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Let the guys practice! Hey JJ, here's a rifle but you don't know where it hits, try to hit something with it, you only get one shot though.... huh?

Any room left in the match?

Exactly

If you don't want to spend the money, consider this home trigger job: http://www.sargenthome.com/15_Minute_AR_Trigger_Job.htm On top of that, get two pieces of emery paper (600 & 1500 grit) and a completely flat, hard surface(marble counter top) and smooth the machined part of the trigger where it engages the hammer. Turn it into a mirror. Don't touch the hammer engagement surface though, although you can cut the spur off it if you want it to be lighter. Be careful, do the proper safety checks for doubling and load only one round in a mag for a bunch of shots and make sure the hammer doesn't fall after you shoot. This will make your trigger much more bearable and it doesn't cost more then a few bucks and about 20 minutes of your time, although the geissele is fantastic. I've done this a few times and it has worked great. Be careful though, don't make the engagement negative (make sure the hammer still moves back slightly while pulling the trigger before it drops). This shouldn't be a problem if you don't sit there sanding the surface for an hour with the 600 grit paper.

Get in a daily routine of eating better and carry it thru to match day. Works much better than changing you diet just for match day. That's better advice than mine

Matches usually involve travel for me, and I tend drop the healthy habits for what's convenient... If I lived close to a club, I would eat what I normally do... Breakfast: A couple eggs, half an avacado, a couple pieces of fruit (banana, strawberries, raspberries, peach, nectarine), and a handful of nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans), and if I'm feeling particularly motivated, some veggies (broccoli, carrots, spinach (in an omelet), eggplant) Lunch: Some chicken or fish(a tuna salad is an easy thing to bring to a match), more nuts, more fruit. A protein bar works too in a fix. Dinner: Beer(not keystone light!) and steak

If you don't want to feel tired, avoid excessive carbohydrates, fats, and sugars. Some protein and some low-glycemic fruit sounds good.

I need sleep before shooting, and unfortunately I usually don't get it. When I've gotten 8 hours in before a match, I do far better. My stage breakdown is what suffers from no sleep. When I'm actually shooting and a little adrenaline is pumping, I'm fine, but without sleep I just don't have the energy to come up with a good plan...I can still do well on the quick hoser stages when I'm tired though.

Truly awesome...I bet it will last longer and ride smoother then rail laid by any older method too.

I didn't notice JJ's AD, just Andre's. That revo must have had a light trigger or just grip geometry that they weren't used to. Guess you shouldn't hand someone a gun they've never even held before and sound the buzzer for them to start shooting for $100k

"Springing" is what I had when I tried it...Couldn't get the lugs to drop in without taking some off the top of the barrel about 2-3 inches from the muzzle. I used emery paper and sanded it by hand.

Yeah, shooting poker hands was lame. But, their strategy made sense since the cards shot in the first round were gone. They couldn't possibly shoot more then a pair in the second round if their Ace-high royal flush got blocked. They should have gone for the 9-8-7-6-5 straight flush and then they could fall back on a straight or 3 of a kind. Either way, Andre messed up unless there was something important edited out. Did anyone else notice Andres accidental discharge in the first round? I was waiting to hear the host yell "STOP", and DQ him from the show

I've been told they shouldn't require any modification at the front of the barrel but the one I fitted did need modification. Contact points can be found by covering surfaces with a marker and looking for where it rubs away when the barrel is put in the slide. Fun stuff!

ohh, well in that case....The barrel hood gets shortened until the lugs drop in. Then using a fired case in the chamber for flash hole/firing pin clearance, the sides of the lugs are removed a very little at a time until the firing pin hole lines up with the flash hole of the fired case. It should now fit in the slide correctly. Now, the lower lugs or "feet" need to be fitted so that the link fits and functions correctly and the slide stop pushes the barrel snugly into place. The front of a bull barrel should fit without modification. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds to do right. If anyone uses that little description to try to fit a barrel for the first time, you probably just ruined a barrel.

Fitting a barrel is not easy. If you must do it yourself, get the AGI "Building the Ultimate 1911" DVDs. I more or less ruined an STI barrel even with the DVDs. Be careful, work slowly.

I'm not really sure. I haven't sat at a bench in about 2 years...so I probably couldn't top 315 right now. I mentioned taking note of some PRs just for the sake of seeing which way my strength goes after starting to eat differently. I never max out anymore, although it probably would makes sense to do so a couple times a week. A 500 deadlift shouldn't be a problem with a little training. A 450 squat sounds difficult for me depending on how far down you consider a full squat. Where do you find Pasture/grass fed eggs, pork, chicken, beef etc? I can't reasonably drive out to the country to find local eggs and chicken (surrounded by suburbia).

