Cheshire_Cat

Disregard.

If you mean only shoot matches and not have to teach classes or work in some other capacity for a gun company, my guess would be close to zero. And those are the top GMs.

Congratulations on your top 20 placement at Production Nationals!

About 250 rounds today. Averaged 60 to 70% on El Prez.

Are you getting all A zone hits for those times?

I'll join A76190 Production :-D

I was unaware of the plunk test. Thank you for the link. The rounds fail the plunk test in the G34 barrel and pass in the G19 barrel, so I will shoot the couple hundred I already loaded through the G19. I will decrease the OAL .010 and see if those pass the test.

I just measured a batch of about 20 and the OAL was about 1.138 (some give or take .002...with a couple .004 to .006 off)

I recently purchased a Dillon 550b press and began reloading 9mm (5.3 gr WSF, CCI small pistol primer, Bayou Bullets 115 gr, mixed brass). My Gen 4 Glock 34 will not easily manually extract the cartridge. I first noticed this when having a failure to fire and did the tap rack assess...it would not rack. I have to pull really hard on the slide for it to extract the reloaded cartridge. It does not have any issues manually extracting factory ammunition. My Glock 34 has a steel guide rod and 13 lb recoil spring, with the Taran Tactical spring kit. My Gen 3 Glock 19, which has stock parts, has no issues manually extracting the reloaded cartridge. I did notice there is a slash/gouge in the bullet after manually extracting the cartridge. This occurs with both the G19 and G34, although it is deeper with the G34. It probably shows up because it is a coated bullet. Not sure if this has anything to do with the problem or not. The extractor on the G34 does not appear to be broken. In fact, I put the G19 extractor into the G34 and it still had the same problem. Any ideas as to what could be the issue? I think my lightened striker spring may not be a good combo with the CCI primers, so if/when I get a light strike after 20 or so rounds it sure is a pain to have to stop shooting and pull super hard on the slide to get the cartridge to eject. 2 of the times the casing actually separated from the bullet I had to pull so hard...

I shot a steel match the other day. I got 5th out of 17 in Limited.

I put a Jager steel guide rod and a 13 lb. ISMI recoil spring in my G34. Waiting on my replacement fiber optic rod, so today I shot with no fiber rod in the front sight again. Started things off with the WA CJTC course of fire with my G34. I dropped 12 points (488/500). I ran the Classifier CM 99-23 Front Sight 4 times during practice today https://www.uspsa.org/classifiers/99-23.pdf Production Division 49 points 6.88 seconds 7.12 hit factor 56% 52 points 7.31 seconds 7.11 hit factor 56% 53 points 8.42 seconds 6.29 hit factor 50% 58 points 8.42 seconds 6.88 hit factor 54% My scores were relatively consistent high C class. I then ran a modified version of the el prez (same distance and target set up and got 58 points in 9.91 seconds). I ran 3 bill drills... 30 points in 2.35 seconds (12.76 hit factor) 28 points in 2.41 seconds (11.62 hit factor) 24 points in 1.95 seconds (12.31 hit factor) Average hit factor 12.23

I put in the TTI GM connector spring kit. The trigger was noticeably lighter and I did not have any light strike issues with the 200 or so rounds i shot yesterday.

Picture of Dots Drill. This was my first time running the drill the whole way through. Last range session I only shot 2 dots.

The fiber optic rod in my front sight must have fallen out last time I went shooting. So today I shot with no fiber rod. My average draw at 7 yards was 1.2 seconds. Bill drill - goal Hit Factor 15 ...ran it 5 times Avg HF 11.37 Blake drill goal Hit Factor 15 ...ran it 5 times Avg HF 8.63 The Dots drill @ 5 yards 25 in, 11 out avg string time 5.26 sec El Prez Goal HF 12 9.89 sec with 10 As and 2 Cs. HF 5.66 9.77 sec with 10 As and 2 Cs. HF 5.73 6.57 sec with 6A, 4C, 2D. HF 7 Notice my HF was better when I went for speed, even though my accuracy was worse.

Practiced some drills - Blake, FAST, the Dots. Then some 100 yr AR. I was shooting with some buddies,so it wasn't as focused as normal. I found the frank Garcia's dot drill challenging AR 5 yards, so I will continue to shoot it at that distance.