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Two words: Totally Awsome!!!!!!!

The place to get all your training supplies;

Absolutely not true. A little info for those "Uneducated" who believe that our Soldiers are there because they didn't do good in school. 100% of those serving in the Army have a High school diploma or a G.E.D. with 12 College credit hours. 100% of those serving in our Marine Corp, Navy, & Air Force have a High school diploma. 100% Of our Officers serving have a minimum of a B.S. degree. 57% of our Soldiers use their GI bill to further their education.

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In that same rag on page 128 they say that Dave Thomas is the USPSA President.

And here I thought it was me getting better!!! CRAP!! OH Well, back to dryfiring.

I do it all the time, usually after a really smokin' run that went just like I planned it (This is happening more and more often lately). Some times th R.O. asks to see the chamber again and I unholster and show them and sometimes they just figure that if it didn't go bang it's not loaded. Either way it's no biggy to me. If I'm the R.O. my eyes don't leave the gun so 99% of the time (Even when Todd J. did it to me) if someone goes through it ahead of my commands I still see the empty chamber and don't make them redraw. the very few times that I didn't see it (Usually with left handed shooters) I just ask to see it once more. Again, no biggy.

Not the lemonade stand that we had as kids. Lemons into Lemonade Link.

My recommendation: Shoot your game and stop worrying how others shoot theirs. Once I figured that out my game got a lot better. The top C open shooter at the Nationals beat 2nd place by 6% and the 2nd place C open shooter at the Nationals beat 3rd place by approx. 5%. The rest of the C open field is seperated by no more than 2% between shooters. Looking at the results in this manner with no other confirming information I'ld say that 1st and 2nd place C open shooters were Sandbagging. I don't really believe that anyone was sanbagging. Just trying to make a point.

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What set fits the M&P? All I can find are Sig and Glock. Will The Sig set fit with a little gunsmithing?

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Thanks for the advice and I don't mean to offend here but I'm not an "It's a local club match so we'll bend the rules" kind of guy. If it won't go at the IDPA Nationals then it shouldn't go at a local match. I'll build my gun and play the game and enjoy myself. I've read the rules several times now and am pretty familure with them so I know exactly what I'm in for.

Even back then they gamed "hands above respective shoulders".

Good!! Then everyone donate!!! If we don't prove anything else, we'll prove that Brian can't lose money to some POS thief.

We are prepping for my sons "Court of Honor" right now. Yes, it is a appropriate to take a gift but it's not "expected".

I say that, with Brians permission, we donate untill the cost is reimbursed. I'll be first with a $10.00 donation as soon as I get an ok from B.

I agree 100% and I'm not speaking out against USPSA listening to the sponsors (I'm aware that I may have worded my post to sound that way). I'm talking about them not listening to the shooters 5 years ago when the stupid one year rule was brought up by us. But now, all of a sudden, it's important. Again, If they had listened back then we could have started shooting the M&P last year and S&W would have a stronger place in production today therefore listening to common shooters helps the sponsors just like listening to the sponsors helps the common shooters. I see it as one being just as important as the other but it appears that USPSA doesn't or, at least, didn't. The one year rule for production is now a dead issue so I'm going out and buying a 9mm M&P and start prepping for production/IDPA shooting. I just hope that future issues don't run the same route.

Thank you very much for your reply. For you to take the time while shooting the Nationals to read and reply about my concerns speaks volumes. When production division was first developed and started I, along with many others, made note of the one year rule and voiced our concerns with our A.D.'s, the NROI and Sedro. I'm not sure about everyone else involved but I did not get any kind of response from anybody regarding the issue and the rule remained in place. I again started addressing it when I first saw the promo disk for the M&P that Ean Stafford showed us because I wanted to get my hands on one as soon as they came out in order to shoot in production. Again I got no response and it remained. I know that the BOD listens to the shooters in a lot of instances but I also know that they don't "To a certain degree" or it may better be stated "In some instances" The rule changed due to whose arguements? Was it the shooters or the manufaturers making the arguements? I don't know the answer but the appearance is that it was the manufacturers. Again, I'm probably just as wrong as the folks who were saying that the one year rule was placed because Glock has a lot of pull and wanted to put off the competition. What I do know is that if they had listened when the shooters first brought about concerns regarding this I could have been shooting an M&P in production since last Nov./Dec.

I did a search and found this thread as the closest to what I wanted to mention. It appears, looking at the production gun list on the USPSA web site, that they have done away with the one year rule. This seems conspicuously like a "Please the sponsors" move since JGo started working for S&W, shoots production and they have the M&P. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the rule went away and I will now go out and buy an M&P and set up for production, and I'm glad that things laid out the way they did with Julie, S&W, the M&P and so on but why did it take this? Why did they have the one year rule in the first place and why didn't they listen to the shooters and do away with it years ago? It sucks that, if my perception is correct, they only listen to the sponsors and sponsored shooters and tend to ignore, to a certain degree, the average shooters. Just my observation. I could be mistaken, it's happened before many times; Just ask my wife.

Now, remove and sell the optics and other things which are not needed for 3gun and take the $ and buy your pistol, shotgun, reloaders for all three, reloading components, holster, mag pouches, mags, etc. etc. and still have some left over to put your kids through college.

Yes, the USP compact is allowed but the textured grip the I've applied to it is not in SSP. Why would I shoot it in ESP against 43 oz. 9mm 1911's? I'ld be at a huge disadvantage. Besides, I don't download my real world mags to 10 rounds. No, just changing the guide rod will not bring the weight down enough. Besides, why would I want to change the configuration of the guns that I will be carrying if, God forbid, I actually have to use them in a real world situation in order to shoot a sport that claims to represent the ability to practice real world defensive shooting situations? If I can't shoot my real world guns then it is NOT a real world situation and I will go into it as I do USPSA, as a game which allows me to shoot, and that's all. I will build a 43 oz. 9mm 1911 ESP gun, work up a mouse fart 9mm load, use a holster and mag pouches that are within the rules but still as fast as possible and play the "Game". I'll still strap on my USP or .45 when I leave the range and I'll still work in my 1.5-2 hours a week at my private range practicing with my real world carry guns and gear.

WOW!!! They are using not one but TWO Tx*'s on one stage at the nationals. I guess there's no denying that it's an acceptable plate presentation apparatus.

I've never shot IDPA but I did watch a match once. I have a good friend that is trying to get me to shoot it but I'm having a hard time bringing myself around to it and here's why; My carry gun is a H&K USP compact but I can't shoot it in IDPA because I've given it a custom "Scotts Grip" permanent sand grip and the rules say that only grip tape is allowed. My other carry gun is an SA 1911 but it has a tungsten guide rod and weighs 46 oz.'s so it's not legal. These are the guns that I carry every second that I'm away from home. IDPA is great because it gets people out shooting and it's all about making guns go "BANG" but don't try pulling any BS about it being "Real World" carry friendly because I'm presently building a 9mm 1911 ESP gun just to get started shooting the sport.