1911Prof

The parts are on their way from Dillon as we speak. Great company

Hey, I’m having problems with my 650 not advancing the primer wheel because the index arm will not spring forward far enough to lock into the next hole. Everything lines up, it’s like the spring doesn’t have enough umph to push it over to catch the next primer hole. Suggestions?

Let me start with the obligatory "I wasn't there, but..." I know the RO and he is one of the nicest guys in the world without a single a_-hole bone in his body. I suspect he is a newb to the whole RO thing and my guess is when the shooter intentionally dumped a couple of extra shots into the no shoot he was startled and reacted. It was clearly a bad call from a newb RO, but that is why it is in the rules that we get to object. I am not suggesting that we become "that guy" that wants the overlays on every perf, but ROs are people and people make mistakes. I guess the take home message is that don't be afraid to call bulls#!t to the MD, its in the rules that we get to do that for a reason. I suspect it is a lesson that the shooter will never forget. But what do I know, I shoot open so I bitch about everything.

It looks like a Cape magwell

Well, got off the phone with Apex and they are sending me a new hammer kit. They are great people to deal with.

I hope this is the answer to a nagging problem with intermittent light strikes that I have had for a while. I put the original, (now carmonized) hammer back in the gun, and it runs like a top. I had a few again right before the hammer completely gave way so now, fingers crossed, that problem is solved too. Just as a side note, do we owe Carmoney royalty every time we say that?

Well after a few inexplicable light strikes, my 929 stopped working completely, barely striking the primer. Initially I thought it was the firing pin, but it turned out to be the hammer. Is this ever typical?

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After years of just trying to 'shoot faster' I am now just starting to really try to analyze different metrics on the total hit factor of stage. I'm trying to measure transition/acquisition times between close open targets and between distant/danger targets, average step time, stationary and moving reloads as well as splits. For me the killer is still time per step, I'm looking at an average of about 1 step every 0.5 seconds, so focusing on picking up .05 seconds on a split time is lost in the noise. Once you maximize all the other skills, the split time will be important, but for me, there are other areas that need (alot of) work.

I’m trying to figure out the effect of an over torqued barrel on the point of impact of a revolver. I understand the problems of the front sight not being vertical and the need to compensate with the rear sight, but I am uncertain as to if there is an effect on bullet trajectory other than sight alignment

Ok, I’m still pretty much a newb with revolver, but if people who know how to shoot wheel guns are willing to show me how it’s done, I’m game. Is there going to be a squad for revolvers? I’d be good with either Friday or Saturday/Sunday

So pretty much anything but Winchester?

What brass are you using with the 040 TK moons?

IT seems to really only be a problem with the stainless TKCustom .040 moons, the TKCustom .035 blue moons don't seem to have the same problem

Well the grips are definitely not the issue, I am beginning to believe a combination of really tight tolerances on the extractor and the bulge on some brass. I actually had to pull the spent brass/moon off the extractor. I am going to try a bulge buster and see if it helps

This could be part of a simple solution requiring no rule changes that could accommodate ICORE divisions including classic. I’m not sure how it would affect classifiers if they were part of match. For example, if you had a revolver optics in PractiScore how would you crosslink the classifier scores to open division in USPSA?

I’m wondering if I’m punching it before it is totally open and it’s hitting the grip and making it cocked

It is a 929 with .040 tkcustom moons. The gun is as vertical as you dare get it and since it never happens with unfired brass (dry fire) and only infrequently with spent brass, I doubt it is the angle of the gun

Greetings, newb question, but what do you do about spent brass sticking to the extractor during a reload? It is somewhat frustrating when in a match you are trying to reload into a cylinder and the brass is still stuck to the extractor and you need to punch the ejector rod a couple of times to get it to fall off. It of course never happens in dryfire because dummy rounds are not expanded by being fired. Is it the brass/moon combination I am using or is something else I should address. To clarify, it is not stuck in the cylinder, the spent brass is out of the cylinder and clinging to the extractor

i don’t think that people are looking for “participation” awards, but they do want a reason to shoot revolver. If there are not enough shooters that it is even recognized, you are shooting the match “for fun” and let’s face it, even if we have no chance of “winning” we are still drawn by competition. I think that reducing the number of shooters to recognize revolver shooters at matches is a great idea. By percentage of shooters that are actually ‘special’ enough to shoot revolver, three showing up to a match is a large number.

I suspect this could actually have a positive impact

I used to know a guy who shot revolver optics and would get bumped to open, and when I asked him he would say he honestly didn’t give a s#!t where he was put, he was just shooting for fun, I didn’t understand that at the time but I get it now. The problem is that when we get to that point you aren’t actually shooting USPSA, you are just using their targets to play your own game.

This is where I have gotten as well. Since ICORE has already solved this problem with their three divisions, I think we ought to recognize those divisions in USPSA. That means that classic revolvers will be recognized for what they are actually shooting, and people can shoot their open revolver without being categorized as USPSA open division. As a bonus I would get to see the open revolver shooters kicking people’s asses

It seems to me that revolver is always going to be small, made up of people who are going to spend a lot of money for equipment that is inherently slower (largely due to reloads) and more difficult to shoot. It seems wrong to make the 625 and other 6 round guns obsolete in USPSA, since that makes up a large section of the guns out there. Maybe we could split into classic (6 round major) and open 8 round with optics (major or minor). This means all those 6 round guns would have a home in USPSA and the high capacity 8 rounders would run with optics