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54 minutes ago, CHA-LEE said:
The way I see it, the nationals should be the example of what I strive my local matches to be. I should be able to poach any stage from the nationals and use it at a local club match and have it be a fun and fair shooting challenge for all skill levels. If I setup Stage 9 at any of the local matches around me it would yield the same horrible results if not worse. This is a standards stage that is very much like a classifier. Show me any active classifier that would yield the same horrid results across all classifications. I will save you some time, it does not exist. So what is Stage 9 really testing? Its testing luck, not skill.
Look up Baseball Standard 03-14, I've seen a number of people do very poorly (granted they didn't zero the stage due to being fixed time).
https://www.uspsa.org/classifiers/03-14.pdf
There was no luck in stage 9 you either have a solid weak hand and strong hand skill or you failed miserably. Lots of people don't have that skill, because they rarely practice it, but at the distances involved it is doable
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I didn't shoot the Limited Nationals, but I shot the Hurricane Nationals which had similar stages.
National and World level matches should have some hard stages in a technical sense. But this year I felt that they balanced it much better than last year, and certainly was much better balanced than the World Shoot.
Yes a D or even some GM class shooter might not be able to shoot the match clean, but then they know what they need to work on. I know I got 7 damn mikes on stage 9, and I know that I need to work on my weak hand only shooting (in fact I was just on the range practicing that this afternoon).
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8 hours ago, Chris1911 said:
My understanding is that someone or more than one put up their hands and the powers that be choose? I also thought every second WAPC was held in USA. I hope it is Louisiana because I have heard they have good shoots and I haven't been there yet.
George and his crew have a great match going down there.
It would be a great location to hold the match in the United States. Which means the NRA won't chose it, they will hold it at another facility that has never held a NRA Action Pistol match. Because that seems to be how the NRA Competitive Shoot division is operating these days.
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Anyone used one of these? I got a $40 in Nowlin gift certificates off the prize table recently, and their action kits caught my eye.
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Getting the form filled out was easy maybe five minutes and another 10 minutes of chatting about guns with the CBP officers.
Finding a place to do it was much harder. Apparently CBP in my area doesn't believe in returning calls or answering the phones. Ultimately I ended up driving to the port.
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Other than the early mornings and long days the match was run very smoothly.
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The plan I heard this afternoon was that everyone shows up at 7:30am, and shoots their ass off. We take Friday off. On Saturday the staff picks up the remnants of the stages out of the orange groves sets up the stages again, and we shoot everything that is left. After that beer, food, music, awards, and prizes.
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2 hours ago, Edge40 said:
Monster match??? lol
Ok you got me there, the Monster Match @ Universal would require reloads on many stages.
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1 hour ago, kimmbeckwith said:
Thanks that will help I'll try and bring my projectiles and brass. Do any of you that fly what weight limits and what overweight charges are.
Depends on your airline, ticket category, and airline membership level.
If you go to their website they will typically have it all spelled out. Typically 50lbs or 23kg is the default limit for checked mags.
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As someone who primarily shot production, I like not having to reload except for the mandatory reloads.
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13 hours ago, ZackJones said:
Agreed. That was my feedback to them. I am waiting on a response.Seconded. Outside the super squad that has been the tradition. Only for rimfire was a particular day for shooting was enforced.
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Still in Atlanta?
Either way good news, I think the new dates will make it easier for some shooters to attend other matches. Though it might be a little on the cold side in Atlanta.
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On 9/5/2016 at 0:36 PM, zzt said:
The only problem with running a bushing comp is added difficulty in stripping the pistol. The bushing is permanently placed on the barrel behind the comp. You cannot get a wrench in there, so the bushing has to be loose enough so that you can turn it by hand. You should have the spring tunnel cut so you can use a 1-piece guide rod and remove and insert the Spring Plug from the rear.
If you buy the longer threaded barrel for the bushing comp and later change your mind, you can go conventional by buying a cone conversion from EGW and use a bull barrel comp.
MCG just cut the top off Brownells bushing wrench so it can be slide onto the barrel. Stripping the gun is pretty easy since it also has the Dawson Tool less Guide rod. Also I saw a bushing wrench with such a cut from a company at the prize table recently, but I forget who made them.
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On 9/4/2016 at 11:06 PM, Thomas H said:
Apparently my mouse button is doubling?
You might want to replace the disconnector and the sear in your mouse.
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There are effectively no rules on magazines for PCC. Even couplers are being allowed.
Though I can't imagine a match where I would need a drum. My 41 round magazines are more than enough for even the toughest stage.
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48 minutes ago, kimmbeckwith said:
Thanks that will help I'll try and bring my projectiles and brass. Do any of you that fly what weight limits and what overweight charges are.
Weight limits are almost always 50lbs for American flagged airlines and a little over that because it is in kilos for foreign airlines. The charges depend on the airline, when we bought our tickets with Air NZ it was only a couple of dollars to each additional bag. So we have 3 bags each if we need it.
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No Sunday?
And I sure hope that is oriented toward the Super Squad, and that everyone else are allowed to shoot whatever division they want on the last day.
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The stages aren't the problem. It is USPSA management of the match over the last few years.
The US Steel Nationals, which uses the official stages, had about 330ish entries. This is late March in Florida and has been there for the last 5 years with the same crew running it for the most part.
While the WSSC has had 3-4 different ranges during that time period, rarely settling down.
Personally I am not a fan of easier stages even for level I matches, Steel Challenge is already seen spray and pray match. But in reality it isn't some of the stages are quite hard to run at speed, which is ok being hard is a good thing. And yes some shooters might not hit some of the harder targets, but that gives them something to work toward.
Also personally stopped going to the local Steel Challenge match because they only use 1-2 official stages. The time investment for the match isn't worth it to shoot 1-2 official stages.
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Hmm I wish they would keep it in March, April pushes it into the season to other big southern matches. The old late March date kept it out of the way of many other matches.
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On 8/17/2016 at 9:24 AM, Gussers said:
3. There's a lot less going on. You can focus on one step of the process at a time and get familiar with proper seating, crimping, and primer seating. If you go this route, you'll find you can do one, make some small adjustments, do another, repeat. You'll learn a lot about what works and doesn't. This is much harder to do with a press loaded up with 4-5 other rounds in varying states of assembly.
Nothing says that you have to load the shell plate full. You can easily just drop a single case on the shell plate, and run things one at a time.
It is a little annoying with the dropped primers on the 650, but you can make a bracket to stop the primer feeding.
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1 hour ago, tanks said:
The IT geek in me instinctively reached for zip ties after seeing the loose wires in the photo.
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I have entered, have my pistol license, and most of my trip book. Short of breaking my leg I will be there.
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I use a Hiperfire 24E with KNS pins in my JP GMR-13. No issues.
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Yes it is a bit like a Coke bottle. My seating is near what many report using at 1.1380" (I was aiming for 1.1350" but with the Dillon dies you sometimes have to take what you can get).
Titanium comp cracked
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The front fell off.