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I use a mix of Glock and CTS mags and a mix of Arredondo and TTI basepads and they all work fine with the stock springs from the mags.
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Here is one thing that I did not put in my original post about why I use a Mk III as opposed to keeping the Browning or doing a 22/45. BJ did some testing early in 2014 looking to pick up a few fractions of seconds shooting rimfires from low ready. He had shot Buckmarks for years before he got on the S&W team (we talked a lot here then). Of course during his time with S&W he used a 1911 conversion (TacSol) on a Scandium frame 1911. He showed up at the 2014 NSSF RC worlds shooting a Ruger Mk III for the first time. He said his testing showed that the Luger grip angle of the MK III was worth .1-.2s first shot time over the 1911 grip angle guns like the 22/45, 1911, and Buckmark. He thought that it was because the barrel points higher relative to the grip and he could get it lined up quicker. So that is when I built my FrankenRuger. I set it up exactly like my Buckmark, same 90 degree mount, C-More, Hogue G10 grips, comps, thumbrests, same weight, everything. Both a little below 2# trigger pulls. And the new gun seemed slightly faster to me also, maybe .1s in my case. And that's my story and I am sticking to it. YRMV.
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I went lighter myself. I use either a Knoxx Axiom or a Magnum Research GC thumbhole. Axiom is the lightest there is but I like the ergonomics of the MR stock best. But the comb is too high for RFRI using the TacSol barrel and the MR stock so it gets an Axiom all the time. But when I am shooting both RFRO and RFRI at the same event I switch both to the Axiom and use a taller Magpul snap on riser on the RFRO gun (I use a Magpul Fixed Carbine stock on my Axioms in a fixed bolted down location so there is no stock movement at all).
One thing that sets the Axiom apart is the really short trigger pull distance. And why it is favored by a lot of junior shooters in Rimfire Challenge. Takes some getting used to having your trigger finger curled that much.
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Except if the venue has a max velocity limit. I have been to a few matches over the years where they had a speed limit of 1350 FPS. Turned out my STI 9x23mm racegun would usually choke on anything that slow as Greg Jordan can attest to. No combination of springs would make it function 100% at or near 1300 FPS. One reason being is my home club has such a velocity limit. So now I use a G34, ported barrel, and an RMR, which at one time was my 3-gun pistol and use over the counter 9mm ammo in it (also have a setup for Limited and CO using the same gun and different slide/barrel combos). Can't shoot it quite as fast as the STI but I never have to eat any problems either.
I would spring for changing loads in your case. I did develop lighter 9x23 loads for a Limited Bul M-5 IPSC gun I have.
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On 5/27/2013 at 7:34 PM, McGlock said:
I'd personally wait.. Talked to Taran Butler (Taran Tactical Innovations), and we discussed a 170mm basepad. He will be moving forward with this project. Also his 140mm basepads are second to no one.. Check em out.. I love all of mine.. No issues and come with great springs.
Taran's work well. The only issue I have is that I can get one more round in a mag with the Arredondo basepads than his, so I use a mix of both. Both seem just as reliable. Taran's are easier to take apart.
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The C-More on my PCC has a 12 MOA dot on it, same as on my 10/22 SC race rifle. When you are shooting steel the bigger the dot the better. When shooting paper I would not go above 8 MOA and more likely would use 6 MOA. But I don't shoot non-steel matches these days.
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Here is a cheer for Venice Oliver. Ron said before he was thinking about starting her seriously around 8, but she has shown at NSSF matches and practice that she already had the focus. So I was not surprised when I saw she was entered in the Steel Nationals.
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On 9/21/2016 at 7:32 PM, zzt said:
I checked other also. I first tried shooting it with my Hammerli. Worthless. I tried Rugers. Problems. I went to a full on Volquartsen Scorpion. Didn't cut the mustard for me. I then bought a Buckmark Camper and turned it into a full race gun. Trigger job, Tacsol barrel, custom comp, Al grips, red dot rail and sight. This was the cat's meow for quite a while. It was faster and more reliable than the Rugers. After a couple years it started misfeeding. I can't figure out why. Because of that I needed a new pistol.
I bought a Marvel Precision Unit 1 with the .400" to .499" accuracy guarantee and their comp. It makes a tremendous bullseye gun when mated to my custom STI frame, but is cycles too slowly for outlaw steel. It would be fine for official steel challenge courses.
I then had Chet Whistle from CW Accessories build a complete upper using his new barrel and the Exo3 slide. He built it using all his parts, except for the GSG bolt. The slide with Spring plug and bushing come in at 6oz. Finish is phenominal. A Burris FF3 is mounted directly to the slide. Using the progressive spring, cycle speed with CCI 40gr Minimags is very, very minutely slower than the Buckmark. I shoot much better with it, because it is on a 1911 frame, and that's what I use for most of my shooting. This is the rig I'll be using for the East Coast Steel Challenge match.
