2MoreChains
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Yes to 11.5 and the xtd firing pin. CCI primers. No to light strikes.
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Are you sure its a MIA score sheet issue?
I've had people leave before they finished the match and not tell anybody. So the reason you didn't get a score sheet for an individual could be for something other than it went missing. This is particularly irksome later that day when I return to the range and search thru the office/shed/buckets looking for something that didn't exist in the first place only to find out later via email that so-and-so left early and should have been marked DNF.
Usually at that point I'm not in very much of a 'giving' mood and a refund is the last thing on my mind. Fortunately most of our shooters most of the time mostly let me know if they have to bail early.
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Tungsten FLGR? You don't say what kind of grips you have, but some are heavier than others.
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Look again. Members Support, right hand column.
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A few years ago when I bought some Wilson 47DE mags I heard they were too long to fit the box when inserted. So I made myself a box using some scraps of poplar to make a frame and fastened it to a 1/4" plywood backer. Using that as my gauge I was able to figure out how much/where the 47DE basepads needed to be trimmed. I must have measured correctly since fast forward to this year I made it thru inspection at SS Nats just fine.
My box is nothing fancy, but it worked for my intended purpose.
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Option A: Look into the HAJO rear sight that CZC offers. Its adjustable for height, for windage just drift the sight in the dovetail. I think that one is compatible with the stock dovetail (no milling required).
Option B: If you sell the SP-01, look at getting a 2014 SP-01 Shadow Custom #91030. That one comes from CZC with a fixed competition rear sight that uses the Shadow dovetail, which makes it legal for IDPA SSP (which would then make it legal for ESP) and is also kosher for USPSA Prod. I have one of those and it has a trigger that is muy bueno than the stock SP-01.
Option C: Sell the SP-01 and get a CZ-75 Shadow (non FLDC). Then you can do whatever you want to the rear sight since milling the slide for a different type of sight is legal for IDPA ESP as well as USPSA Prod.
Hopefully you're not from CA where the Shadow is not on the state's approved list...
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If I compare what I have:
CZ-75 SP-01 Shadow Custom to my Barton Custom 1911 in .40, I'd say I shoot them about the same. About equal in cost, and about equal in performance based on the OP's metrics.
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Glock 34 compared to any of my 1911's setup with a magwell for SS Div then yes, clear advantage with the 1911s, mostly due to weight and trigger.
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I can't recall the exact rule or way its stated, but I think for a SP-01 to be legal in ESP it first has to be legal for SSP. The LPA adjustable sight is what makes it illegal for SSP, ergo its not legal for ESP.
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SP-01 Shadow Target is not legal for IDPA's SSP not because of the FLDC but because the slide has been milled to accept the LPA adjustable rear sight by CZC, which in the eyes of IDPA HQ not an official branch of CZ-UB. However if you had an SP-01 Shadow with a rear sight that uses the OFM dovetail that comes on the Shadow you'd be good to go.
We found out about this last fall about the same time the Accu Shadow was deemed illegal. Major bummer. The previous 2005 rulebook said changing sights was OK, however they added a sentence to that rule in the 2013 IDPA rulebook that said milling of the slide to accept a different type of sight was not legal. Can't remember the exact rule.
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I voted equal. I shoot Prod with a SP-01 Shadow Custom and my 1911's in SS and am the same class in both. Both are not stock and both have good triggers and same kind of sights. I don't have any numbers to prove or disprove but I feel like when I shoot Prod or SS my overall placement at local matches is about the same, especially when the usual suspects of good shooters are there.
But I do agree it depends on the stages since I shoot major in SS. Maybe if I shot SS minor I would feel differently. With regard to reloading, thanks to the tapered mags and big opening I can load the CZ pretty easily even though it lacks a magwell whereas the 1911s with a bigass Techwell XT is almost a neccesity.
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What? Well they definitely aren't and don't.Both divisions are the same amount of difficulty and can/should compete on equal footing.
Meaning what, you think one is easier than the other and don't look at the overall scores at a local match to see how you did against the other lo-cap divisions?
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You can ask anything you like. Whether it goes your way is going to be dependent on the RO since this is one of those subjective determinations.
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I use Hornady One Shot for pistol cases. As noted above, it makes it much easier to pull the handle. Give it a try, see what you think. You can always go back to not lubing.
I use Dillon spray, but only on rifle brass (I apply it the same way you do it). The Dillon spray with the lanolin is tackier than Hornady One shot when it dries.
