JaeOne3345

If you are working on a stand and shoot type drill without a lot of movement, why don't you just put a tarp down in the direction of the brass ejection pattern?

There is nothing wrong with scoring aggregates, but there is a time and a place for it. If I run one of the drills in skills and drills (Ben's books) I might run the drill about 3 times before I score it once I have a few reps in. There are other times where the nature of a drill requires me to look at every single string, such as if I keep making the some mistake on a specific hard cover or no shoot target. I might wanna see what is going on every rep. I know it might not be what you wanna hear, but, "It depends."

Everything I pick up goes through my guns. Tons of "Glock" brass. I own 2 2011's and 1 1911, all in 40. 1 SV Infinity Barrel, and 2 STI's. Lee sizing die (standard), Redding Comp seater, Dillon Taper crimp. Done. Very rarely do I have an issue with my loaded rounds not passing my gauge or barrel.

Not sure I agree with this for a 40 anymore. All of the newly manufactured 40 STI tubes I have received (at least 8 in the past 2 years) have all ran out of the bag by simply dropping in Grams followers/springs with a base pad of my choice. They all fit hold 20 and fit the gauge as well. They run no different than my 4 "tuned" Brazos mags, which also only hold 20 comfortably/reloadable. Feedlips are all within spec as well. Have someone tune them for 21+ maybe, but for 20? I don't believe the hype anymore. I find it hard to believe I got lucky with 8 different tubes bought on different occasions.

I used to shoot one every week. I now do live fire practice 2 to 3 times a week, and shoot a club match every other weekend. My progress has sky rocketed. I use club matches as assessments of what needs to be addressed in live fire and dry fire practice sessions.

The fuel analogies are horrible..geez. LOL

I'm the black guy at the match. THE black guy. LOL. Redneck? I don't think so.

I use my Tripp system mags with the No Gap Ice. I slowly shaved the front tab off the pad until it allowed the magazined to seat.

014 is THE BOMB. I sold my race master as soon I got the 014.

I got rid of my FCD's when I started using a Lee sizer in station 1. If the cartridge is making it all the way to a final station and still isn't sized right, that says there is a problem that needs to be addressed at the sizing station. The standard Lee sizer works great for me. I have no need for the U Dies. This die produces ammo that runs and gauges in both my STI and SV Infinity barrels. I was able to put the normal Dillon Taper Crimp back into the rotation once I got the Lee sizers.

Your experience outlines mine. Adding 4" to your actual size seems to work.

I wear a 28" pair of pants. The 32" DAA belt is perfect for me. I use a 30" CR Speed on the other hand.

Who and how was your brass prepped? I have seen this happen with bulk once fired brass sources that tumble in a big cement tumbler. The case mouths get kinda banged up and there are lots of burrs, which then catch the bullet/coating when seating.

In kalifornia? Yup...

Love my PT based build.

I turned the head of my screw down by chucking it in a drill and grinding it on a file. Should not have to do this.

doesn't bother me. LOL. Cool.

I couldn't decide so I went with a 5.4...

I stand by everything I said originally in post 9. No back pedaling. I am not sure how else to say it. If someone feels it does help them, cool. I am saying if you practice, you will not need to focus on racing anyone else there. You will surpass that level quickly, very quickly, with consistent and well planned practice/training. And your response on the matter IS an interpretation. Your interpretation.

Interpret it however you like. Your definition of "busting on people" is different from mine. Simple as that, and I respect that.

Or perhaps you are a newer shooter and you only get to shoot 1 or 2 classifiers a month. I guess I just don't feel much need to look down on people that are engaged in the sport and interested in improving. It's more fun to look down on snarky judgemental people. You can look at either way you want. Whatever floats your boat. Obviously there are the outliers in every data set. But I am saying, if you DO shoot regularly, and take the sport somewhat seriously to the point you work on skills, you will not be a C shooter for long, unless you are totally practicing wrong, or not at all. How is that looking down on anyone? If you do not shoot for anything other than just to get out of the house, that is great! So be it. But if you are using the classification system as a means of judging performance, you do care about your game some what. Why sugar coat it? If someone is offended by a non sugar coated message that is actual TRUTH, that is their problem. This is a sport predominately made of grown men. This isn't little league baseball. I prefer to be told, "That draw sucks, but here is how to fix it,' vs. someone lying to me telling me, "That draw is pretty good, but here is how to fix/improve it." If it sucks, it sucks. Use the fact that it sucks as positive message. It is telling you where you need to improve. Points of failure are opportunities for improvement. How's that for snarky? Wahhhhhh. lol.

Exactly!

Hopefully next year there is better email communication.

I trust my Safariland 014 for 3 gun, maybe more than I do my Blade Tech.

Just get it hard chromed, or have some sort of PVD/DLC treatment done once it is worn. It's gonna happen.