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If that is the best your kkm would do then there is another issue. At 25yrds those should be much much tighter even with a glock barrel. I will try to get some pics up this weekend. Is your glock new?

For arguments sake what if you had fired 3 rounds, and nor you or RO saw a low barely D hit. The CRO does see it. Would you rather have B D or B M? Could the original call still be questioned? How many calls on a given target can a shooter request?

The black x seems to be the easiest plus as stated makes it obvious it's a no-shoot.

From the Classifier book: Every possible effort has been made to ensure that all the stages in this book are “game proof.” The courses have been repeatedly reviewed by many people with hundreds of years of combined practical shooting and course design experience. These include Range Offic- ers, Chief Range Officers, Range Masters, Range Master Instructors, and the Director of the National Range Officers Institute. The nature of the project is such that there are probably undetected errors in spite of all that effort. In most cases the intent of the course will be obvious. USPSA requests that you honor that intent. The whole "gamer" has been beat to death. It's not on the shooter if they see something NROI didn't. If the gun stands upright on it's own and the shooter doesn't knock it over via the hand/knee or support apparatus, then "game on". You are either in the rules or you aren't, there is no "gaming". If the NROI meant laying flat on the support then they should have said so.

I wasn't sure if this went here or down in design. Is there any rule against having a star with a combo of steel shoot and no-shoots? Provided that the plates are in the same starting position for each shooter is there anything that says I can't? Not sure if it's a good idea, the whole plates vs. REF thing. I've seen one plate knock off another, which is a reshoot no matter what. It's pretty rare but happens so not really considering that as a factor.

Were you able to see the targets and aim or would you have to point shoot at them? In other words if they were solid walls not snow fence, my assumption, could you still see the targets? If so I'd say have at them.

I had a similar issue with my gen3 g35. Usually just before the hook broke off one end of the trigger return sprint. Got tired of fiddling with it so just went back to stock springs. As mentioned previously make sure that spring is in correctly.

Uspsa has too many divisions as it is.

As stated before I'm not going to specifics but there is alot wrong here. Again enforce the rules which If they know enough to know is uspsa then they need to take 20 min and read the rule book. The whole "just show up"mentality helps no one. You don't show up to a pick up basketball game and not know the basic rules. We run at full speed with loaded guns, Jesus I don't think it is too much to ask to read a rule book even the boring parts of match admin. If one can't be bothered with that then please stay home.

I'm not going to touch what is wrong here, but will add that a DQ of a new/1st timer is not a death sentence on their USPSA career. If they dq then they dq, simple as that.

Just fyi governments, for good reason, distort sat images before releasing to public. They know where it is and what happened, , but we don't.

The division you shoot has no bearing on how you approach reloads. It can't be over started that nothing is a substitute for practice.

I religiously use the udie and the FCD die without issue. However I would not recommend using plated or lead with the FCD. It seems to give fits on both function and accuracy for non FMJ style bullets. If you have a large stock of plated and lead just swap back to a regular seat/crimp and you should be fine. I still get rounds that don't pass gage but they still run fine in practice. However with a standard sizer I get lots that don't pass gage and don't run.

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check your flash holes to look for carbon build up. I've had "once fired" brass with pinhole sized flash holes. If you are measuring each load to ensure the mass of powder, then you might look to bumping the lead a bit, as was suggested above. I've chrono rounds with little to Max crimp and there was some differences but they were likely due to variable setback not amount of crimp. I don't claim to know for a fact but I doubt given the physics that too much crimp can drop your fps. it would probably affect the sd if it isn't consistent round to round, even minor setback in .40 will give noted changes in fps. I've not used that powder but could be a flame wave propigation issue, and a little more power might solve it.

no one has mentioned cost of living. In OK a person can do okay on 55k, but in SoCal you are below the poverty line. and no I wouldn't at my current state of life run uspsa for 55k.

if the Dawsons will fit in the gauge I'd go limited. You will only be giving up 2, 3rounds at the most, to the 40 cals.

Honestly, that's an odd problem. With factory mags that haven't been abused, i.e. not carried full in an ammo pouch, there shouldn't be any need to "weigh" them down. I've got a G35 and G23 and with good condition mags I've never had a issue with them not dropping free. These weren't surplus PD mags were they? I've had some of those that wouldn't drop and used em for drills or barney mags. Realizing this thread is old so OP may not even see it, but it's my 2c.

How would one engage targets on the move over say 20 steps with some breaks in between and be competive? I'm all for safety but any weapon's primary safety is with you at all times...between your ears. I see what folks here are saying but I've run many a stage where I never broke cheek weld, wasn't shooting (but getting point aqcusition) and never engaged the safety. Pulled finger out of guard? sure thing, but how do you get a proper trigger prep if you are constantly flipping the safety back and forth?

Just throwing this out there: Check scale with check weights. Undersize die in use? The change in internal dimensions can matter. When checking for setback did you chamber/eject multiple times and measure each time?

Even if i drop a mag in the grass and it's "clean" i always empty, inspect and refill. Bullets/mags do weird things when dropped on the ground, seems worse if it's mostly full and heavy. It doesn't take much extra time and it keeps me from having that little voice "i hope that #3 mag doesn't stick" just as I'm slamming it home. I've picked up mags that i dropped in the grass and looked fine, but shake it and it sounds like a box of tic tacs. Had this with several brands of Glock mag extensions.

Harsh but correct. If you want to play the "common sense" game, then you shouldn't agree with most of the "safety" rules. Example: The shooter is 20yrds down range and is engaging the last array of targets. One of which is close to the 180° and the shooter over runs a tick and goes 185°. even if a ND had occurred the bullet would have struck the backstop and endangered no one. It's still a DQ. Our rules are based on common sense not ruled by them. Right or wrong that's the way it is.

it's not rock science to know a squiber, thankfully I don't know any. If I did and I was on their squad I would always RO them. I would RO from a defensive posture and hope they don't squib. If I can't see the gun the whole time because I'm protecting my squad then so be it. If they KB and injure themselves well tough cookies.

Did an answer ever come down from NROI?

it's a tough line to tow for sure. But odds are the VOLUNTEER ROs know whom these folks are and act accordingly. The thing is this is a volunteer sport but taking risk is part of it. I've not had issues with my loads and have no problem offering them to someone that is short at a match. But if I suspect I have a shooter with questionable ammo I will adjust my RO style to suit. If they squib twice in a match and I know it I will declare the ammo unsafe and speak with them and the RM.