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The Gold Custom Eric flip is sharp and fast - it has a tendency to cause slides to lock and mags to drop when other open guns wouldn’t. if your mag starts dropping - I filed down my mag catch a little and polished - worked like a charm.

I try to dry fire at home and in the safe area. Because I can run around and track my dot at home - getting my eyes accustomed to my movement while I do it. If I have time, I also try to do a high stress activity prior to the match. Maybe counter strike. It helps me get accustomed to the high excitement activity and steady my focus.

What do you do to warm up before the match?

Lol, harsh. If the safety prevents the hammer from dropping - no RO should try to DQ you. DQing for removing the ambi aspect would be like DQing for anyone who has a single-sided safety. You haven’t changed the function of the hammer not dropping and the safety can still be engaged.

Makes sense. Does seem a little short for a 2011 based chamber; but, my Tanfo’s only plunk CMJs at 1.148 or less. JHPs at absolutely no more than 1.08. Shooter’s World Major. No issue. No signs of primer flattening on small pistol. Back when I was new to open - no issue with HS6 at similar lengths.

I randomly engage the slide lock on all my Tanfoglios when I have a proper grip. I also have thumb rests. That’s why I cut off the slide lock tab every time it exists. There is a spring pushing down on the slide lock. If that is in place, it has to be outside interference. Mag geometry in Tanfos is such that the bullet should never interact with the factory slide lock.

Although the electronics are the same, the shape and size of the lens on the XL should theoretically have the potential to impart more uneven harmonics on the sight. Thanks for the insight on the elevation adjustment - I ended up using a drop of Green Loctite. Seems to work well.

The haters seem to be making fewer comments now that you’re a GM. I’m glad. I enjoyed your diary and have been through a lot of what you’re describing. The eye exercises are particularly helpful. I once had the same logic you do about a smaller gun having greater potential to move faster. It is absolutely true. if we forget that we are human and must make sacrifices for our mortal form. I was 23rd overall at Area 4. Every stage finish below 82% was directly as a result of my gun malfunctioning because of old recoil and main springs. I use a Tanfoglio Domina Xtreme - one of the heaviest open guns on the market - as does Eric Grauffel. Jorge Ballesteros also uses one of the heaviest open guns on the market with his Bul. I don’t use it because it is easy to move. I use it because it is not easy to move. It has nothing to do with muzzle flip. It has everything to do with left-right deviation for rapid shooting. I want more A’s while shooting faster. The Glock 26 is holding you back - even if we do not factor in weight. The recoil system in the short slide does not have enough travel to prevent the 9mm cartridge from torquing your hand left and right with each shot. It contributes to weak hits and always will - no matter how talented or strong you become. When the slide bottoms out - it is just like a shock bottoming out. What was a nice straight up and down movement becomes vibration. The harder it bottoms out, the more vibration. You’re basically taking a Mazda Miata to the Baja 500. You have the ability to learn to drive that Miata pretty damn well. But I’m in a trophy truck. Even when my shock bottoms out - It is attached to a nice, stout frame to help quell the vibration. Applying this to Carry Optics - I would try the newish Defiant Stock Master. That being said - I can tell you are stubborn like me and will want one that is also IPSC legal - that’s why I use a Stock II. It’s easy to put down high classifiers. My life’s goal has been keeping them off of my classification. Because I want the match results to show what I can do. (More prizes are nice too)

It’s pretty obvious from both the experiences here and lack of consistent application of poppers that they have the potential to make competition less fair. A true competitor wants the competition to be as fair as possible. You don’t have to experience something to know it has the potential to not work well; especially when so many of your fellow competitors are telling you, specifically, this doesn’t work well. And I just beat JJ on 3 stages today. Shooting minor. So boom.

Right, this rule would only apply where the match is serious enough to have a chrono. Makes it more about competitor skill and less about a mechanism.

Right, that’s the RO’s job. That’s why we paint targets.

That doesn’t work. We’ve all seen obvious problems that weren’t called because it isn’t defined. Those problems are almost always poppers.

You just said exactly why this change should occur. Also, why delay everyone while someone is found to reshoot a popper? Chrono the shooter and be done with it.

Instead, let’s shoot poppers At least twice and count them against the competitor if they go down Because of a poorly calibrated or functioning popper.

And lands in the calibration zone as a normal diameter hit? Give it to the competitor for sure.

We will never chrono every bullet, but we can definitely chrono the ammo the competitor has on his or her belt. Most chrono stages are much more lax than that.

Lots of 2011 lovers in the US. Frame mount a dot, get a threaded barrel with a comp, add a magwell. If trigger is right, it is just as competitive a platform. The last IPSC world shoot had two CZ’s in the top 10, I believe (Not counting Tanfoglios). Advanced Tactical sells small frame 170mm mags that should fit for 90 bucks.

In a big match, the RO should force a reshoot. The Ro just discovered there were untaped holes on targets. Who knows what other holes were not the competitor’s? Reshoot.

When a popper gets hit but doesn’t go down, the calibration check shouldn’t be on a popper that has already been shot. It should be on the gun and ammo used to shoot the popper. If chrono (when available) shows gun and ammo met power factor, the hit should count.

Domina Xtreme comp is pinned just like a properly installed AR gas block. Great design, shouldn’t ever rotate or need loctite if done correctly. Tanfoglio did go an extra step with the extended frame to hide the pin, very few open guns will hide it.

Same issue with windage drifting. I didn’t have an allen wrench that small, but had a screwdriver glasses kit and was able to adjust the tension screw enough with a small flathead. It is now much tighter. Still checking to see if anyone has found the tensioning adjustment for elevation.

I know two people local to me with Atlas Open guns. Both 9 major. Both using readily accepted 9 major recipes. One had a cracked frame. The other a cracked slide. Both reported less than 20k rounds. On both, Atlas told them full price replacements if they want any work done. Atlas blamed it on over pressure rounds. I guess they expect people to shoot 9 minor in their open guns. Normal?

I’ve seen a lot of these accounts. Way too many short sighted snakes in this industry - and several of them are currently in business. Glad Billy of Jager brought this up, because he’s been running a reputable business for as long as I can remember. I am curious if there is any titanium Glock slide currently being produced. That being said, the two things the OP don’t address are the stroke of the Glock slide (which is too short for consistent muzzle flip in 9 major - too much side to side movement as a result of forces not being as well controlled) and the striker fired trigger. Not because the trigger sucks in comparison to a hammer fired - but because the hammer spring acts against the recoil spring - forcing me to use at least an 11 pound recoil spring.

It depends on the gun. The more muzzle flip you have, the more beneficial a frame mount will be. The less muzzle flip - Nitro fin. I use Nitros on all my guns now - since they are positioned more toward the rear of the gun, they are less likely to cause the muzzle to dip.

The slower powder the better - especially when no ports are involved. Long story short - Shooter’s World Major or 3n38 are my only recommendations for 9 major. I haven’t shot the Domina in 38 super - but it should work great with N105 based on my experience with 2011s.