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I loved the way you phrased that: "20 points behing the second to last shooter. Kind of remnds me of a track dual-meet between teh now defunct USSR and the USA. the US won hands down, but the Pravda headline read, "Soviets finsih second, US finished second to last." Welcome to the most informative site on shooting around. IT these guys and gals cannot answer you question, Einstein probably couldn't answer it. Don't worry about your finishing order for awhile. Just have fun and learn the process. My first goals were to ahve fun and not get DQ'ed. Tenmatches later I thought I was ready to get faster, and during a really good run, got too quick and broke teh 180. The RO felt really bad about calling it because it looked like it was going to be my best ever. Not. I really ;earned something, and I still had fun. Welcome again.

I've got both, and I don't see very much difference until you get way out there. Then again, with a world class shooter on the rifle, there probably not be any difference at all. m they both seem to work well. I'm about 1500 rounds or so from a new barrel on my 1:12 Kimber Tactical. I may get a 1:11 or 1:11.25 since the barrel will be a custom barrel anyway.

I've been shooting precision rifles a lot longer than I have been shooting action pistols, and used to be a proponent of teh old school brak in methods. I also used to be fanatic about cleaning the crap out of the bore after even a few shots (must be teh Marine boot camp training). A friend intriduced me to Gale McMillans thoghts on the subject, along with the idea that I was probably wearing my bore more cleaning it than I ever did shooting it. This made sense to me, so for the last three years or so I have "shot in' four new rifles without the old school break in. I also found out that all of teh rifles shoot really well with dirty barrels for a lot longer than I would have ever imagined. My thoughts on teh process may not be the same if I were shooting one of the very high pressure, flame throwing benchrest calibers, and measuring the groups to four decimal points to the right of the decimel. But I'm shooting a .308 and measuring the groups to the nearest minute of bad guy.

I have used an adjustable gas block on my LR308m and it didn't make any difference. I have a 24" cryo'd stailess barrel, JP trigger, steel upper, hard chromed bolt and high rise integral rail. With Federal 168 grain GMM my 10 shot average in 68 degrees was 2652, elevation just above sea level. With the 24" stainless bull barrel and the steel upper receiver, I can see the rounds impact on steel plates between 250 and 350 yards. AT 350 yardes max, I cannot see any difference with the 175 grain Match Kings.

I'm not a master class shooter, but polished stock internals, stock 3.5 connector and a Wolff spring kit make a pretty decent trigger pull.

The shoot,shoot,shoot, advice is one of the best tid bits of wisdom you could get. Unless you are extraordinarily gifted, whichever pistol you get will most probably outshoot your abilities. Get whatever you can get at a price you can afford and shoot the heck out of it. The chances are by the time you need a more accurate gun, you will have spent several new pistols worth of money on ammunition/components. And by that time you will be a way better shooter.

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The cartoon type Mexican Banicico type with a gun sounds way too much like the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang logo on their colors. As an LEO I would think you would wish to avoid that type of association. Our SRT has a stack of hammerhead sharks with sub guns, and teh words "Heads you lose."

All of the above was excellent advice. Thanks guys.

You guys ain't alone in this. I was doing the same things, even so far as to FTE targets on stages that I had helped set up. Then I decided to quit worrying about time and be accurate, and more importantly, shoot all of the targets. So far I have been improving each time.

I use CCI's in a Glock 35 with Wolff spring kitand standard striker. Onjly one of 4,000 did not go bang, and when examined that one was obviouslynot seated all the way. When placed on a flat glass top table, it wobbled. As usual it was the "loose nut behind the wheel."

Speed and accuracy, but if you continue to practice the accuracy, it seems like the speed begins to develop. But then again, some of us (or should I say "you") are faster than others. I am getting faster with practice, but have come to the realization that most folks will be faster, so I might as well be more accurate. It's kind of like an equation in algebra class. Anything that you add, subtract, divide or multiply changes the number tothe right of the = sign. Reality, what a concept.

Welcome to the best site on shooting that there is. I have a DPMS LR308, 24" stainless cryo'd bull barrel, JP trigger, with a steel upper receiver and a Burris XTreme Tactical scope mounted in XTR rings.

Welcome! This is the best site on shooting that is available. I have yet to have a question that the folks on this forum cannot answer. Welcome, again.

An official"Southern term," meaning the cycle is very smooth with minimal muzzle flip. I know it's probably not the correct technical jargon, but it's what I got. You know how us uneducated, gun-toting Southerners are.

There hasn't been a precision firearm made that cannot be totally screwed up by non-judicious application of a Dremel tool. Ask me how I know this.

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing when there is nothing is the meaning of of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two separate things. HAKAGURE, From the Second Chapter

The priest Tannen used to say, "People come to no understanding because priests teach only the doctrine of 'No Mind." What is called the doctrine of 'No Mind' is mind that is pure and lacks complication. This is interesting." HAKAGURE, From the First Chapter

Glock 35 stock barrel, Precision 185 grain moly, Winchester Superfield powder: makes major with no leading, and doesn't seem to foul teh internals as badly as some of the other loads do. And man, the difference in smoothness at teh same velocity over the jacketed bullets is amazing.

I shot the Gator classic in Thibodaux this past year. I was a brand new shooter and had only shot three USPSA matches and I was scared to death. Squad 13 had some really good shooters that all pitched in an helped, and made a novice compeitor feel really welcome. It was almost like they were competing to see who could paste the most targets and set the steel the fastest. My local range matches are a different matter. The same three or four guys seem to do all of the set up and tear downs, scoring and pasting.

I thought FO sights were a gimmick, until I shot a practice stage with a friend's pistol. Now most of my hanguns have FO front sights. My first instinct is to agree with some of the others on rear FO's ar too much. But I was wrong before, and teh chances are pretty great that I will be proved wrong again, so, try it and see.

I shoot Glocks,and shoot low left whenever my concetration lags, or when I try to go really fast. (I find I can be fairly fast, or fairly accurate, but cannot seem to both on a regular basis.) Maybe it is just me, but changing the sights seems to make me less prone to this problem. My two Glocks for competition have Warren Sevigny Competition sights, and my duty Glocks have Hienie Straight Eights. the narrower (skinnier?) front sight helps me to not pull low and left. This may be because it seems a lot easier for me to align the front sight on target with more light on each side. whatever it is, it seems to help me.

I have a JP on my Glock 35, and Friday I put one on a brand new Glock 24. Both installed easily with no need to force it on. Both drop the mags freely. I have rather small hands and the JP magwell seems to stabilize my grip nicely.

In July I had teh same kind of complete case head seperation in a new (300 rounds) 35. The round was a new-old stock Federal 230 grain HP, case head stamped FC. Yeah, I Know what I've read on this site about .40 FC stamped cases, but this was not a reload. I also lost the mag out the bottom, and the extractor went to who knows where. There did not appear to be anyu other damage, and Smyrna replaced all the "small" parts. I still have the stock barrel and shoot 185 grain Precision Moly bullets over 5.0 grains of WSF without any signs of leading.

I've got a Leupold CQT on a duty rifle that I really like a lot. I was a die hard Eotech user, but after I tried teh CQT I came to reallylike it. With the battery turned on, the circle and the dot are easy to find. with the battery turned off, the circle and dot appear teh same black as standard scope reticles. I also came to like the 1x-3x magnification adjustment. On 1x it works like any other heads-up display type of dot sight. The bad thing is that at $900.00 it stretches you budget a bit.