Seth

Are there any ENT, Neuros or VRTs on the forums that are willing to help out a fellow shooter with vestibular neuritis? Please pm me or email me if you're willing to have a chat. I'm getting very frustrated and need an unbiased opinion. Thanks. Seth. Seth@offroadmarketing.com

Don't need any body either. They'll go on when the wiring and tuning are complete.

Been a lot of work in a very short period of time to get this car drivable. 65 Factory Five Roadster. EFI 302 with C &. L 76mm tb, TrickFlow intake, twisted wedge aluminum heads, cam and 24# injectors. Tremec 3550 transmission, 8.8 rear with trashlok.

I disagree wholeheartedly. Do we really need to ban everything?

Why does this still get argued about?

Lots of patience got me back on my game. I simply stopped shooting til the pain passed. Now I'm good to go again.....unfortunate, but reinjuring was so painful.

Same thought process in my head. Guide rod isn't square to frame and is canting.

Tight group isn't terrible. Little dirtier and makes the gun hotter faster. Similar feel though.

Looks like it broke at the threads? If so, it may be that it's getting battered when the slide comes back. If the head isn't square to the frame, it'll cant.

Ebb and flood. Been a lot if years of uspsa domination. But our prize tables have dried up and folks are trying something different. IMO Multigun is expensive which will catch up with it eventually and ammo issues will continue to be a deterent.

I have zero use for the grip safety. I have smallish hands and cannot disengage it with a proper grip. If it could be eliminated entirely I would. Until then I pin it.

I can't stomach the guy....

Forest, I've known you for quite a while.... You can trust that there is a problem with some of these guns. I've shot 2 side by side and mine was a disaster.

I own a 9l that is,worthless,beyond 15 yards. Accuracy opens up and is wildly unpredictable. It's not the Indian.

Yep. What he said. The barrel that fits the best is going to be the best choice. I have both fitted to a 5 inch gun. I can go between an AET bull and a Schuemann bushing. Makes no perceivable difference.... Other than the AET makes brass look like they came out of a belt fed magnum.

Old sv tubes with snl were long. They took a little grinding on the back of the Fred lips. SNL and STI tubes have always been fine. They're sometimes not legal because some tubes worked and some didn't. The mag gauge is go or no go.

"If all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Gotta be able to do both and know when and where to employ them. You won't be satisfied with target focused results on partials at distance. I'm confident of that. And Juan, that's what I've been saying repeatedly. Gotta know your capabilities to deliver the goods.

That's entirely up to each shooter, now isn't it?

Well put, IMO. What I'm trying to get across is this: Every shot needs to be an Alpha to be competitive. Just like slapping the trigger vs. a prep, it doesn't matter HOW you do it, as long as it gets done without negatively effecting the outcome. If you are blindingly fast at 10 yards and can yield 2 As with your eyes closed, then there's your answer. Each shot needs to be given the appropriate level of attention that it deserves. A target at 3 yards doesn't, FOR ME, need a whole lot of attention to be scored 2 Alpha. I'll look just close enough to get the desired score and shoot as fast as I can to yield that outcome. 15 yard partial is going to take a LOT more attention to sight alignment. Winging it with a target focus most likely will yield 2 Mike/ 2 No Shoot. I keep both eyes open all the time. When I need to dial into the sights, I do that. When I don't I open my field of vision back up.

OK...question still stands. What may slow one down? Too much time focused on accuracy when a proper index, as you alluded to earlier, will yield 2 alpha without dawdling.

May. Not will.

Precisely my point. If the only tool you own is a hammer, everything looks just like a nail. Aiming is the same way in my opinion. If all you know how to do is target focus when you are pushed out to 15, 20, 50 yards you're hosed. If all you know how to do is hard sight focus then you may be slow on a 3 yard target. You need to know where your boundaries are. You need to know where you can speed up and where you have to slow down.

Mark, I've been uniquely positioned to do just that. I was Match Director at Fredericksburg, which is one of the largest USPSA matches in the country. I've trained privately with Todd Jarrett and I've had plenty of opportunity to discuss with the 5+ GMs I would shoot with every month what they do and how they do it. I feel confident in the recommendation that a shooter needs to know what they can do. They need to know what it takes to get two Alpha at any distance. Just saying oh you can have a fuzzy target focus at 10 yards doesn't mean THEY can it means YOU can. You have to experiment. You have to know what you can pull off.

I have to admit, I think there's a lot of misinformation in this thread. You need to figure out for yourself what you need to make the shot. Remember there's some guy out there that will shoot 95% of the points faster than anyone else. They're called match winners. So in order to accomplish that you have to know what it will take to get a pair of Alphas. Not Alpha Charlie. If you can reliably get 2 Alphas with a target only site picture at 3 yards great. Same at seven or 10 yards. But you got to have to Alphas. The other guy will. Again, you have to know with absolutely certainty what you can get away with. If a target focus works reliably at 10 yards without seeing the sights at all, great. But you have to KNOW it. Obviously there are grades of sight awareness and your mind and eyes need to adapt and find what YOU need to see to get 2 alpha. Anything less and you're giving up points and will lose to someone who can and will shoot more points faster. As for shooting only glasses, I think that the idea of racing but not wearing performance glasses to prepare for the "real thing" is absurd. You're either racing or you're not racing. If you're using a race prepare gun with a fiber-optic front sight, an ultra light trigger, grip tape blah blah blah blah blah and it seems like you're racing. Make your eyes work for you like you're racing too. There's nothing wrong with a pair of glasses that has your dominant eye crisp at the front site and your nondominant night crisp at distance.

As mentioned, perfectly legal. I CANNOT deactivate the grip safety on a 1911 and have to disable. Easiest thing to do is pull it out and grind off the tab. It'll still swing but nothing to block the trigger bow.