Most pistols shot a lot will require a rebuild every few years. And by that I mean all the wearing parts like springs, sears, etc. My first .22 racegun pistol was my late wife's bullseye Browning Buckmark (I repurposed it before she passed). Once I got it finished and broken in for awhile I had a stretch over about an 18 month period where it had no failures and no malfunctions includes duds and stovepipes. A period during which I shot 49 rimfire matches. Sometime after that it started having light strikes and other issues. After trying various fixes I eventually replaced the mainspring and the problems ceased. But I did not do a complete rebuild so it was never as totally reliable as it was during that 18 month stretch but close (that is a hint). Now I know better. Since then I built a custom FrankenRuger Mk III from parts that is my main open rimfire pistol. Totally reliable when shooting CCI, but I know that eventually once it gets somewhere above 25K rounds I need to take better overall care of it. The Buckmark will eventually return as my Limited rimfire pistol.
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I use primarily C-Mores on everything except a 986 (FF3) and a G34 (RMR). I have had more issues with Trijicons than C-Mores. So I have 5 C-Mores and only one RMR.
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19 hours ago, 1911luvr said:
I have yet to have an issue with shot timer pickup using the cheaper JP brake I'm running.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI use the JP 9mm brake and likewise have never had a timer issue. The brake itself will do little for muzzle flip due to the lower velocity of the round. The only thing I think might do something at all would be a linear brake or something like the VQ Forward Blow rimfire comp could possibly reduce felt recoil to just about nothing. I am pretty sure I could put my fake can on the end of my PCC and shoot it just as well as with the JP brake, but the timer might not pick it up so I don't bother.
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I think that is good Zack. I was always prepared to shoot Showdown either way when it came to the aiming point and had different sequences depending on where they were. Now I can stick with one sequence and hopefully get better since I won't have to practice the other way.
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Will be 16 stages like last year most likely. Whether you start on a pistol or rifle stage you will do all the stages for that firearm before shifting to the ones for the other. Will also be a side match on Friday. The main match is shot over 2 days. No super squad as most sign up with their buddies. Current world champ is Kolby Pavlock, a Junior (close to adult also). 2 years ago in Arkansas he spanked 2 time world rimfire champ BJ Norris's butt shooting in the Limited division (iron sights) to win the 2015 title and he won again last year in Alabama. You can enter to shoot both Open and Limited but your Open firearms have to be shot first on each stage per the NSSF rules. Prize table is pretty extensive, however, its random draw since 2015. If they do it like last year they give out the awards, then draw for the firearms, then redraw for a walk down the prize table. I think there was something like 30 guns last year. Remington is close by and they donated a number of shotguns and rifles to the prize table. All the rest are rimfires.
Its one of those matches where you go for the fun of it. If you win a firearm that's a bonus.
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I have not missed a rimfire world match since 2011 and I don't plan on breaking my string anytime soon.
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On 2/13/2017 at 9:36 AM, Pasley said:
I think an unambiguous hit to the front of the target should be required. If it requires arguing it is a miss.
Maybe.
They tried this in the first year that NSSF took over the Ruger Rimfire Challenge and it pretty much went away. Its very ambiguous whether any 2 people looking at the same hit can determine if it has some overlap on the front or not. I think if all the plates are mounted facing the shooter this is a non-issue.
As for timing it has to be done at the time of the run, although I have seen cases where all parties agreed to do it after the end of the shooter's last run in a local match. And in that case the scorers counted shots on the plate to make sure no extras got onto it.
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On 2/12/2017 at 0:22 AM, Tom E said:
It was that way. Not any more. You just got a classification system up and running in SCSA. Just like USPSA and others.
Well there has been a classification system in SC for awhile. It just covered the centerfire divisions and was not broken out for Open or Limited or whatever. And those of us who shot mainly rimfire had no system to compare us to the pros who shot that as part of Steel Master or whatever. In the meantime SCSA decided to do a classification system for every division and then added rimfire and PCC to that as I understand it happened. Many divisions happened because shooters from other disciplines wanted to shoot without having a handicap built in from different holster rules. I see no problem with that. The top shooters can overcome the holster differences with no problem. The rest of us do the best we can. I have shot SS in SC before with a gun I routinely CC a lot. I just swap my IWB holster for one that fits the rules. As for us rimfire guys having a classification system seems to be showing a large increase in rimfire shooters at the big events.
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Looks like its back at Cavern Cove, Oct. 13-15, 2017.
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On 2/3/2017 at 5:43 AM, 450AK said:
Has anyone used this holster? Thoughts??
Not legal for SS. Gun sits too low according to the SS holster rule. Might be legal for a female but I would have to look closer on that.
Suitable for everyday use. “Race gun” type holster prohibited. •Must carry pistol so that the entire front strap (to the trigger guard) is at or above the top of the belt. Female shooters must carry the pistol no lower than the heel of the butt at the top of the belt •May not be manufactured or cut lower than, and must cover the slide up to, 1/2” below the ejection port (belt slide “Yaqui” type holster exempt).
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Well said! Especially the last line!
