shred

Oehler for one can calibrate chronos. Years ago, living in the same town as them, we used to occasionally run the club 35P by them.. Ken: "Well, it's 3 fps off at 10,000 fps.." us: "we can live with that". I don't know what all equipment is required, but I bet it's expensive.

I hate it when the clubs don't bother to send in the classifiers for months at a time (or even ever). (82% and holding.. holding.. holding..)

For some reason, the only way I can find the 'Dot Drill 101' post is to use the search function. Clicking <a href=http://www.brianenos.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard//topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=1>Here</a> will also take you there. (Edited by shred at 8:29 am on Nov. 14, 2001)

I have no idea if it fits (anybody know? please?), but the 3" Sporting Clays model comes with two gas pistons-- one for light loads and one for heavy. Brownells carries the clays piston as a separate part, so if it fits onto the 3.5" model, you should be able to make it run with light loads.

Maybe people are put off by the bit in Layne Simpson's book "The Custom Government Model Pistol" where he says he got a basket of comps, did a bunch recoil measurements, then found out different shooters ranked them totally differently.

Yeah, the BS-factor is huge. Gun Shows seem to be these guys breeding grounds. At least it's easy to get rid of them at the one indoor range I get stuck in-- shoot a couple little groups and they flee to (I assume) cover themselves in 45 ACP and repeat "They all fall to hardball.. They all fall to hardball.." over and over until the scary shooter has gone away.

Somebody sent me a link to one of the message threads (might have been on the IPSC e-mail list or on Matt Burkett's site, now that I try and remember) and I started snooping around. I spent about 4 hours on the site that day.

My 2 cents: Seems to me a (somewhat) easy way out would be a 20-round capacity limit in Limited. I was at the TX State Ltd Championships a couple weeks ago and tons of people were rushing around trying to get just the right combination of basepads, springs, followers and tubes to get 20 or 22 rounds in a magazine (of course nobody brought out the calipers either..). Slap on a 20-round limit, let in the 9's. See what happens. (Way back when at an old Area 4, Andy Hollar told me they never should have created Limited class without capacity restrictions..)