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I have a 6" 2011 that was built from parts using a 2011 Tactical frame (back when they were 7/8 length), plus a 6" tri-topped slide and 6" bbl. Mine has butler cuts done of the slide to match the length of the frame's dust cover as well as some slide lightening.
I think my next build may be a 5.5", though not sure I would go to the added expense of the Tactical rail since its low probability I will ever attach a light.
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If I a shooting Single Stack or L10 I want the slide to lock back. If shooting Ltd I grind the followers so they don't lock back.
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Question for those using the 10mm mags for 40, do they need any work or do they run out of the box? I have a 40 S&W 1911 on the way and trying to decide on mags. I will eventually also shoot limited with a 2011 so am interested in developing a load that works in both if possible.
I'm using the Tripp Corey 10mm mags. I don't recall needing to do anything to them, and they run my 1.180" ammo that I use for Limited.
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On the advice of my friends I started USPSA this year. They were all shooting SS so I decided to do the same. I had no idea what to buy so I listened to them. Long story short I got an STI Trojan in .40 and bought Tripp 9 rd cobra mags. I have put 1000+ rounds through it this spring and it's run great. The lone exception was Saturday at Indiana SS/Prod but that was a mudfest.
I think you made a good choice. The Trojan ought to serve you well. Welcome to the forum and the sport BTW.
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Tossing a stage may be the answer if it is just one stage that was not able to be completed. But if the delays in the match resulted in multiple squads unable to finish multiple stages, whats a MD/RM to do? You can't toss all the incomplete stages, especially if it accounts for a significant number of stages in the match.
We play in an outdoor sport subject to the vagaries of outdoor conditions. Muddy conditions you can kind of mitigate by adding gravel. Wind you can try to anchor things down best you can. Rain you use bags. But lightning? There is no mitigation save hide, hunker, and wait it out.
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40sw, have it be close to the 43oz mark, spring it so it shoots well for you, make sure it runs, the rest is fluff.There really isn't any magical pill when it comes to Limited or SS guns.So if you are building the ultimate Single Stack gun what is it? What frame and caliber do you build?
I agree. The gun just has to run.
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So there's no benefit to .40 aside from brass/loading commonality?
IMO the .40 advantage in single stack is mostly logistical if you also shoot Limited div (brass/loading commonality, don't need a barney mag, etc). One could say that reloads are slightly easier since since the .40 mags have more room for spring compression, but the Wilson ETM mags and those like it have kind of narrowed the gap there.
I had to switch from .40 to .45 early on at SS Nats due to a broken barrel link in my .40. I was shooting 180 gr bullets in my .40 and my backup gun was a .45 with 200 gr bullets. Not much discernable difference in recoil to matter.
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Plus you may live a longer...
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+1 for the Dawson posilock.
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If you end up takng your gun to a gunsmith, ask him about relieving the underside of the grip safety's arm so it engages even when not fully depressed. Most folks that use a high grip have a tendency to not depress the GS completely. "Tuning" the grip safety can help with this. I like to set mine up so that the GS is still functional (the arm prevents the trigger bow from going to the rear and tripping the sear) when the gun is not gripped. However once I grip it, it doesn't take much to engage it, which lifts the arm away from the trigger bow, clearing the path for the bow to go to the rear and fire.
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I thought you're supposed to beep him while he's resetting himself?
+1! Bonus points if you can do it with a straight face.
RO manipulating target from back side to make hit/miss call
in USPSA/IPSC Rules
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From what I've seen, this mostly occurs when the targets have been shot a lot and there are layers upon layers of tape covering a gaping hole in the target. Changing targets regularly (i.e. every 3 squads) may seem like a waste of cardboard but at all the majors I've worked (Nats and Area) that required frequent change out I don't ever recall having to touch the back of the target to determine the hits.
At locals where we may have 50-60 shooters and only one set of targets (meaning the by the last squad there could be 100-120 holes in the target) I've had to touch the back of the hole to determine if it is one hit or two because the tape from the previous patched holes got all jacked up when at least one bullet went thru it. Would be that a bullet cuts a clean hole in multiple layers of tape like it does cardboard, but it doesn't always. I want to give the shooter the hits he earned, but sometimes the only way I can determine anything (other than an oblong jagged hole) in that mess of tape on tape is to touch the back and re-align the multiple layers of tape.
Obviously I'm not going to shove my fist thru the hole when re-aligning the tape... but do so rather gently and in full view of the shooter or delegate.