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Funny you should mention this- I’m in Japan right now, trying to get Practiscore to let me register for a match in Phoenix next week, and it keeps resetting location and showing me matches “in my area”. Impossible to get it to behave on my phone, had to use my laptop to reset the map.

Stream worked fine for me.

I’m just past 1200 rounds and the thing just runs, so long as ammo is reasonably clean. Aguilla HV has been a problem for ejection, but just about everything else is fine so long as you don’t crack a bunch of dry fires on empties. Then it gets hard to extract. The Speedbeez kit is really a great convenience for this little blaster, and the loader block/case they make is extremely handy for steel challenge.

Set the sensitivity down to about 3 and gradually increase the adjustment until it picks up stray shots. Then back it off at least one. Set echo delay LONGER but not as long as your best split times. It comes configured with 0.12, try 0.13. Remember that you can save the indoor setup separately (p1, p2, p3).

The guy I shoot with regularly has not had keyhole problems with any other coated projectiles, but I am not certain about the mass he’s using- that’s obviously an additional variable. For me, no keyholes at all with the 150 Syntech, but I have just a half case remaining and moved on to 147 grain Blazer Brass and Lawman since using the Syntech last year. I did notice that it shoots around 2” at 25 yards from my 5” HK’s, but spat 6” groups in one of my 4” SIGs and so there is definitely a barrel dependency thing here.

I haven’t had problems with it personally, except the 150 USPSA marked Action Pistol rounds chronographed at 146 PF at my state match last year. There’s much cheaper and equally reliable ammo out there if you’re in that PF range. It was accurate for me. That said, one guy I shoot with regularly and another I know have had keyholes with it from time to time.

Back to topic, current match breakdown for the level 2 UT state USPSA championship:

Our second match of this month comes this weekend- LO participants still decreasing a bit, from about 12 percent last week down to about 8 percent. That proportion is actually in alignment with current pre-registration for our state championship coming up at the end of August, which is currently a little more than 2/3 full.

After a burst of interest, LO in my local club (SLPSA) is more or less half of what it was in the first six weeks of availability. I think people dabbled and perhaps, some realized that it just wasn’t different enough for their taste, with quite a few dabblers seemingly going back to CO with 7 weeks to go till our state match. Here’s this weekend’s upcoming match breakdown, with two slots still available.

Certainly some. I'm just hoping my past five years of nothing but strikers hasn't overwritten my previous 25 of 1911's. LOL.

He’s a hard working RO and I’m disinclined to be very critical of him. I stand by my view that the appendix could be clearer on this subject.

Agreed, that is how I see it as well.

Recently I was tapped to run technology for my local club's steel challenge, as the regular guy was unavailable. I decided to only shoot one gun rather than the two or three I would normally run for an SCSA match. Despite the minor distraction of running the iPads, wifi and timer sync, I had two of my best stage times ever. Sometimes, when you have distractions, doing one thing as well as you can can be useful. As one of Clint Eastwood's more iconic characters once said, "a man's got to know his limitations". Anyway, back on topic, I feel that the new appendix D9 could have been slightly better refined, because right now I'm in a cordial debate with one of my club CRO's about whether it's allowed to run a CO Shadow 2 DA/SA cocked and locked for LO, as one of my squad guys wants to do in our first upcoming match allowing LO. The fact that there's a question about it from a highly experienced and competent NROI certified CRO tells me maybe it could have been made a little more clear. (Seems clear to me that it should be OK, but I'm not a CRO).

I’ve only met YML once. What I know from that experience is that he is an intelligent and extremely competent man who worked his tail (can’t say butt, right?) off at my state match in unbearably hot conditions for days on end. Deeds, not words.

Mine took from June to November of 2022. This guy is a one-man shop, there is still a lot of demand for these devices, and it takes time.