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Hmm?

And btw, at the European Rifle Championship in Hungary, there was a local rule on the range that muzzle could not point over the berm for safety reasons. The Entire match was rifle parallel starting position and at no times could the barrel point over the berms, which at times were ridiculously low, almost in line with the targets. We practiced for months to start and move with our rifles never pointing up.

The IPSC Rifle (and I believe shotgun) rules up until 2012 specified that the gun should be parallel to the ground, stock touching at hip level. The parallel to the ground rule was then removed and now most sensible people start like this: It makes it easier to get first shot on target since the end of the barrel is already in line with the target, so you only extend your left arm bit and bring the stock up just like in shotgun sports (at least outside US) I used to shoot sporting clays and international skeet before IPSC rifle, mounting the rifle is just the same in IPSC as in those sports. Also, in IPSC, down range is anywhere within the safety angles, and up range is the opposite. You will always start pointing towards your first target to save time.

Not that I've heard. There are lots of czechmates floating around in Norway now.

You see more and more of them over here now, it's a great gun to get into open division since it doesn't need any gunsmithing to run 100%, and it runs equally well with factory as with handloads. I've had one for 12 months. The only thing I did was to change to a 10lbs recoil spring and put a buffer in it since I like how it shoots better with a lighter spring.

I tried using slightly less of faster powder, didn't help. And yes, when loading for a comp, the basic idea is to use as much of slow powder as you can with the lightest bullet possible. 135grs .40 bullets cost about 4 times as much as 9mm bullets in Europe and 9mm brass is basically free. I'm now shooting 9 major in a CZ Czechmate, which works a lot better

10.5grs N105, about 200pf I tried 3n38 too, but N105 was the best one. I tried different loads, from 9.9grs and up until 10.7. With 10.7 the load was so compressed the cartridge oal was too long to feed reliably. I still couldn't get it to shoot as flat as a 38 super or 9 major gun though, so I ditched the whole idea of shooting .40 open. Reloading for 9 major costs about 1/3 of reloading .40. So the choice was fairly obvious for me at least.

When I was experimenting with .40 open i used N105 for 135grs bullets. That was the closest I could get in sort of getting a .40 gun to work as good as 38 super and 9 major open guns. There are a few american gun powders with similar burn rate according to this chart.

Winter: 1-2 matches a week (open pistol and indoor .22 rifle matches). Summer: 1-3 matches a month (open pistol and "real" rifle matches. Live fire training is 1-3 times a month year round for the most part. Dry fire almost every day, both pistol and rifle. Even though technically I shoot more pistol matches than rifle matches I'm primarily a rifle shooter. I use pistol matches as a means to gain stage/match experience.

Small level 2 match last Saturday, 100% Open division, next shooter at 72%. Because everything is scored on Shootnscoreit in Norway I have calculated based on combined results with people who shot this match and two other recent Level 3 matches that I was at about 87-93% of GM level, I still don't have enough matches to be classified, but should reach M in maybe 3-4 more matches.

A 100 meter stage with a bunch of penalty targets:

Some sideways movement: On Sunday we shot three more, I filmed two. A stage with paper at close(ish) range and papers and popper + plate at 200 meters:

A stage with paper at 50, paper popper and plate at 200 and paper at 350 meters: A drill for practicing entry and exit from positions:

National rifle team training camp this weekend. Shot some stages....of which I remembered to film a few. Plain 2-2-2 drill:

I run 1.14 in my Czechmate. 124grs Frontier bullets

In the great zombie match of the 40s the opposition only had iron sights as well

Wow, I though you guys were more serious about your shtf stuff than buying the cheapest of cheap optics.

I can shoot as fast with a 1x optic as a red dot, so to me there's not much to contemplate. Everyone knows zombies has to be shot in the head......5 zombies in 1.65 sec with a Trijicon TR24: Or if they're standing next to each other (and have big heads )....1.36 sec:

Fiber optics used in the computing industry is expected to last 40 years, meaning acceptable data transfer reliability. I'm 43 now, so if the fiber in the Trijicon lasts 40 that would be good enough for me.

Trijicon TR24 withouth a doubt. Can shoot just as fast as a red dot with a good variable optic.

First real rifle match of the season, placed second after the current national champ. Sucked on the long range stage (which is not on this video) and was pretty decent at the rest. First stage on the video is sitting on the crapper (picture below), rifle loaded and safe. Just like in everyday life. There's a glitch in the audio at the start of last stage, sounds like a double fire, which it's not. [/url]

No, the "stage" was "standing bill drill" It's from a training camp we had a couple weeks ago.

I shot a 100 meter "bill drill" a couple weeks, ago. Here you can see the technique in slomo.