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If I'm up, I stop them and tell them the stage belongs to me now, your turn will come. Also as the RO with the timer most of the time, I pay attention and stop dickwads like that. Stage etiquette reinforced by the CRO/RO. You can say something to the RO, regardless of being new to that club or not.

More timer than I needed. Fellow shooter was wanting one for his training with his wife, I was never going to use it to whatever its potential was so no reason to keep it.

Have both, sold an extra ced to get an AMG end of last year, just sold the AMG last week.

YES! I hate the level 1 exemption crap, people not painting steel, other stuff like that. We aren't helping anyone who may go to a higher level match for teh first time by letting anything slide.

Exactly, the group of folks I regularly shoot with are a mixed bag of RO's, CRO's, MD's and RM's. We all mention what we see. How all of us get better. I've seen other squads when waiting that also have RO's but they are not as "attentive" to their buddies. New shooters on our squad get to see that there are no freebies.

My weak side shoulder has some tears (actually both sides do), and when I was at A8 last year, unloaded start, something stopped working in the shoulder and I could do little with my left hand for slide racking. Zeroed that stage (Stage 7, I believe). Even now unloaded starts are a loser for me as I cannot grip and rip from the front of the slide like I can at make ready. Apparently at speed it's a no-go. So I've found myself grabbing the optic this season in the first 3 matches. Not consciously, just happened. Far less pain and better maneuverability with the hand. If the optic goes, it goes. I'm not going to win anything, those days are gone, so better comfort than pooping the bed.

Welcome, Joel. You'll have East Huntington, Clairton and Pitcairn-Monroeville in your back yard. Greater Pitt a bit more out there. Lawrence County, Pardoe and Castlewood north of us, then the long haul to Gem City. Bedford just started USPSA shooting Wednesday's.

LOL, it's second nature with that timer. While I have both a CED7K and the AMG, I grab the CED first. I like the Commander (sold a backup CED to fund it) but I don't think the linking to Practiscore is all that big a deal.

And I thought I was the only one who constantly presses' the reset as I wait for the shooter through "make ready"

Sent my 650 in for a 20 year service and had them added.

Good to see you going through a process. After all this, perhaps it is the powder that is ultimately the problem. I'm surprised that other Alliant users haven't chimed in. It's too bad that you have no other powder to try, might see if a fellow shooter in your area would be open to helping you see if it's a powder issue by cycling his/her powder through your machine and/or vice versa, see if yours has the same problem elsewhere.

I'm almost afraid to listen to it now...

This! Had issues and it made a world of difference

Or you can contact Dillon and get a new assembly. No bs warranty and my press was about 20 years old.

It's kind of like when the pc or phone gets buggy, restart. Same with the press. None of it is hard to take apart, and a visual inspection of everything now and again is a good thing. Hope you get it resolved.

I had been using the trugrip patterns for years to make my own, then switched over to Talon. Virtually the same as trugrip.

How often do you take the powder assembly apart and clean it?

I simply called and asked my "healthcare concierge". Looking through printed material is too cumbersome. Whether I choose to do it or not depends on what model I pick.

205 euros last I saw, about $230. not sure what shipping would be

Valid point. Still comes down to the Indian, not the arrow.

Now you have me wondering what the status is of those Glocks that are placing high in the matches are tricked out to or with? Us saying that ours are a certain way doesn't necessarily translate to high placements and wins. Now if Glocks with weights or flashlights and the like are consistently there as opposed to your basic Glock with an extended mag with brass pad, Tungsten rod that tells us something.

Who are the candidates now?

Had to return mine. Even after replacing the button head screws with flat, and insuring that they were not interfering, I could not get the plate to run with the Dillon Wedge (and the DAA Wedge would not fit either). Maybe there was some design change or something 20+ years ago, don't know. Like the idea of the plate but could not get it to work, but it runs fine with the Dillon plate.

Can also try downloading the magazine by one round.

I used small Rx bottles.