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1.5# You just have to make sure you have good trigger dicipline.

I love shooting Steel Challenge, but it IS different from shooting poppers or plates in an IPSC match. The BIG differnce is that the steel has to FALL in order to score in IPSC, but an edge hit still counts in Steel Challenge. I do think that shooting Steel Challenge helps with learning how to call your shots, but like someone else said, if you leave the steel for last when leaving a shooting position, and your shot call was off, you have to go back and pick up the shot. Makes sense to shoot steel first if the stage design makes it possible.

If you're shooting a Glock .40, WHY would you want to shoot Open minor? You're already at a disadvantage in terms of mag capacity. Making major with a .40 S&W is easy. It's basically a standard pressure load. Like Superdude said, the only factor is are you using a comp or not. No comp = heavy bullets and fast powder. Comp = lighter bullets and slower powder.

The spacer should not be floating around free inside the tube. If it's properly fitted, there should be little to no up or down movement. For good measure, get some thin double-sided tape and fix the spacer in place to the back of the tube.

Hodgdon makes Winchester, IMR and Hodgdon powders.

9mm Major powders Winchester Autocomp Hodgdon HS-6 VV 3N37 VV 3N38 Ramshot Silhouette Ramshot True Blue IMR 7625

I've hear that there is a limit on how many grains of Longshot you can use before you just don't get any improvement/higher velocity. Not recommended for 9 major. True Blue works fine for 9 major. 3N37 and IMR 7625 will work too, but I hear 7625 is being discontinued.

thanks...I was able to score 8 pounds online. I guess I'll ride the 7625 ship till it sinks I'd be looking into more modern powders now. 7625 is fairly high on the burn-rate chart, (fast powder.) There are plenty of slower powders now that will make major and give you more gas with less pressure.

Like I said, classifiers are supposed to test YOU, not the equipment. Of course you try not to go into field courses with jamming equipment. You try not to go into ANY stage with jamming equipment, but tanking a field course isn't going to possibly lower your percentage. Screwing up a classifier might, or it might be bad enough that it won't count. You don't know until it's over, so why increase the odds of an equipment malfunction? If I were shooting a course that required mandatory reloads, (classifier or standard,) I would do the same thing. If it's 8 shots, then a mandatory reload, why do I need 23 rounds in my mags? Better to have 20 and reduce the risk of a mag that doesn't seat because it's full. BTW - If you're an A or M, then you obviously don't have a problem shooting classifiers. Most people are going to advance through the classifiers, not getting bumped at a major match. If you can't shoot the classifiers, you're not going to advance. It's more common to see someone who shoots A or M scores on classifiers, then can't hack it at the match than it is to see someone smoke the matches, but not be able to classify. That's why they call them "paper masters."

Excellent advise. If you try to smoke the classifiers, is that how you would shoot every stage? If you make GM and can only shoot to a Master level on stages--What have you accomplished. I don't think it's about trying to smoke the classifiers. It's more about trying to make sure that you don't have any equipment issues that will ruin what would have been an otherwise good classifier. The idea of the classifier is to test YOU, not the equipment.

If mandatory reloads are involved, I usually drop a round or two just to make sure that the mags seat reliably. I also never reload TO a 170mm mag. When reloading, it's always to a 140mm mag. I just find them easier to manipulate under pressure.

You SHOULD be focusing on the target, not the dot. If your draw and presentation is the same every time, the dot should be there, just like your iron sights are.

1.6 would never be doable with a 9mm. The 1 was missing after the . is all. I think 1.17 is pushing your luck in a Glock mag. I would try to stay close to 1.16. I don't even run 1.17 in my STI mags Maximum SAAMI OAL for 9mm is 1.169" 1.17 SHOULD be doable in a Glock mag. I can't imagine that Glock would make their mags unable to fit the max standard OAL for 9mm.

Autocomp HS6 N350 3N37 3N38 True Blue Silhouette Lots of choices!

Actually, I do, because I don't like the length the weak-side racker has to be to clear my sideways C-More mount. And that's the other reason.

I have to diagree there. It's much easier to grab and pull the slide racker than to grip both sides of the slide, and you generally don't even need to shift the pistol when doing it if the racker is on your weak-hand side.

Not worth it. Just ask everyone else for their small primered .45 brass. Nobody I know actually wants the stuff.

What does ANY of that have to do with the hammer following?

Could be about 3 things. 1. Insufficient sear spring pressure on the sear. Bend the left leg of the sear spring forward to increase pressure until it doesn't follow. 2. Insufficient sear spring pressure on the disconnector is causing trigger bounce. (You can verify this by holding the trigger back and dropping the slide. If the hammer does not follow, then it's usually trigger bounce. Increase the pressure on the center leg of the sear spring until the hammer does not follow. 3. Something could be wrong with the sear or hammer geometry. Better to take it to a gunsmith unless you know what you're doing and have the proper tools to fix it.

I have the Arredondo not the Limcat, but yes, it does help immensly when the sun is at your back.

^^^^ This is the proper answer. At this point, I use whatever small rifle primers I can find.

Degreasing is the key. It has to be spotless. (There's nothing like having to stick a screwdriver through the side ports of your comp and rotate it back to center after every stage at Area 5 two years ago to teach you about the improtance of getting the threads clean.)

The "Value Line" hammer and sear are definitely MIM. Wilson says so on their website. Like I said, it seems like most people building 2011 guns are using the EGW hard sear and Koenig hammer.

Standard Wilson stuff, (the Value Line), is actually MIM. The EGW Hard Sear and Koenig hammer is probably the most used combo in IPSC.

I just bought a seperate slide/barrel assembly for my Glock, and swap them when I want to go from Open to Limited. Nowadays the Open top gets little if any use though, because I have an STI open gun. The Glock is primarily for Limited now. Your threads may not have been clean enough. I had problems with the comp "clocking" last year when I shot Area 5. I removed and re-cleaned the threads and re-did it with red Loctite (271), and it's been fine ever since. I shoot steel twice a month, (150+ rnds), and shot the IL sectional in 1 day since I was an RO, (10 stages, 270+ rounds), and the comp never budged.