Dan Burwell

If you want one holster to do both USPSA and IDPA do not get the Black Ice, it is cut down too far in front for IDPA rules. The Black Ice is rockin fast and really great for seated draws (I know doesn't happen often in USPSA) I keep it on my USPSA rig, and my regular holster stays with my IDPA gear.

When I decided I wanted to improve. You cannot get better at something by accident you have to: 1. want to do it, 2. come up with a plan on how to it, 3. execute the plan 4. occasionally reevaluate the plan and make adjusments to it. But it all starts with making the decision to improve.

That certainly wouldn't work for the OP. the CX2 is pretty small the mCX must be one step up from an Air Hog. Air Hogs are a real blast to fly around the house, highly recomend if you want a first RC heli. I had way more fun with my air hogs than I did with my HBK, of course the HBK sucked to crash as it darn near always broke something so I was much more careful. The Air hogs you can bounce off anything and get them right back up.

I am pretty sure I saw a CX 2 for sale in the classifieds here a few days ago. Flex I can tell you now that stuff is no where as easy as they make it look. Youtube is full of vids of amazing stuff even by 5 yr olds. I consider myself as having above average hand eye coordination, but I just couldn't get it. My hats off to anyone that can even fly one around themselves in a circle. I did try a CX2 and it was easier to fly with the dual rotors, but I am not sure it will be able to carry the vid equipment the OP is looking to carry. all this talk makes me want to break mine out and see how long it takes me to crash it

Helis are hard as hell to fly!!! I bought a Honey Bee King 2 and upgraded gyro lock still hard as heck to fly. After a month of practice with both live flights and simulator I could hover it 4 feet of the ground for 4 minutes without crashing. After a particularly bad crash, I finally decided I sucked so I put it away and went back to dry-firing. If I were you I would try a plane first they are much easier to fly!!!!

The dates for the Open/L10 overlap with the also just announced today IDPA world championship. Hope this can get worked out I'd prefer not to have to take sides.

Just to get some free advice while dillon is listening, my 650 over advances from time to time the primer alignment withteh shell plate is good just the primer disc advances too far and doesn't snap back into place like it should. Ususally a little bump and it is good to go.

Any chance your thumb is on the slide stop? It happens to me all the time when I test fire guns that have a small back strap on it, that is just where my thumb likes to sit. With a medium it only happens occasionally, the large never. You guessed it my own gun has a large backstrap

I had that happen to a police officers custom built 1911 duty gun. He had sent it USPS mail insured (FFL to FFL) for a little work and it went missing for a couple months. Luckily he was a persistant gentleman, and caused enough trouble for the PO they were eventually able to track it down, but it took forever with him calling each PO it had gone through. This lack of tracking is the reason I will not ship firearms with USPS no way no how, that and the way the locals act like I need congressional approval to do it.

Jake, I think that goes for any Division Sure it is nice to get it all timed out just right and get one shot as it is stopping and another when it is leaving, but stage designers are on to us, and doing their best to destroy any sort of timing, so learning to shoot them where ever they may be is a very good skill to have. I believe at nationals this year there was only one swinger that you could really time out, all the others were activated earlier in the stage. If you couldn't shoot them anywhere in the arc chances were good you were going to be standing around waiting for them when you got there. Having said that though, I believe swingers are one of those shooting challenges that you have to know how YOU can shoot them. You start out shooting one shot per pass in the dwell, then progress on to shooting one in and one out, then progress on to shooting them anywhere. So how is the best way??? well, it depends on your current skill level.

The storm lake barrel has a bit more throat (lead into the rifling) than the factory barrels do so you can get away with a bit longer ammo without issue. As I recall you are also running a SSS plunger in your gun. This makes a difference in the ease at which the gun comes back into battery as there isn't as much force to overcome to go into battery. Running a few key aftermarket parts in your makes it function a little easier thus the reason you are having success with the lighter spring. I am in no way trying to argue with you I just want others that read this to understand why it is working for you and it may not for them, before they go blaming the gun. Relieving that pad really didn't do anything to aid in extraction (it doesn't touch anything when a rim is under it anyway just make it harder to get a rim started under it, but once the rim is under it, it sits in the same place as before you modified it). The SSS extra power spring and their extractor do work wonders, even if only used separately Duane, I couldn't agree more, 100% function (regardless of the set-up) is the goal.

G-man, you cannot compare 1911s and striker fired guns! Striker fired guns have the striker spring acting in direct oposition to the recoil spring. Not knowing what you did to your extractor, but what I do to enhance extraction is to recut the extractor on an angle and polish the chamber, this usually does the trick. I have heard multiple times people running 13# springs getting light hits. This is from the guns not being completly in battery; the lighter recoil spring doesn't have enough tension to over come the factory striker spring. Duane, Yes I perfer my trips to the range to be lacking in adventure

I have a bullet feeder on my 650, not sure how I ever lived without one. Enjoy your 1050! every time I get one of those damned crimped pocketed pieces of crap brass in my press I swear the 1050 is my next investment.

Congrats!!

even if it is say: 1. part of the draw (see my post above) 2. done by accident: shooter reaches for it, hand come off, shooter gets to cover then does proper reload 3. shooter feels carrier is dislodged reaches for it, takes hand off, then returns to action. how can reaching for it possible be a PE every time? It cannot thus the reason the rules are written the way they are (with gray areas). If you are about to do something screwy ask the SO first or don't be surprised when they give you some performance bonuses.

I shot a stage one time where the first 4 shots were strong hand only then had a bit of movement behind cover then 8 more shots. I fired the strong hand shots all with my support hand on my mag. I was going to be doing a tac load as soon as I was behind cover. At what point was the reload initiated? Can I be shooting targets and initiating a reload at the same time? Would it matter if the first shots were not specified as strong hand only? Bones, this dog wasn't sleeping anyway.

I am currently running a similar load VV320 MG 147CMJ @1.125 not sure the charge weight, but it chronoed a 134 at nationals. Runs 100% with the stock spring. I will only use the stock recoil assembly in any of my guns. (ok one exception my open gun )

The Stock one is the only one I ever recommend.

What you are asking is how to improve your index, the answer, at least for me, is dry fire on targets of different heights and loactions in relation to my feet.

+1 Glad I am not the only one

Come on now what happens in vegas stays in Vegas!! Flex, thanks for finding that!!! We had a GREAT squad!! I don't think I have had that much fun on a shooting range in a long time. Thanks for the memories guys!!!!

You can mark down Myself and Harry Foltz, we'll probably drag a few others in as well.

It is ten people from your current class and the one above. So if you finish second out of 20 masters you go up, or if you take third out of 28 but you also beat 2 shooter in the class above. I'd be willing to bet they have no info on what Dave or Bob can shoot a classifier in, since I am sure they avoid them like the rest of us do.

I personally don't care one way or another I compete to win, not my class but the match. Having said that they need to be very carful about how they are going to promote a person to this new class, otherwise it is going to have the same percieved problem they have now, too many masters that cannot compete with the top dogs. If they continue bumping one for every 10 you beat sooner or later GM class will be overly populated as is the current Master class. If you have it based on the current classifier, people will undoubtedly shoot their way into it that cannot compete in a match with the GMs. I don't pretend to have the answers but I can see how if not done correctly is not a solution to the problem they are trying to sovle.