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Did a site search and Google search. Found a couple of options for mag pedals but don't know if different from OEM. Yesterday I failed to activate mag button twice in one match. I take it as a user error, probably too much tension in strong hand. I also use a wide thumb safety, so a little extra work to get to mag release. That said, I've been on this gun for a few years now and work reloads regularly. I am probably as good as I can be now and I am not aversive to look for a hardware help. Anybody knows of extended mag releases or mag release pedals for me to try?

You need to add "started to shoot USPSA at 46"... Thanks for trying to encourage me, bud. I am at 78% right now so I am about 5 hundos away. I'll see what I can do

The guy is Claude Werner. He is a former lead instructor at the Rogers Shooting School. RSS is one of the facilities where some US and NATO alphabetized units that shoot not only paper went to learn a thing or two. It has a unique curriculum that most USPSA shooters won't care about. Likewise, I doubt that Claude gives a damn what USPSA shooters think about his draw.

I was messing around with a heavier hammer spring in one of my Sh2 today, and it seems like, while predictably increasing the DA pull weight, it lowered the SA pull. I was thinking that the hammer is now under higher pressure so maybe it is pushed through forward more vigorously. Am I making it up? ---Side note: anybody here prefers how Shadow 2 cycles with a heavier mainspring? Subjectively it looks flatter although both targets (15 lbs spring gun and 11 lbs mainspring gun) looked about the same. Second question: anyone has a link on trigger job for Shadow 2? I know there is a general link above but Shadow 2 sear is different from regular CZ75. Thnx.

Both of mine were doing it, one more than another. Resolved after replacing extractors, and getting ex-power extractor spring into a more problematic gun.

Funny, I had the dust cover milled out on mine to get them lighter and less front heavy. Mine weigh and balance like Stock 2 but without Tanfo-associated drama. There will be no way to get an accurate data on it but it would've been damn interesting to see how people who are going to add weight will progress, or regress, comparing to people who will keep them as is.

I was browsing those Phoenix guns and found this in regards to Drake on one Canadian site that selling them This pistol does not fit in an IPSC measurement box. I found that strange.

Overall, no regrets but the side window cut across front serrations makes a cheese grater out of them. Even softening edges with a file still makes me wanting a less sharp edge. Doing it again, I may have chosen a different way of doing that part.

One of us may be confusing something, or is using a different system, but usually lower number means lower level of play https://assets.usta.com/assets/639/15/National tennis Rating Program.pdf If you were NTRP 3.0 then, you could be at least that again, likely even higher. If after college is last time you played, there's been a lot of changes in equipment. Just like USPSA, equipment makes some things easier. I don't do organized matches right now. Instead, high intensity hitting with a pro, group workouts, hitting with my kid when he's around. Lots of movement, lots or energy release, working on technique, no cares about the results, just fun.

I understand that you are wanting to try something new so I am not trying to convince you otherwise. I am just sharing my very recent experiences. I am 52. I played for fun since my 20s, "initially classified" as a 4.0 some 10 years ago and quit after one year of tourney and league play mainly because moving up would've required a lot more competitive play. For last 10 years my play time has been maybe 15 hours a year, mainly to support my wife's ongoing passion for the game. Between 'rona and other things, I've started to hit again a couple of months ago, rather short but intense workouts, just once-twice a week. I discovered two things. First, that I forgot how much I enjoyed hitting. Second, how footwork and fitness cross-talk to shooting, the agility, balance, directional changes, etc. I am having a ton of fun, and now am looking forward to hitting as much to shooting. At almost 50 if you picked up a new technical discipline, let's be honest, would you expect to get real good at it? I started USPSA more or less seriously at 46 and it shows. With tennis, at least you have a foundation. You and I squadded together at A3 a few years back, you're in a good shape, I am sure you can push your game past 3. Looking at what I wrote, I guess I am trying to convince you otherwise.

