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Nice looking guns! That's a lot of hardware... Thanks for the info.

Does anyone know if this is a discontinued item? I haven't seen them on czcustom or anywhere else other than CZ-USAs website. I may be picking up a new shadow soon and figured I'd go for the original look since I already have a black one. Thanks!

I don't predict it will take you long Thanks Donovan, a little beat down after yesterday's match, but I'm sticking with it. Oh hey, I almost gained a percent this tally! 66.75%, I'll take it! I'm the biggest hypocrite in the world when it comes to this, but you will never fail to be disappointed with your performance if you hold yourself to some arbitrary standard. Go to matches to shoot your own game and learn. If you ever leave a match without learning anything, that would be the time to hang things up. Let the chips fall where they may. Shoot a target a bunch of times if it angers you but always be learning. Wisdom! So true.

I don't predict it will take you long Thanks Donovan, a little beat down after yesterday's match, but I'm sticking with it. Oh hey, I almost gained a percent this tally! 66.75%, I'll take it!

Back to work after a busy weekend of shooting. I shot a multigun match on Saturday (6th out of 29) and another USPSA match on Sunday. This Sunday was very frustrating and I really ate it at the match. The match was 7 stages and had some long range steel as well as so close up shooting. The classifier was "oh no"(describes my performance as well). For the first 3 stages I was shooting all right, but didn't feel like I had the sight pictures that I was used to seeing at the previous match where I did so well. I was wondering why that was since I had continued to practice during the week. Then it all went wrongggggg. On stage 4 I horrifically fumbled a reload adding about 2 seconds or more to my time, it made me pretty angry and adversely affected my mood. Stage 5 was a multi-positioned steel stage with just horizontal movement behind a fault line. After engaging the first few arrays my finger slipped too far in and I was missing left consistently. I got wayyyy too frustrated by this and started blasting wildly at the steel causing two extra reloads over the course of the stage. At one point I actually was sustaining the forward falling popper on hits alone! (shot it about 4 times). The next classifier stage was even worse. I somehow nailed two no shoots on the first string. On the second string I blasted through it at double speed and then shot the no shoot a couple times out of spite (rage!). Obviously that stage was zeroed. After the match I felt pretty demoralized, but talked it over with my buddy and felt better about it. What I did wrong: 1) Artificially sped up to match the Masters/A class shooters I was shooting with. I.E. Didn't shoot my game. 2) Let emotion get the best of me. I feel my training has been pretty solid, but I'll need to make sure and mix in a live fire session during the week. I have to play to by strong side and focus on always shooting As and not just blasting at targets when I blow a stage. I plan to start taking video and posting it after matches. I came in 10th out of 27 shooters. 2nd B.

Thanks all, definitely going to be a journey. Lots of stuff to work on!

I'm in as well: A67558 Currently 65.84 ( B ) Production

Hey all, My name is Josh. I'm currently a B class production shooter in Washington. I decided to start posting my entries here in order get feedback and chronicle my advancement in USPSA. Last year I ranked up to B class from C after a decent amount of training, and consistently going to matches. My goal this year is solidly set on A class. I understand that this will take a higher amount of effort and focus from what I've had before. Recently I purchased Steve Anderson's book to put some structure into my practice sessions. Before this time I had been picking up my pistol for about 10-15 minutes at a time while watching Deep Space Nine on Netflix and absently firing at light-switches or my speaker towers. While this slightly helps familiarity, it's not something that will push my game to the next level. Last week I started doing the course with my iPhone as a timer and wearing all my match gear. I set up 3 full size USPSA targets at 20 feet with brown tape covered magazine subscription cards as a smaller A zone focus (course recommends 30 feet if you have the space). I did these drills for about an hour or more each night, and after the first day or two I had already started dropping my par times. I also realized that an phone timer app doesn't cut it for continuous practice. I ordered a CED7000 and should have it by the end of this week! That Sunday I went out to a local match to compete with my new found confidence brought about by my repetitive training in the previous days, I also tried to bring on a new mindset that I hadn't used before. I shoot with a group of friends that are pretty competitive, typically I'll compare our scores each stage to see if I am beating them or not. I realized this can only harm myself at the match and adds unneeded stress as well as forcing me to "try". I shot each stage with an unaffected attitude and paid no heed to the run times or scores of my buddies. Looking back, I realize my stress was non-existent, it was amazing! After the match was over the scores were read out and I had taken 1st production over 4 A class shooters and a Master. I couldn't believe it. The best I had done previously was roughly top 5 each match, and always trailing by 10-15% off the leader. It's extremely gratifying to see practice turn into results so fast and to confirm to myself that practice DOES work. This coming week I have a Multi-gun and pistol match, so I'll be continuing to train daily and push my envelope. It's going to be a busy weekend! I'm going to at least 3 major matches this year and plan to stick to a rigid schedule of training and advancement going forward. I'll be making entries detailing match performance and progress going forward as I continue through the shooting season. Thanks for reading!

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll keep that in mind if I see any more issues. I loaded 336 rounds last night, and only had 2 that fully failed chamber checking, and one of those was due to a split case. Looking good! I also can't complain about being able change the OAL by just turning a knob

Hello all, I just installed the Redding competition seating die I purchased, and it appears to have fixed it. It looks like the issue was seating after all. I just loaded 107 chamber checked rounds with no bad ones. Thanks for all the suggestions!

I did a look over the brass with issues and it seems to be completely random (I.E. Federal, Winchester, RWS, S&B ) As Tollarja stated I have ordered the Redding Competition Seating Die and the Lee Factory Crimping die. I will install the seating die first to see if it was a seating issue, if it still occurs, I think we can feel confident that it is the crimping die. Thank you all for the suggestions and help so far. We will update this thread once the cause is determined.

Here's a picture of two bullets right after they are seated, after the seating die, they look to be correctly positioned. I flipped the seating die to the hollowpoint setting and still got about 2-3 failures out of 10 rounds.

Here are some pictures of the crimping issue. The rounds are being seated properly, however are getting canted somehow in the crimping die and creating a small "hump" in the case that will cause it to fail the gauge. We have tried various OAL and crimp changes to no avail.