shred

Natural Born Killers-- came reeel close to walking out and ditching the people I'd driven to the theater (who seemed to like it for no reason I could see)

BE caught it.. Ron, all's I need is a 6 second run and 30 points down..

The shorter cases pop in and out better with less flopping around in the clips-- it's why I shoot .40 in my 610

Somebody posted this over on the IPSC list-- "The HHFs for Revolver are currently set at 90% of the HHFs for Limited for each classifier. The Production HHFs are at 95% of Ltd, and the L10 HHFs are equal to Ltd." I dunno if it's true, but if so, you can compare yourself to everything except open (Edited by shred at 8:14 pm on Sep. 13, 2002)

Case in point (these are Limited scores, and there aren't any more scores over 62% in the thirty or more classifiers this now-B's got): 08/17/02 99-03 CENTRAL TEXAS RIFLE & PISTOL 62.908 Y 08/27/02 07/21/02 99-32 ALPHA MIKE SHOOTERS 84.000 Y 08/27/02 07/20/02 99-15 CENTRAL TEXAS RIFLE & PISTOL 34.093 B 08/05/02 07/20/02 99-48 CENTRAL TEXAS RIFLE & PISTOL 59.408 Y 08/05/02 07/20/02 99-22 CENTRAL TEXAS RIFLE & PISTOL 14.485 B 08/05/02 07/20/02 99-28 CENTRAL TEXAS RIFLE & PISTOL 44.110 F 08/05/02 07/13/02 99-61 AUSTIN LONE STAR P.P.C. 11.704 B 07/19/02 05/19/02 99-10 ALPHA MIKE SHOOTERS 47.079 Y 07/02/02 05/18/02 99-53 CENTRAL TEXAS RIFLE & PISTOL 54.178 Y 06/04/02 (Edited by shred at 7:54 pm on Sep. 12, 2002)

Yeah.. what triggered my shoulder-self-exam was some video footage of the Steel Challenge one of my friends shot this year-- They had a decent side view of several shooters including Jerry Miculek. It was immediately obvious that only his arms move on the draw, as compared to everybody elses' flapping about. I knew my shoulders didn't move much.. but sure enough, when I started drawing while looking sorta-sideways in a mirror they were moving. I'm still not sure I can get every last millimeter of movement out without going to a full-appendix draw though..

I'm guessing that's plus .1 per point down, or I could easily beat 3.00 on this drill.. (Edited by shred at 6:27 pm on Sep. 12, 2002)

According to my handy 99-cent recoil spring tester, the "light" RM's main spring is about 7.5 lbs at full compression. It's also very similar (though lighter) to a Glock 23 spring I had lying about.

You might want to grab a timer while you're at it. It's really handy to stick in a load of brass, set it to run for a few hours and go do something else. I adapted one of those cheap pegs-in-a-circle timers-- pulled out all the 'on' pegs, set the 'off' pegs to 2am and 3pm. When I want to run a load for say 2 hours, I crank the dial around to midnight and manually flip it on.

Dryfiring yesterday I noticed that when I was going into "hands-at-sides" for a draw, I was relaxing everything-- hands, arms and shoulders practically into full-ape-mode. Tried leaving my shoulders up-- sure feels better that way. I don't know if it's any faster, but less movement usually is a good thing.

Heh.. One more Glock to go before I make 'GlockMeister'. Almost made it last year, but got bit by a <gasp> jam. (Edited by shred at 7:19 pm on Sep. 11, 2002)

One factor going for the Glock is they're everywhere and easy to buy/sell used should you decide you don't like it and want an XD instead (assuming you're that way with guns-- some people never sell one no matter what)

Yup-- That's what I meant up above.. there was considerable "discussion" on the IPSC list at the time, and the net result was it's not limited-legal unless somebody makes 500 of them.

My trick is to mentally 'fold' the top arc of the D-1 over to make a circle. If I shoot at the bottom of that circle, I'm in the 0-ring. Around here a score in the high 60's or low 70's will win Am-Civ, and anything under 100 usually wins cash.