Well SC originally was a practice match for USPSA so that is why it has a stage with movement. Everything you need to do to practice for USPSA is in those 8 stages, or at least the original stages, some of which got retired for various reasons. Especially when SC became a match all on its own. I don't mind the movement even though I have bad knees that have forced me to give up 3-gun and USPSA.
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I have every C-More dot size from 4-16 MOA.
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Going to try and make this again. And possibly a monthly match or two.
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That part is true for sure. Have not done Accelerater in the 1's yet, I think my best rimfire is like 2.10 but I can do 1's in about 3 other stages. Max got me to change my sequence in Accelerator in CF and I picked up .3-.4s immediately so I know there is hope for me even at 69.
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18 hours ago, KelsonAK said:
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5 to Go is pretty much a shoot 'em left to right. For Pendulum I start left to right for 1@2, then right to left 4, 3, 5. Smoke 'n Hope I do 4, 3, 1, 2, 5 - so I get some good right to left/left to right in there. Showdown I start on the left from the left box, start on the right from the right box. I guess that means I'm ambishooterous.
I do pretty much what you do. Except Pendulum. Shooting it that way, which is the way I used to shoot it, is wrong tactically. I number the plates 1, 2, 3, 4, S. The number 2 and 3 plates are visual traps purposely placed into the stage from the designers. Going from a larger plate to a smaller one with a spacial offset is a recipe for a miss. Its just about the only stage that requires up and down shooting offsets. Doing it twice in a single run doubles the possibility. I had Pendulum setup in my backyard at the farm for close to a year playing with it. Then I went to the class with Max. Now I shoot it 1-4, then Stop all the time even with rimfire. And I point shoot the stop plate even with iron sights. I still shoot S&H 4, 3, 1, 2, S because
I mostly shoot rimfire or PCC which require the low ready start. CF I think I should be shooting it 1-4, then Stop also, but I am still experimenting.As for other stages a lot depends on the starting position, CF vs. Rimfire/PCC. For low ready divisions my methods are based on which end of the string is closest to the initial barrel position of the firearm (something I got from BJ at a couple of the Rimfire Challenge worlds), i. e. what target or target end gives the fastest first shot time plus if 2 targets get put close together, which describes Showdown. Doesn't apply in CF, I just shoot from the left to the right in visual order.
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On 1/7/2017 at 0:52 PM, jkrispies said:
First off, practice both directions. This way if you shoot a non-SC match you won't look like somebody stumbling around in the dark after the furniture has been rearranged.
Secondly, everybody I know prefers to turn in the direction of their dominant eye. To me, this makes no sense. If you turn in the direction of your non-dominant eye, you've basically given yourself an entire eyeball's worth of field of vision to pck up the incoming targets prior to hard focusing with your dominant eye. Put another way, when you choose to turn in the direction of your dominant eye, you're cutting your "field of approach vision" in half.
I beg to differ on this. Yes you should practice both directions both to see what you do fastest and to know what you need to work on. I was a right eye dominant lefty all the way up till 2012 when I went cold turkey and became a right eye dominant righty. Less than 6 months later I was shooting better that way than I did the old way. But in both cases I was using timers and in both methods I still shot faster transitions L to R. The dominant eye never changed whether I was pushing the gun or pulling it. The problem with me going from R to L is that my range of vision to the left is effectively limited by the bridge of the nose + any glasses perched on it. While you brain's stereoscopic vision actually sees thru the obstruction, your vision goes from stereo to mono vision anytime your POF moves to a point that is to the left of the nose until your head turns enough to clear the virtual obstruction. Now in shooting the pistol this should only happen when you are in that minute slice of time between the time your shot breaks and the time you POF should be on the next target and the amount of time it take you to move your upper body and the gun to line up the next target, I. e. catching up with your eyes. To see how this works you need to line the gun up on your target then close your non-dominant eye and see what your range of vision is to the next target. In my case targets to the right are clearer than targets to the left because my right eye has a much greater range of vision to the right than my left. And to prove it all you have to do from the same position is to close the dominant eye and look thru the other (obviously left eye dominant shooters should be doing the opposite).
Does that mean all RE dominant shooters should shoot better L to R? Maybe. A lot of physical and vision issues can often times make you shoot better the other way. The point really is find out what you do best and then fix the things you don't. But until you experiment you might be wrong about what you think you do best.
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There is a typo in the SRGC website address in Zack's listing. Should be this: http://southrivergunclub.com/ however if you put your mouse over the name it actually shows "southriverguncluc.com" even though the name in his post has it spelled correctly.
5 to Go is pretty much a shoot 'em left to right. For Pendulum I start left to right for 1@2, then right to left 4, 3, 5. Smoke 'n Hope I do 4, 3, 1, 2, 5 - so I get some good right to left/left to right in there. Showdown I start on the left from the left box, start on the right from the right box. I guess that means I'm ambishooterous.
which c-more sight
in Pistol Caliber Carbine
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C-More Railway with a 12 MOA sight, same as on my SC RFRO 10/22. One reason why I shoot almost exactly the same with both (at M with both).