Jim Watson

If you look like that, I doubt anybody will care how you conceal your pistol.

Yes, and you can call a 59 oz gun "production" in one of them, too. A friend and I played it straight at a "concealable gun" outlaw match; entering with a LC9s and a G43 in a sea of 4" rooneyguns. But we had fun.

I doubt there is any mechanical difference between the Ronin and the RO other than "features." The Ronin is two tone, the RO Target has adjustable sights. You don't have to shoot 230 gr major power factor. .45 Midrange of a 185 at 750 or a 200 at 700 is mild and pleasant to shoot. I load .45 Minor just to keep my guns and press in play instead of completely retiring them in favor of 9mm. Very handy to have around now, I have more large pistol primers than small.

I know that is what they SAY, but if you read here, new shooters are commonly recommended to shoot their Glocks, etc. in Limited Minor so as to not have to trouble their little brains with a reload every ten shots. Production has become as much a specialty as Open with barely restricted modifications and huge weight allowance. I think the ten shot limit is a copy of IDPA in response to "grandfathered" full capacity magazines drying up in the second half of the AWB. I favor opening up Production magazine capacity until Mr O'Rourke takes them away.

Then the match director is not directing an IDPA match; holster placement is specifically defined in IDPA rules, and AIWB does not comply. That said, our leader had exactly the same attitude and policy yesterday, so I am not surprised. On the other side, I have not seen anybody penalized or "counseled" for letting his magazines and (empty) holster show after the start. Shirttail concealment is getting more common.

I think the reason USPSA screws around with the rules is to help their industry partners sell more Stuff.

If he really means a Craig Fantom, it is a short butt hideout gun.

Apply Rule Zero. Ask the SO what he wants done then do it as fast as possible. I brought up three such gamey sounding things at my last match. The SO (MD) nixed two of them but did the other himself.

That is ok per COF. Have to cover them up for the next stage.

A shooting position is from behind the fault line oriented on a target or targets. The fault line is not just the length of the board, it extends to the edge of the stage. IDPA seldom if ever has a rear fault line (such as got me a procedural at last month's USPSA) so there is theoretically a large area to shoot at that target or previous ones within the muzzle safe points. As a practical matter, I have looked at such opportunities and concluded that getting oriented to make an apparent good faith effort to reengage and hit those targets is slower than a slidelock reload. Also, course design around here will usually severely limit opportunities to reengage a target from between POCs. The usual method of dumping rounds in such cases is to pick a target to shoot extra at in the normal order of engagement. A related situation is to have to make a long shot early in a stage. But then you find you can see that target from the last shooting position on the stage. No reason not to quickly shoot it again if you have ammo left in the gun. I picked up points on a swinger that way last week.

Caspian or 2011? They are not the same. Fathom or Fantom? If a Fred Craig (or Briley) Fantom, it is on a Caspian frame. I know of no source, Briley does not list it any more. You should contact Krow and see if he will make you one.

Agree, if not at the maximum, increase the load. But why? you are at f 127 on the low side, f 133 on the high side, f 130 average. Which is right where I want to be.

I've seen them all fly and I've seen them all crash. If I were buying new, it would be a Buckmark. Not because I think it is a better gun but because it suits my 1911 grip the best. But if I were really going to push RFPO hard, I would get the optic rail for my Nelson conversion. Too bad Sig doesn't make a .22 320.

We had a shooter back out of a "hallway" and do a 270 to get to the targets on one side. DQ. The bad part was, I saw him shooting a while later. I tasked the MD and he said "He is a Master shooter and knows what he did wrong. He drove a long way to get here and I am letting him shoot for fun." I attend an indoor match on Wednesday evening. I have seen shooters get in such a hurry as to skid and go down on the painted concrete floor, even though it is swept between shooters to avoid brass roller skates. After the recent dropped gun, shot RO, on a hard floor, I am more nervous than before.

I am loading .45 ACP with Bullseye these days. Major, minor, midrange, IDPA Rev-E, Petty Lite, you name it; Bullseye still works. It is "dirty" but as my 'smith said, it is a light sooty fouling, not the Ball Powder grit that gets under your extractor and binds it up.

In my youth, I had a Luger and a source of Canadian surplus ammo, most of it headstamped 9MM 43. Good stuff. I kept turning up the brass for years until a couple of moves and component swapping with friends dispersed it.

SVI will (or would) build you a Tiki out of Titanium. Deluxe hideout gun with weird sights, not a high volume match gun. Caspian has a "carbidizing" surface finish supposed to wear well in titanium. The last generation of titanium hammers had steel inserts in the hammer hooks for durability of trigger pull.

I tried a Sprinco. It seemed to moderate the FELT recoil a bit but I could not use it in IDPA because the secondary spring rammed the slide against the slide stop so hard as to make a slide lock reload difficult.

It doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing. I would experiment with it. Start pulling bullets and checking powder charges. Are they all at or near 4.6 grains? Are there any zero powder rounds? If yes and yes, I would not mind loading them back at 4.6 grains. Do a few to shoot to test for primer ignition and gun function. If OK, process the rest. You would end up with some extra primed cases and bullets from the ones the vendor skipped powder on. If the powder charges were erratic, I would trash the powder and just reload the cases and bullets with a known powder. Again with a few to check the primers before doing them all. Check bullet diameter. If the plated bullets were squeezed down or ringed by a hard crimp, the Lee Undersize sizing die would give you a better chance for bullets secure in the brass. Background and experience: After the house fire of The Incident, I pulled many bullets from water penetrated ammo. Not all were wet inside but I still discarded the powder and primers even if they looked dry. I dried the bullets and brass and loaded them back with no failures.

Had that happen yesterday. Fortunately it was a 9mm followed by a .40 and the holes were distinguishable.

I have no operational or psychological need for components to come out even. I fill the primer feed when the buzzer sounds, I fill the case feed when it quits keeping the drop tube full. When I am done for the day, I turn off the case feed and press lights, cover the powder measure, and go do something else. Whatever is left in the machine will be used the next time.

I think it is kind of like the present Colt "Series 70." It has the receiver contours and markings but I expect the internals are current spec; probably off the California gun.

Anecdote Alert: A guy here was so proud of his TSO that he would not shoot with us until his special order holster came in, unwilling to compete with a lesser pistol. That only lasted a few months, he is now shooting some other CZ DA/SA with dot in CO and the TSO Limited gun is on the shelf. So you can do as he did and buy a new gun. Helps the Economy, don'cha know.

It isn't, as used. I just didn't know how long his barrel is.

A guy here has a laser guide beam on his PCC - or is it a SBR? - and has the first target illuminated with the gun at low, but horizontal, ready. He just pulls the trigger and then brings the gun up to aim at the rest.