shred

You can easily polish off the black finish on a stock Glock slide. The Tennifer finish is below that, so no worries there. The black stuff is only cosmetic. Glock will even still let you shoot in the stock class of GSSF with a polished slide.

You can easily polish off the black finish on a stock Glock slide. The Tennifer finish is below that, so no worries there. The black stuff is only cosmetic. Glock will even still let you shoot in the stock class of GSSF with a polished slide.

Just to balance this out a bit, I RO-ed three new shooters through our club match this weekend. All of them did great, keeping their fingers off the trigger when appropriate and even were aware enough of the 180 to worry they'd broken it moving onto one target array (they hadn't, but it was close). All of them were a) friends/acquantances and somewhat experienced pistol shooters (Pins, plinking, etc), which I think helps a great deal since they actually listened to our advice and warnings.

I've gone back to 124gr bullets for IPSC major. I don't see a big advantage in 115's with my Super and would rather not deal with the pressures. 7.8gr of 350 or 8.4 of 4756 are my usual loads. btw, I think Shooters Connection usually carries 3n37

If you're shooting a dot, try this-- Cover the front of the front lens with masking tape or something opaque. Make sure you can still see the dot by looking in the scope and go shoot. If you've got both eyes open and you're focusing on the targets, you can shoot fine-- the tape is hardly noticeable since your brain adds the images from both eyes together. If one eye or the other is closed, you'll know. (Edited by shred at 7:23 pm on Feb. 9, 2002)

Just FYI, picking up echoes of the shot is common with CED's, especially indoors, mandating use of the mic sensativity control to avoid a lot of 0.02 mystery-splits. It would seem that smart software could get around that, but so far as I know, the PACT has the fanciest software.

You can also do what I did to make some "Classic" targets, which is to get the dimensions off the IPSC page (www.ipsc.org or so), make one out of a chunk of cardboard and voila, you now have a template to hack out a few dozen more in short order with a sharp knife. It's also handy to poke some holes in your template where the corners of the A and C-zones are. Then you can poke a pen through onto your newly cut targets and play connect-the-dots to get proper scoring rings. Jack-- yeah I know Jimmie and Artie, they're great-- we were supposed to be squadded with them at Paper & Iron this year, but they got delayed. (In order to move this discussion full-circle, I made my pseudo-Classic targets above from old ISSA targets, which were formerly used at Paper & Iron) (Edited by shred at 6:49 pm on Feb. 9, 2002)

Practice on the euro 'Classic' target, if you haven't shot on them before. Much smaller a-zone.

Rumor has it that Tasco/Firepoint lost or decided not to fight some patent litigation with C-More. I don't have details or confirmation though.

I think Gatorade & the like were designed for people putting out serious effort for quite a while-- playing football, soccer, running, whatever. IPSC is much more 'bursty', in that there's lots of inactivty interspersed with a few seconds of real action. So we generally don't need so much of the sugars most sports drinks have in them, but to maintain a balance. Drinking water and eating reasonably balanced snacks is probably a better way to go. It's probably a good idea to stay away from range food until you're done shooting too, but sometimes that Texas BBQ is just too tempting..

Oh yeah (in a blatant dot-adding effort, I'm posting a new note instead of editing that last one), the TJ class was worth it. He does some things a bit differently than some of the other GreatOnes, but it's definately worth it.. Our class was mostly B's & A's, with a couple C's and everybody got good value out of it.

TJ did say something about working on a second video, but allowed that he needed to get enough of the first one out the door so he could actually use his furniture first. The first one starts with the basics, but is good.

Had a thought as I was reading this... does the trend (at least in my area) towards seemingly ever-increasing round count have anything to do with the reluctance of new shooters and relative lack of interest in the 10-round categories?? I know I don't like telling prospective shooters "well, you need a gun, holster and, uh, five, magazines and pouches". I think I'd never done a single speed reload in my life before shooting my first IPSC match. We've all seen great 14-round stages, and lousy 40-rounders. Can we do anything to stop the "I'll force everybody to do a reload" mentality of stage designers? What's the obsession with big-match round-count too? Was it once a sign of quality? Enough of my ramblings.. off to get coffee

"Herb Holster"???

