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Way to go Kev.. Now we just have to get you to that other local match up in the top 5 Vince

If you need the breathe right strips, I'm wondering if you might have mild sleep apnea. I'm not what you'd consider big (5'10", ~210) but I have sleep apnea and I have to wear a mask hooked to a breathing machine every night. The machines are called CPAP's. It builds up a bit higher pressure and forces your palate open and helps keep ya breathing. If the strips stop working, you may want to look into getting a sleep study done. Sleep apnea is what killed Reggie White. Vince

I shoot at a couple different clubs and I don't know which way they upload them. I guess I could ask. Sometimes it seems like they save them or something. *shrug* Like I said, I don't blame Sedro for it. Thanks Rob! Vince

I find that they tend to make the updates later in the day. I too am waiting for classifiers that never get there, but um, that might be due to the clubs sending them more than Sedro's not posting them. Vince

When I was shooting Moly coated bullets (Bear creek 180's) I had good luck with a book max of 231 making major. Once I switched to jacketed and/or plated bullets, I switched over to 4.7 of Titegroup and haven't looked back. I shoot a factory Para Barrel and Slide. Vince

Talking as an Ex Chef, our 4 basic food groups for were "Fat, Salt, Sugar, and Caffeine". Vince

Oddly enough, Speer lists 9 grains as a starting load and 10 grains as a max in it's #11 Loading manual for a 124 gr TMJ bullet. Primer listed is CCI # 500 primer. Reported velocity with a 5" gun is 1347 with the 10 gr and 1210 with the 9 gr load. OAL was 1.280". Cases in this case were "Super Vel" though I'd utilize RP or Win cases if it were me. They only list the 800X in the 124 though, they have no data for it in 115, 100, or 95 weights. I suspect that the 124 was the only load that gave satisfactory results. Might be why no one else uses it. I do know that 800x does not meter well so that might be a hinderance. Vince

Funny, I was saying that when the niners had their time.. What? they're actually winning? Vince

I can say that it's even more fun with a handgun.. Ok, so a 14" 30-30 Contender isn't like an open blaster.. but it's still fun. I think the longest shot I ever made with my Contender was at like 325 yards.. I haven't found anything farther away when I had my Contender with me. You can bet I wasn't shooting it off hand though (creedmore, on my back). Vince

Generally, if you load x amount of powder with a heavier bullet, that same x amount will generally launch a lighter bullet faster with less pressure all other things being equal (same brass, primer, powder, crimp, seating depth, etc). You cannot go the other way however. So say I am using 9 grains of a certain powder with a 124. If I use that same 9 grains with a 115 that would be ok. Generally you can also increse that amount of powder a certain amount to hit the same pressure as the other load with the heavier bullet and you will usually get more velocity. However if you start with a heavy charge of powder with a light bullet, you cannot use the same amount of powder in the heavier bullet load. Pressures will be too great. I hope this clears things up. You will of course have to check things like accuracy and if you are getting an efficient burn. Some powders don't like to be loaded with light bullets, you may get a dirtier combination (unburned powder). Vince

Shot this today.. Open gun Points: 58 Time : 8.65 secs HF : 6.7052 Through Flex's Calculator.. Nationally = 60.9563 Not bad.. I'm classified as C open, this will be my first to put me in at a very low B. Vince

I tend to pick up all my brass regardless of caliber.. and if I feel particularly like a brass houngd, I'll pick up other people's brass that they left lying there even if I don't shoot that caliber. Sometimes I like to brighten someone's day by asking if they need X brass and they do and "hear ya go". Vince

So that's the 9 you mentioned Nice.. Vince

As to the original thread.. I can sympathize. I've stopped going to restaraunts as a food critic and started going to them as a diner. For years it was difficult to go to restaurants, high or low end and enjoy myself due to KNOWING I could cook better. But then 10 years in the industry does that to you. I'll try new restaurants now and then but rely on the proven ones I've been to in the past. You don't generally want to visit restaurants on Sundays and Mondays since those are traditionally the chef's days off. I usually stick to Wed-Sat's since I know the food will likely be fresh and the chef will have been in that day. Tuesday can be spotty, I shy away from any kind of special on Monday and Tuesday since that is probably the stuff they are trying to get rid of from the weekend rush (Fri and Sat). I generally avoid Brunch like the plague since most cooks HATE working the Brunch shift. I know I did. Anyway, that's my opinion Vince

I use: 4.7 TG 180 RNFP-Plated West Coast Win SP Primer Misc Brass Seated to 1.175" I can seat mine out as far as 1.190" in my P16, but I like them a little shorter. I can use book max and still make 170+ PF. While my P16 has all kinds of aftermarket parts on it, the barrel is stock and I do ok with it. Vince

