Do you shoot 9+1 for occasions like this or is that your native capacity?
I have a 9+1 setup that used to work pretty well until they went to SSP 15 and stages got longer.
As you see there are a lot of options.
For 100 a week, I would get a 550 and would swap my .45 brass for the small primer mutant so caliber change would be only shellplate and head plate. I dislike fiddling with the primer feed.
I have that capability now, but still load .45 ACP on the 1050 that I splurged on back when I was shooting mostly IDPA CDP.
Editorial comment:
The amount of equipment in some setups I read about just boggles my mind. These guys must be shooting a tremendous amount if they are saving any money vs econoball. I figured it took me six years to amortize that 1050.
I have seen a number of shooters to do a tac load and rack the slide like the gunslinging academy taught them, ejecting a round without penalty.
Eject a round to time a reload? Quicker just to pull the trigger.
One of my usual ranges uses Vision Barriers and Cover in combinations to really control your approach. I can DO it but it seems nonsensical.
There is a wildcat match near here that has some of the GPA provisions, most notably a mandatory reload but location not specified.
I can imagine freestyle reloads but with less ammo on your person. Do a speed load too soon and it might leave you without enough ammo to finish the stage.
There is another organization that does not require concealment or limit reload options.
I'm an old guy, I wear a vest, I reload on schedule. Quit telling me what I am doing wrong. (I shoot the other stuff, too.)
The "ridge" is actually a shallow SWC shoulder behind a rather pointy round nose.
They do not feed as well in my autos as they look like they should, I don't recall trying them in a revolver but maybe they will Jerry M into a well chamfered cylinder.
I use IBEJIHEADS' featureless 200 gr roundnose
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Ugh. I have shot in the chill but not in a hard freeze. I have shot the Summer Sizzler in August and the IDPA Nationals in a hurricane. But I do not prepay any more because I am through shooting in unpleasant conditions.