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See you guys at Nationals!!
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Hi all.
Hopefully the BE brothers can help.
I have WSMII CR speed was used for glock.
I'm trying to use it for my Tanfoglio w/ custom squared trigger guard.
I can not find spacers to take up the difference in trigger guard width.
Anybody have spare or where to locate?
Thanks
Ed
DVC
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Can the older small competition framed Tanfoglio's handle 9mmm major loads? Maybe converting a 9x21 to a 9mm?
Yes sir they can! I run an old custom Springfield P9 (rebadged Tanfoglio) and Custom EAA Witness both in small frame also. Was 9x21 when major was 175PF, rebarreled with old Bar-sto to 9x19 and works great with 165PF.
Henning sells 9x19 Briley Barrels if you need them.
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There's also a Chinese takeout place that isn't all that bad either!
CAZ: Any idea what the average temps are during that time of Oct. ?
Did you guys miss the Red Rock Casino, now why not treat yourself to a Super Buffet!
And I'll add feast on the secenery.
Cocobolo,
I'll meet you there at Red Rock for Buffet!! Great food!!
I'm shooting OPEN.. See you guys there!
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I think that most people lack the ability to vary their aggressiveness in movement during stage runs. Most shooters will default to a single speed of movement through the whole stage run which is usually dictated by the shooting difficulty of the stage. Work on mixing up your movement speed through the stage to set the movement threshold right at the efficiency limit of the shot difficulty. Being able to vary your movement speed throughout a stage run is usually a big aspect of what separates the top shooters from the rest of us.
The same could be said for being able to shoot effectively while you accelerate or decelerate while shooting on the move. A lot of people are pretty decent at shooting as they decelerate and move into a shooting position. Not too many people are good at shooting as they are accelerating out of a position. The top flight GM's can effectively engage targets in both conditions. The average shooter can only engage targets as they are decelerating and settling into a shooting position.
I think that the key isn't to be super "Athletic" in your movement but instead to be able to move aggressively WHILE being smooth. The top USPSA/IPSC shooters in the world use every step taken in a stage to their advantage. Every step taken gets them closer to the end of the COF as soon and as smooth as possible. Check out the below links to stage runs of Henning Wallgren shooting at the 2007 Double Tap Championship. His body movement and foot work through these stages is flawless and thus it looks effortless. He has no tension in his shooting, no wasted movement, and more often then not his gun is running the whole stage run. He is attacking these stages not with aggressiveness but instead with efficiency of movement.
http://www.henningshootsguns.com/movies/2007/2007Dtc/2006dtc_st7_wallgren.wmv
http://www.henningshootsguns.com/movies/2007/2007Dtc/2006dtc_st8_wallgren.wmv
http://www.henningshootsguns.com/movies/2007/2007Dtc/2006dtc_st12_wallgren.wmv
BINGO!
Efficency is key although optimum fitness always a good idea. My local club GM Jojo V. is another good example of efficient shooting. vids: http://nrg.jvdynamics.com/nrg/
Sprints work provided one controls your entry speed. Cha-lee you may remember at GBC in July Stage 7.. Depending how stage was attacked, after the first shooting position, shooter can sprint 20 yards or so to 2nd position and make up time there. I tried it but was out of breath and affected my shooting.. LOL.. hence again general fitness good idea!
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Who else is shooting Limited Minor?
Jeff
I shoot it once in a while with my 92FS. As simple as loading mags to capacity vs. 10 rds. Love it! Really allows the shooter to really take advantage of the doublestack pistols.
I believe IPSC Production rules are 15 rounds....
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Lot's of comments about liking to shoot not reload. If you're not reloading, you're not really doing practical shooting.
And if you're not shooting a .45, then why are you shooting at all.
Someone said "because it's the newest division". It's the ORIGINAL division. 1911s (euphemistically referred to as single stacks) were winning IPSC matches before you were born and they were winning bullseye matches before that and still are.