I think a hoser stage has it's place. Maybe after a technical stage that has brought everyone down, it serves to be a kick in the pants kind of thrill ride. Having 4-6 hoser stages would get boring, having 4-6 difficult technical stages, long or short would get tedious. I still say it's all about balance. Vince

That's a great web site.. I think the cartridge they fired in that thing is called the 577 T-rex. Those guys have all kinds of huge rifle cartridges that almost no one can really fire more than 1 round of. Those things should be crew served . Vince

Our local match had been limiting shot size to #4 and I think last year the SMM3G limited it to size 4, but recently buck has been approved for use. I recently picked up some hot #4 buck that I might give a try at using. I generally check all this out prior to entering the 3G matches around or far away and then load accordingly. It never hurts to have a heavily loaded round just in case. However at the 3G nationals, there wasn't really any need for anything beyond 6's. I never got into the 4's that I had loaded, and generally stuck with 7.5's and 6's. I made sure to have a box of 9's for close clays and 4's for longer ranged steel, but it wasn't needed. I'd hate to go to a match and not need it than be there and realize that I may not have enough punch to put something down. Vince

I think with the nickel plated brass, it's been explained to me as dissimilar metals react differently to the stresses of pressure. Where the brass would expand and contract in one way, the nickel tends to expand and contract at 2 different levels. I like nickel brass too for the reasons above, but I find that it doesn't last as long either. But then by the time the Nickel brass is wearing out, I've already lost probably half of it. I lose more brass to crushing in the press and losing it on match day than I do to cases splitting. Though occasionally I pick up my brass and see that yep, it's split. This is more evident to me when I fire it in my revolver as I tend to get all my brass back since it's moon clipped. Vince

I'm using 124 gr plated West coast bullets, 4.4 grains of Titegroup witha Winchester primer. I also seat the bullets as long as I can since the Para I shoot in has such long magazines. I get a nice 135 pf. I shoot this in my LDA 9mm all the time. Nice soft load, fairly accurate for me. Vince

Um, Targetmasters in Milpitas is a range like this. I wouldn't call it a nice range, but I've only been there once. I thought it was kind of dark inside. I do believe they rent guns, but I'm not sure for how much and what they have. I tend to stay away from indoor ranges since there are ample outdoor ranges around the bay area and I'm a member of a few of them. Vince

I had always thought that my point shoot ability with a handgun came from my years and years of experience shooting a shotgun. Point gun there, bullet or shot cloud likely follows.. It's that aiming and calling my shots I still need to work on for targets beyond 10 yards. Vince

I played around with an ounce of 4's at 1250 fps with a modified choke. They worked well for me out to about 35 yards on large poppers. My standard load of 4's though is a 3 1/4-1 1/4 loading. Kind of the old standby 1220 fps with the heavier load of 4's. These would have been the lighter duck load back in the days before steel shot. I actually prefer to replace any of the MEC charge bars with the adjustable shot/powder bars by Multi-scale. No bushings and any load I want without having to mess with unscewing this or that. I've used them exclusively in a 2 Sizemasters (12 and 20), a 600 Jr, and a Grabber for years. The non adjustable bars tend to throw light if they are meant for the finer shot sizes. With the adjustable you can throw any charge you want. I've not had any issues like JD45 has with the finer shot sizes in the adjustable bars. Vince

I think it's fun however when the occasional rare shooter comes along shooting a G35 or some other variant of a carry gun and places in the top 10 of a 50 competitor match. People comment where did THAT guy come from? And then ask the competitor, "You're not from around here are you? Where did you learn to shoot like that?". It doesn't happen too often, but it happens... Vince

At the last match, I shot Limited 10 minor with my 9mm LDA. I shot pretty much all my production gear and had I not blown one stage, I would have scored at the higher end of the pack of all the other 1911 45 acp major shooters. You can be just as competitive with that kind of gear as you can be with a 1911 shooting limited 10 and race type holsters. It's the person behind the trigger, not all that gear that makes the A's. I shoot C production, but B Limited 10 (with my full race limited gun in major usually). I basically zero'ed a stage after not reading the description. It was Virginia count and three strings. Stupid me took extra shots, had extra hits, and um, held the gun freestyle when it mandated strong hand.. I think I got 100 penalty points and only scored like 86 regular points Aw well. I got a good classifier out of the match. My point is, that even handicapping myself like I did against guys shooting major caliber guns and regular gear I was still able to keep up with them. I think the divisions should stay as they are. I don't much care for all the specific specializing going on. 5 divisions is plenty. Vince