I dropped, and quite violently so (my fall broke off a mag pouch and busted my leg), my gun during Nationals a few years ago. The fall happened so fast that when I landed, I wasn't sure if I still was holding on the gun or not. Gun flew forward 2-3 feet, hit wall post, and landed pointing squarely uprange. Maybe it wouldn've gone off anyway but the fact that it was a Stock 2 with FPB felt very reassuring at that moment.

I find it disturbing that a loss of human life, of a man, a father, a husband, and one of us doesn't raise a bit of consideration whether the inherent safety of guns that we use should be improved for so many here. I wonder what would those say if it was them getting shot dead. Wait, they wouldn't. It doesn't matter if it is just one life lost out of trillions stages and man / years, and it doesn't matter how more dangerous other sports are. This was a preventable death, both at the levels of improved handling discipline and firearm design. A firearm maker cannot bring a practical use pistol, duty or self defense, to the market without a functional drop safety. Unless it is SIG P320 but I digress... That's really what the standard is in 21 century. With the game being born during the time when M1911 was a duty gun, we're running with the guns based on historic and outdated standards. We also alter those standards towards lesser inherent safety with extended pins, light springs etc. Addition of drop safeties doesn't affect performance. I've a series 80 1911 that has a superb trigger and my Stock 2 received compliments from ROs on its trigger during chono. Any existing reigning gun design used in sport can be done with a drop safety. The real issue is a burden that such change would impose on current shooters, and that's a very important consideration. Which is why this has to be a generational change. Something like "by year 2040 all guns have to have functional drop safety". Manufacturers will adapt, new shooters will be advised appropriately what to buy, some of us will be dead from natural causes, and the rest will wear out our current guns and move on. BTW, I am running around with Shadow 2s, one with extended safey (till yesterday), one with OEM after the extended one got stuck in the breechface hole, and a pre-safety Kimber. I am not panicking, not selling them, and will continue both enjoying competing and ROing when asked. I just think it is infuriating when a human life is lost simply because we are heavily invested in equipment which is less safe than contemporaneously available and equally capable equipment that is more intrinsically safe,

I started when slide milling was necessary. Both of mine are in low to mid 11s with SROs on. I still have one non-milled slide, just in case something possessed me to shoot Production again and it weighs 13.8 oz. Based what I see on sights and on timer, if I have to set another slide up, I would definitely have it lightened. Based on mine and reported experiences, I wouldn't put windows through the front serrations, and I would probably not touch the recoil spring tunnel.

Depends on the attachment system. I removed/reinstalled several different optics on different slides. Most went ok, the last one I had to send the slide back to CZC. I couldn't drive the pin through the slide and plate, which is what their design requires, without binding extractor into immobility.

About every 500-700. I am a little more careful with my CO Shadows than with my Production Shadows because properly cleaning under the extractor with a former is a pain in the ass. So I squirt some gunscrubber there, brush a little, blow with a compressed air hoping that it will prevent me being forced to remove the optic one day. Dunno if it is gonna make a difference though.

Awhile ago I bumped into several ortho guys who work in the same facility as I am and I asked this question. They thought I wasn't being serious to imply that overuse injury can be treated or prevented my exercising muscles that don't participate in a motion or tension generation that had caused said injury.

I want to try setting bullets out CZ mag pouches on a Tek Lok. Anyone knows a hack how to do it? I've a number of Ghost pouches I am willing to futz with, but I am not aversive to buying other pouches if those are more conducive to that. Trying to set a second belt up as a backup to my regular CO belt and but also a belt for an occasional multigun match.

No, I have no insights yet. The situation is developing so fast, the objective information stream can't keep up. Colleagues at the areas that are affected are busy with treating people, not publishing papers. What's published is not peer-reviewed appropriately. We've social media posts and emails circulating with reports, and no confirmation of veracity. Stateside testing rates is dismal, we have no kits, CDC and govt f*#ked it up royally, and without wide testing we can't answer the demographic questions that you're asking. Koreans seem to have the mildest course from the countries that have been most affected, but they also test more in one week than we have countrywide so far.

