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I emailed Troy and he said it's production legal.

Without getting into excruciating detail... just call the FFL before you ship to make sure he'll do the transfer, then you're covered. It's on the FFL to worry about "compliance." Any MA resident with a Class A license to carry can lawfully own the gun, period. Hi cap mags made before some date in 1994 are unlawful to possess by in MA.

The procedure is as follows: 1. Take his money. 2. Ship to his FFL. Open with hi-cap STI mags is very popular here in MA.

Ibejiheads and S&S 147's with N320 run great in my G34, no leading.

Hopkinton would be another monthly match to check out.

Focus for dry fire this week in preparation for shooting-on-the-move live fire on Wednesday: - Grip hard with left hand, isolate trigger finger. - Keep upper body relaxed, knees bent to steady sights and improve transitions. - Consciously think about firing two distinct aimed shots on every A-zone. Visual patience. There are only 27 more hours of dry fire practice and 4 or 5 live fire practices before A7.

I did wide transitions in live fire today and was pretty happy with improvement after a dismal classifier match this past weekend. A few dry fire sessions earlier in the week focused on this, and just making the conscious decision to keep the sights on the target for the second shot, then transition to the next target, worked wonders. A lot of this shooting stuff is just common sense. El Pres was a bit rough. I think I overdid it on the grip on my strong hand. Lots of low left shots (D's and M's), especially on the second shots. So I think I was squeezing with all my fingers and just yanking shots all over the place. I'll need to figure out how to squeeze with just my trigger finger when I'm going full speed.

LOL. Ok, Claudio Fragasso.

Wow it's been a while since I updated this. I had an awesome practice today and I'm feeling exhilarated about the rest of the season. The drill today was the accelerator. I started off kind of crappy, even getting D hits on the close target. This had been happening a lot this year, getting bad hits without calling them, then walking up to the target and saying "WTF how did that happen?" Typically the gun feels kind of floppy in recoil, as the front sight goes up then dips way down into the D zone, and seems to oscillate a few times before settling in. It would feel like the 2nd shot broke as the gun was still flopping around. Not good. So I got kind of pissed today and went back to the fundamentals. I decided to consciously grip the gun as hard as possible with my support hand, then did a 5.3 second run with 2 C's. With just this one change I started hitting A's and close C's and started to enjoy shooting again. It's weird because I honestly do grip hard in dry fire practice, and I'm pretty sure of this because my left hand and forearm get sore. But in live fire I must have been slacking, so when the gun recoiled in my weak grip I was flipping my hands back down and over-driving the gun. The whole thing makes sense to me now because I can always get a good group of A hits on a 7 yard Bill drill. It's probably because when firing 6 shots on one target, you know intuitively that you really have to drive the gun with a tight grip. So, gripping hard and locking the support hand wrist results in more As when shooting fast. I probably should have figured this out sooner and not blamed trigger control alone. But I feel like I made a breakthrough in my shooting today.

Holding the sights on the a-zone until the shot breaks is a pretty good goal. I think I will try this as well.

I would be pretty pissed if an RO tried to DQ me for making ready after he said make ready.

So if you're throwing mikes in classifiers, what do you think you should do in practice this week?

Good luck getting it running. I'm hoping it will be 100% when you get bored with production and I buy it from you.

I don't think it matters much. Most of this past season I shot 140 grain bullets with 3.8g Clays from a stock G22 and made M in production. I didn't see any difference in splits using different bullet weights. 40's at 133 PF with any bullet weight just doesn't have much recoil.

I think you're right, Flex.

I spent this season very committed to meaningful dry fire and live fire practice. Shooting a G22 with 180's and 2.9 Clays (the "feels like cheating" load), I had a bunch of classifiers in the 85-90% range. Last weekend, after taking a few weeks off from any practice at all, I borrowed a friend's G34 just to try something different and shot over 100% on Diamond Cutter. This convinced me it's really important to have the right gun. I think the longer barrel and sight radius is an advantage.

I shot A7's this past weekend. It was only my second major match, and my first in two years. The match was exceptionally well run, staff and squadmates were awesome, and the sponsors were generous. I was the raffle winner of a Sig 1911. Thank you, Sig! Generally I had trouble hitting every target, especially swingers. I need to practice those. 100 penalty points across 10 stages is no good. Stage planning was troublesome for me as well. I didn't inspect the stages the day before, and a 5-minute walkthrough is not enough for some of the more demanding stages. I'm going to devote my next few practice sessions to shot calling and drills with long partial targets, 20 yard plate rack. I need to be more confident I can hit every shot. Ending on a postitive note, here's stage 3 where I came in 4th.

I'd appreciate any video coaching you guys have to offer. The biggest thing I'm seeing is hesitation, like I sometimes I forget when I'm supposed to reload.

I made M in production today. The dry fire routine I've been doing seems to be working pretty well and I'm focusing on maintaining good fundamentals with draws, reloads and movement. I think a little refinement in trigger control is what I need to get to GM now. The only way to get more live fire time, unfortunately, is to shoot indoors on a weeknight, so I think I'll just have to suck it up and get some plated bullets and good 3M mask.

Nope, gotta hit up the practice range Sunday to work on fundamentals.

Well if you're going to twist my arm... I've been practicing gripping the gun really, really hard and pulling the trigger straight back. That's pretty much it. Going to do some more Frank Garcia dot drills this weekend and really work on the trigger control.

In that case you might want to declare 1/2 hour of the Wednesday practice to be BostonBullit's protected selfish time to work on a specific drill, during which time ye shall not be disturbed. My bigger point is that running micro drills is a better use of limited practice time. And believe me, my practice time is as limited as it gets.

That's a lot of different skills to be working in one practice session. Try devoting an hour to one or two specific drills, refine your gunhandling in dryfire during the week, then measure your progress in live fire. If you're spending the bulk of your live fire time at these Wednesday night group practices, it will hold you back.

It's you. Ben, please give me your input. What do you think I need to do to correct it? I'll tell you about my recent experience. My sights were jumping up and to the right then dipping down, slowing down my followup shots. I blamed my recoil spring, gun, choice of caliber, and bullet/powder combination. I even considered switching to a Beretta; these were dark times for me. I finally realized I had stopped crush-gripping the gun, because I had gotten lazy in dry fire. Immediately when I started gripping the gun harder, the sights again began to jump straight up and back into the notch as fast as I could pull the trigger. Grip harder.