Jim Watson

Me, either. I do have a weekly (Wednesday evening) USPSA match at 58 miles. Started out IPSC, the owner is an English expat, but he changed to the American game when there was demand for an affiliated event.

I showed them to the local indoor operator who has been making noises about IDPA for months now, but his bays are not wide enough. Stage 1 is 30 feet plus two targets.

MD yesterday said he will run the postal after the winter rains (Mississippi) decline. We were shooting Sunday because of thunderstorms Saturday. He said he will offer it a couple of times so as to allow shooting multiple divisions.

Many moons ago, NRA told how to load squibs. In those days a squib was a very light load suitable for basement shooting, not a screwup. But a stuck bullet was still involved. Working with a .38 revolver, they said to reduce the lightest listed load of Bullseye gradually until a stuck bullet resulted, then add back a quarter or half grain. Results would vary widely depending on barrel length and cylinder gap, so they couldn't just give a number. So I recommend Bullseye for your experiment. Fewer surprises there than with "clean," "modern" powders. Anecdote alert: I can tell you for sure that one (1.0) grain of 700X will get a .38 wadcutter out the barrel. A foot low and sideways on a B27 target. A similar underload will clear a 9mm cast but hardly budge the slide. Pistol loads of 700X do not meter reliably in a CH or Dillon bar measure. I never got a zero load, but one grain cropped up every once in a while. I improvised a vibrator for a while but eventually gave up and stayed with finer granulations.

Yup. Every once in a while somebody will try to sneak in a cocked or half cocked gun to ease the effort on an unloaded start, but an alert SO will make him drop the hammer.

I hope one of the ranges in my combat radius offers it. It is only four stages, places I shoot generally offer six in a monthly. OK, let them put up a couple of IPSC Lite to run up the round count.

Might make CCP with a single sided safety if that got width down to 1 3/8"

Trivia: I pointed my digital camera at the IR illuminators and they shone brightly. Phone cam does not detect the IR, though.

There are several listed on the IDPA club finder. Eight of the ten look to be active. https://www.idpa.com/clubs/?type=clubs&search_country=US&search_state=CO&search-location=&search-radius=&search-word=&search-id=&filter_submit= I haven't looked at the map to see how far they are from Colorado Springs.

Then you do need a Barney magazine to get to 10+1 without a lot of manipulation. Don't think about it, do it.

You don't need a "stripper" magazine, just load one with 11 rounds to start with. Best to mark it. Reload magazines get 10. That is 10+1 to start, 10 in reserve, two allowed; no more, no less unless called for in the CoF. Stages or strings in a multiple string stage will not require more than 18 hits. So you have 31 tries to get 18 hits.

OK, have they sold 2000? Don't they have to specifically apply to be listed, even after making 2000?

I don't think I can pull the handle fast enough to need a loading die with a heat sink. I guess it is for the motorized presses.

Matching factory ammo is an interesting activity. I am like jcc7x7, same bullet weight and velocity and I am satisfied. I cannot buy the same bullet as in my favorite JHP factory load, but I can get pretty close on nose profile. But I have heard of folks like TrackCage, too. They find that mere power factor does not necessarily give the same feel. The last such search I read of ended with a good stout load of HS6.

Rare to see a CO without cow. I know one guy who gets by without iron sights and he has shot enough that acquiring the dot without a post to point the way is no problem.

I would try ordinary 115s. And double up on ear protection.

I have been in this for a long time, not at a high level but enthusiastic. I always say, "I shoot, one expensive hobby is enough." I am now shooting Limited Minor because of arthritic changes, Major is unpleasant and will kick me into a flinch in pretty short order. If you don't want to handload, you could buy .40 Major from a specialty shop like Atlanta Arms, but 9mm is certainly the Easy Button. You can scab a lot of Stuff onto a Glock, trigger parts, sights, frame weight, sight block, mag well funnel, frame stippling, trigger guard divots, etc. You will have to ask the Glockophiles if any of it really improves the shooting. But the guy I shoot with these days is entirely happy with a G17 and an ETS magazine. I think he is looking at fiber optic sights, though. The which I would not be without.

I just got in a pair of Gen 2 9mm. They tested well in my Eagle, and I will use them at the next match along with Gen 1s and MXBs. I load magazines before the match. If a few hours loaded is squashing the springs, it hasn't affected feeding yet.

CCP is ESP in a smaller Box, and I would consider the Apex trigger to fall under: K. Aftermarket triggers and trigger work that result in the trigger being forward or rearward from the stock trigger position. L. Externally visible trigger over travel stops. M. Hammer and other trigger action parts to enhance trigger pull. But I am not your MD, so ask before you splurge.

Like pyrrhic3gun, I remember the Old Days of 9x21 Major CZ and TZ. Slide stop breakage was routine. I saw one guy replacing his with a straight pin, no lever. He had a baggie of them in his range bag. An early Internet Expert said that breakage was not right if the gun were "properly fitted." I think the OP would do well to consult a CZ specialist shop and see if they could straighten his guns out.

I hate to lead you into the 15 ounce game, but the lowest standard deviation I ever got was with 452AA. Which would lead me to try WST. Do you have any jacketed bullets left to compare to coated?

As a minor sidelight, what is the timeline for the formation of the various divisions?

Just to wrap up, the Castboolits board has a ton of stuff. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/

Wrong, .30 WCF is the original name for .30-30. Marlin and others labeled guns and ammo .30-30 to keep from putting their competitor's trademark on their products. Given that, there were in the day reduced loads for "gallery" and small game, sometimes called "miniature" loads. 1. The cartridge is the same. 2. Not that I know of. 3. It would be a routine handloading project. Lyman has data for such light loads and Ed Harris did a lot of work on them. Modifying factory loads would not be any simpler. 4. There are chamber inserts that would let you shoot .32 pistol and revolver ammo or .30 carbine in a .30-30 but they are not usually real accurate. 5. Not much. Main match CAS rifles must shoot revolver calibers. The occasional side match might use such a light load but most tend to the higher side of cast bullet velocity.

Possibility 1. You have a hammer with "safety stop" like a Colt Series 80. That is normal behavior. Possibility 2. You bent the trigger just enough to allow a "false half cock" with the sear on the lip of the notch, not captive in the undercut. Dangerous in the extreme, probably worse than no half cock.