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If you're loading your own you need to know it's velocity, then look up the Ballistic Coefficient of the bullet you use. Once you have that you can use one of the many ballistic calculators on line to check the flight path of your specific load. From there you can plot your zero. This will get you close but you never really know until you can shoot on paper at distance.

Cody is a class act!

I would do stirrup cuts on the slide back to just in front of the recoil plug channel and then cut the dust cover to line up.

Hogue's new holsters have 3 positions for the belt bracket, forward, straight up and rearward. Its not extreme but it does have the option http://www.hoguestore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=7823 They also make them for long dust cover guns.

It could be the lug on the stock under the buffer tube hole that engages the hole in the reciever. If its too long the stock wont sit flush on the reciever and if its too small in dia. the stock can trist slightly. File if its too long and if its to small in dia. put some heat on it and mash it a bit to peen up some material so it fits the hole tight.

USI/Diablo Rod & Gun Club have an Action Pistol club for USI and Diablo R&GC members only (DAP, Diable Action Pistol) and they hold a USPSA type match the 2nd Sunday of every month as well as an IDPA matche onthe 4th Sunday and a 3 stage Steel Challenge match every Wednesday night during the summer. I say "USPSA type" because they use the USPSA rule book but do not allow USPSA members who are not Daiblo RGC members to shoot. The parent club states liability reasons for the excultion thus you have to be a member and go through the DAP orientation class. Diablo Rod & Gun Club is easy to join and the due are only $25 per year. A number of the better shooters in the area are members and do attend the DAP matches. Besides Richmond and Chabot there is a USPSA match at the Yolo club and 2nd Sunday of every month and the Sacramento Range has a full calender every month with USPSA, IDPA and Steel Challenge.

Schueman sends intruction with thier barrels that say don't cut into the veritcal on the lug.

Trevor is a great guy. We were squadded with him at the Steel Challange last year (my daughter is in the story at 27:07). It was an honor to shake his hand and thank him for his service.

Lots of guys have a specific long range load and another cheaper FMJ load for close stuff. My rifle has a 300 zero for the long load but the FMJ load is very close out to 100. The improtant thing to know is where your rifle shoots from 1 foot to 75 yards for those head shots with no shoots below.

Im part of a group of six 3-gunners and we all started with 1100's and all of us went to Benelli's after so many match disasters with them. If you want to shoot a Remington the Versa-Max is the hot ticket.

I like the Schueman Hybrid better because the gun doesn't get as dirty under the slide unless you cut a large hole or long slot around the ports which doesn't look good in my opinion. As far has how they shoot, to me all guns are different and its what you're used to shooting that makes a different in your performance.

This was the classifier at our club match last weekend. I hadn't shot it since 2007. 5.36 with 58 points 10.8209 HF. It felt slow when I did it so in my head I though a GM time would have to be sub 5 seconds. It broke down to 1.21 first shot, and as I stepped through the splits I saw them from .18-.28, 1.81 for the reload and transition to the other array (the reload was clunky). The calculator says 98+% for Open so I'm happy with it. When the match was over a couple of us shot it again for fun. I did a 4.88 but dropped lots of points. 1.11 first, 1.61 reload/transition so I made up time there but rushing the paper did work so good. Its a fun stage when it goes well.

Welcome to the forum. Where in CA are you located?

I thought the sight was an STI but it is a Caspian. I called them and they sent a couple from returned sights and only chaged a couple bucks for shipping. The sight is in an Infinity slide and when I went to chase the threads I found that the hole was not threaded all the way through to the firing pin channel. I'm sure this caused the problem in the first place when, at some point, I cranked the sight all the way down and the threads at the end of the screw were flattened. When I adjusted it back up there wasn't much left to hold onto the threads in the slide.

Didn't realize ICORE had Mulligans for after the buzzer competitor equipment failure? They do. In the rule book , Section 8 Reshoots are mandatory under the following circumstances: 4. When the Range Officer and Match Director concur on special circumstances for granting a reshoot. As I heard the story FWIW, it didn't break in the middle of a stage it was broken before a shot was fired. With no time to record it was as if he didn't start the stage. If asked, I would have voted for the reshoot.

You can also put weld bead on the back of the trigger and file until the hammer falls just remember the hammer won't lock back in single action.

Slower powders work better for Major but for Minor there's not much gas to work with no matter what you use. 9mm in a ful size 1911 is a pretty soft shooting package to start with and when you add a comp there's not much recoil/muzzle rise at all. I don't think you'll find a noticable difference between powders at Minor velocities

I shot Extreme 124's behind 4.0 of Titegroup out of my full size open gun with a schueman 3 port hybrid barrel and 2 port comp. They are accurate enough and gun the gun fine. It shoots like a 22 compared to shooting it with 9 Major loads.

Yeah, that would be awful!

In Bianchi, when the time is up there is nothing to shoot except on The Plates. Amen, my last shot was at 10:31!

Ok, here's my .02 I'm not really a fan of the stage and not just because I took a 10 second overtime penalty that cost me the 3 places (I'm with John and lowering it to 5). When I practice for the ICORE I usually focus only on Standards because in my mind it is THE match and it's one of the things I dislike most. If I'm out at the range and I don't shoot Standards I feel I've wasted my practice time. Its the stage that can make or break you. Look at Rich, finished behind Jerry by less than 7 seconds, won 6 stages and tied on another but Jerry shot a 6 and Rich a 19. Last year they were less than 2 seconds apart on Stadards. The issue is with 4 par times is if you have a small hickup that may only cost you 2-3 seconds on any other stage can totaly ruin the whole match. It wouldn't be as bad if the match was scored like USPSA Time-Plus rather than total time as that would allow you the chance of getting some of it back and maybe saving your match. (Time-Plus has every stage worth 100 points, lowest time wins the stage and every body else gets a percentage of the 100 points based on the percentage they shot of the low time). Not allowing regular LMR prep between stings makes it even worse. I would like to make sure my front sight isn't bent (or dot lens isn't smudged) and that my reload moon will still fall in without issue. I think removing the par time keeps the challenge and removes it as the make or break stage for the match.

That's true every year. And some years there have been genuine concerns regarding whether all the top shooters were presented with the same shooting challenge. Differences in lighting, wind, and precipitation can have a significant impact on a shooter's performance on the Far and Near. That's true to some extent with any kind of stage--but the effect is magnified when you're trying to get good hits at 50 yards under time pressure. It's definitely different when its cold and rainy with a 20-mph cross wind than when the weather is beautiful and the sun is in the perfect spot to light up the targets. Well said Mike. It made less of a difference when Standards was not in the schedule but up to the shooter when to do it. Now its in the schedule and this year Friday afternoon was sunny with a little breeze and Saturday morning was cold and foggy. Which conditions would you like for your first stage of the day if that stage is Standards?

BJ Norris uses them on his 22 and Open guns, that should tell you something. You might check his website for the dot size.

It was a great match! Good stages, a great prize table and the best match staff anywhere! Thanks to all the sponsors for their support of the revolver addicted. I shot Limited for the first time since 2003 and except for an overtime penalty (10.31 ouch!) and a miss at 50 on the standards I'm happy with my performance. 12th in Limited and 3rd A. I made it to the semi's in the shoot-off but took myself out by shooting the stop popper before the last small tombstone (you're welcome John). I'll be back next year but Open or Limited?

Take her to a range that rents guns and let her try a variety or, if you're like me, buy a bunch and what she doesn't like goes in my pile