Forrest Halley
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Look up Matt Griffin or Michael Danjczek...they are pretty swift at reloading left handed and each has a slight variation of the way they hold the gun while reaching for the moonclips. This appears to be the fastest way to reload the gun period. I am considering learning to shoot left handed for many reasons with this being one.
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Preempted!!!USPSA created the Carry Optics division. IMHO, IDPA will now never have such a division. Can't be anything like USPSA
Carry optics....hmmm...how about custom dot pistol...nope...electronic sight pistol...nope...service scoped pistol...nope. Okay I got it now, custom red dot accessorized pistol...CRAP ?
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Here's my 929 on the clock...nice and slow so you don't miss anything. ?
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This guy's quit shooting revo...his cylinder release is made by 10mmdave. Look him up on here. It sure beats a hogue for the money. $50 vs. $80...and a lot of dremel work saved. I would have gone that way if I had to do it over again.
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I shoot my 646 for idpa just for fun...if it gets serious I'll pull out the 625 JM. It's hardly ever serious.
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I think the vest being cooler than a coat or button down shirt is the deal mostly. It's safer than a t shirt for new shooters as it snags less also. idpa is the scariest thing ever with a new shooter. They're living in a concealed carry fantasyland and then the buzzer goes off casting them into suspended disbelief as they engage with extreme prejudice the cardboard boxes flattened to stakes a few feet away. Foaming at the mouth and sweating profusely they fumble through their reloads tactically maneuvering through the stage. Scanning after having expended their last precious cartridges they await their position being overrun before reinforcements can arrive and as they silently pray to see the coming dawn, the RO says, "If finished unload and show clear."
Now you tell me vest and OWB holster or tshit and IWB?
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Look at the people who vaporized when six shot revolver went away. Not a lot of people by your standards from the outside looking in, but the local matches were impacted. Alterations to the division lists need to be considered not for the impact at the national level, but for the impact at the local levels.Eli, you're assuming that people will move from the division that you kill to the one that survives. What if they don't? Too bad so sad?
I think shooters are well capable of deciding what to shoot, no need to force them someplace else because you or anyone else thinks their division is too small.
Revolver is a fun division for me. I do enjoy hitting most of the things I aim at and having plenty of rounds in a vertical line at times, but I enjoy the challenge and the deliberate approach to revolver stages.
Let's add teeth to the rule stability here. For example, I'm going to bite the next person to fool with my favorite division. See, proof positive that revolver shooters are crazy...?
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Why isn't this a sticky or pinned or FAQ? I love touting the goodness of the Hearthcos, but by now it should be in factory literature. "Your revolver has come with a bare minimum of moonclips to get you sighted in, but for all serious work, we recommend Hearthco..."
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I'll let you know in a couple of days. Committed to this bullet.
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Really? You're a great guy! I'm flying through it.
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What problem are they trying to fix?
They are most likely hearing the complaints like "but he just sprays bullets" and "I can't run that fast, it isn't fair" This will simply drive more younger shooters to USPSA & 3G.
idpa will be resting peacefully next to cowboy action in a few years. Both disciplines have shot themselves in the foot too many times with rules and catered to the age and mobility equality crowd. Kinda sad because you can shoot two pistols at once in cowboy action shooting, now if you could just move through the stages with cocked weapons...
G34 with slide lightening cut that's "legal" now and modified to the gills...tactical boots, pants, shirt, hat and vest...speedy kydex holster and magazine pouches...What you don't wear this stuff to pick up your groceries and kids from daycare? What if something should happen? I always have an AR in my trunk with a plate carrier and ten mags....Roll out of the vehicle scan for threats and activate my vest and deploy my sidearm to fight my way to my trunk... ???It has nothing to do with a defensive shooting situation. Carry guns, full house ammo, everyday gear? Ha! G34 mod'd out to beat heck, hand loaded down to 125.2PF, photographers spring loaded mylar lined vest, or course, just like in real life.
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Come to the dark side where you don't pick up shells one at a time...shoot short colts and titegroup. Muahaha.
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In theory it should. I'd say it feels like a lighter trigger pull to me. I have a 646 that is stupid light. Was not able to get that on my 625 with its stainless cylinder. My 929's are not exactly where I want them yet.
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So vote for Open....hehehe!
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What is the reason you can't walk behind the guy scoring the targets are they being scored during the stage? If so ask prior to Load and Make Ready to see each target prior to it being pasted. It shouldn't be a problem. Do you suspect you're getting screwed in the scoring of the stages?
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I buffed the serrations down a bit on my 625 JM. If Jerry liked them so much how come they didn't make it on the 929. My two were not race ready by a long shot. I pulled my 625JM and 610 out of the safe and ? after comparing them to the 929's.
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Maybe I'll show up next year....when I can actually hit something. Better watch out! ??? Upset in slow progress.
