at the end of their matches - some months rifle, some months shotgun, some months bug. That way the folks who want something different stick around after, but it doesn't slow down the main match. Don't see why this couldn't be done at the end of a USPSA match.
~Mitch
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now you know who not to play side bets with...
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I'm doing 7.7gr Sil, Win Sm Rifle and a 124gr CMJ from Montana Gold.
~Mitch
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I just always run it wet.
~Mitch
(disclaimer: that was a joke)
" No wonder he was so quick to get the paper from me to sign! LOL
Let the excitement build!!!
STI Edge grip safety - disable
in 1911-style Pistols
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On the non-elegant side, I've seen rubber bands or tennis racket tape. :shrug:
~Mitch