davsco

see what brownells has in the way of pre-milled slides, not sure if midway does them. you could always just buy a glock mos, $600 is relatively cheap and gives you another gun. certainly for the $$, canik is a great value.

my zev oz9 lower with a zia slide on it fits perfectly in my g34 bladetech doh holster. would prob also fit in their g17 holster but i don't have that.

don't know the stats on burris, but the viper has the lowest dot relative to the optic base of a handful or two of optics i got the specs on. for me, low dot = closer to normal iron sight height = easier for me to pick up the dot vs the ones that sit up higher. i unfortunately had to use the warranty card on one of my vipers. sounds like they just replaced it. on the way back to me roughly a week after i put it in the mailbox to them. no excuses, no bs.

don't even list 'competition' as one of their uses on their main page, sad... tell you what though, my bil got a staccato p and an xl and they're both VERY nice guns and the xl has an incredible trigger. i love my old school sti's though (eagle, edge, tac, dvc open, steel master).

hey, if idpa allows them, then uspsa certainly should...

that's my experience. if i 'release' it quickly after each cartridge it works pretty good or at least good enough that i'm not going to mess with it.

i put a couple of neon zip ties on my range bag and gun cases just to differentiate them.

i'd go with the 5 moa. the prob with reflex sights is the dot sits higher than your typical iron sights. thus for me and at least some others, harder to pick up because you're used to the lower iron sights. so bigger will help you acquire it faster. at your next match, ask folks there to let you look thru their optics so you can see for yourself what might work best for you.

brush to clean out your mags if they get dusty, dirty, sandy or muddy. small tool kit with bits for holster and gun screws etc pistol cleaning rod and bore brush gun oil rag or paper towels couple of eyeglass cleaner packets couple packets of ear foamies if you or others forget hearing protection spare fiber optic rod, nail clippers, lighter i've been using midway's large range bag, no issues.

https://practiscore.com/york-2020-invictus-practical-mid-atlantic-multi-gun-championship/register sept 12 or 13

read thru the latest uspsa rules today. did i read/understand correctly that we can pull pcc's from our cars with chamber flags but without cases needed? and vice versa, at end of day? presumably that includes putting them on carts and taking them off of carts.

what he apparently did was anything but principled. of course we've only heard one side of the story, though no reason to doubt it.

i don't agree with this at all. if the (no) refund policy was laid out in the registration legalese, then that should/would be binding. golf courses and all sorts of businesses (airlines, etc) have no-show policies where if you don't cancel within an x-hour window, you've lost your money.

as with anything else, who told you this, and ask them to quote the rule or show it to you in the rulebook.

i disagree. most new folks find their way to practiscore to sign up for a match. and again it's easy enough to add a box during registration to select whether new or experienced shooter. then it's on the MD to take it from there. some of the local clubs do that here and it seems to be working just fine. again, it's already being done. and i've had buddies signing up for their first match, without a 'new shooter practiscore button' and the MD reached out to them because the MD wasn't familiar with them, to vet them and prepare them for the match. practiscore, or i guess matchsignup, are the gateways and the only or at least the best way to catch shooters before they have a chance to load up at their car or muzzle you at the safe table. guess you could also put a sign at the parking lot entrance - newbies, find the MD BEFORE taking anything out of your car...

eh, you learn by tinkering. i realize this is literally a 'safety' issue, but it's easy enough to test the various safeties to ensure they're all working after the tinkering is done. plus, at least some folks pin their grip safeties and rely on the thumb safety.

the key is stopping mistakes/infractions before they can happen. again, have a box in practiscore for new match shooters to check. email them and have them come an hour early to the match, and leave all their stuff in the car. designate a RO to go over cooper's rules, 180, finger outside triggerguard, safe table, RO instructions, etc. identify them as new and put them on a good squad with designated mentors.

excellent idea!

the prob is new people don't know what they don't know. throw your stuff on at the car and go shoot the match, right? the prob is uspsa (and other games) rules are (and rightfully so) an overabundance of caution and redundant, so they're not intuitive. again, gearing up at the car isn't necessarily unsafe, nor is breaking the 180 if you're not pointing the gun at anyone, nor is finger off the trigger vs outside the triggerguard. we have some extra stringent rules and just need to let newbies know them before they show up.

one local uspsa club identifies new shooters (practiscore new shooter box checked and also scans for unfamiliars). first match is under one-on-one supervision, separate from squads. same club doing 2 gun does similar but squads new shooter with experienced squads who handhold them. i think they also have the newbie show up a little early to go over the basics first. while safety with guns is paramount of course, don't think we need day-long $100 classes. you have cooper's four rules then some expansion for uspsa (180, finger not just off trigger but outside triggerguard, safe areas, etc).

knew it would get fixed and glad it did.

real nice folks and fun matches, sure just a brain fart that will be fixed. maybe a mixup with cross draw... even possible there was a miscomm given this was his first match. i shot there yesterday and will do their match this upcoming saturday and will review that with them. i've been told by another md at another club that i can't do walkthru's with a mag in my hand, so clearly everyone gets it wrong here and there.

+1

as noted, not everyone is uspsa member, so maybe this isn't uspsa's thing to solve. how about thru practiscore. check the box for first uspsa match and you get a popup or email with the basic safety rules, hints, etc. or at least the MD is notified, to contact you and give you a class or the like. heck maybe even practiscore is smart enough to know you haven't done (signed up for) a uspsa match before and do this (popup or notify MD). and a little lower tech - md can scan thru signups and note anyone he is not familiar with (anyone with a uspsa # and class can be skipped over) and contact them to see if a class or the like is needed.

try to pick out a couple of precise spots down the course of fire that are good to post at for shooting various target arrays, and the target count per spot. so when you get to spot #1, which is beside the red shotgun shell, you know there will be 4 targets to shoot. then spot #2 is at the fault line with a crack in it and there are 5 targets. that's a little easier to memorize than the precise location of each target. of course you prob won't be as fast as if you did memorize the exact stage layout, but that can come with more time doing this. another thing is to memorize just the 'out of the way' targets or those easy to miss or blow by. most of the targets you can shoot them when/as you see them so if you only have limited memory space, just memorize the 'exceptions.'