And you know this how? Because older people will have higher mortality, with this or any infection? The first Italian patient was a 38 yo marathon runner. He just got out of ICU last week. There is not a high chance he'll run another marathon again, or even run at all. The first US published case is a 30some man with high triglycerides. He required an experimental drug to turn around, an at the the time of publication was still hospitalized, day 10. The compassionate use supplies of that drug are running out, btw. There are scores of young Chinese docs, including their whistleblower, in 20s and 30s, who are dead. I just read a pathology report yesterday, case series of Chinese kids; again, this was a pathology report. I've had patients with a non-COVID coronavirus ARDS, they didn't look too hot for months and months. This will be a non-event for people who will have mild cases. For clinically relevant cases it will be pretty much an event, anything from financial implications of prolonged hospital stays, to residual lung function or neuro-cognitive etc losses associated with ICU and ventilation treatment, to deaths. If the case volume explodes according to the worst possible prediction, there will be care delivery shortages and associated mistakes too, and that affects outcomes. There are a lot of young, very sick people with this crap in Europe and some series show 50% of patients without co-morbid conditions. Younger age has been a predictor of better survival but nobody has said anything about rates of residual disability and loss of function. As a general statement, it totally blows my mind that the clubs are continuing their matches when EVERY public health, medical and govt organization has asked to limit nonessential public gatherings and advocated for social distancing. I mean, hold off for a couple of weeks and see how things develop seems like an easy thing to do. I see children give up their toys and candy with more ease than how adults, supposedly mature enough to own guns, deal with a request to postpone their weekly gratification event for the sake of public health.

I doubt that the comb would help. Seems like I need to bring the optic lower to the receiver, or so I think.

I mounted an Aimpoint T1 on my VM. I used a rail that comes in a box with shotgun, and Aimpoint's OEM mount. This mount is the lowest profile that I know of for the T1. Tried to zero it at 25 yards with Fiocchi reduced recoil slugs and ran out of elevation adjustment. With that little turret cranked all the way counterclockwise I am still good 5-6 inches low. Naturally, that generated a few choice words at the range and several questions to ask: - Has anyone ever mounted a T1 on a VM Competition with any success? - Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? - Has anyone mounted any optic on the VM? Thnx.

Fair enough. I guess we'll have to see what Troy thinks. Maybe it is worth the effort for Lancer / Laugo to find that out privately. Might save them money and effort of bringing more than 500 units stateside, unless they want to try playing in the Open.

USPSA has been more willing to implement user- and market driven changes. I think that they will be less likely to stifle the technological progress. In addition, all notions of an unfair advantage are only theoretical right now. Trigger still needs to be pulled. The muzzle still lifts, we see it on videos. Recoil still happens. As far as others complaining, that will always be the case. I think that due to USPSA's more liberal approach to the rules the complainers have less grounds. I mean, can CZ say anything about unfair advantage when USPSA changed the rules to allow slides be modified into unrecognizable so CZ users can enjoy all the advantages of those guns?

I know that they had to do what they had to do to comply with IPSC rules but this looks horrible. Height over line of sights is huge and, given Alien's bore axis location, height over bore is even worse. I sincerely hope that the Lancer / Laugo team has enough knowledge, resources and maybe even connections to give this gun a true chance. The USPSA CO rules say only that the optic cannot be attached to the frame. The gun needs to be made available in sufficient quantities and pushed through for a CO approval without this IPSC compliant contraption. Following that, I think that sponsoring a well thought-through shooting team would go a long way. Wait and see indeed.

The fastest I have ever pulled the trigger in splits, no prepping, just slapping, was 0.11 sec. Handgun cycles in approximately 0.05 sec (derived from cyclic rate of full auto counterparts such as Glock 18 or Beretta 93R). So, when folks say that we should release the trigger and then take out pre-travel as my sights are coming down in recoil, that means I have to do something so precise, in terms of trigger finger manipulation, in half the time that I am capable of just pulling the trigger as fast as I can. Naturally, the sights don't settle in 0.05 sec; question is when they settle and do we still have time to complete the prep.