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Problem:
Mentors, or the lack there of, I think is part of the problem. A little over two years ago when I started seriously shooting IPSC my shooting partner (Run-N-Gun) and I decided to give IPSC a whirl. We had been shooting a club fun match that was based on IPSC but we had not ventured out into the “real world.” The first match we attended I felt like a stranger in a new land. The people were nice and pleasant, but we being the “Newbies” were a little intimidated, and I had questions that I didn’t ask. If it were not for the support and companionship of Run-N-Gun it may have been not only my first match, but maybe my last one. Of all the shooting sports IPSC is probably the most intimidating that I can think of. What I’m getting at is, at least in our area an assigned mentor is not provided. The RO that is heading up the squad is told that he has some new shooters, but the RO is usually one of the busiest people in the squad and doesn’t have the time to answer simple questions or provide insight as to what is going on, or to offer simple advise on a stage or to critique a stage. So that leaves the new shooters to fend for themselves. I can’t speak to other areas as to what they do with new shooters, only what happens in my area.
Solution:
Mentor program, this sport has some of the nicest and most approachable people you cold ask for, but the new shooter doesn’t know this. So by suggesting that we as shooters volunteer at one match a month or maybe at your home club to become a mentor to the new shooter, and go over safety rules, classifications, stages, basic equipment ect… and answer whatever questions the new shooter has would go a long way in keeping them. I know that not all people can be mentors, but a lot of us can and I’m sure that some of us do, but it should be an every time deal. Every New shooter should be mentored and felt welcome, after all they maybe the next mentors.
Shipster
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I have several .40's and I load all of my ammo to 1.120 and they work flawlessly in all of my .40's. Why mess with success.
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Check Here R & R Racing makes one.
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Hey Ed, sounds like Brian is making fun of you.
Everybody knows that I can't shoot! But to Insinuate that you can't!! 
. But I guess you shouldn't really worry about somebody who shoots a Nickle Platted Sissy pistol. 
See you guys later
Shipster
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Shoot Ed I can whip you with both your hands tied behind your back.
. Bring it on Gun n Run...Run n Gun...Ed -
I'll be there, and it was a good match last year.
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Check with Brian Enos our host he can fix you right up.
Toll-free: (877) 219-5598 M-F 9-5 AZ-time (Mountain) or
check out his His Webpage
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To me, it sounds like you are blocking things out...classic concentration.
I want to be in a mode that allows input in...awareness.
This is exactly what happens to me, classic concentration. My shooting life started out on a junior rifle team, after eight years of that I went to smallbore Silhouette and shot that for 12 years. Both of these disciplines thrive on classic concentration. How do you move from classic concentration to a awareness mode, zone?
Great insight Flex!
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All of my classifacations are real close except for my limited
OPEN Class: U Current Pct: 0.000 High Percent: 0.000
LIMITED Class: C Current Pct: 56.236 High Percent: 56.236
LIMITED10 Class: U Current Pct: 0.000 High Percent: 0.000
PRODUCTION Class: U Current Pct: 0.000 High Percent: 0.000
REVOLVER Class: U Current Pct: 0.000 High Percent: 0.000
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Ours are made with the club logo printed on at a local ribbon place. In bulk they're not too pricy. Other local clubs have theirs done as 'buttons' that go over a generic ribbon.
Shred I'm assuming that your club is keeping them generic so that you could use them for other club matches other then IPSC?
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Emanuel Bragg
eb@protechco.com
(660) 665-3171
Emanuel runs the USPSA Junior program and has a job at a place that does trophys
I have used his services for a couple of years
It's kind of nice to work with someone who understands the difference between Limited and Limted 10.
I checked www.protechco.com Emanuel's web page and he has plaques and medals but I didn't seen ribbons.
Thanks! Steve
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Get yourself a Lee Factory Crimp die and you won't have any problems with Glock belly. I have loaded and shot thousands and thousands of Glock brass through my Para without any problems after I got the Lee die.