I'm with you there.... SS is THE gun to use when I started practical shooting as a teen in the early 90's. There literally was no other pistol to shoot at the time. In fact my Open gun before was a SS in 45ACP and Clark Pinmaster Comp and Bomar. Then cutting edge came in as the higher capacity ie: 10 Round 38 Super and 2 Port Compensator... OOOOOOOh.. Limited was the same pistol minus compensator and in 45.. Man o man, I was on point then on the reloads. Today, my 28 round 170mm big stick makes me lazy to reload..
I believe it's Just evolution and pistol style and models are just preferences and eventually your skill will be apparent regardless of what gear you are using. In fact at my club, we have the luxury of shooting with the USPSA president and he still kicks everyones ass with a SS. Goes back to "indian not the arrow"
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Congratulations!! I love hearing about people getting hooked to the shooting sports. I'm personally a long time USPSA shooter and started IDPA last year.
I believe Trigger time is trigger time, each game has rules to follow and we as shooters strive to perform to the best of our abilities. Admittedly, I do sense competitiveness between the two camps, it's like "My MMA is better than your Brazilian Jujitsu!"
I learned this quote from the late Mr. Ed Parker - "There are no pure styles of Karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or who receives"
I'm after the end result, Shooting Skill.
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Fred:
That's moving!
40 s&w loading on 1050 = 6 min
9mm loading on 1050 w/ Mr. Bulletfeeder = 3Min
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I learned about this lube from the early 90's from my dad. The bottle I have is 18 years old!
http://www.prolixlubricant.com/order.html
Great to see they are still in business.
+1 on Royal Purple 5w/30
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Morning !
Update:
My performance has improved tremendously. Learning to "unlock" my eyes from the sight to target is so much the key to my shooting. The advantage of Red dot is only needing to focus on where you want to hit and let the peripheral vision do the rest.
I went back to my Production pistol thinking I would now just hose without using sights. I now notice that iron sights just require another step of shifting my focus back to front sight for and acceptable sight picture, then break the shot, follow through, call the shot.
My early days of FRONT SIGHT! FRONT SIGHT! caused the "riding" the sights, which is way to slow.
Thank you very much Brian and fellow BE members!
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I attended the Golden Bullet Championship this past weekend. This trip was a first for a couple of things and cool to experience. This was the first time I have flown with my shooting equipment and I was really surprised at how easy it was to check my gun and ammo in at the airport. It was truly effortless which I didn't expect. The second was shooting at the Richmond Gun Club which is just north of San Francisco. I showed up at the range on Thursday to break down the stages and get the lay of the land. All of the stages were well planned out and challenging to shoot. I seen Taran Butler shooting that day with the RO's and he was shooting Limited so I knew that the bar was going to be set really high for the rest of the Limited shooters. I watched him shoot a couple of stages and his speed of fire is incredible. I got a decent plan or all of the stages and was pretty much ready to go for the next day.
Saturday morning I was squadded with a great group of shooters that were a lot of fun to shoot with. I didn't know anyone on my squad and we only had 10 people on the squad so I didn't want to over step my welcome asking them to film my stage runs. I am sure that they would be willing to film my runs if I asked. I just didn't want to cause any issues if people didn't feel comfortable with doing it. I am kind of glad that I didn't film the runs as it allowed me to focus totally on the shooting. Listed below are my stage runs in the order that I shot them.
Chrono/ Stage 2 - This berm had the Chrono setup for you to run through then immediately shoot the stage which was a classifier called "The Upper Pad II". On the chrono my first round was slow at 908fps, then 916fps, then 935fps giving me a PF of 165.5. This was cutting it close but my gun has almost always been slow on the first few rounds fired in the morning. I have shot this classifier before and knew that you would have to shoot pretty fast to get a decent run but I also didn't want to push my luck and end up with a miss. So I decided to hold back a little and survive the first stage without any penalties. I didn't realize how much I scaled it back until they called out the stage time at 8 seconds. This was two seconds slower than the last time I shot it. Yuck. I at least got all of my hits and since it was a low points stage it wouldn't hurt me too bad in the match results.
