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It sounds like a too-light taper crimp that is allowing bullets to 'prairie dog' under recoil. Recoil in a handgun isn't unlike an inertia bullet puller. Bang/bang/bang/bang -- creep out/creep out. It's a known problem in lightweight compact revolvers chambered for .357 mag. Tightening down on your crimp should solve it.

I use the TTI magazine extensions/springs on my M&P CORE and they have been perfect. Can't speak for the rest of their products, but I would buy from them again.

I just stopped paying all my credit card bills and mortgage. Now I'm the best-armed homeless person on the street.

That is exactly what I did. I had my same prescription made up into two different sets of eye glasses. My 'iron sight' glasses (25-inch focus distance) are used for pistol and rimfire rifle (and on the computer). My standard 'distance' glasses are used for red dots and normal activities. The 25-inch iron sight glasses allow me to read an automobile license plate at 13-yards, and see lead hit marks on a 35-yard Steel Challenge plate. The normal distance glasses work perfectly with red dots. Made MA IDPA SSP & BUG, and Expert in CCP, SSR, ESP and CDP with the 'iron sight' glasses and A Class in Steel Challenge RFPI and RFRI. The distance glasses (red dot) got me to A Class Steel Challenge in RFRO/RFPO/PCCO. That system works for me. No one eye different than the other in the prescription. Same prescription, just a different focus distance.

Joyce Fowler screwed things up so badly at IDPA when she took over that members left by the thousands. I was one of them, a member since 2005 and a Certified SO. Now she's scrambling to get those membership dollars flowing back her way again.... any way she can. She's desperate to keep gas in her airplane.

I've been shooting revolvers in IDPA, USPSA, and Steel Challenge since 2005. These are all speedloader guns. I've never had a problem with a strong hand reload. Just open the cylinder and bring the strong hand from behind the gun, instead of over the top, to smack the ejector rod.

Me too. Same with all my red dots. It's worked very well over the years.

The grip angle is inportant to the draw and presentation. Using handguns with differing grip angles can slow your progress.

A 110 PF with a 124 bullet would be about 885 fps. I doubt if that would reliably cycle the action.

I've been very happy with 124 grain 9mm coated DG Bullets. Clean in the bore and as accurate as any other (plated, jacketed or coated) 9mm bullet that I have used.

Tite Group does get very VERY hot and can make it very uncomfortable to grab the cylinder on the reload. It also leaves a lot of residue in the chambers that impedes smooth ejection of the empty cases. N320 is great, BE86 is also good. They are clean and I don't have to brush out my chambers after every stage in a match.

No. The dominant eye will always lead. That's the same as with any sighting system. What the different focal point length does is allow the eyes to get a good focus on the closer iron sights at the expense of a slightly blurry more distant target. If your normal prescription for daily distance eye glasses is correct for you, then just shifting the focal distance will work with iron sights. With red dots you'll need to wear your distance glasses. You mentioned 'dominant eye'. Do you know which of your eyes is dominant in relation to your dominant hand?

I'm in the same situation. My solution was to wear my normal distance prescription glasses when shooting red dot sights. With iron sights I had a set of glasses made up with the same prescription, but with the focus point set to 25-inches. The normal focus distance for eye glass prescriptions is 20-feet. But any optical shop can set glasses to any focal distance you want. With the 25-inch focus eye-glasses (the same prescription/solution is often referred to as 'computer glasse ) the sights are sharp, the targets just a slight blur... but I can see lead splashes on a 35-yard Steel Challenge plate, and actually read an auto license plate number at 13-yards. I'm not the greatest shooter out there, but that two eye-glass system -- one for irons, and one for red dots- got me to A Class in Steel Challenge in RFRO, RFRI, RFPO, and RFPI. I also made M Class in IDPA SSP and BUG with iron sights (and my iron sight glasses) and EX in CDP, SSR, ESP, and CCP. The extra set of glasses with the same prescription as my regular glasses, but with a 25-inch focus distance, cost me about $90. I consider it money well spent.

Truncated bullets often require a slightly shorter OAL because the full bullet diameter is closer to the chamber than with a RN. The same OAL used with RN can cause the truncated bullets to hit the chamber with full diameter too far forward. Beyond that, they work great. I use coated lead from various makers in TC in PCC and handguns and have to issues at all.

If revolver is such a miniscule division, why not let them shoot a wheelgun with any bells & whistles they want? Who's it gonna hurt? And if wheelgunners have fun with it, what's wrong with that?

I'm not surprised 'new rules' are being proposed. IDPA has to increase membership, and the present administration isn't getting it done. NE Florida is a mecca for action shooters, but three clubs that used to host IDPA match have dropped them.It's now hard to find an IDPA match within 150 miles. Something to do with 'new edicts from up high'.

I one is having trouble walking a crutch is quite useful.

If the rifle is a perfect fit to the shooter... like a Sporting Clays champion fits their stock to them... then the dot will be there. With a pistol the Look Lock Look is important because if the wrist lock is broken on the presentation the dot can become somewhat hard to find.

If that dot is centered and you lock your wrists to that position that dot will hit the target quickly. If you break that wrist lock, and lose that centered dot, you'll be playing a spirited game of Where's Waldo. A centered dot and locked wrists are important. 0.01 seconds count in Steel Challenge. Don't waste then looking for a dot that should already have been there.

+1! Excellent advice. I would add Look - Lock - Look. Aim the gun at the cone. Look to see the dot centered. Lock the wrists to hold that. Look at the target. BEEP... bring the gun straight to the target you are Looking at and the dot will appear on it if you haven't broken your wrist lock. If the dot is centered and the wrists locked to hold it there the dot will be on the target that you are looking at. You can practice this in your living room.

It's not unheard of for a red dot sight to malfunction. It could be that. It could also be the way it is mounted, that might put it at an angle and remove much of the MOA adjustment. You might want to talk to Holosun.

A match, in itself, is actually pretty good practice. It will show you where, and on what evolution, you screwed up. Practice to correct those screw ups is good. But practice, by itself, won't identify them.

I'm a 3 for paper targets, and that's how I zero the gun at 25-yards from a bench. But when shooting Steel Challange I'm a definite 2. That's because when running fast between transitions the front sight can climb under recoil and send a shot over a small plate. There are no scoring rings on a plate. It's a 'pass or fail' exam. Using 2 makes me pass more than fail.

I have a Burris FF4, on a .22 rifle and love the big dot for Steel Challenge. But last match the dot started blinking off in the middle of a run. Then it would come back on a half-second later. Trashed scores. I checked the battery compartment cover tightness and it was good. But it kept doing it. Anyone had this problem? There is virtually no recoil on a .22LR rifle, so I can't blame recoil.

How about a ... centerfire, semi-auto handgun with iron sights division, without comps & barrel porting.