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In the fall of 1971 I started helping my dad reload our rifle ammo for the up coming hunting seasons. I was 12 at the time and my dad had a old brown Herters “C” press and a lyman un-dampened scale, (that arm could bob for hours, if you let it). Dad loaded ammo for everybody, Uncles, Cousins, brothers, friends, well it seemed like everybody.
Two years later dad feeling like he had trained me well enough never touched the press again. I loaded it, and he shot it. My dad passed away this January at the age of 85 and those are some of the fondest memories I have, is dad and me, one on one at the press.
In my early twenties I made friends with a guy that shot a 44 mag. and he cast his own bullets, so we got into the routine of the first weekend on Saturday we would cast and lubasize bullets all day 12 to 14 hours worth. Since he worked at the local tire company we had all of the wheel weights we needed. Tons of lead, at one time he had twenty-three five-gallon buckets of wheel weights in his garage. Then Sunday we would load as much ammo as we possibly could on a single stage RCBS Rock Chucker press. Then the next weekend we go shoot them all up, and then we would start the process all over again.
Five years ago I started shooting the action pistol sports and I was spending a lot of time reloading for the .45. The wife didn't like that to much so I told her that if she would buy me a Dillon 550B press I could load in a hour what it was taking me all day to load. With in a week I was mounting my 550B onto my loading bench. And that’s where I am today.
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Rhino! man we do miss you! I hope you come back!
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George - thanks again for the pic.s
So that rifle is built on a CZ-550 action? It seems like a great rifle; does your smith have a website and would he consider building another such rifle? Thanks!
D.C. Johnson
Dude, what the heck are you going to do with it???
What ever he wants!
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DP basepads are hands down the best pad out there (IMHO).
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My Para Ice works only with DP base pads. That is a unaltered Ice. Like harmongreer said the Ice insert is a plastic like material and could be altered to work with others.
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That's what I've done, is the Grip tape on the front with the factory grips. I thought of changing but decided I liked what I was using. The Ice magwell is the best well for the Para (IMHO). I did look at others but fell in love with the Ice.
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I think I saw those eyes on Americas most wanted.
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Iv'e done other shooting sports, gallery, Silhouette, trap..... and If I had to do it all over again I would go straight to IPSC. I like the adreneline!!!! and the fact that every match is different, and the adreneline!!!! and stages are different and the adreneline!!!! . I also like the type of people that participate, they seem to be a lot more laid back and social then a lot of the stuffed shirts that you run into in other disciplines and I like the adreneline!!!! .
And it's fun!
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10 round magazines are fine for minor. 8 round magazines are the limit for major in the 1911 Society's Single Stack Classic rules.
The "obvious" point is that a 45ACP 1911 A1 is designed for 8-round maximum magazines. Nothing else fits flush. Nothing else feeds reliably.
Stage designs are not the point. The point is a competitive division for traditional single stack 1911s with correct magazines, not 10-rounders.
We'll shoot whatever stage is thrown at us, but we would prefer to compete in an appropriate division. Let's not forget where and how IPSC started.
This whole thing about the 1911 and where we came from (IPSC) and the 8 rd mag and Blaw Blaw Blaw! So! Okay lets use the the flap leather holsters that was GI issued, and don't forget the lanyard must be used as well, and we'll start the stages with a stop watch and whistle. My god the year is 2005. If you want to reminisce about the old days there already is a sport for that, it's called SASS or cowboy action shooting.
I have considerable money tied up in race equipment for my L10, mags, holster, and belts just like a lot of other people, and if you want to piss a lot of USPSA "MEMBERS" off that already shoot L10, then change L10 to something else. In the area the I shoot Limited is the only class larger then L10 and I think that it would be safe for me to say that 80% of the L10 shooter are using 1911 single stacks.
Everybody knows that I can't shoot! But to Insinuate that you can't!! 
. But I guess you shouldn't really worry about somebody who shoots a Nickle Platted Sissy pistol. 
Attracting People To The Game
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Hey you want to see whats going on? One of our owen members has the solution! It's called Hoser cam. Talk about a birds eye view of whats going on! I don't think camera angle is a problem.