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I was the biggest VH fan on the planet until the reunion tour in 08. Eddie squandered a legendary genius. They canceled the original date b/c Eddie was drinking again. Then they canceled again. Then they SUCKED. Absolutely the worst concert I've ever seen. They were unacceptably bad and completely unapologetic. Do a search for Van Halen drunk on you tube and see how bad a show they put on... I saw VH multiple times in the 80s and early 90s and they were outstanding. This new stuff with Dave is an attempt to reline their empty pockets in my opinion.

What Eric said... the ogive of the bullet is hitting the smaller diameter portion of the case gauge. Flip the cartridge over and put it in backwards. Problem solved.

Isn't GM in production like making A in limited????? Rofl

I love em. LOVE. Infinitely better than the Precision / BBI. Substantially less smoke. Little more than jacketed, but not worth the extra cost at this point. They're STUPID accurate... btw..

I've tried an EGW .06" and the Dawson .04". Now I'm running an .088" blade with a .115" notch on my 6" gun and a .75" blade with the .115" notch on m 5" gun. You should see how thin a front Manny Bragg runs. I thought I was nuts. His is like a .065".

Too heavy a slide combined with not enough grip tension makes the 6" gun look sloppy.

I spoke with David Cupp about this a few weeks ago and his take was a mid spring release. I hope so....

The best is dumping the crappy, expensive razor too and going Double Edge. Takes a little longer, but the shave is excellent and basically zero trash. I have a blade bin that I've been filling for a long long time and its never going to fill.

Honestly... here's the dirty little secret. SOMEONE out there can shoot all the points just as fast as the fastest guy can miss. There's no room for dropping points at speed if you want to win. Look at the nationals winners from last year... Of the 1830 possible points, Smitty shot 1730 points to win limited.. Ben Stoeger was in the same boat, 1830 possible, 1729 shot. Max shot 1783 of 1850. Max also won or took 2nd in 13 of 20 stages. Certainly there's the need to balance the accuracy with the speed, but in the end, you MUST figure out how to shoot maximum points at top speed to be a winner.

I have both a 5" and 6" limited gun in .40. Both built by Virgil Tripp and both virtually identical with regard to weight, sight picture, grip, trigger, magwell, you name it. From behind the gun there's absolutely no difference. Until you pull the trigger. The 6" gun does everything the 5" gun does, only more accurately and softer. With a 5" recoil system, it cycles at the same speed and a highly lightened slide ensures a consistent sight profile as the gun returns to battery. To answer your question directly, I evaluated the guns by pulling the trigger with a timer. Nothing else tells you the facts. And the fact is that if my splits are just as fast, the sight picture returns to neutral just as fast and it handles from target to target just as quickly there's no point in the 5" gun. Dismissing that extra inch of sight radius is absurd. That's almost 20% more detail you're giving up. It doesn't make you a better shooter, it gives your brain much greater detail for tough shots. What you do with that detail is up to you.

Having been on the motorsports side of it both as a sponsored competitor and a manufacturer, I have one basic reminder... you're entering into a business relationship. As a manufacturer, I'm not paying you to fly the colors, I'm paying you (either in goods, money, or discounts) to SELL MORE PRODUCT. If you don't intend to fulfill that aspect of the relationship, don't go looking for businesses to make it cheaper for you to shoot.

Hey Merlin: V!!!! Mine works!

+1 Use this until you are losing major matches by less than a few points. Why? If it ain't fast, paint it red and make it sound good.

I have tried a lot of them. Limcat, Gugas, Ghost and CR. I ran the DOH for 2 years as MD and it was great for protecting the gun, but was boring. The DAA is my current holster and its solid now that I've worked through the fitment bugs. It did not fit any of my STI grips (all with unmodified trigger guards) out of the box. I had to spend way too much time with sand paper and the belt sander to get it to release correctly. Now I really like it, but for the money, it should have been perfect. I'd look at the new Safariland 014 before I bought anything else.