Stage 3 - This was the first of many medium size COF's. There was really only one way to shoot this stage because you were forced to run to each shooting position. The first two positions had two medium distance targets and one low close target. The middle two positions had two paper and one popper between them. Then the last position had a step pad that activated two drop forward and return no shoots which we're pretty fast. When they closed you were left with half a head shot which was pretty brutal. You had to have some serious shooting and transition speed to get both targets when the no shoots dropped forward. I started the stage and hauled ass to the first position shooting the first two targets fast and then dropped down to shoot the low target and had trigger freeze on the second shot. Right after that I told myself to RELAX and the rest of the stage flowed well. I was able to call all of my shots and haul ass between positions. At the end I was able to hit both no shoot drop down targets while they were exposed. I think this was a pretty solid run only giving away about a second on the trigger freeze.
Stage 4 - This was an interesting stage with a lot of different shooting positions. There was only one logical path through the COF so it was more of who could execute the best than anything else. You started forward then had to back out to the left. There were four targets to engage at the start and a lot of shooters were standing at the start position while they engaged these targets. I stepped back and kept walking backwards as I engaged these first targets and that put me a lot closer to the second position by the time I was done shooting. After that there were a couple groups of steel and paper targets that lead you to a port where you engaged two rows of poppers. The back poppers would fall on a universal trip line that would activate two swingers. Both swingers presented themselves on the first pass at the same time but the left one cycled faster. My plan was to shoot the front row of poppers then the back row. Then shoot the right swinger first followed by the left. Well that was the "plan" but when I got there my second shot missed the second front row popper but hit the back row popper triggering the swingers way ahead of schedule. I let the shooting just happen at this point and shot what I could see. This didn't turn out too bad because I was able to hit the right swinger on its first pass, then work on the remaining poppers while waiting for the left swinger to come out. It seemed like it was a timed plan to shoot it that way but it was really nothing more than getting lucky during my shooting frenzy. I probably wasted a second in the final port though.
Stage 5 - This was basically a four corner fire drill. You started in the back middle then went to the back left. There were two partial papers, two poppers, then a swinger. Then you haul ass to the back right and you have two more partial papers an open paper an also a clam shell that left a head shot when closed. The clam shell was activated by a step pad and there was very little delay or exposure of the full target before the no shoot closed down. The challenge here was that the step pad was placed right in the way of where you needed to stand. This required some tricky foot work as you shot the open target to activate the clam shell at the right time. Executing well here would make or break the stage. After that you run to the front left and engage four plates and two more partials. Then you wrap up the stage by running to the front right and engage two poppers, two paper, then a head shot that is obscured to the bottom of the upper A-zone from around a barrel. I executed well on the stage and thought I had a solid run. But I ended up with a miss on the head shot. I took three shots at it and called one of them left but figured the other two would be there. All three hits were on target but two were through the barrel. Oh well. It is what it is.
Stage 6 - This was the memory stage of the match. There was a boat load of ways to shoot the stage and the wall and target placement created some really tight shots if you missed your positions. You could shoot more of the targets from further back but it required pin point precision in hitting your positions. I opted for the closer plan that had me moving more but kept the gun running a lot more. This plan worked out well. I needed a few make up shots but kept the gun and feet moving most of the time.
Stage 7 - This was an odd stage. You started anywhere outside the shooting area but the stage had you moving to both extreme ends of the COF. So really the only way to start was on the left side and shoot as you moved to the right. You started by engaging two poppers and two paper though a port where you had to swivel a blocker door out of the way. This door rested on your hands as you shot as well so this was an odd situation. After that you moved a step to the right and engaged three paper then hauled ass to the extreme right side of the stage. On the right you engaged three mini poppers and a partial paper through a port then stepped left to engage another mini popper and a Texas star. The Texas star had four shoot plates and one hard cover so it would become unbalanced as you shot the plates off. I shot the stage well up until the star where I needed three extra shots trying to shoot down the left side of it. If I had the chance to do it again I would have shot it the normal back and forth way engaging the hard cover plate as well. But at the time it didn't occur to me to shoot it the normal way because of the hard cover plate.