I got one of the first batch and used it at the RGN's on most of the stages. It's been working fine. Dave Skinner of STI says the follower was one of the things he'd been meaning to work on forever.. He said these were designed to work more reliably in more conditions (out of tune/spec/spring/dirty) than the old ones. Added capacity is not a feature.

I've used both N340 and N350 for 124 gr 38 Super loads and prefer N350-- pressure seems lower and the comp seems to work a bit better too.

I agree with Erik-- In my experience, new stage designers want to empty out the prop shed and throw in everything, including the kitchen sink, so go a bit easy on fancy stuff. It'll make the match run smoother too. Throw in a hoser stage or two-- they're 'fun' to lots of people. Otherwise, shoot for balanced stages, stages with lots of different ways to shoot them, and not much memory-testing (that's not-fun to lots of people). Try to allow for both D and M shooters, production through open. Count on shooters to find new and interesting ways to shoot your stage that you didn't see. Try really hard not to get annoyed if they somehow figure out how to shoot your stage totally unlike how you wanted them to. (Edited by shred at 6:44 pm on Sep. 10, 2002)

I got one as a replacement for a broken STI tungsten rod and was a little annoyed to discover that the instructions say "You must use this with the included recoil spring plug-- grind chunks off your comp if needed". My Open blaster has a slightly shortened slide and thus the RM plug sticks out a tad and bangs into the comp. Not wanting to grind away on it, the RM is going someplace else.

Btw, Chuck at Shooters Connection tried to float that idea a few years ago and got it shot down as a "prototype". They didn't mention the front sight issue at the time (which seemed like the main point to me, given Brian's book-- I guess he's mollified that now). Seems like another not-really-needed arms-race deal to me, but what do I know, I mostly shoot Open

I've been there (well, I still am.. ) 83% at one time. The problem for me is every so often I'll shoot one that comes in high enough to be entered, but down in the 70's. That hoses your "most recent eight" for quite a while. What I've seen some people do is try and run 110% on classifier stages-- that way if you hose it up, it gets thrown out as too low, and if you get lucky, you get a good score. Alternatively, you could shoot CM99-32 a lot-- I think that's the easiest classifier on record. What's interesting is looking up some of the big names-- most of their 95-100% scores come from major match finishes and lots of their classifiers are in 'mere mortal' territory. (Edited by shred at 6:42 pm on Sep. 8, 2002)

Pretty much the biggest stage changes I've seen in the past 6 or 8 years are many less shooting boxes, less speed-shoots and more walls-with-holes (doors, hatches, windows, etc). "Single-stack friendly" has replaced "revolver neutral" in course design.

Maybe.. the LDA trigger is very different from a 1911 trigger-- lots more reset and distance. That said, learning to shoot a DA trigger well can be good for SA trigger control too. There are a number of threads on DA/SA cross-training on here (I'll let somebody else search them out-- I'm on a slow link today)

This might be the simplest tool ever, but it comes in mighty handy fiddling with recoil springs and full-length guide rods. No more chasing spring plugs all over the house! Works great with Recoil Masters too! Powered by the air you breathe and the thumbs you type with! All you do is take a chunk of something reasonably thin and stiff (I've used wood, plastic, metal and even an empty primer tray) and drill a 1/2 inch hole in it. If you want to get fancy, put a little notch in one side of the hole, like so: To use it, stick the reverse plug in the hole, add springs and guide rod. Put a couple fingers on either side and your thumb on the guide rod head. Push Note that your other hand is free to wave to the paparazzi until such time as you deign to put the takedown pin in. Once you do that, the tool slides off easily. If you're into really heavy springs, you might want to set the guide rod head on a table or something. (I thought everybody had one of these, but then some at the RGN's were in awe of my gadget) (Edited by shred at 6:15 pm on Sep. 8, 2002)

At the RGN's in the shooter packet was a new VV loading pamphlet. Right after the .38 Super data was data for the .38 Lapua, which I've never heard of. Is that another Super variant or what?

I usually mention that it "started out as police-type training, but has evolved into a sport". You can then make analogies to Football or Javelin-throwing or Chess if you like. This removes some of the Rambo-esque feeling too.