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I loaded up some 3.9 - 4.1 - 4.3 of TG, at an OAL of 1.16, got the crony, and the Trojan 9mm out today and this is what I found. All 124g Frontier CMJ Gains - Avg fps - PF 3.9 - 1017 - 126 4.1 - 1073 - 133 4.3 - 1106 - 137 This time I also shot groups and all 3 of these loads did about the same. It was about 3" at 25 yards. I kind of suck at shooting a pistol off a rest. I can get pretty darn close to that off hand. My old Clays load was a little to soft with a 115g 3.6g and OAL of 1.085 (OAL to fit my XDM) It was running 1048 for a PF of 120.5 I will load some at 4.0 and see what I get. For whatever reason the load felt good today. The harshness fromt the other day is pretty much gone.

I just don't expect a 9mm load to go bang as hard as the tightgroup loads do. Event below 4 grains it seems to be more of a handfull than factory stuff. I am going to work up a load with some other powders and see what I get. I am commited to the 124g bullet, I just bought a case of MG CMJ's so now I just need to find a powder I am happy with that makes minor. Thanks for the information, I will pull out the crono and do some more work.

I have been looking at switching from shooting 45 to 9mm in singlestack for a couple of reasons. #1, to drop the cost of shooting and practice and #2, to get some help getting my splits down. I had been shooting 115g MG JHP with 3.6g of Clays loaded pretty short at 1.08 OAL in my XMD9. They make minor, and shoot pretty soft. I looked here and it seems like a lot of folk are running 124g or 147g 9mm over 4.0 to 4.2 of Tightgroup. I wanted to "keep the cost down" so I want to go with the 124g instead of the 147g. The original idea had my cost of bullets at abotu 50% from 230g 45 to 115g 9mm. With 124g the cost is 46% less than the 230g so that's close enough. I found a few hundred Frontier CMJ,and a pound of Tightgroup localy to try out. I started by making up 20 each using 4.0g, 4.1g, and 4.2g of tightgroup at 1.16 OAL as the STI Trojan 9mm seems to like them a little longer. All seemed pretty harsh so I did some 3.8g loads. Still pretty harsh and quite a bit of muzzle rise. I just loaded up some with 3.6g of Tightgroup, but again, no love. I shot my old Clays load, then the new Tightgroup load. 3.6 of Clays pushing 115g JHP, 3.6g of Tightgroup pushing 124g and it was night and day. My splits are about 50% quicker with the Clays load. I also took some Federal Champion 115g factory loads out and they shot softer than the Tightgroup with 3.6g. This is my first go at Tightgroup so I am not sure if it is just the way the powder shoots or am I missing something on the load.

Tonight I set up 6 6" plates and 2 4" wide poppers at 100 feet (thats how long my tape was) Tried to get them down in the fewest number of shots. Ran it 4 times but it was getting dark so I just couldn't see very well on 3 and 4. My best run was 12 shots on run one. I guess that 32 yard 8" plate at the Florida open was not all luck afterall.

I think a part of why this works so well is that you focus far to near much faster than near to far. Try putting your finger out in front of your face and focus on your finger, then move your focus to something 20 yards away. Then move your focus back to your finger. I think you will find far to near much faster than near to far.

This fits, I have been working on my grip and my draw and reloads so they are not as automatic as they were. I shot tonight and did much better, I just let myself go and watched the sites. Good hits, pretty good time. Thanks for the help guys.

Thanks guys, I get to try your suggestions tonight on our Monday night shoot.

I had taken a couple of months off due to family issues. The first match back was a local match with zero practice and did pretty darn well. I started practicing quite a bit and my practice times are moving in the correct direction. After about two weeks, I go to a match and have the worst finish I have had in a year. I think, OK just had a bad day. I spend two more weeks on the practice range, again my drill times are getting better and better. I go back to another match, I am no better, if anything I am worse. I miss a lot and I am slow. On my practice range I am shooing 6" steel at 15 yards with no trouble. I get to the match and miss a full size popper at 10 yards.

Make it a general rule when riding a motorcycle to pretend you are invisible. Make it a general rule when driving a car, to look twice to make sure there is no motorcycle coming. Make it a general rule to never look right, look left and pull out without looking back to the right. Make it a general rule to quit texting and driving.

I ride Enduro and HS, kind of like to keep the bike close to the ground so when I fall I don't have so far to go. ss+P Buzzer goes off, you shoot 9 shots Left Center Right, Left Center Right, Left Center Right. Take the total time and add 1/2 second for each non A and that is your time. I do shoot it "Right Center Left" about as often as I shoot it Left Center Right.

