Blueridge
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It was ok as movies go, but the plot was nothing special. It felt that they tried to stretch out the movie (for a sequel) instead of making one complete movie. I have seen some WWE produced movies that were better done.
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Congratulations on your first match. As mentioned above you will get the hang of "knowing" when it is best to fire "makeup" shots. With the 10 round capacity allowed in your handgun, you have a bit more leeway shooting "makeup" shots than I normally do with my revolver in IDPA.
The videos looked good that I saw, and without information about the scenario I don't really have much more that I can say.
Shoot safe, smooth, accurate, and enjoy the matches.
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buy yourself a 4" s&w in 38 with speed loaders--you dont need a 45--idpa power factor is somewhere around 105-so a used 686 would be great..my $.02..
you could even have it cut for moon clips
In the interest of being able to switch from IDPA to USPSA and back easier, I would suggest staying with .45 ACP and the 625 modified by having a shorter barrel fitted to it as 71Comamander is considering in his post.
As far as the suggestions above from EEH, cutting a revolver in .38 for moonclips (and using it with moonclips in IDPA) would put the revolver into ESR. That division requires a power factor of 165,000 and not the 105,000 power factor. It would kind of defeat the purpose of changing from a .45 ACP revolver to a .38/.357 caliber revolver if you then went and used it with moonclips.
I presume that 71Commander wants to still participate in USPSA and IDPA, and therefore I think that keeping as much of his gear the same for both would be to his benefit.
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Ooops...Double post.
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My opinion would be to go with the one that works/feels better for you. I personally use a Ruger Alaskan (which I personally like over the S&W625 I own), but I don't reccomend to others. The Alaskan I load with .45 Colt,while the 625 of course uses .45 ACP. The Alaskan has a 2 1/2"barrel to the 625 with a 4" barrel.
Since you own both, why not try each in USPSA and Steel Challenge. That will let you know by personal experience which works better for you.
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It seems that the work that I have been putting in to shooting practice has begun to apparently pay off. Now I need to keep up the good work. It shall be interesting to find out if I can continue to perform at this level or better at the NC Ironman Championship match in February I'll be going to.
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This past Sunday I shot my first IDPA match in a while and was the only revolver shooter of 50 participants.
Undaunted I focused on doing my best and finishing higher than as many auto shooters as I could. I was shooting ESR, but using speedloaders (SL Variant), since my revolver exceeds the weight limit for SSR. I shot the match well and only had 8 points down over the 6 stages and no other penalties. Once I saw the overall (unofficial) standings it showed that I finished 26th out of 50 shooters, and I was 8th most accurate. 
I was commended by a number of fellow shooters, and several mentioned bringing out revolvers that they had to a match in the future.
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I have always shot at all competition distnces in DA. I never really considered cocking the hammer for long (beyond 25 yds) shots. I just practiced until I got good enough to make the shots consistently. All of my practice has been live fire, as I never had the urge to dry fire practice. To each his own.
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Something pretty BIG has happened.
STEEL CHALLENGE has been set for the weekend we have set aside for the MCC.
Several of our regular and not so regular Revolver shooters that would come to the MCC would be going to the Steel Challenge instead. We are taking a look at what our options are and will be back soon (Hopefully) with more info.
Hopalong
Well I am looking forward to participating in the 2012 MCC match whenever you can get it scheduled.
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While I shoot a Ruger in competition, I do have a S&W 625 that I shoot on occasion for recreation. Since you already load .45 ACP and the 625 uses moonclips, I think that one would work for your purposes. I presume that she has shot your autos chambered in .45 ACP and has no problem with the recoil.
I use my Ruger with speedloaders in competition because I was already reloading .45 Colt for another shooting sport, and I did not want to start reloading another caliber. It is not the most competitive revolver, but I enjoy shooting it better than my 625 personally.
