lawboy

YAY! Bring that program to California, Please!

I am all about growing the sport. But I have no interest in shooting with people who do not want to play by the rules. People who leave because others are serious about the game and the rules cannot get off the range fast enough for me. GO! This sport is not for you. This is USPSA. We have rules. It is FREESTYLE not FREE FOR ALL. To be honest, I see some new people at matches who in my opinion are not ready for this game. They don't have the understanding of their gun and how to manipulate it to be safe. They are not leaving due to course design rule that they have no clue about. They are leaving b/c they are in over their heads.

What is the OP's home club and where is it located?

Fixed. Love adjustable sights but for matches, fixed. I arrived at this decision the hard way. Many failed sights during matches.

I just learned something from this discussion. When I am ROing, nobody but the shooter will be allowed on the stage. Period. OD shooter can rehearse in his head OFF the stage. I will be announcing this from now on. The incident described here is just plain frightening. DOWN RANGE of the shooter during the stage run!!! Oh. My. God!

His finger was "too close to the trigger." lol. No. His finger was ON THE TRIGGER. DQ. Unless the gun malfunctioned. Still, DQ. Tell him to order the sprinkles and come back next month. And keep his finger of the trigger, lol.

Thanks everyone. I will look at all options mentioned.

So, I went and put my SP01 Shadow on my carry permit. Not so much to carry as to made traveling to matches less headache as I can now have the gun in the car, in the trunk, loaded, unloaded whatever, no legal hassles. But since it is now on the permit, might as well test run it as a carry gun, right? So, does anyone have a holster suggestion?

Nanny Nanny boo boo, basically. Just lightening the mood. :-)

+1

I see Idpa headquarter's plan worked. The wording about SO responsibility has people thinking. Good. Please realize that the wording will have no impact on liability of individual SO's or idpa. A rulebook cannot trump 200 yrs of general liability law. EVERYONE WILL BE SUED. Any lawyer worth his license will sue the SO, idpa, the shooter on deck and the waterboy. Mind you, idpa will be the target all along. Why? BECAUSE IT IS THE DEEP POCKET! So, SO, relax. Do your job. You will be sued under the new rule book just the same as you would get sued under the old rulebook and the parties with the money will sort it out in the end as always. Part of their decision-making will be how to get the testimony they want from witnesses. If I were idpa I would not leave an SO to fend for himself. That SO MAY CALL THE PLAINTFF's lawyer and say what testimony do you need? I AM YOUR GUY JUST DON'T COLLECT FROM ME. Yes, I am a civil trial lawyer. Yes, I have represented plaintiffs and defendants. Yes, this stuff happens daily.

I do. But I ain't sellin!

I use a home cast 207gr SWC. I think the 200gr. SWC and the 230gr. LRN are the two top choices in 45.

Very interesting and informative thread. I have shot many different games over the years and made up even more shooting activities with my friends. I don't considering switching my focus from one shooting interest to another "burnout." To me, that is just me following my whims. I have experienced a feeling of emptiness or that my shooting is meaningless and unfulfilling. Maybe that is burnout. But I have only experienced that feeling when I have neglected more important priorities/responsibilities in favor of shooting, and then those responsibilities/priorities move away from me or I experience the loss of those things in my life. Then I feel empty and feel like my shooting is meaningless and unfulfilling. I feel as if I have "paid too high a price" for the shooting and that it is not worth what I paid. When that happens, I stop shooting, get my shit together elsewhere in my life, and then I return to shooting feeling good about it. Other than that, I have been shooting without "burnout" since I was in the third grade. I cannot remember a single year in my life since then that I have not bought some kind of firearm or air arm.

I will look at the Brazos slide stop. I have an aftec extractor. I need an ejector. Yes, I know the difference. Lol.

I am building a limited gun and making parts decisions. It is a 2011 in 40 cal. I need some advice. 1. What slide stop to use 2. what ejector to use Thanks for any advice you can give.

As the responses here show, there are many reasons to shoot L10. I started in L10 because I did not have a gun suited for Limited or Production and I wanted the extra two rounds so I could compare myself more easily to the Production shooters. I had not yet caught the SS bug. I used a Les Baer 1911 with McCormack mags and I have a very good time and was able to learn stage break down strategy by watching the production guys who had the same number of shots as I did. I shot L10 for a year or so, shot Area 2 in L10 in 2011 and have a great time. Later, I used the gun in SS for a year and now I am shooting production. L10 got me into the game with equipment I had and it taught me a lot. To me, that makes it worthwhile.

