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  1. They are correct it's not that simple. I am 73 and I also use 12-16 MOA C-Mores plus a few mini red dots on other firearms. One is a Trijicon Rm02a, the batteryless model with a 9MOA green dot on my G34 Open gun. I love it. Except for the cost that is. One thing is it takes more power to generate light in the green wavelength. While not as bad in an LED vs a laser it will mean the battery will not last as long, although I don't know the exact figures off the top of my head. Still if it was available I would get a couple. I just don't think they can do it in a module that would work in the current C-More.
  2. This was the RFRI version, with short handguard for mounting sights Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  3. I use my AR-22 sometimes in SC. It was built a few years ago. Taccom alloy sleeved barrel, Taccom conversion kit for the CMMG AR kit, Taccom titanium FP, A-P upper w/o AR Parts kit, PSA lower w/Timney trigger, Taccom carbon fiber pencil stock shortened, Umbrella/B5 grip, C-More Red dot, BDM mags. Weighs a little over 3 lbs like 3.25. No handguard just neoprene bike grip on barrel. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  4. You may have seen her on Shooting Gallery because she shot the entire 16 stages of the 2019 Rimfire Worlds without a single miss. That was her goal. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  5. Youngest person I ever saw shoot SCSA was VQ pro Ron Oliver's daughter Venice. She shot the Rimfire Worlds and her first sanctioned SC match at 7. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  6. Some rimfires had ackward safety positions. The ones using safeties similar to 1911 had a speed advantage. Even the Ruger with a post had a disadvantage compared to the paddle lever on the Brownings. With all semi-auto rimfires being single action it was either all use them or none use them. And they were not being drawn from a holster. They elected none. Maybe if then there was the aftermarket like there is now they might have decided all. But there was not. Almost all aftermarket parts then were either for Ruger or S&W 41. I think they made the correct call. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  7. Until you see Kolby Pavlock shoot irons you don't know how fast is fast. 4 time rimfire world champ shooting irons instead of optics, beating the top steel pros like BJ Norris and KC Eucebio who were shooting optics. This is or was to be the first year I will be shooting both open and limited in RCSA. So I have been shooting SCSA in both also. One thing to consider is your foot positions. If you get In position and snap your firearm up to the first target in dryfire and it's not right on the target, requiring a little adjustment then you are giving up time and your natural point of aim. So you want to adjust your position so the snap to the target is right on the first plate everytime. It's more important on the long guns due to the low ready position unlike centerfire where you can line your body to point at the first target. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  8. Since that class with Max I have had cataract surgery in both eyes, total knee replacement last year in my left leg and retina repair surgery in my non-dominant eye this spring. They say it will take close to a year to totally heal. But 2 weeks ago at age 72 I ran a 7.24 in S&H in RFRO. I think that is my first GM level score so there is hope yet at my age. And I shot it 1, 2, 3, 4, S instead of my usual 4, 3, 1, 2, S. Why? Because with the rifle shooting RH its easier to snap to the LH plate than it is it to actually go against your body to the RH plate. I point shot all the big plates snapped to the stop plate with the red dot finally to my eye. All in spite of messing up the first run and having to shoot 4 perfect runs, 1.91, 1.84, 1.82, and 1.67. I have had sub-2 second runs before but never had 4 in one stage.
  9. OK since you reached out to me personally here is what I did. I actually did this on both my 15-22 and on the 2 Blackhawk Axioms stocks I sometimes use on my 10/22. I swapped out all stock pieces with the Magpul Fixed Carbine stock piece. Could easily have been another Magpul stock but I like to figure out what the correct LOP is then lock it down. the Fixed Carbine stock has a crossbolt you have to drill out or notch out a section of the polymer "fake buffer tube" then insert the bolt and nut. OK but the main reason I went with the Magpul is they have interchangeable snap in cheek risers from as low as 1/4" to as high as 3/4". I found with the C-More 3/4" was correct and for Irons 1/4" was correct. If you like an adjustable stock and you don't like the way the stock piece wobbles on the 15-22 sometimes or the way I fixed it the next best thing is a Safariland/Rogers Supper Stock. In addition to the adjustment lever it has a lockdown lever that you can adjust the slop out and get the adjustable stock as rigid as a fixed stock. Personally I prefer my speed rifles to be back heavy and front light so I can leverage the transitions faster. My 15-22 and main 10/22 currently have VQ carbon fiber sleeved barrels on them, my 3-gun AR sports an American Barrel Systems carbon fiber wrapped barrel and both my PCC uppers (1 for SCSA and one for USPSA) have Taccom alloy shrouded or sleeved barrels on them. If she is going to go to a 10/22 soon then if she is small the absolute best stock for a junior shooter is the Blackhawk Axiom. Its a combo of a 10/22 front stock and an AR rear stock so you can use a Magpul stock on the back although I am pretty sure it needs the commercial tube and not the mil-spec tube. Big thing is it has a really short trigger LOP, perfect for young shooters. Same stock Mackenzie Bragg used to set a world record in Steel Challenge RFRO. Same one Ron Oliver's 7 year old daughter Venice used to shoot the Rimfire World Championship with.