I have not personally had experience shooting any of the 8-shot revolvers, but I think that they would fun shooting in production division. Shooting it in production division would allow all eight shots to be used, instead of having to reload after 6 shots in revolver division. In addition to that it would be good for steel challenge if you participate in that.
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I'm perplexed by a club member that wanted to know which classifier stages we will shoot at an upcoming classifier match so he could decide which gun to bring. I'm having difficulty understanding why particular stages would change the decision on equipment. What am I missing?
Well many shooters compete in several divisions and do not want to repeat a classifier that they have already shot with a particular division. If you shoot the same classifier in back to back months shooting revolver division (for example), only one of them will count when the next classification is calculated. To avoid duplicating a classifer and not having one count in this way, it would be advantageous for a shooter to shoot another division if the duplication would occur.
I competed in the Memphis Charity Challenge in 2011 and the monthly match at the host range used the same stages (except two). I had shot in revolver division (the MCC is a revolver match) and decided to shoot the monthly match the next day. Since the classifier was going to be the same, I decided to shoot Production Division at the monthly match. That way I would get the classifer used for both divisions in the next calculation the next month instead of just one division (since I was shooting it twice in that month). I did use my revolver in Production Division though during the monthly match.
If I recall correctly if I had shot the classifier in revolver division both times, I would have gotten the better of the two used in the next calculation for classification. I took the chance to see how I would do shooting production division with my revolver in a match, and I got a classifier in for production division while I was at it.
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Work towards C class in Revolver Division
Work towards C class in Production Division with my revolver
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Okay, Those shoes look soooo cool. I will have to look into getting some for no other reason than how they look.
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Steel City Sports Shooting Association ( in Alabama)has monthly and a yearly tactical rifle match that I have been meaning to attend (without success
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Well I just saw that the classifiers are posted from the match (one for the classifier stage and the match counted as a classifier).
Slowly but shurely I am making my way TOWARDS B class.
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My suggestion would be using the M&P 9mm in Limited, or using the M&P .45ACP in Limited 10. That way you can use either to their full magazine capacity, and for the .45 ACP you would get major scoring.
The 1911 would be a good choice also, but my first choice would be limited with the M&P Pro 9mm. That way you could focus more on shooting than reloading.
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My suggestion is that if your shoot for enjoyment, that you don't make shooting have anything to do with work. The whole idea of a hobby is to be able to relax while doing it.
Just as an added note, I am a competitive (olympic style) fencer of 14 years. I have traveled overseas to compete, and enjoy every minute of it. On top of this I compete in IDPA, USPSA, Steel Challenge when I can.
What I do for a living has aspects of these two hobbies, but the demands of work rarely have anything to do with my hobbies.
Pursue your passion, but have career options available to you that focus on other interests you have.
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When might the classifier be posted from the match. Not that my performance was anything to write home about it.
I hope that along with the classifier stage that the whole match counts as a classifier also as with the first two years were.
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Sure you can Dan. You can practice the classifier over and over again until you get classified at a level you could never compete at. I know all kinds of people that practice classifiers so they can call themselves a "master" or and "expert", but when they get to a match, they get their ass handed to them.
So you feel that those people did not improve their shooting?
I believe they did. You cannot go from Marksmen to Master without improving your shooting. Just because they got beat in a match does not mean they did not improve their shooting.
I feel improving is improving, and no matter what anyone tells me I know improving beats continuing to suck.
ps the tips I gave were not specific to the classifier, they apply to any stage where single hand unsupported shooting or low cover is required.
I know quite a number of people that can shoot "static" courses of fire on a master level, but cannot trasfer over those same skills to actual stages in a match. The goal as I understand it is to improve how you perform in the sport as a whole, and not just the mechanics of shooting a handgun. Therefore you can improve the mechanics of how you shoot a handgun without improving your shooting overall. The classifier and an actual match are two different things. Being good at the classifier shows that you have a strong grasp on the mechanics of shooting, but not that you have an equally strong grasp on the challenges of shooting a match.