Stage 8 - this was a really fun long stage that was almost a mirror image on both sides. You had to go to both extreme ends to engage a single target. Then next to that was a port where you engaged four poppers a paper then a drop turner that disappeared. The poppers were all lined up in a row with the last popper activating the DT. In the middle of the stage you had a series of targets blocked by walls pointing down range. The best way to shoot these was on the move with some serious foot speed. A lot of the stage time here would depend on the sequence of target engagement through the ports. You could go big and shoot the activating popper first then the other three and the static paper then finish on the DT. But that would require some seriously fast shooting. I decided to use safer plan by shooting the steel first finishing on the activator and then shoot the static paper as I waited for the DT. When I shot the stage this plan was way too conservative and I ended up waiting at least a second for each DT to come out. I did shoot the middle on the move really well but had the dreaded mag won't drop issue when I initiated the reload. I had to rip the old mag out before inserting the new one and this cost me another second or two as well. This was my worst planned stage of the match. I gave away at least three seconds on the DT's due to my conservative plan. Then the mag issue was just another donkey punch to the stage time. I should have been able to shoot this stage in 13 - 14 seconds but ended up with a 17 second run. No bueno
Stage 1 - This was the last stage of the day for me and I ended up being the last shooter on the squad. This stage was full of log jams and precise position shooting. You started on the left with a phone on your ear. The base of the phone was on a step pad placed on a table. Pushing down on the step pad activated two different swingers. Since you could activate the swingers when you wanted I chose to gently hang up the phone so it wouldn't activate, engage the first two targets then hit the step pad and move to the second shooting position as I engaged the first swinger on its first pass. The middle section had a series of shuffle step shooting positions where you engaged popers and partial paper targets along with the second swinger. There wasn't any way to make this middle section flow due to the target placement. Then you moved to the far right and engaged two more poppers and three more paper before moving to the end of the stage where you were faced up against a polish plate rack. I shot the polish plate rack from center out in a deliberate controlled pace knocking the plates off one for one until the last plate which required two shots. Shooting it in this smooth pace and order kept the plate rack very level. It barely moved at all, which was nice as this thing can be evil if you let it get unbalanced. I shot this stage well and got all of my hits, which is a lot more than most could say with all of the partials and no shoots.
The day was done and I had a great time shooting at a different match with completely new people. I hope that I was able to make some new friends on my squad. I am sure I will see some of them at future matches. On Sunday I showed up later in the afternoon to double check my scores and wait for the awards ceremony. After the scores were tallied I ended up second in Limited at 85% of Taran Butler. It was cool to finish second in Limited but getting stomped by 15% was a wake up call letting me know that I have a long ways to go at getting better. On a positive note I succeeded in my performance goal of calling all of my shots. Allowing myself to shoot in the present tense for a whole match is a huge confidence builder for me. I just need to keep building my skills one brick at a time.
Good job on your Limited performance Cha-Lee!!! Next time, all BE members should meet up.
Going to Nationals? I'll be there...
I agree was a good Match , I competed in Open, squadded with some Locals and a few of the best Women shooters I have seen. Valerie, Athena, Jenny and Lily!
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My biggest USPSA tip is to focus on strategy(target engagement, movement and reloading "spots") and let the fundamentals (marksmanship, trigger control, reloading, transitions) flow through practice.
Being a long time IPSC/USPSA shooter since the early 90's.. I started IDPA this year. I love it too!
I look at this way, both are same game just different rules. Trigger time is trigger time......
Enjoy!
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Reloading is another addiction already! My friends didn't understand why on earth I would reload, until they shot the match with me and went through half of their year supply of factory ammo
. I did have an adrenaline dump my first few stages which caused poor grip & trigger control. It actually took another 3 shooters going after me before my nerves calmed down.
This is very much a "mental" game. I describe it to my friends who think I'm some sort of yahoo with guns. I tell them it's akin to golf.
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Hey Everyone,
I'm just reporting in after shooting my first ever USPSA match this weekend. First and foremost I had a blast and learned A TON! Everyone was very helpful, walking me through the stage and giving me pointers on how to attack certain areas of a stage. I think I was 23 out of 36, and the great thing is there was noticeable improvement after each stage I went through.
My very first stage started with a Texas Star! I had only ever seen one on youtube up until this weekend and it was quite the challenge. I should have some videos and I think I'll be posting a range diary to keep track of progress/lessons learned. The only negative thing that happened was a giant pepper popper falling down smashing my big toe when I was resetting steel behind it (OUCH!).
