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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.
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Have both, sold an extra ced to get an AMG end of last year, just sold the AMG last week.
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5 minutes ago, OpenshooterAclass4lyfe said:
I would also like to add that in my RO class taught by Troy he said something that has stuck with me since that class. To give a loose quote it was “All matches should be ran like a level 2 or up”. How many times have you heard people say “it’s just a local”. That’s a terrible mentality to have. Just because it’s a local doesn’t mean we can loosen up on the proper way to run things.
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.
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20 minutes ago, Sarge said:
Also remember the RO class is geared towards Level II and up in most cases. If I’m at an area match as an RO and Joe shmow says a shooter foot faulted I ask the other RO’s if they saw it. That’s all I do with shooter input. At a our locals half the shooters are RO’s with plenty of experience and a large number of us are seasoned CRO’s. If a shooter foot faults or shoots through a wall half the squad will bring it up. LOL
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.
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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.
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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.
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22 hours ago, Thomas H said:
I'm betting there are probably a bunch of us.
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.
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11 hours ago, waktasz said:
What I'm saying is hitting the reset button on these timers doesn't actually do anything. It just readies the timer for the next time you want to hit start. All the stuff is still in there. I probably hit reset about 20 times between shooters because I don't want to get to the point where I go to hit start and the button doesn't work because the reset button hasn't been hit yet. It's just a quirk of the CED 7000
And I thought I was the only one who constantly presses' the reset as I wait for the shooter through "make ready"
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Sent my 650 in for a 20 year service and had them added.
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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.
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1 hour ago, JWBaldree said:
The new March question of the Month, about clearing a jam with finger inside the trigger guard while keeping the gun indexed on a target. NROI taught me something new in their podcast regarding this specific case.
I'm almost afraid to listen to it now...
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17 hours ago, HesedTech said:
This! Had issues and it made a world of difference
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Or you can contact Dillon and get a new assembly. No bs warranty and my press was about 20 years old.
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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.
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I had been using the trugrip patterns for years to make my own, then switched over to Talon. Virtually the same as trugrip.
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How often do you take the powder assembly apart and clean it?
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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.
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205 euros last I saw, about $230. not sure what shipping would be
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10 hours ago, BritinUSA said:
The very top competitors have a skill set that can overcome any shortcomings in the design of their handguns. This is why the same people win the matches regardless of who their main sponsor is.
For those competitors with a much lower skill level, the gun can make a significant difference. Not only how the gun fits the hand and the amount of customization available, but it can also affect the mental game. If you think that the gun will help, it probably will.
I think more shooters in IPSC tend to favor CZ and Tanfoglio over polymer framed guns, not just because of the weight, but due to the Production rules. In IPSC it is legal to swap in customized parts in Production as long as those parts are offered by the original firearm manufacturer. Both CZ and Tanfoglio offer a number of such parts where-as Glock and other Polymer framed guns generally do not.
Valid point. Still comes down to the Indian, not the arrow.
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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.
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Who are the candidates now?
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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.
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Can also try downloading the magazine by one round.
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I used small Rx bottles.
Next shooter etiquette.
in General Match Issues
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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.