Jim Watson

Equipment rules have been relaxed but you still don't get a magnet.

Wow, replacement grips to make an X feel like a regular Beretta. Much needed, I agree; the Vertec is not for me.

I have thought about applying for a Super Duper Senior category but realized I only look at the overall to see if I beat any of the young punks. A pretty occasional thing. I was 10/15 this time last week.

I don't see it on IPSC Production list. Standard Minor?

I just got a look at a 92X Performance yesterday. Weighs a ton. Why is a gun apparently meant for Production made with a thumb safety? Are they trying to draw CZ shooters who LIKE to lower the hammer instead of just flipping a regular Beretta dingus?

Berdan. It is cheaper to make with the anvil integral with the case and no separate piece to put in the cup.

The problem is, it is NOT a faithful copy of the HG 68 profile. If it were, it would feed, nicht wahr? The plated SWCs I tried were not, either, and did not feed well in my SWC throated gun.

I have shot a G21SF a bit and it did fine. A friend's Xdm would not function with my light loads but he says it is fine with Major. I might have undertaken some spring tuning if they had not quit making the 5.25 Match in .45.

Krieghoff says they will do it, but do not show anything as crass as a cost.

Yes, Last Resort Guns, Madison (Huntsville) Ala. holds an indoor USPSA every Wednesday night. We shall see if it has made it by next week.

A shooter here said yesterday that his is on the way, ordered when first listed.

I have a .45 2011 out of a local shop. It has a plain barrel and is very finicky as to feeding. I have given up on SWCs and stick to roundnose of suitable OAL, which is a bit shorter than usual. STI Gen 2 magazines are OK, Gen 1 are spotty but are at present working ok with fresh springs. MBX are good with their extra strength springs. Note that even their 141 only holds 18 .45s. I wouldn't do it again, I was originally setting up an IDPA ESP in .45 but started shooting it in USPSA L10 because of "supply chain."

HP38. I have my loads worked out and I DON'T like experimenting.

Love it. The tricked out guns bear no resemblance to the stock pistols that Production started out trying to recruit, so make the call. That will be an interesting statistic. I have shot a couple of matches in SSP-15 but find the MDs ahead of me with downloaded starts and 17 shot stages. Back to ESP for me.

The French System has been legal for trade in the USA since 1866. So we get 9mm pistols and 750ml wine bottles. I remember the metric road signs. Where are they now? I worked a 1982 engineering project with government mandated "dual dimensioning." What that amounted to was blueprint dimensions duplicated in millimeters. Yes, millimeters; a plant bay might be 11' 6" wide, but it would also be shown as 3502.2 mm. Thomas Jefferson got us decimal coinage but his decimal system of weights and measures did not catch on. It was based on a one-second rod pendulum defined as 5 feet long. That foot was 11 3/4 English inches but 10 Jefferson inches, etc.

I once did side by side comparison of K (M67), L (M686), and I frame (Python) SSRs, vs N frame (M25) ESR. At my level, recoil and mass of the .45 outweighed clip loading versus a clean run with speed loader. I am not consistent enough to choose between K and L, both perform about the same; but I kind of like the K. The Python that was so fine in the 1990s is not competitive now.

The sub-minor load I use for GSSF Pocket is still f 118 in a Glock 17 4.0 gr HP38 + 115 gr HAP 4.2 gr HP38 + 115 gr Xtreme plated I have not seen an explanation of the magazine capacity changes. I have seen CoF changes, either an increase in stage length or a downloaded start to force reloads for SSP. I tried SSP my last two matches, there were two stages out of 12 that 15+1 got me through. Phooey, I'd rather shoot ESP anyhow. I am finding the now permissible loaded chamber reload to be convenient.

I signed up for an upcoming match. I squadded to start on the first bay so I would not have to walk far between stages. Sometimes I can get a ride back from the last bay. Motor transport is sounding better every month.

Why not, nothing else going on today.

Yeah, but we allow optics on ESP which can be almost anything you like, including the 1911 that USPSA doesn't or a Police Special and call them all Carry Optics. I think when USPSA started allowing ever increasing modifications to "Production" and hence to Carry Optics, the battle for ordinary guns was lost. I would make two changes, I would cut CO back to 126mm magazines and let Production have them, too.

I shot SSP-15 again at Range #2. Same deal, an imbedded classifier and a downloaded start wiped out the advantage on two stages, high round count, movers and cover placement reduced it on three others. I got through one stage without a reload. Nothing unusual on cover vs concealment. There were a number of ports not so wide as to be considered a POC with fault line required. I have one other place to try it at but don't expect a different experience. Otherwise, I am going back to my usual Division of ESP or where allowed, sub caliber until the primer supply catches up.

I am shooting their bullets now and will likely buy more. They are less expensive than most, so I don't worry about color.

I shot in SSP-15 yesterday. The MD had taken that into account with two downloaded starts and two 17 hit stages out of six. One at 15, one at 16 but both of those with moving targets I would normally be inclined to fire an insurance shot at. One I got through without a reload but the other I kind of peppered the double swinger and accepted a reload down the way. The downloaded starts made it easy to remember to make a chamber loaded reload. I will repeat the trial at the other two ranges holding IDPA but after that I will revert to my usual ESP or where allowed, sub caliber conversion. There was no funny business about vision barriers vs cover; if there wasn't a fault line, just zoom on by the corner and shoot at any target(s) on the way.

A WALL is defined as impenetrable.

True, this falls under the "fiendish MD" heading. I'll see if my AC/MD plays such tricks on Saturday, or what he has to say about them if not.