A local IDPA club does something similar. They have an "Experimental" category where they throw everything not IDPA legal. This has been everything from Open guns to Race Glocks in the past. Scores are separated and everybody is happy.

We do man-on-man double-elimination bowling pin shoots Tuesday nights at a local indoor range. They won't let us draw or move in there, so IPSC-type stuff is out. Usually there are 3 matches. The first is $10 to enter and is the "trophy" match (1-2-3 get $15, $10 and $5 store credit). This match has some limits to try and keep it more balanced-- 6 rounds per mag/cylinder, stock guns, and the best shooters get handicapped in various ways. The second match is the 'Pro' match. $15 to enter, $5/shooter to 1st, $2.50 per to 2nd. Scopes and comps allowed, but stock guns shoot one less pin. The third match is $5, winner takes all and can be anything from shotgun only to single-action 6-gun only. Typically there's ~25 shooters in the first match, ~10 in the 2nd and 3rd, and it takes 2-3 hours to do the whole lot.

Yeah.. I'm a lefty, but the principle is the same. My weak hand grips the forend of the shotgun, and I roll my wrist all the way around until the gun is upside down and I can see what I'm doing, then my strong hand stuffs shells in (2 at a time if possible, using the method Ayoob shows in his Stressfire II book). I find it fastest to grab them off the sidesaddle, then move to strong-side belt-mounted ammo after those run out. (Edited by shred at 1:52 pm on Jan. 29, 2002)

Actually, 1A, 1D. It's the same as a barely touching edge-hit. All it's gotta do is touch the scoring area. I just did it across the front instead of down the side.

I asked Benny Hill this question today at a match-- his take is that the bearing surfaces wear and the barrel throat wears such that you have to keep adding powder to make Major. He replaces barrels every 40k rounds or so on his personal open blasters, though I suspect that may be because he can. (Edited by shred at 5:14 pm on Jan. 12, 2002)

Here's one I did at Area 4 a few years ago: Target is steeply angled away from where I shot it. On scoring we find one hole in the A-zone and one hit that is nothing more than an indented black smear from the middle of the D-zone off the side of the paper. The paper was not punctured in any way, but it was clearly grazed by the bullet. Score?

Yeah, Get the One-Shot. I tried it after getting a recommendation from here about a month ago and it works so well I can no longer tell SuperComp cases by the extra resizing effort and have to pick them out by hand now . I can live with that.

I've been told that the proper way to disassemble any spring-bearing firearm is as follows: - Lay out a clean white bedsheet on the floor - Sit in the center of this sheet with the firearm in question - Cover the sheet, yourself and firearm completely with another white sheet. Begin disassembly (I end up listening for the rebound and attempting to guess the surface last-bounced-from from the sound) (Edited by shred at 3:35 pm on Jan. 2, 2002)

The most important thing I had to learn going to a hicap was not to punch the mag release every time I started moving... That took some training to un-learn.

Exercise is definately called for in some tendonitis cases. I'm lucky enough to have a good orthopedist that doesn't believe in 'slap in a cortisone shot and see if it helps', unlike 1/2 the docs out there. Many times building up the appropriate muscles will 'lift' the irritated tendons out of the bone track they've been rubbing on. When something hurts, we generally stop using it. In these cases, it's better to keep active with it or you get into a cycle of 'it hurts, stop using it, (time passes, muscles get smaller), it hurts.." I learned this rock climbing-- you can build up a cranking set of pull and gripping muscles, but if you don't do some push and reverse excercises, you're going to hurt.

Thanks. I'll try the Hornady 1-shot. My problem with tumbling is the corncob media I use ends up packed into in the JHP cavities, only to pop out later under recoil. Do you have some special corncob media size to fix that? (Edited by shred at 4:09 pm on Dec. 8, 2001)