Jim Watson

Had this happen three times recently with coated roundnose. One of the offending magazines had splayed lips, the other was measurably wider across the lips. I straightened them out and am testing them in practice. So check your clips.

Right. Our MD has often started the first warmup stage with 3 in the gun. I think I was the first to catch on to the new ability to fire two, reload, and shoot the rest of the array with never a slide lock.

The slide lock reload is "preferred" but no longer mandatory. I like the loaded chamber (empty magazine) reload, that is what Jeff Cooper said to do. On the walkthrough, I look to see if the stage starts with five reasonably open targets to be hit twice. If so, I will do a loaded chamber reload. If there is a Popper or a tough shot that would call for an insurance shot, making for an odd number of rounds, I will go ahead and shoot dry. I even have magazines marked, this one will seat easily under a closed slide, that one won't.

I will find out soon, there was one guy shooting a revolver at the April match, I said that if he brings it back, I will shoot mine. So there will be dry fire, live fire, and match to transition from automatics for a while. I will spread out the practice, though. Thanks for the acronym, OPP fits so well.

While I consider myself more an IDPA shooter, I am now getting more opportunities to shoot USPSA, weekly vs biweekly. I use my regular pants belt IDPA holster and magazine carriers for both matches. I am not sufficient of a hotshot to need whatever advantage a couple hundred bucks worth of double belt and mechanical holster might provide.

Right, they are very low cut in front and ejecting a partial magazine will sometimes snag a round out. Worse, a snug Kydex magazine carrier can strip out the top round. Which is why I use mine at the Make Ready and reload with XP or other brand.

My favorites are the extinct McCormick XP with front spacer. No longer made after Wilson takeover. Current CMC with 1950 rear spacer seems OK, as does the similar Wilson. My MecGars are good. Ten round Metalforms were a hassle but the 9 shot front ramp MFs are good.

My one foray into CCP was with my M&P Mk 1 with my ESP ammo. Now with lighter loads and 10+1 it should be an "easy button."

I don't remember seeing anybody NOT using the dot housing as a cocking handle.

I think USPSA as the US region of IPSC is a paper formality, I think there is money involved. The rules are quite different and there are only a few matches shot under IPSC rules in the United States. When I started, USPSA issued a version of IPSC rules with some US only rules in italics. Now it is completely separate.

Have you got a picture or catalog number? The only Burgo .32 I can find is a .32 S&W Long seven shooter although it is not everywhere described as such.

An outfit in Georgia had a schism with IDPA and drew up their own target and adjusted the rules. I noticed they returned to the fold. The small local club here is run by a guy who is smarter than Bill and has mutated IDPA. Not as badly as the above, the immediately obvious change is that he is putting guns and knives on the threat targets and leaving non threats blank. He doesn't bother with fault lines either, and doesn't eyeball cover as closely as IDPA used to.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. Heinlein, 'Beyond This Horizon." Same character who said "An armed society is a polite society." But say, do you think Limited Optic is likely to percolate down into Steel Challenge?

Over the past several months I decided that if I wanted to keep up my loading and shooting, I was going to have to pay the price. I have thus far bought primers so: FSP $90 + tax in local store WW SP $83 + tax + hazmat from Target Sports CCI SR $72 (discount for new account) + tax from local Academy CCI SP $79 + tax mail-order from Academy in Texas. Right, no hazmat, no shipping added. I only bought a thousand because I feared it might be a fake advertising site. Nope, they came right in, although poorly packaged, 32 pieces lost on the road. I heard of Argie primers for $55 at Norma Shooting, but quickly up to $63, now $79.

Yes, I had a couple removed with a milling machine when I got into IDPA. But there are a few and getting to be more. Somebody was so crass as to say Joyce was influenced by manufacturers to make their products allowable in competition.

That is not what dictionary definition a says. Will Chrono man have to have an industry wide comprehensive catalog to tell whether a comp is a factory offering? I will ask my AC, he was the first I heard to speak authoritatively about the Gentlemen's Agreement removing most limits from ESP.

Webster says, apart from the business application: Sounds to me like they have opened it up to anything that fits The Box. Which seems best, how is the chronograph operator/box checker supposed to look at a lump on the end of a gun barrel and know whether is integral or screwed, glued, and pinned on? in·cor·po·rate in-ˈkȯr-pə-ˌrāt incorporated; incorporating Synonyms of incorporate transitive verb 1 a : to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole b : to blend or combine thoroughly

Obstacles used to be even more challenging.

A couple of us here went so far as to shoot .45 Minor ESP. The bigger holes typically gained two or three points a day; he topped out at six on the perfs. I did not get any border non threats, don't know about him.

I have seen that, as well as a complete "saltshaker" with follower and two rounds stuck tight in the middle of the tube. They recommended new springs and followers, which seem to be a fix so far. Old springs were significantly squashed down. Next time around I will get their slide lock follower for some guidance, even at the cost of capacity.

When I first fooled with them, I saw a drop of 25-40 fps with .45 Small, depending on the powder. So you might try magnum or small rifle primers (MY pistols will fire small rifle primers, I am loading them in 9mm now.) Or just put in a little more gunpowder.

Being a fair weather shooter, I have not gotten to the range operated by the AC, but when I do, I will ask him about a couple of these items. Does he really care if I would or would not wear my Team Mediocre shooting vest to the grocery store? (I wear the plain one.) Is a 1911 specifically designed for daily carry? (It has been a while since even my Commander went to town.) Is my protege really going to have to replace her drop-offset holster as used to be specifically approved for women? (I will let him explain that one to her and to his wife and daughter and the other Ladies on that range.)

Two of my IDPA clubs put in Panicdemic-Supplychain relief divisions for rimfires. I have had a ball popping away with my Nelson Conversion and it got a lot of Glock 44s, and AR22s, and some 10-22s out to shoot. One range has resumed using heavy steel so although rimfires are still listed as an option, they are not competitive.

So IPSC with .22 rifles? That is a hoot, I have been saying we were headed that way for a long time.

I think you are fine with optic only, better off without the distraction of BUIS on a match gun. A floor plate that fits The Box and does not add over an ounce is good to go. A superfluous hole in the slide is nothing unusual these days and will not likely be remarked. And finally, I doubt many SOs and MDs know what a Salient Strike One IS, not to mention having a catalog of options handy.