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I have switched to weakhand loading for the eight shot 929 after burning myself on a hot day switching hands with titegroup. I have found that I can open the cylinder and eject as I shift my eyes to the next moonclip on the belt. I draw it as the gun comes to meet my eyes and then insert it while staring at the gun that just showed up at my belt. I am constantly comparing the two and find that until I can make shelf do two three things at once, the swap reload will never be faster for me.
I really believe that it is a more efficient technique and also that the fastest way to operate a revolver may well be left handed with a swap reload. I have not committed to that switch....yet, but I have learned to hold and fire a single action in each hand.
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Glad you saw the humor in it. If you're slow and steady, but accurate you're likely a low C. If you're having trouble hitting Alphas even slowly, you're likely a D or U. Glad you're enjoying yourself either way.
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This is clearly a case where you state that this is an OEM magazine(sp01), it weighs X and now it weighs X+1. As long as it all makes weight, no troubles. Don't go looking for precedents and clarifications. You'll find the logic employed to be senseless. Usually it amounts to thanks for pointing that out, we didn't think of that, now it's illegal and you're left holding the bag.
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I feel like the difference would be in which feels better to grab off the belt. I loved the .45 and N frame .40's. The eight shot is taking some getting used to with the little short bullets.
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C if you can hit things well, D if you can't. Feel better now??
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I dunno Mano, I've seen some SSP and production noobs shell the stars out of a short stage or with pickups on every target. Being tacticool is also a flow killer, but that is usually a product of inefficient footwork which just is until expert/B class.Novice shooters taking three minutes on a stage because they are bent on
exhausting every round of ammunition on their beltbeing tactical is a flow killer.FIFY
Shouting anything at new shooters that isn't directly related to safety is foolish. All they hear is BLAH!BLAH...BLAH! BLAH! anyway as they don't know what any of the range commands mean typically. They become alarmed and want to look back and see what's going on as the muzzle follows the head and eyes...My biggest gripe is the subjectivity involved in IDPA. You can use cover the same way on 5 stages with 5 different ROs and have 3 of them with no issue at all, one give a warning, and one nail you with procedurals. I generally stay waaaay behind cover to avoid those but it's painful to watch a newer shooter get smoked with a ton of penalties because they don't exactly understand what's being expected of them- even if they're making a good effort that would be a non call by another RO. I've definitely seen new shooters leave IDPA matches pretty beaten down from that aspect.
I have heard plateaued "SO's" say that shooters were cheating on the cover because the shooter sliced pie so smoothly and was ripping the -0 hits faster than he could/would. This attitude affected his calls and I can remember getting straight up PO'd when I got a procedural for three open targets at the same distance because I shot the steel in the middle first. There was no basis in the rules for this other than I told you so. This screamed "jealous I didn't think of that." Your performance is not the limit of the rules.
I feel like the main aversion new shooters have to USPSA is that they don't yet reload and the round count is intimidating. Fifty rounds will get you through a weekday idpa match. It may not get you through two stages at USPSA.
They also think they can compete with their "carry gear," meaning they will swim well up the score sheet with whatever they have on their belt day to day. This is true if they actually have proficiency with their gear and the gear is of quality. The first time you see Han Solo running around with a shower cap over his "ray gun" at USPSA, your "carry gear" starts to feel very small and inadequate. The reality is that Han is a D class and can't hit the barn from the inside and you and your stock 19 just got psyched out.
I started in USPSA with a 625JM, 40$ safariland holster and six California competition works moonclip holders. I had been shooting idpa for maybe a year and a half and had switched from semi's to ESR due to the policymakers calling every match lost brass and my entry into reloading, so I started shooting revolver everywhere I could: ICORE, USPSA, idpa.
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I hate to rain on your parade, but WRONG and WRONGERER.Just to point something out. In USPSA the max number of round REQUIRED (presuming that you don't miss) is 32. That does not mean that you will shoot a maximum of 32, but that if you never miss you will only need a maximum of 32 rounds for any stage.
Similarly in IDPA the max number of rounds REQUIRED (presuming that you don't miss) is 18. That does not mean that you will shoot a maximum of 18, but that if you never miss you will only need a maximum of 18 rounds for any stage.
USPSA is a maximum of 32 rounds per stage only in level three or higher matches. I can require 75 rounds if I want to in level one or two and have seen them go into the forties.
idpa is 18 rounds maximum required rounds per string. I can run multiple strings in a stage. So we can effectively require 18, 36, 54, 72...and the beat goes on as we age in place due to the multiple starts.
I don't think it is advisable to setup super long stages in either discipline unless you have experienced shooters that can hit the targets and are efficient at shooting the stages and resetting them. Novice shooters taking three minutes on a stage because they are bent on exhausting every round of ammunition on their belt is a flow killer.
Origin of the IDPA vest?
in IDPA Rules
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Why don't we all just wear civil war great coats and shrug out of them at the buzzer?