I love this drill so here is a post to bring it back to the top. Now that I have enough daylight to get out and practice after work I spent 2 hours pissing off my neighbor that likes to call the cops every time I shoot. I know all the guys that come out and we talk guns for 15 minutes, they leave, I go back to shooting. I wonder if she will ever figure out that they are not going to stop me from shooting? OOPS back on subject. I shoot this drill more times at 15 yards than 10, just because I shoot most of my drills at 15 yards. I picked that habit up from another one of Brian's posts. This drill helps on draw, site acquisition, calling shots, and target transition, more than any other drill I use. I start the shooting session dry fire, move to a few rounds very slow to make sure I am hitting all A's, then just ramp the speed up until I start missing A's, back off again, repeat. I try and push myself out of my comfort zone speed wise as I ramp up the speed. The last time I do the drill for the day, I make sure it's all A's again. I see the speed guys like Brian are shooting this drill at and I have a long way to go but every match I shoot I feel the difference this drill makes.

This was my first level 3 match so I did not know what to expect. What I got was a very well run match with RO's that knew what they were doing and did a great job. All the stages except #8 where well set up, thought out and ran like clockwork. The plates on #8 were a bit of an issue. If you hit the plate on the base and it did not fall you had to reshoot the stage. That one stage took a lot of time for most of the squads. One guy on our squad shot it at least 3 times. Frank, Manny and the whole crew were very good and always around when needed. They had good communication and when something needed to be done it was handled quickly. It sure seemed like they were everywhere. Somebody early in this thread talked about making sure you knew where your gun shot at 25+ yards and they were correct. Lots of tight long shots. The longest was a 8" +- plate at 32 yards sitting on the ground with a barrel next to it. When we got there the sun was just coming up behind the bay so it was very hard to see in the shadow. Out of the 11 people in our squad I think 3 hit it on the first shot. Several people left it standing. I was one that hit it on the first shot and then proceded to miss the same size plate at 15 yards on the other side of the bay. There was another steel target with steel cover around it and I thought I had missed it because it was so hard to see but, I guess by blind luck I hit it. The best part of this match to me was the people on the squad, all but one were helping on every stage, they were easy to talk to and on guy was a lot of help to me. Rene helped my D class brain figure out a few of stages that were just not working out for my Single Stack gun. We had one person on the squad that would spend most of her time scouting the next stage and taping instead of helping tape the stage she was on. Then when we got our five minutes to figure out the stage she was always in the way. My last thought is about that 5 minutes to figure out the stage. With 11 people on the squad it is very hard to get enough time to get comfortable with the more complicated stages. Some of these like #9 took a long time to figure out. I even heard guys like Travis T say he was just not ready to shoot the stage when his turn came up. Too many people on the course and too little time to look at it. I guess the woman that was skipping out on her stage to scout the next one had a pretty good plan. The other part that was cool was getting to see the top shooters shoot. One word, WOW! I saw one stage where Travis T did a reload so fast on a dead run that the mag was behind the last target he shot even though he was standing 2 fee from it when he shot it while running by it. I saw it but I am not sure I beleve it happnened All in all a great day and I for sure will be back next year. I will have spent a bunch more time at the range on long tight shots!

Heading over this afternoon, even though I don't shoot until Saturday @1. Of course I woke up this morning feeling sick, go figure. Should still be a good time. Not sure about small steel at 25 yards but..........

This is our local 3gun in Western NC. Normaly 1 stage with all three guns, one long distance rifle out to a max of 250 yards, one rifle, pistol stage, and one shotgun pistol stage with 30+- rounds of shotgun. It's a fun low key local match. There will be a 3-Gun Match at the new Walnut Grove 3-Gun range at (approx) 4956 Bostic Sunshine Hwy, Bostic NC on Saturday, 29 January 2011. Sign-up begins at 9:00 am and shooting begins at 10:00 am. Entry fees are $15 and trophies are awarded to the top three shooters. For more information, check out our website at www.walnutgrove3gun.webs.com Richard A. Stowe, Jr. Walnut Grove 3-Gun Match Coordinator 828-777-4064 tathlum@hotmail.com

Did you adjust the black focus ring on the scope. Mine was way out in left field when it came in and the scope looked like crud. Once I adjusted it for my eye it was very good.

About two weeks ago I bought a STI Sporting Rifle Competition from Shooters Connection. Today I got to shoot it. For a point of reference I have only shot my 20" Colt Match Target and very few other AR's. I have only done 4 3Gun matches but I am hooked deep. Took the STI to the local indoor range to try and sight in my Burris TAC30 and get a little trigger time before 3Gun match #5 tomorow. I am amazed at how little this rifle moves when I shoot it. Not only does the muzzle jump very little but the recoil seems very lite as well. The trigger is so sweet, it just breaks crisp with no creep at all. The reset is very short. I am looking forward to getting some match time with it. I did a few hammered pairs with it and they were very close together. With the Colt they have been much farther apart. I have never shot with a comp before and the things I noticed were almost no muzzle flip, a large muzzle flash, and it is loud. Like a kid at Christmas waiting for the match in the morning.