Google "paleo diet" and you'll find lots of good resources. I'm sure Jake or Dave can recommend specific sites and books that are the best. It is a tough, seemingly restrictive way of eating. You will have to learn to like cooking though. I hate cooking, so I do it in quantity and only have to do it for breakfast everyday and a few times a week for other meals since I have lots of leftovers. As far a fitness solution, all I can say is "Crossfit.com". Look through the workout of the day on the homepage and look through the bank of workout demos and explanations for anything new to you if you are interested. Everything is done with intensity as the primary goal (after of course not getting hurt). Give it a look if you haven't already discovered it. Adopting both of these, you'll be able to save time in the gym since your workouts will have so much intensity and put that time into cooking and focus on diet. Also, I've found crossfit easier to stick to because there is an active network/forum of people to keep you going with it... just open up the homepage everyday and suddenly the motivation to workout appears. That has been my experience anyways.

Sounds like my breakfast some days only I'll avoid the salted meat and replace it with chicken of steak since I'm hypertensive when eating lots of sodium. My roommates in college thought I was crazy when I'd eat 4 eggs, a chicken breast, a bowl of oatmeal, and two glasses of milk for breakfast. The insulin spiking nature of dairy and it's possible effects on autoimmune reactions is why I gave up milk completely a few months ago. I don't miss it at all besides the fact that it was easy, cheap nutrition. Mass gain really isn't a goal of mine anymore. I'm looking for functional strength and all around fitness. My legs and back still have a little catching up to do, but I'm feeling much more well rounded since I gave up anything resembling bodybuilding-type workouts a couple years ago. Getting my butt kicked sparring with middle age men with phenomenal conditioning really changed my outlook on fitness in general. I'm not concerned with appearances either. I used to be, and I think it just led to lots of strength asymmetries. Looking at my old workouts and my current ones, it really was easy to get a 400lb bench press compared to my goals now (being able to do lots of burpees, thrusters, pull ups etc)

You're absolutely right, I am a addict . I have this weird fear (probably from my adolescent years spent trying to get big) that if I don't eat when I'm hungry, I'll be wasting my time in the gym. People who are on the paleo diet say they are never unsatisfied (after a few weeks), so maybe I just need to bite the bullet and see what happens after I implement it. I'll time a few WODs and take note of a few PRs and see if anything is adversely affected. I've heard it is impossible to lose body fat and gain strength simultaneously, but if crossfit has taught me anything, it's that strength isn't fitness. So maybe I can just aim to increase body-weight exercise reps while implementing the diet rather then trying to keep my powerlift numbers. I'm only 10% BF, and I like a challenge, so maybe it's not as big of a deal as I make it out to be. Thanks for the tips, I'll give the natural calm a look.

Read this and thought I'd share my experience with the paleo diet.... I hate to think of myself as a dieter, but with my family's history of disease certainly caused by poor diet, I like to think of it as a lifestyle change instead of some fad diet. A little background: -24 years old, 6'1", 200lbs -Grew up lifting weights to gain mass (from 16 to 22 years old) -Two years ago, after a fitness epiphany, I switched to doing crossfit type workouts to try to gain functional fitness (one thing I can say for certain is that working out to gain all-around fitness is much more physically and mentally demanding than doing low-intensity, marathon sessions in the gym trying to get big) I've tried the paleo diet for the last five months or so and have had little success with getting on it. I'm also only about 80% compliant to it when I try to implement it. Cutting out sugars, fried foods/bad oils, processed foods, milk, legumes, etc, is no problem. The real problem comes from my need for carbs. Namely, bread or pasta. When I'm eating paleo and working out every day, I find that I can't go to sleep at night without having an english muffin (or 3). I'll actually lay in bed for an hour or so and end up going to the kitchen at midnight scrounging for whatever sort of grain based food I have left in the house....sometimes just dry oats. In an attempt to stop this I've started eating my dose of daily grain-based food after working out since I've read that an insulin spike after exercise is good for recovery. It works for the most part...I'm not starving at night. As far as the diet's effect on my level of fitness: it's hard to tell since it is easy for me to gain fitness and cut fat without any attention to diet... just an hour a day of crossfit-type workouts (ie complex, varied, high-intensity). Its hard for me to say that I just don't have the will power to get myself used to the diet. So maybe I'm just not getting enough calories and need to throw in another meal of lean meat, vegies, and nuts between dinner and sleep. But this is not what I'm craving...I guess there is a reason that I've heard some crossfiters call cutting out grains "getting of the crack"...it is tough. I can say that I feel fantastic even when I'm only eating paleo 80%. Anyways, that's my experience with it. Thanks for listening and for any feedback from some of the practical shooter/nutrition experts, Dave

I need at least a small meal worth of balanced real food in me then an hour or so to digest....so working out at 7am doesn't fly with me. Working out later in the day/early evening is easier for me although it can make falling asleep early tough. I get the feeling that my inability to get up and exercise strenuously early in the AM stems from my addiction to carbohydrates...something to do with insulin levels, but I'm no biochemist.

You are supposed to pay a sales tax to your state when you buy a gun from an out of state dealer (anywhere with sales tax I believe, not just CA). I don't think many people do though.

Did you also have a really tough time removing the magazine when the you had that problem?

My loads that made 178PF with 4.9gr S1000 are 1.180". Maybe loading a little longer is also an option since I used to load them to 1.225 and reliability was fine.

Interesting. This crossed my mind but I figured there are too many variables to do this. I'll give it a shot. Thanks