Thus you will see some people that can shoot the classifier at a very high level, but cannot shoot matches anywhere close to that level. You will also see people that can shoot matches at a very high level, but cannot shoot the classifier anywhere close to that level.
The classifier contains skills that you need to be a proficient shooter, but does contain all of the skills that you need to be proficient in the sport. An aspect of the sport requires participants to be good shooters, but just being a good shooter will not make you good at the sport.
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Production is fine as it is in my opinion. USPSA currently has a place for most handguns that are available now. Everyone can carry enough bullets in magazines and speedloaders to handle most any stage that can be constructed within the rules of the USPSA. The game has rules that provide a good challenge for anyone that chooses to participate.
The only things that allowing production shooters to have 15 rounds in their magazines would do is decrease the number of reloads they likely would have to make and cause the classifiers to have to be recalculated for production. This would not make the division better or worse, but simply be change for the sake of change.
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Great to see that the Nationals will be in NC in 2012. Not only do I plan to be there, but I plan to get my friend and his co-worker to participate also.
ESR here I come! You will know me by the loud BOOM that my revolver will be making.
Right now it looks like the NC Ironman IDPA Championship in February, the State Games of NC IDPA Match in June, the NC State IDPA Championship in August, and the IDPA National Championship in September. This will be a very good year, and I am still waiting to see when the East Coast IDPA Championship will be held.
I'm going to have to keep on the good side and earn some brownie points with the wife this year.
Between IDPA, USPSA, and (Olympic style) Fencing competitions there will be a lot of traveling for me in 2012. In addition to the IDPA matches listed above I have the NC Fencing Divisionals in March and the US Fencing Nationals in July. Added to that will be the NC USPSA State Championship in October and the Memphis Charity Challenge (late October/early November likely) that I still have to get on my schedule.Yeah I'll have to keep my spouse happy this year in order to do all this.
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It is nice when things work out like that. I hope that you enjoy the match and your GF gains some confidence with her shooting.
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I shoot revolver division because I enjoy the road less traveled as it were. All of the divisions have interesting aspects to them, but only revolver holds my interest overall. I am not into doing a lot of "custom" work and my revolvers work fine for me stock out of the box. The only real choice for me to make was speedloaders or moonclips.
Just for fun I recently decided to get classified in production using my revolver. I am curious to see if over the next two years I can make C class in production with my revolver. I plan to catch some classifier matches and possibly convince some MD's after I shoot other matches in revolver division to let me shoot the classifier from the match to be sent in for production. Of course I'll be willing to pay a fee to have the production classifier sent in.
Revolver just seems simple, straight forward, and challenging to me.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Ruger!
I use a Ruger Alaskan (Like the one shown in my avatar) in USPSA and IDPA competition. It is loaded with .45 Colt that make major power factor. I use speedloaders as I am not interested in having the cylinder cut for moonclips. It is stock as it came to me new with no modifications. I enjoy shooting it better than the S&W 625 that I also own.
I hope that you have as much enjoyment from shooting revolver division as I do.
Undaunted I focused on doing my best and finishing higher than as many auto shooters as I could. I was shooting ESR, but using speedloaders (SL Variant), since my revolver exceeds the weight limit for SSR. I shot the match well and only had 8 points down over the 6 stages and no other penalties. Once I saw the overall (unofficial) standings it showed that I finished 26th out of 50 shooters, and I was 8th most accurate. 
). The yearly match might be of interest to your friend.
Are CDP guys better shooters?
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Looking back at the last local IDPA match that I participated in (with a revolver mind you), I came out 26th out of 50 shooters and ahead of 8 CDP shooters (out of the 14 participating). Did I mention that I was the only revolver shooter there, and I was using a (stock) Ruger Alaskan loaded with. 45 Colt. Oh, and of course I was using speedloaders. It's the indian and not the arrow (most of the time).