The CR speed pouches aren't acceptable to me. My primary pouch had to be replaced as I couldn't keep the CR tight. It would loosen a little and the teeth would eat away at the plastic. It finally got to the point that there wasn't enough material for it to stay tight at all. The Safariland pouch suffered a similar fate. The screw that adjusts for the tilt of the pouch finally ate away at the base plastic til it wouldn't hold. The limcat pouch simple wore out. It stopped having enough retention around the mag. Mind you, this is only my #1 pouch right in the middle of my belt. I practice reloading quite a bit and I'm not gentle. ALL of the afforemention products failed, as far as I'm concerned. I've since moved on to the DAA Racemaster pouch as my #1 and thus far its heads and tails above the others. Time will tell.

Good for you, Scott! Being the MD is a miserable, thankless job that just about everyone takes for granted. Be prepared to work longer, harder and shoot worse than ever before. But its still some of the best times I've ever had and certainly I've made some of my best friends sweating on the range. I loved being MD at Fredericksburg so much I'm trying to get involved here in SC. You're doing saints work.

Open? Limited? I know of several into hundreds of thousands with little more than updated trigger jobs and barrels.

My guess is that the qualities you married in his daughter were instilled by her father... Cool story.

John Z Sr. is THE ZSA guy and I'm sure he'll pipe in shortly. Its a fun idea and is supposed to be fun. None of the self importance of some of the other shooting sports.

Hold on a second... If you lock a Limcat, Ghost, Gugas, Safariland 013 the gun isn't coming out. Its locked. The metric that matters is what happens when you sit and the muzzle hits the chair with the holster unlocked. We all know what happens with the Limcat and Ghost. The Safariland has a muzzle rest so its good and the Gugas is the gold standard for bikini holsters with its half locked/ tension adjustable setup. The DAA has to be as good as those two... and in my opinion it isn't. In essence it needs to have enough tension adjustment that it will hold the gun when you sit if you somehow forget to hold/ lock it til your're seated. The adjustment on the DAA is ok and it will add some tension to the system, but if you beat the muzzle withe the holster upside down and it unlocked the gun is coming out. I have one and I'm 100% sure. I like the DAA. Previously, I've run the CR, Limcat and Gugas and went to a DOH when I became match director. As soon as I stopped being MD I bought the DAA. Fit out of the box was sorely unacceptable on a brand new, unmodified STI grip. After reshaping the trigger guard cam to fit an actual STI trigger guard, the holster was fast and fairly secure. It doesn't flop aroud like the ghost, has tension adjustment, unlike the limcat and has better adjustability than the Gugas. My opinion is that its good but not amazing.

A well balanced match should have a mix of field courses, medium courses and speed shoots. Its not a track meet and even the intro of the rule book indicates that the balance is key. A well practiced draw isn't the end all be all in USPSA, but it is a tool that needs to be in the shed. As Dave pointed out, its the foundation of the stage. Get a bad draw and you're correcting your grip for the first array.

F'n FN! I thought it was the Sethie VA / MD Section Match! F'n FN!

Last time I spoke with Aaron they were working on bring all the micro parts in house to control tolerances 100%.

Stop... or I'm gonna have to show up.

Brian, I started this thread over 2 years ago when I was in a place where I was competent, but not potent. When I started it I believed, like so many others, that the fiber optic technology brought something to the table that I couldn't find with traditional irons. My belief was right. For MY brain, fiber optics brings misinformation and confusion. The tendency, for ME, was to find the fiber and press the button. On a 25 yard target I was a mess. Further? Impossible. By getting rid of the fiber, I found exactly what my mind was looking for... the information I needed to be accurate. No distractions from pretty colors bouncing around. The best part for me was that I found I could actually be faster without the fiber. I had to look harder to find the sights and my attention was focused more profoundly on them. Yes. Fiber is brighter... but if you ask me, that's where the benefit ends.