This man has outfitted a wheelchair so he can go out and shoot action pistol matches. And yet, I see other people making the most ridiculous excuses for not doing the most fundamental of things. You sir, are winning! Proceed.

I used load the BC 135 for my Shadow and I liked them well enough. They do tend to have some bullets with voids in the base, too many bullets for my taste. But the accuracy was good. I have since gotten my own mould for the same design from Magma Engineering and I cast my own. They come out at 139grs and do not have voids in the bases. I loaded the BC to 1.150 OAL over 4.0grs WST. I load my cast bullets to 1.145 OAL over 4.0grs WST.

June 30 we shot a charity match. The 2013 NCPS MONSTER MATCH. The match was 6 stages, 300 rounds. Weather was 108 degrees. We had one all-steel stage, 42 rounds. The steel was so hot we used gloves to reset the poppers and plates. Nobody complained about the round count and nobody ran out of ammo. Shooters LIKE TO SHOOT!

That young man is a scholar and a gentleman too, just like his father! Love him!

Les Baer also gets my vote.

This was my post that started this thread on 2/1/2012. It has morphed into a debate about physical fitness v. shooting ability -- and that is fine. But my initial question was were people finding that their physical fitness level had a direct impact on their mental game? We are more than a year removed from my initial post and I have some insights of my own in that regard. I have maintained a pretty high level of physical fitness during the past 14 months and it definitely has had a positive impact on my mental game. I feel better, I notice concrete differences in what I am capable of doing and all of it has been mentioned by posters in this thread. I can get into and out of ackward positions more easily and more quickly, and positions that used to be uncomfortable are no longer uncomfortable. I can draw my gun more easily and with no body motion because I do not have a roll of fat in the way. I can keep my center of gravity lower because I am lighter, my legs are stronger, and thus my weight to strength ratio is greatly improved. I do not get winded. Because I do not get winded, my gun stays steadier when I am shooting. All of these things boost my mental confidence because they give me better tools in my bag to use at the match. Another thing I noticed,which I did not anticipate, is that being in better physical condition has greatly increased my motivation to practice. I have more energy, I feel more capable of improving and doing better, and I WANT to see just how good I can get. Where as a year ago I NEVER used to dry fire practice or live fire practice USPSA skills, today I dry fire TWICE EVERY DAY 15-30 minutes each session. I have built light weight moveable walls that I use in my backyard to make stages to dry fire. I also get in live fire practice periodically having gotten myself authorized to use pistol bays and all props at two different ranges. The result is that I am seeing the biggest gains in my game that I have ever seen. My draws, reloads, transitions, splits, movement into and out of shooting positions, even my stage planning are all much better than they were on 2/1/2012 when I started the thread. Again, all this improved my mental game even more and it just feeds on itself. So, I have answered my own question. YES, physical fitness has had a substantial positive impact on my mental game and also on my physical game! One of the things I got from your update was your confidence level is higher overall. Physical fitness has increased your energy levels and your ability to focus on the technical aspects of your shooting, rather than how you're feeling. It has also given you more energy to practice, which improves your confidence. It has given you the ability to move thru a course of fire, and you've demonstrated to yourself an increased ability to move better, which has improved your confidence. Unsung and often overlooked benefits, eh? Yes, definitely overlooked and, more accurately, unexpected and unanticipated and very welcome benefits!

Shoot Alphas. You know how to do it, you said you were doing it before. Go back to what you were doing before. One way to determine definitively whether you are regressing or if your friends are simply closing the gap on you is to go back through all the match scores from prior matches and calculate your RAW points percentage for every match. Not your hit factor points, but your raw points shot before penalties. If that percentage is going down, then you are regressing and it is not movement, or speed, or anything other than failure to shoot accurately. If, on the other hand, your raw percentage is consistent or even going up and you are still losing to people you used to beat then yup, they done caught up to you! In that case, keep shooting alphas, just learn to do it faster. The stats ALWAYS hold the answers. Learn to mine them.