twodownzero

I use the U die in 9mm and 40 S&W but I have never tried it in .45 nor ever seen the need. 45 ACP is literally the first cartridge I ever loaded and I'm still using the same Dillon dies for it that I started with 15+ years ago.

I'll be ordering an 8 pounder to replace my beloved Solo 1000 when they become available again. I plan to use it for cowboy action as well.

I have had virtually every other problem with my 9mm single stack with regard to feeding, but it feeds perfectly from the 10 round Tripp mags. I have talked to Virgil about what you describe, which he calls "mag squirt," but it happens pretty rarely for me so I stopped worrying about it.

He joined my ignore list a long time ago. The website is SO much better that way. Never give up! But don't plan to run your gun dry--try to avoid it!

Did the same thing in this classifier recently: https://uspsa.org/viewer/03-03.pdf Let's face it, the only plan in a classifier that matters is the perfectly executed/expert plan. I performed the expert plan, sadly I didn't have perfect execution.

I am suggesting as was told to you after my post, that your gun should never be empty when you're reloading it in a match. If it is, you screwed up, and you should just forget about that stage and move on. As to slide stop versus slingshot, pick one, because it doesn't matter, either way that stage is a lost cause. I personally slingshot because it's more reliable and if I've screwed up that bad, it doesn't matter anyway. I would be opposed to any laser that shines on the target when you're dry firing. You're supposed to be training your brain and eyes to know where the sights are when the shot breaks. If you're training yourself to break that focus to look at the target where the laser is shining, you're not learning what you're supposed to be learning and very likely moving backwards.

There is no reason you should ever be using the slide stop in USPSA. If that happens, you have made a mistake serious enough that the stage you're shooting is a lost cause anyway. Using a gun with a shorter sight radius for this perceived benefit makes even less sense. Between the other two, you should pick whichever one you like shooting more. There are numerous dry fire books out there. I have books from Stoeger and Anderson. Most of them will tell you that you don't have to actually pull the trigger every time. I've found practicing dry fire DA only that it's better if I don't, because most of my shots in matches are single action. I also would not use a laser to train with as you describe, because your eyes should be focused on the sights, so projecting a light on the target would train my eyes to be focusing on the wrong thing. There is no fancy equipment needed for dry fire--a holster, your pistol, mags, and maybe some dummy rounds if you need the weight are really all that are needed.

If you're as hooked as you suggest, those habits will die quickly.

Replacing your likely worn out hammer spring is not going to require any other changes. I use a 17 pound ISMI in my small primer guns and a 19 pound in the large primer gun. If that won't light off your primers, you may have other issues.

I'm really looking forward to the open-8 division nationals in New York in 2023.

Or even that the mainspring isn't installed correctly.

Fine with me. It was this past month that was it for me. Literally 3 of us showed up. Hours to set up and tear down to shoot for maybe 2 minutes? No thanks.

I love the idea of 3 gun. I've decided that I really don't like 3 gun though. Make it 2 gun and fun and I'll show up. Otherwise I'm staying home.

The last time I held the timer for Vogel, he beat all the Limited and Open shooters but maybe one in a state sectional, on a field course, with a basically stock G35 in Limited-10. Granted it was only one stage, but he beat a lot of people--about 300 of them.

You guys are really making me want to try the OG Shadow. I've been shooting a Shadow 2 and I really miss the nice thin grip of my Single Stack, especially on the double action shot.

The downside is it would kill off everything about the Production division, which originally had strict rules about modifications and certainly no single action guns are allowed, even now. But the horse is so far out of the barn at this point, the minor trigger system distinction isn't doing any work anyway.

We may as well allow them in Production at this point. I love single action triggers, but some of the things going on in Production right now are a way bigger "advantage" than a trigger system. It might be best to just combine Production, SS, and L-10 into one division.

I've always been bummed that this gun doesn't have a place in our sport. Maybe because I love Beverly Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy so much.

It is all of our problem as USPSA members. The USPSA Nationals should be a world-class shooting event. Telling USPSA members to either not shoot the nationals or violate the law (or figure out some kind of way to comply) is not a solution. The solution is to move the event out of Colorado and stop having USPSA major matches there unless the law changes. As much as I loved my home state of Illinois, it's not a coincidence why the USPSA nationals aren't held in Cook County.

I'm a lawyer, so it's not unclear to me what it says and means. It says I could be punished by imprisonment if I possess things that I am able to buy through the mail with no oversight at all in my home state--things that are essentially required for me to possess if I sign up for this match, which I fully intend to do. I can find zero examples of anyone being prosecuted federally for a small amount of marijuana in recent history, either, but I can tell you right now that if I did that, and my boss found out, I'd be fired before I could even return to work, even if there never was any serious risk of prosecution. He wouldn't care that there's no enforcement, all the negative drug tests in the world wouldn't matter, and I'd suffer serious collateral consequences even if nobody prosecuted me. Why are so many people trying to rationalize telling overwhelmingly law-abiding people to violate a criminal statute that carries imprisonment? How serious a crime must one commit before it's unacceptable to flout the law?

I'm glad I have compliant equipment, but I absolutely resent that we'd tell newer shooters to either flout the law or don't be competitive. That is not the spirit of USPSA and that is wrong.

The last time I shot a match there, everyone was shooting Limited and Open. I can't imagine having to take that kind of risk just to shoot matches. I am really surprised to see people talking about this as if it was a mere "risk," like the risk of getting into a crash when driving. This isn't just a risk--it's a crime. Not only could you go to jail (highly doubt anyone reading this forum has ever spent much time there), but there are collateral consequences to criminal convictions (background checks, potential immigration consequences, etc.) that could follow a person for the rest of his life. It is utterly irresponsible for USPSA to have scheduled the nationals in a state with a magazine capacity limit. IDPA is a different story--every part of that game can be shot with 10 round magazines in every division.

Open is the division for innovation. It should never be removed from the game regardless of its popularity. If everyone who wanted to shoot Carry Optics would have just flooded Open, I bet we would have learned an awful lot about how little importance single action triggers, magwells, and comps have in winning. I'm quite certain at this point that there are some CO shooters who can hang with the people at the top of Open despite the equipment disadvantage. I'm long on record as opposing the creation of Carry Optics, and one of the biggest reasons (in my head) that dots should have never been allowed outside of Open is to see how that kind of equipment compares to "cutting edge" equipment, which is what Open is all about for me (innovation at the highest level).

I don't know why you think I "misunderstood" the procedure. I understood it just fine. I just have a different interpretation of how it works to give effect to the concept of competitive equity. I don't think resetting a prop that may have not been set correctly to begin with is going to make that situation better. I also question how the new procedure will deal with poppers that activate other things, because those routinely cause issues at matches I've attended. Is the RM going to purposely reset it with the string as screwed up as it was before or can we just agree that it was a range malfunction in that instance? I'm really undecided on how to fix this best, but the most fair one that comes to mind is that "steel must fall to score."

That may be, but it's an option to them. It is not a realistic option to the Open, Limited, and or PCC shooters who want to show up to these matches. Even Production shooters are going to be reluctant to purchase 10 round magazines just so they can shoot behind the iron curtain. And for Open, Limited, and PCC shooters, those are not realistic options at all.