davsco

think he's saying he zeroes with heavy and then 55 shoots way high. for me, i just have a cheat sheet (dope card). 69g zeroed at 200 and i wrote down POI for both 55 and 69 from super close all the way out. so when i use blaster ammo within 200 i know where i have to hold. even the black hill blue box reloads are way too expensive to blast away with.

need to take into account Open holsters. maybe say when the trigger guard starts coming into contact with the holster.

so the RO doesn't proceed until the shooter is in the correct Start Position (so stance and position/location, nothing to do with loaded or unloaded etc). maybe a little ambiguity comes into play regarding being loaded or not, as the RO shouldn't start a loaded and chambered competitor if the WSB says unloaded start. but we cannot or shouldn't stop him if he forgot to load and chamber on a loaded start.

yeah the new, lower price is nice!

get an open gun holster, they are legal in limited. i have the double alpha race master magnetic, zero complaints.

yeah not answering your question, but if older and not the best eyes, $700 gets you a canik with a vortex viper red dot to use in carry optics. 140mm mags and a red dot, that should get your fun factor going! and, i WOULD ask the better shooters in your squad to give you some feedback after they have also shot that stage or even after the match (to clarify, ask them before the stage or match to watch you but give feedback after they're also done). most shooters like helping other shooters out. the big rooms for improvement i see are economy/efficiency or lack thereof. getting to a target array without the gun up and on target, sticking guns into ports which then have to come out of ports to go the next array, taking extra starts and stops, stuff like that.

fortunately we have some redundancy such that a potentially unsafe action doesn't usually result in a trip to the hospital or morgue. but i was in proximity to someone who put a round thru his leg and into his foot while holstering at a uspsa match. guess the safety didn't get applied properly and either his finger, clothing or the holster itself caught the trigger. it was a pretty sobering event for everyone. also had a guy in my squad light one off holstering, clothing got in the trigger guard, fortunately into the ground with no one hurt. holstering is not a timed event, take your time and look your gun into the holster.

i got one of the first sti dvc open guns, in 38 super. first time out if malf'd like every other shot. i was NOT happy. cleaned the crap out of it and it's been 100% other than a few clearly mag-related issues. i've seen some sti's do not so good, and i've seen some ck's do not so good.

just seems like extra work. we can always just look at results for our specific division. or look at the overall, and scroll down to the first non-pcc shooter (if a pcc shooter is on top) and compare against that.

saving your life is pennies compared to the cost of any gun, especially if any legal defense is required.

i'd say at your next match, ask everyone if you can pull their triggers (not their fingers...) and see what you like. i know you said no 2 stage, but i love my geissele ssa-e two stage triggers. one big pull when blasting away, then use both stages for more precision on the longer range stuff. i have a jp ar and still took out their single stage and replaced with the ssa-e. just be careful with geissele sd3g flat triggers, i've personally seen a few double (and then some). they sent my buddy a stronger spring to help stop that, but then of course the pull weight goes from nice to not so nice. i can't tell you how many of these triggers i've seen in use, so it may be a super small % of the population, or more.

wow that's an awesome looking gun right there! you're talking duty, owb carry, is that right, not concealed or iwb?

i never did carts til i started 3 gun. then, since i have one, nice to use for uspsa etc. nice having your crap off the ground, not taking space up on a loading table, etc. in no way do i equate cart = weenie. easy and smart certainly doesn't mean weak. not sure why some are so rabidly anti-pcc. they're a bunch of fun and great practice for a sd/hd event that hopefully never happens. just like handguns. we certainly should not be pointing them at ourselves or others, but again with the flag in the chamber, it's pretty much a broomstick. bending over with a handgun may result in it being pointed at someone, and certainly holstering and drawing (including the few shooting themselves in the leg and foot). just saying, let's not be range nazis with visibly and physically inert pcc's when we do make some allowances for handguns. that said, rules are rules and must be followed. just hoping that rule makers and enforcers take all this into account.

that's a little carried away. pretty sure there's a rule that says no walkthru's with firearms or firearm replicas.

except that bagging is needlessly inefficient and frankly the extra gun handling (bag in one hand, pcc in the other) diminishes safety. flagged = inert = broomstick. it is as simple as that, and it should be as simple as that.

thinking most if not all don't want to be carrying a slung pcc all day long, poking, banging around, etc. flag the pcc, whether it blocks the bolt or goes down into the chamber, the pcc is INERT and really don't understand all the hoopla over this. at that point it's like a shovel, mop or broom - inert.

i have a bunch of sti's and love them all. that said, having a real gunsmith go over the gun, and especially, do a trigger job, is worth it just to proactively deal with any possible issues up front (every company has a lemon here and there). also get a 4 pak of their 'tuned' mags and if your gun is like my brazos edge, it will be 100% perfect in reliability. not saying an untouched sti won't, but you remove any chance. and btw, in speaking with dawson's recently, seems like they're doing their supertune pkg again (different animal from their CRP which is just some bolt on parts). basically same thing as brazos hp. i have a dawson supertuned eagle and also perfect (other than one or two ftf's over many years and many matches, that were mag-related).

there's nothing wrong with a fast, low-round-count stage, as that prob mimics real life hd/sd scenarios, but run a couple of strings for that stage to bump the round count up (two hands, strong hand, weak hand, r to l, l to r, going forwards, going backwards, etc)

love my sti's. i have two tactical double stacks - lightweight and regular, both 4".

folks at jp said to just buy the cheapest 9mm you can find. i've used blazer brass and aluminum 115, fed am eagle 115 and similar with zero issues. just ordered a case of fed aluminum 115. super cheap at targetsportsusa with free deliv and rebate.

i have a bunch of blade techs for the various games and guns and they really leave me wanting anything else. haven't tried comp tac but from what i've heard they're pretty much the same thing. at your next match(es) look around and ask who's wearing what, surely after the match they'll let you try them out.

yes, it never hurts to proactively point out some potential issues on a stage and frankly i think it's an excellent idea and i try to do that.

first, just bring what you got and have gun and be safe. find the match director, let him know what you have, and ask for his advice as to what division to enter. but yeah production sounds like the right call for 9mm and 10 round mags. congrats for jumping in!

i had a 3" 1911 9mm and despite using several different brands of quality mags, had feeding issues. don't want that in any gun but certainly not in a sd/hd gun. the majority of my game guns are sti 2011s, but for hd and sd i use glock 31 and 32. all the glocks i have have been 100% all day every day. so out of your 2 choices i'd pick the hk over a 9mm 1911. but glock would be (and is) my choice if you take all three into consideration. ugly, not the best ergos, but they just work, plus a ton of aftermarket and accessories available for them.

based on past usage, i recently bought a canik sfx with the vortex viper. this combo for me has been the easiest carry optics gun for picking up the dot. better than the x5 and romeo and glock mos with trijicon, two other carry optics guns i've tried. in slow fire i think the sfx is a little more accurate than the x5 but both are very accurate. the stock trigger on the x5 is WAY better than the stocker on the sfx (WAY too much takeup). with the grayguns trigger in the x5 and the freedomsmith racer in the sfx, they're both pretty close but i will still take my 2011 triggers any day. the sfx fits pretty good in my glock 34/35 holsters.