  10. In Rimfire Challenge it's pretty much mandatory to have a comp even on iron sight rifles because some brands and models of timers have problems with rimfires in general. Currently in SC it's not required in Rimfire open or allowed on Rimfire irons but it might be later. Comps on rifles won't do anything for muzzle rise it's just for the timers. I have used several over the years and they all help.
  11. OK here is my take. I have seen a lot of cool rimfire 2011s from people like Grimes and Striplin, but I have seldom competed against people shooting conversions. Some history, BJ and I use to talk over this forum back in the late 2000's when we were both shooting Buckmarks because we did similar testing with various parts. Later when he shot for S&W he used a conversion on top of his scandium frame, which he said he used because it felt the same as his open gun. When he left S&W and was on his own he showed up at the Ruger Worlds that year shooting a Ruger Mk III (non-22/45). When I asked him why he said after extensive testing he gained a tenth of a second with the Luger grip angle over a 1911 grip angle on the first shot. So I built a Frankenruger Mk III (only the bolt is still a Ruger part) and it does seem to be faster even though the grip does not seem as easy to hold secure as the 1911 angle on my Buckmarks. And both guns are built as identical as possible, with the same C-Mores, same 90 degree mounts, TacSol barrels, Allchin comps, Hogue G10 grips, and the "Ruger" uses a VQ lower frame to match the alloy frame of the Browning. Both weigh 27 ozs. fully equipped. I built my own thumb rests on both. Both have triggers in the 1.75-2 lb range. Both are reliable as can be. I mainly use the Frankenruger right now and it has not had to rack a round from a dud or FTF in at least a year and it shoots practice, 3 club matches a month ( 2 are year round regardless of weather), and any big matches that happen to come up (36g CCI for club and 40g CCI for big matches). As I have mentioned before my Buckmark went 49 straight matches in the 2011-2013 time frame without a single malfunction of any sort, shooting exclusively CCI 40g. And yes I know every trouble spot the BM can have as the gun passed 50K rounds in the space of about 6 years or so and parts got replaced. Early model which I happen to like better than the post 2001 models. But I don't shoot it now mainly because Browning stopped producing the early firing pins and I bought the last ones available at the time and the last one is in the gun (I actually have 2 early BMs). Last I heard no one's making new ones. As for 1911/2011 conversions I would not mind trying one. I won a Colt Competition .45 last year which I only use for bowling pin matches, and I have my old open STI that I don't shoot anymore plus my old Bull M-5 Limited gun. Even though the Bul has the better of the last 2 triggers (its an old Bul Custom Shop gun) I doubt any conversion will fit it due to the fact it like Para mags over STI type mags. Both guns are 9x23mm. I never tried converting either mainly due to the cost of TacSol double stack mags back when I considered it. But maybe with different options I might do it just to test out. Not for muscle memory reasons because I mainly shoot Glocks these days in centerfire.
  12. I lost 2 gas keys from my first 2 9mm BCGs. I firmly believe its mainly due to improperly stakes bolts as in the first one I found the bolts were loose the night before a big SC match and sure enough they sheared off and I had to borrow a friends PCC to shoot the last stage. I have since opted for a higher quality 9mm BCG, one from Faxon, that uses a flat faced gas key instead of a sloped one. There is at least one maker out there that has the gas key machined out of the entire BCG so no bolts to break.
  13. I have been running a 3# Timney drop-in flat trigger in mine for more than a year of competition with no problems. However I ordered a Hyperfire 24C just this week because of the good deal I found, just to try it out. May put it in something else also. I am pretty much a Geissele S3G guy most of the time.
  14. I shoot 9mm even in SS simply because I have a 9mm Dan Wesson. I used to shoot down loaded 9x23mm out of an old IPSC L10 gun in Limited but use one of my Glock 34 configurations these days.
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