Anyways, I just thought I'd share a little after my first event...and let everyone know I'm here and I'm hooked!
Awesome! Welcome to your new addiction! Yup, falling steel on toes is like a rite of passage. It will/should only happen once, that's it....
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See you guys there!! My first Open Nationals....
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Hello all,
Just wanted to update all the So Cal guys/gals about Upcoming Monthly match at Prado Olympic Shooting Park in Chino, CA.
Range Website: www.shootprado.com
6 Stages including Classifier
USPSA/NRA Sanctioned match.
$30 Match Fee.
Seasoned and New Shooters Welcomed!
July 11, 2010. Held every 2nd Sunday of the Month.
Also add us as a friend on Facebook
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Hello all,
Just wanted to update all the So Cal guys/gals about Upcoming Monthly match at Prado Olympic Shooting Park in Chino, CA.
Prado Running Gun Club Website
Prado Olympic Shooting park Website
6 Stages including Classifier
USPSA/NRA Sanctioned match.
$30 Match Fee.
Seasoned and New Shooters Welcomed!
July 11, 2010. Held every 2nd Sunday of the Month.
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Great show! I have never shot a crossbow or longbow..
I think I'll go to Bass Pro in Rancho and go check it out...
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hey man nice work!
Thanks BL !!
Did you all see Ben on TOP Shot representing Beretta Professional? woohoo!!
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that's one of the reasons I bought the brigadier (inox) model(s).
granted it was a bug-a-boo to get the old front sight pushed out of its dovetail...and to get the new dawson precision FOFS pushed into the slot.
so far I have only done one of my brig inox's that way.
I couldn't really see spending upwards of $250 on FOFS's to out fit all four of my brig inox's .
I just use the factory white dot on black, sights.
I totally agree.. I really want to go that route and but not spend just for a new slide for a Production/SSP Pistol.
I was cleaning the pistol one day and realized the Trijicon "vial" was a bit dim and noticed it was just pressed it by the factory. Punched it out, put in some rod, melted it.
Instant FO ! It's not 100% since there is no cut on the top of the sight for more light collection, only collects light from the muzzle end where I melted the rod, but it lights up well enough for outdoors. I combined it with a LPA adj rear sight, i'm done with the sight system on this pistol.
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Beretta & Ben go together like peas & carrots. Congrats on the Top Shot deal.
I switched to a glock now though. I will have one at area 5.
Was it the "Grip angle?"
Loved the TOP Shot episode Ben!! Great job! You are the best Ambassador for the Beretta 92FS....
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Im pretty happy with T-mobile except with their inability to offer the latest and greatest phones. I noticed the new HTC HD2, but its Windows mobile and Not Android. Their Android offerings are slim pickins. Ive got a blackberry now, but am looking for a change.
Anyone have good things to say about the new Windows Mobile ? How about the MyTouch 3G, is that one any good ? I didnt care for the first MyTouch.
Maybe Verizon wouldnt be such a bad switch come July when contract is up. My Signal and plan prices are what has kept me with T-mobile for so long. My plan would go up a noticable amount switching to Verizon or ATT. Sprint is pretty much out because of prior experiences by myself and wife.
DW,
I see you have Black Berry now and may stick with the "Smartphone" Maybe I can help...
What do you plan to do with you mobile/cell phone other than voice and/or text messaging?
BB strengths are email/enterprise email.
Business use, Personal or combination?
Browse Web?
Open spreadsheets?
Open Docs?
Calendar / scheduling use?
Social networking (other than be.com)?
Watch videos?
Games?
Carriers offer a few different types of OS based on consumer needs/ preferences. Answering those questions will help you find the best one.
Then later this year 4G will be released to certain areas, perhaps hang tight till then to make a decision ....
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Just noticed you picked up the HTC... i'm a bit late in reading ... Enjoy it, great device..!!!
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Rob,
I feel where you coming from brotha.....
I work for cell ph company as well, happens all the time over the phone, but in person is a different story.
The stores do have it rough because of face to face contact. Unfortunately, some feel they will get their way by "bogarting" their will to get what they want.