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  1. Yes, extractor-change if it was made on a .38 Super slide.
  2. shred

    9mm +p+

    The usual advice is "don't carry handloads" Has that changed?
  3. The mag catch is in a slightly different place, so assume "no". Also Para (& RIA) mags with the steep top usually get an extra round on board. There are STI-for-Para mags and tubes around with the slot relocated, but I'm pretty sure none have been made in at least a decade.
  4. Same here, I'm something like a 50 % M in Revo because of one classifier match long ago.
  5. Those Husky shelves are bombproof and rock compared to the particle-board shelf ones.
  6. I've been happy to not find any 9x21 or 9x23 in with my range pickups lately..
  7. no "race" holsters unless you wrap a fig-leaf of Kydex around them. No dots, no comps.
  8. Heavy duty shelves down one side. Mark out and label places for everything and a 'keep clear' aisle or pretty soon it turns into a mixed jumble of crap heaved in willy-nilly after the match. Lighting can be handy too.
  9. At the World Shoot in France, they had photographs of an RO in the start position... that was probably the most rigid I've seen it enforced.
  10. Good catch. PCC shooters especially beware where you can bag and unbag and carry. WHO & SHO stages you can't use the other hand to help pick the gun up in a table pickup.
  11. My take for Minor is 147s are soft but flippy, 115's are a bit too snappy, 124's are where it's at-- but it's different for everyone. Last Nationals equipment surveys show a big peak in 147/150 gr, then a slightly smaller one at 124/125 and the other weights much less popular.
  12. Other things off the top of my head that bite USPSA people shooting IPSC-- 171mm mags in Open, weighted basepads, different box size, aftermarket parts (thankfully I think the grip profile nonsense went away), holster & pouch position. Sight pictures. What else?
  13. Eh, most of that was unsupported chambers in .38 Supers with well-used brass. Once ramped chambers came in it wasn't much of a thing. The drop to 165 (160 / 170 for IPSC) seemed like it was more to get 9x19 to make Major although there were a raft of "reasons" given at the time.
  14. Well, until USPSA bought it, there was only one match that counted and that was the WSSC. That was run by the same stats crew that always did it, so there was no concern. The problem came in when USPSA bought Steel Challenge and sort-of rewrote the rules to match USPSA. What was long-established practice remained so, but never got documented. IIRC Glenn's gun broke and he withdrew partway through the match after what looks like shooting 3 stages (he was a good shooter), so he got 120s for the ones he didn't shoot and his score for the ones he did, which is the standard. The Did Not Fire DNFs I think were no-shows.
  15. The simple answer without going into lots of physics is "yes", but there's not one "Best". Try some different weights and see what you and your pistols like.
  16. I'd guess chamber heating that then transfers to the rounds and powder, but just looking at one or two strings or a few shots could just be coincidence.
  17. Yeah you can find tons of info on that here by searching for "occluded dot"
  18. Yeah, gluing the sight down can work. Not the best option but an option.
  19. shred

    Ted Bonnet

    A Ted Space City Story-- One year the range had a great crop of berries on the berms-- raspberries I think. Ted noticed and picked and ate several... to find out they'd been recently sprayed with weedkiller. Poor guy went into shock and turned a remarkable shade of gray, but with some help from medically-trained shooters was able to recover and shoot the match.
  20. "Memory" stages are dumb at majors (especially IPSC matches where you only get 4 minute walkthroughs), as are 'sequence' stages with complicated activator sequences because by Day 2 everybody knows what the best plan is, while most of the Day 1 shooters get screwed.
  21. I've used the V1s interchangeably and there's little difference at USPSA distances.
  22. EzSteel software never was. We used hand calculators and then Excel once we got fancy with spiffy macros to auto-delete the worst string and put 30s in not-shot strings because sometimes we'd have shooters run low on ammo and only shoot 4 strings per stage. That was not uncommon. At the Steel Challenge in 2005 (way before USPSA bought it), you got DNFs for not shooting at all, 120s for not shooting a stage (Glenn Higdon's gun broke IIRC, but there's no way to tell from this page) @Koppi might remember why he DNF'ed 19 years ago.
  23. Decade and a half maybe But I was digging through some old match books yesterday and the 2006 Open/Production nationals had two stages with prone or very-low ports. 2006 Area 1 (Stages mostly by Tom Chambers!) had bed starts, a moneybag that had to be carried and a dummy-drag. 2006 Gator match a toilet start and shooting from inside a car. Double-Tap 2006 had swinging ports and barrel stacks to push over. 2004 East Texas Section had a gate to climb over (or run around a longer wall) All of them had gun-in-box starts, table starts and multiple doors. Most of them had one or more Texas stars as well.
  24. Yeah, what seemed cool to a bunch of 20-somethings seemed less so to a bunch of 40-somethings. Then the ez-button rules for PCC came along and killed off the rest of it.
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