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It is in .38TJ and built by Al Zitta. If you go to Facebook and "Like" Todd's page you can post a question and Todd would probably tell you about the gun.

That is an Al Zitta built steel challenge gun. TJ's USPSA open gun is the same Dawson built gun he's shot for years.

That was my thought also, especially with the description of her personality. No matter though, rescued dogs always seem to know where/what they came from. We have two Vizslas at the house. She's a little Vizsla-looking but I think more Doberman-mix with the pointy snout and Weimaraner the coloring . The touchie-feely-lickie is very much Vizsla. If you wake up with her next to you under the covers, probably some Vizsla in there. The $60 dog breed DNA tests you can get are pretty cool. My rescued "Aussie cattle dog" ended up testing as a German Shepherd - Rotty mix.

This schedule covers the NE Section of USPSA Area 7, which includes monthly matches at Manville, RI. I think we have one more match this year. http://www.uspsa-ne.org/matches.asp?year=2010 This Sunday there is a USPSA match at the New Bedford. New Bedford has USPSA, IDPA, and Steel Challenge in the works. Saturday there is a Plate/USPSA match in Foxboro, MA at Independent (www.independentclub.com). Independent is very beginner friendly.

The first step is getting used to them. The second step is figuring out how to wash out the stink. I'm still working on the second step. Actually, I have a couple toes that were bent in ways they weren't intended and it has put my VFFs on the sidelines for a while.

The Catalyst site Jake mentions is www.performancemenu.com. It's awesome. The forum is really good.

Fantastic shooting Elye! Really good match. Great mix.

"The LR-300 or the new TTR-Para rifle is a (DIGS) (delayed impinged gas system) meaning the gas is picked up from the barrel port and goes through the delay travel in the gas block and down the gas tube that intercourses the hollow op-rod and exhausts out the ports in the carrier. - Allan" I learned more about working on guns in one day at Aldo's shop than I did in all my previous years of shooting.

Not to detour from the seriousness of theft but I'm still not buying the code capturing business. Late model vehicles do use a rolling code system, they have for quite a few years. Basically, the code your remote uses to lock/unlock the car is a one time use code that was randomly generated in sync with the vehicle. Recording that code is useless for further use. It is the same technology that BMW and Mercedes Benz use in their transponder-based ignition, which have yet to be shown to be defeatable. We're in the automotive forensics business, if anyone has actual details on the procedure, contact me at www.sdlyons.com. In all seriousness, we'd gladly pay for the information and put it to good use. Again, so sorry to hear about all the stolen stuff.

Anything is possible. However, all I do is look at auto thefts for insurance companies and we look into all that sort of technology constantly, and haven't heard of that. Fast, easy to use mechanical car-opening tools for most anything are easy to get and they don't leave marks. That just sucks. Just a nightmare to hear about that.

The Olympics had me amped up to ski again too. Since I left Vail and moved back east though I just can't get into it like I did there. You just don't know how good you have it in Co until you leave!

Flex is right there was no hole, just multiple avenues to explore. A good freestyle stage. Not taking the cans wasn’t just a choice that you took and automatically benefited from it. There was big risk involved and you had to step up and shred in order to reap the reward. Also, looking at the results in Limited, you aren’t purely seeing the consequences of not taking the cans vs taking them. There was also shooting or not shooting the bonus, as well as TJ picking up a procedural when the first can he carried fell off the table. It wasn’t unsportsmanlike, it was a really interesting and gutsy way to approach the stage.

So on Sunday the mags for the IPSC match are going to be measured with a ruler for sure? I just want to double check after seeing both of the above, as well as previous mention of the feeler gauge method in some old threads I dug up (Shred mentioned the gauge plus a penny). I've been double... triple checking all my gear and found that the two manners of measurement don't exactly correspond. My bigsticks fit in the USPSA gauge with space to spare yet I can't fit 1.25mm of feeler gauge shim in there. Yet when I stand my mag up and lean it against a nice upright metal ruler (like the rule book photo) I'm right at 17cm with the top of the back edge of the lips with the naked eye. The difference seems to be in how the gauge holds the mag tube flat against those raised pads and accounts for the bottom angle of the base pad. Thanks! Steve

I had much more problem with the S & B primers - had 20 - 30% not go bang in my TruBor 9mm major - works perfectly with WW primers and 99% with the Wolf. Doesn't like the S & B's. Jack I've had pretty much the same experience with respect to S&B, Wolf, and WW primers in my Open gun.

Is that the website you meant? I'm thinking it is www.livefluid.com

I was going to post a question as to whether people have had the same experience with the S&Bs. I tried 100 of them in Supercomp and had 4 not go off. Much better than you experienced but ruled them out in my book for match use, they'll be for practice only. Mine were seated deep on my 1050 and my mainspring is light (16# or 17#?).

In my case, my e-mail was responded to immediately followed by a shipping confirmation.

It is kind of funny, before seeing this thread I had forgotten that I had ordered a Mika holster on February 17th. I haven't gotten it and haven't heard anything since. Thanks for the reminder, just sent an e-mail to see what's up.

Whats, your thoughts on them? I don't have much to compare to because it is the only Kydex product I've used but I think they are great. The holsters are as quick as anything.

I have some holsters and mag pouches that I bought through MLE Shooting Sports. Check Mike's store out throught the dealer's forum: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showforum=171 I don't know if Doug of TKW is making holsters anymore.

Well you could always wear these and look like a hobbit: Those are the most ridiculous things I have ever seen Foot gloves or floves for operators !! Do they come in Tactical Black (like a ninja) ?? Yeah, mine are black.

You can also take the rings and raise them to do your push-ups with your feet in the rings. The higher your feet are, the harder they get. It can be sort of a progression to the handstand pushup. There is a book called The Naked Warrior by Pavel and it has a lot on pushups and what adds difficulty. He is big on the one arm push up.

I'm no Boudrie but we use Symantec Backup Exec and a High-Rely backup drive system.

I was joking that the specific qualities of strength and hardness inherent to Hornady TJ by design probably led to a bent pin, and other brass might have let the pin punch its own flash hole. Not to get too far off topic of stoppages, thinking about it, that instance of TJ having that malfunction Missoula could have been an ok safety stoppage. He had a primer go off, a gun not cycle, and a belief that a round didn't go down range. When you have those things, you're justified in believeing that there was a good chance of a squib. If you think there is a good chance of a squib, stop.

The irony is that if it was anything other than Hornady .38TJ, the pin probably would have gone right through. From what I understand, it is particularly hard brass.