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Morgan is a great guy and a great shooter. You will learn much from his instruction.

Kenny will be your best bet. Give him a call.

I don't think SOs have any advantage on a particular stage. I'm to busy watching the gun and counting rounds to label my time running the shooter as a walk through. However, being an SO will make you a better competitor because you will better understand the rules and how they apply.

I look at it this way. I'd rather lose because I had more points down than having a guy be just plain faster than me. If I lost on points then at least I gave myself a chance to win, I just didn't see what I needed to see with the sights. The only way to know what I need to see with the sights is to shoot fast. If a guy is just plain faster than me, I'll have a very hard time catching up by being more accurate than he is.

This and since there are fewer non threats than threats on any given stage it is easier to move the non threats than threats. If it was a sanctioned match I wouldn't really like the described stage, but at a local match it seems like good fun.

3.4 SOLO 1000 147 BBI 1.120 OAL Gets 900+ out of my pro

This is probably the easiest and cheapest thing to do.

He wanted to send Jim home, and I don't think he trusted anyone else to do it.

I agree with Scott. I don't think it adds anything to the match and it gets away from why I came to the match, to shoot.

I've found S&B "brass" is not really brass. It's a steel casing that just has a brass color. I wish they wouldn't try to make it look like brass it would save me the trouble of picking it up!

I like both. And I think being good in one makes you better in the other.

Smoke, if I ever had to shoot in a tunnel or through a barrel I wouldn't be able to see after too many shots.

That's what I decided to do. I was kind of in the same boat as Ben. I shot molys all year in practice (due to cost), with the idea to switch to jacketed once the big matches rolled around. When it came time to switch to the jacketed I just didn't feel comfortable with them, and I thought why switch to jacketed when things have gone well with the molys. So I stuck with the molys and have been satisfied with the results. My only concern is the smoke will get me on a stage one day. Edited to add: If I could find a moly load that would perform exactly like a jacketed load at 130-135 PF I would use the moly load to practice and the jacketed load for matches. I haven't found one yet but I'm still searching. But since I couldn't find one the best way for me to solve the problem was to take out the variable of the jacketed load, but I don't think that's the ideal solution. I do believe I'm on borrowed time shooting major matches with moly bullets.

So if my classifiers aren't showing up now it means something fell through on the club end and I'll have to wait until the system updates next month to get rid of my U?

All I see is the 4.25 inch version. I'm holding out for the 5 inch version.

It's April anyone get a glimpse yet? I too plan to get one as soon as I can find one.

Couldn't he just file his down?

I shot about 180 rounds through it yesterday. Checking out the comp, its a Miculek by the way, the second baffle had a small ring of lead build up. The first and third baffles had minimal build up. I was able to scrape it out pretty easily with a screw driver. If this pattern continues I think it'll be fine, am I way in the wrong? Will lead build up on the inside the comp making the inside diameter smaller?

I just got a Targetmaster .22 conversion for my AR. Visit the link for details, but the short of it is it replaces your bolt allowing you to shoot .22 without any modifications to your upper. So I tried it out yesterday and everything worked fine, but I didn't think about having a comp on my rifle. I know shooting lead through a compensated pistol is bad, but what about the lead .22's going through my rifle's comp?

I've been waiting 2 months for my 147's, but I'm not going to start worrying until this summer. They seem very unorganized so they might think they are in stock and might be out or vice versa. Or they might actually be in stock, you just never know. A buddy of mine ordered 6,000 147's. He called and asked when they would be available, they told him they were out didn't know when they would even produce them again. A week later they were on his doorstep!!

Great price and great bullets. But don't expect an answer from them about when you'll get your bullets. If you order from them I suggest ordering at least 6 months in advance of when you need them.

It doesn't sound like you are programming the stage properly before you shoot it. Once I know the stage and get my plan down, I visualize going through the stage as many times as I can while the shooter before me is running the stage and while they are scoring and pasting his run. I visualize everything just like I was shooting the stage in my head. I shoot the stage in my head as many times as I can before I step up to the line. Then when its my turn and the buzzer goes off, I'm just playing back what I've rehearsed many times before. Visualization is a very powerful and under utilized tool. 90% if this game is mental, the other half is physical

I've simply picked the best tool available to me to complete the COF, a fullsize gun with a belt holster.

But if you ask one competitor, I think you would need to ask them all. I wouldn't want to ask Dave Sevigny or Bob Vogel if they just dumped rounds after a stage at Nationals. I still think its a gray area though. There have been many times where I have put 3 on a target BECAUSE it was a tough shot. Being at slide lock afterwards just makes the decision easier . But being at slide lock afterwards is not the reason why I put three on the target. If I was being 100% honest with the SO I would answer your question by saying, "It was a tough shot so I decided to shoot 3 at the target to ensure I was 0 down. And I would be at slide lock afterwards so it made sense to shoot 3 at that target to make sure I was 0 down". My biggest beef with it is Vickers Count is well defined in the rule book. While dumping rounds is not, only examples are given. So it is left up to personal judgement whether a competitor dumped rounds. SO's are still human and flawed just like the rest of us. Bias and emotion can and will play into judgement calls. A lot of time we like to brag about how short the IDPA rule book is, but in cases like this I don't think that's something to brag about.

I love our sport, but I do envy the USPSA guys. Why? Because in a USPSA Rules thread, nobody jumps in with "in real life you would..." each time someone asks a question about the rules of the game. We're using the IDPA Rulebook, not a combative pistol handbook. The shooter earned a Procedural on a poorly designed stage for not firing 12 rounds. That is cut-and-dried. +1 Whenever someone says "in real life you would" I always come back with, "In real life, I'd probably run like hell the first chance I get"