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Atlas gen 2 Cal.

I thought you already got one?

Problem solved. As could be expected the problem was with the user. There are 4 powder bars, extra small, small, large and magnum (extra large). The two shown above are the large with the triangular opening and the magnum under that. He's pretty stubborn and looked at them and filled the bottom one since it looks smaller figuring that the top one (large) would hold even more. He never looked inside it though to find that it's severely cupped in there and holds a shit load more than it looks. He didn't even bother to measure the top one because he thought it would hold more and was too stubborn to check until I went up there. Large is the correct one and easily goes down to under 20.

So I had him remove the large powder bar, get it closed fully and take a picture. He had two types, one of them was older and the other newer. I told him he was crazy, that there is no way that fully screwed down either one would fit 27.5 grains. It looks like it'll go down to 10 grains to me but he swears that he's measured them several times and they only go down to 27.5 grains with H335.

My buddy is starting to load 223 on his 1050 and using H335. Through research he found that he should be about 25 gr for a 55 gr bullet. The problem he's having though is that the small powder bar only goes up to 23.3 grains and the large powder bar only goes down to 27.5 grains so there's almost a 5 grain gap that can't be reached. I suggested that he take the powder bars out and make sure they were going all the way to where they needed to be to which he said he did. I'm thinking that there has to be something wrong here. Dillion would not allow such a thing to happen. Has anyone run into this?

Might want to start a new thread for that.

This match took place last year guys.

Anyway, whenever I get nervous for what ever the reason (big match, someone watching or whatever) is I just tell myself the same thing. Just do your thing. You already know what to do and how to go it, don't try to do it. Sit back, don't think about it and just do what you already know. I can't do anything more than I'm capable of, it's too late for that and it'll be fine no matter what. I tell me to back off myself and do what comes natural. I take the pressure off myself letting me do whatever it is that I'll do. Sounds silly but it works for me. At that point it's all about your mental game and YOU are interfering with YOU.

We found that to be true. On day one Ben was all proper until he repeatedly watched us bash and make fun of each other and generally run around like little unbehaved kids punching one another. After that it got more relaxed. Then again we weren't beginners and had several years of match experience under our belts. You have to tailor training to the class/student instead of taking the same approach to everyone. To date one of the best classes we've every had and I've taken quite a lot of classes from all over.

Wrong part there.

Who cares about IDPA, it's not USPSA legal. Thanks for that source WF-WM.

Thanks, it would still be cheaper to get the non extended one and replace the spring if you can get it out of there and it'll stay in place. I've got a few non extended ones just taking space.

Can you replace just the spring or do you have to replace the entire lever? I've got an extended one on my 34 and they're more expensive to replace than a factory one. It would be soo much cheaper to just replace the spring rather than the entire lever.

Just to follow up I zeroed the sights yesterday with 230gr JHP and it hits directly behind the fiber optic dot with Sevigny compitition front and rear at 25 yards.

For anyone else that might want to know, I just got word from Apex Tacitcal that the 4.4" model sights work best with the 45's.

Do the 45's use special sized sights or will the full size sight sets fit the 45's? and shoot correctly?

Yup! A great big thank you to everyone! Everytime I go out there it's an awesome match!

Ya I didn't send in my app till last Friday and now the waiting list for me. Sucks.

Thank you!

The link to the pictures doesn't seem to work.

Not exactly our experience's having run both matches back to back. Great match though, huge thanks out to Crimson Trace for putting it on and all the people within that made it work. Also mad props out to Travis Gibson for being human glue and duct tape and keeping things together.

Where we supposed to provide some information on a light or laser?

I don't mind slugs, just need to stock up on a whole bunch if we need them. The only reason I don't like them is I don't have all that much.

We're over a month out and this is already looking like the best match of the year, and we haven't even shot it yet! Thanks for working on making this one of the most awesome matches that any of us will ever shoot Chuck!

It's not. This last weekend we had a stage where if it was ever going to be a problem it would have been and wasn't. I was sharing that experience.