Jim Watson

But where is the fun in being pedantically correct all the time? And if you insist on the distinction between "clip" and "magazine", why is a groove diameter measurement of a gun barrel well nigh universally posted as "bore diameter" without objection?

I sometimes say "clip" when "box magazine" is meant just to distract those who think the distinction is the pinnacle of firearms expertise.

Interesting, there is a higher priced 2011-ish gun coming out for P320 clips. Now if they will make one to use my Plastic M&P magazines...

Atlanta Arms catalogs a 185 at 800. https://atlantaarms.com/products/elite-45-acp-185gr-jhp.html I load a 200 at something under 700 fps.

A friend and I rang the changes on Scotch for several years. I preferred Balvenie, I like the 12 year old single cask, none of that fancy nancy stuff kept in perfume bottles or some such. But I usually just buy Irish these days. The only application I ever found for bourbon was mint juleps. A friend's wife had a mint patch in the yard and she made mint syrup for the gang. That and some Wild Turkey was good.

Kind of like Single Stack. At least there is one Division for traditional guns.

I loaded a 147 gr 9mm with 3.2 gr HP38 for about 900 fps f 132 in 1911 and 2011. Worked for either coated or plated.

Those NRA plugs are a neat piece of design work. They have a bullet shaped plug to start in the hole, a flange of bullet diameter to make the call, and a circular magnifier to make it clear. They used to be made by Rig, the gun grease company, now sold by Freeland. When my club was shooting BR50 they used the .22 plug a lot, over a board to support the target with bullseye size holes to clear the plug.

I recall the time the hotshot wanted to plug a hole with a bullet. "We do it that way all the time in Arkansas." Well, we don't do it that way in Alabama, buster, down one. A PPC shooter once paid the challenge fee to get my score of one shot reviewed. The MD looked at the target, called the questioned shot out, looked at all the other shots where I had "given the shooter the benefit of the doubt" and just shook his head and walked away.

If you can get along without a muzzle appliance or superfluous holes now allowed in IDPA, something like a 2011 with RDS would get you in both IDPA CO and USPSA Lim O.

This is fairly common in guns not made to GI specification, the link lug shows ahead of the recoil spring abutment in the frame and contact by the recoil spring guide head dings it up in recoil. The quick fix is to bevel the head of the guide so it does not touch. A buffer is not going to help, it does not change the relative positions of guide and lug.

Places I shoot, Click, Click, Click is regularly heard from the Safe Zones.

I had a couple of those. They were soft metal; drop one with rounds still in it and the lips would splay. I got tired of ironing them out and gave them away. That was some time ago, maybe they are better now. They are cataloged "heat treated."

I can't give a brand name or instructions, but it looks like one of the many Spanish knockoffs that resemble a Smith & Wesson but are entirely different internally. Value is low. Very low in rough condition.

Catalog dimensions 8.06x5.75x1.41 For a tier 4 I would find a Box by July. Or lay one out on a table top with pieces of target sticks.

Back in the 3n37 days I read a loader to say he bought a year's supply at a time so he would only have to redevelop his load once a year. Seems like they have a good bit of lot variation.

Interesting. A nearby club is running evening matches during DST, I hope to check it out. But I suspect most of them are for either kewl factor or just ballast.

Are there getting to be a lot of low light matches? Everybody has a spotlight.

Give it a try at a match and let us know what YOUR SO and MD do about it. Make them cite a rule. Internet BS does not appear on the scorecard. I once read a cop to say "Many times I romped into the fray with a Commander in one hand and a spare magazine in the other." (Right before he described how he went back to a revolver.)

This came up last week, and there is no longer a specific prohibition against it, which seems strange, so I asked the MD on Saturday. He said you still may not, based on: 3.4.2 The shooter initiates a reload by performing any one of the following actions: 3.4.2.1 Withdrawing a magazine, speed loader or moon clip from a carrier, pocket or waistband. Unsafe firearm handling will result in immediate Disqualification (DQ) from an IDPA match. The following is a non- exclusive list of unsafe behaviors. 2.2.4 A discharge: 2.2.4.5 during Load and Make Ready, Unload and Show Clear, Reload, or Malfunction Clearance. His logic being that if you have a magazine in your hand, you are in the process of reloading and a "discharge" is by definition unsafe. No matter that it is aimed at a target.

My protege is a bit subject to "limp-wristing" with f-130 ammo; an 11 lb recoil spring has reduced her SHO - WHO malfunctions. But I think a 13 lb spring is pretty much the match gun standard.

I shot a CZ75 for IDPA SSP for a while, no slips whilst lowering the hammer, but it was a "pre-B" with a big serrated hammer spur to grab. But I was never not nervous about it. Nowadays I only pull the trigger when I want to hear that loud noise, and when I want to shoot SSP or Production, I have a good sound striker fired pistol. I worked with a decocking lever for a while but the gun lacked in other areas.

Rule Zero: Ask the SO what he wants you to do and then do it as fast as you can. I like shooting IDPA but some of the whiners and bitchers are right, things are not as clear as they should be.

I would expect to have to shoot to slidelock through a narrow port without fault line. Our MD likes to mess with us by putting up "vision barriers". The dance people were doing Saturday to let them reload while moving to get a line of fire on targets behind a "vision barrier" was amusingly gamey.

No, you are in a position of COVER. If you are "slicing the pie" properly, you are not "exposed" to the unengaged targets available from there.