We have an indoor range about 30 minutes from my office so I got to shoot the STI with the Burris today at lunch. With the help of MarkCO I have come to grips with the illumination button. I was trying to get it close for a match Saturday AM. With it on 1x I was able to shoot 2" groups off hand at the 25 yards the range had to offer. Pushing it to 4x got the group size down to about an inch off hand. The point of aim did not seem to change between 1x and 4x. It was easy and predictible to sight in. I will know more after the first hoser stage tomorow but I had no trouble shooting with both eyes open at the range. The more I mess with this scope the more I like it.

It is in a nice place. I will just have to spend some time learing to use it. I will try your suggestions, thanks. You did not miss much on the manual. Overall think I would buy this scope again. For the price it seems to fit my need very well. If I end up not liking it I am sure I can take a small loss and sell it with no issue. My guess is that it's a keeper.

I am new to 3Gun and did not want to spend a fortune on a scope to start out. From doing a lot of reading on this forum and others I bought a Burris TAC30 1-4 from Midway. I also bought one of the Burris AR PEPR mounts to go with it. The total was about $400 shipped. I mounted it up on my STI last night and here are a few observations. I thought I would hate the color but I think it looks pretty cool to have a little color on the all black gun. I am glad I bought a mount that pushes the scope forward as I had no trouble getting the scope the correct distance from my eye. The optic seems very clear and the 1x is very close to 1x. I have no trouble getting a quick sight picture with both eyes open. I was not able to do that with the 2x Aimpoint I had. I would have a lot of double vision issues with the 2x and both eyes open and felt like I was looking through a tunnel all the time. I am pretty sure this will work like a champ on hoser stages. I have no trouble getting full field of view when I mount the rifle quickly and try to get on target. Its almost like the scope is not there except for the nice red circle showing up. The only issue I have so far, is the way the battery and is mounted and the button that turns the retical on and off, and adjusts the brightness. It pretty much sucks, the operation is not very intuitive, and the manuals instructions are poorly written. I hope to have it sighted in and ready for our next match on the 18th. Looks like 3Gun in the snow is on the menu for this weekend.

So I make up my mind to buy a M2 the local dealer has. He had a 26" on the floor and said he had a 24" in the back. I go to pick it up after work and no M2 in the house. Sold the 26" didn't have the 24" in the back. I think I would know if I was missing a $1200 shotgun. I left kind of pissed but my bad for not buying it when I was in at lunch. On the way home I stop by a large local pawn shop to see what they have. There is a 26" M1 Super 90 sitting there. Looks good, just a couple of minor marks and I can't see anything that says it has had more than a few rounds through it. No case and only 1 choke a price tag of $599 on it. 30 minutes, $450 and tax later I walk out with an M1. I don't think I can get hurt if I don't like it and have to sell it. I will add the mag extension, a bigger bolt release, a couple more chokes, and probably send the lifter off to be welded up. That thing bites when I try to weak hand reload it. If I like it, I will probably get the barrel cut down and send it off to Benny to help me spend the rest of my 1k +- budget.

Yes, I am shooting my Mossberg 500, slowly I might add. It kind of sucks seeing the auto guns run circles around my .6+ splits. The gun does run so I get to beat some of the auto guys when their guns crash. Your suggestion just may be the best idea of all. It is getting cold here so the shooting action slows down a bit. I guess I could just hang out until the end of Jan and see what comes up.

If Benny had been building and debugging the 930's for a year or so, I would have never made this post. I would have sent him a deposit and waited. Then again, Jerry Miculek is runing one and he seems to be pretty happy, or at least he likes his results. It sounds like Benny and Jerry talk so that accelerates Benny's debug time. I write software and no matter who you are or how good you are, you just don't know what you don't know until you have a lot of time on a project with multiple people causing issues. I would think making a gun 100% is close to the same thing. I am agonizing over this because I only want to cry once. I think getting the loading port perfect is way out of my reach. Taking a dremel tool to a $1200 gun is just not on my list.

I am new to 3gun as I have only shot a couple of matches but I am hooked deep. I have a good pistol, and AR but I am lacking in the shotgun area. My 1k budget doesn't allow me to spend the 2.1k on a fully set up M2 from one of the top guys but it would almost allow me to spend the ~$1.3k to buy a fully set up 930 or the ~1.2k to buy a stock M2. I am on the east coast and most of the guys where I shoot run pretty stock guns. I don't know what I would be missing on the "race" setup so it is hard for me to judge the better path. So the question is: What would you rather have, a stock M2 or a 930 built up by one of the top builders?

I think you are correct, I think my focus is moving from place to place, I am just not conscious of it hapening. In that state I have let go of conscious thought and I am letting my unconscious mind run the show. At the highest level of that state I have felt an almost out of body experiance where my conscious mind was wondering how in the hell I was doing what I was doing at the same time my unconscious mind was running the show at an unreal pace. To this day I can picture exactly where I was, and who I was following on the bike the first time it happend. It is a very strange and very cool place to be. I just need to find the switch to turn it on more consistantly.

Looking at the completed auctions on gunbroker it looks like a range would be $600 to $850. Looks like $700 is the magic number to get a nice one sold. I am not sure what the extras you have would add to the price.