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You will love this book. You will never view the atf or other feds the same after reading it. When I first found out about the fast and furious gun scandle my first thought was "This sounds like something John Ross would put in his book"
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I try to look at the magwell everytime I reload, dryfire and live fire. About the only exeption is when I am trying to get around a wall or something tight while reloading. Even then I kind of watch it but out the corner of my eye, the only reason for taking my eye off is so I dont run into anything.
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around 15 or so uspsa matches and a maybe another 5 idpa matches. I would like to go to more but a 90 min drive is about all the farther I want to drive for local matches
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cr speed has an actual race holster for m&ps. I used one of their race holsters for limited with my para for a few years and liked it.
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I always clean the grips with rubbing alcohal and never had a problem getting anything to stay on when doing that. I've tried cleaning with other things and never had as much luck getting the tape to stay on.
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Dick's sporting goods or a scheels or any bigger sports store should have skateboard tape. I still feel out of place going into that section of those stores but at least I don't have to go into an actual skate shop. The last time I bought some it was only 5 or 6 bucks for a piece thats about 10x30 inches or so
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M&p pro, xdm 5.25, para limited guns, the list goes on forever of the companies that use a plain black rear and fo front. There's a reason for that.
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My guess is the reason for these companies being on this show is that for the price of the guns, they get a free hour of free advertisement on a major cable channel during primetime.
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no, but if you do it will be easier to reassemble after cleaning. If you do put it back in do the reverse procedure that m.e.anglin said. That way you don't have to fight the spring.
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Dry fire, dry fire, dry fire, right now you are making up so many shots that even the best stage plan isnt going to help you unless you just decide to reload every single time you move. When someone starts to have to make shots up the stage breakdown always goes to hell. Shot to shot time is ok but target to target time is way to slow, thats another area that a dryfire drill will really help.
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I would have to say 'no' to the ghost ring sights. Reason being in the uspsa rule book it says for limited division: opticial/electronic sight permitted 'no' but for production and single stack is says "no, post and notch only" which leads me to believe ghost ring sights are legal in limited but not single stack and production division.
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Try keeping the gun higher and maybe a little further away from you body while reloading. The gun will naturally return back to its shooting position a little faster and you will beable to find the sights back quicker. You should beable to take a good .5 sec off the reload. Not that big of deal when reloading on the move but it is when you have to do a standing reload. Also you need to start presenting the gun to the targets as you come into position. Not after you are already in position. That way as soon as you stop you already have your sights and are pulling the trigger.
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When controling muzzle flip between glock and m&p hand loading a heavy 9mm bullet will do more for you then making the right choice between those 2 platforms.
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Developing a load that is light enough that it does reliably cycle the gun with a factory recoil spring isnt cheaping if it makes power factor. With my m&p pro shooting 147gr with titegroup would sometimes not cycle the slide far enought to eject and strip the next round propperly causing problems. Lighter rs and now no problems. Considering that my load is close to a 135ish pf, Ill bet that Ive got a higher pf then most cheap off the shelf 115gr ammo.
When it come to a plastic pistol I love by m&ps, with that being said between m&p, glock, and xds I dont think any one platform really offers any advantage over the other. Shoot the one that feels most natual in your hand.
If your looking for production gun to help control muzzle flip everyone tells me the cz75 sp-01 is the way to go. Not sure if its idpa legal though.
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looks like copper to me, not really dark enough to be rust, that and if it was rust it should be all the way around the inside of the barrel i would think.
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I have had problems getting winchester ssp to go off all the time in my 9mm pro, but it does have the reduced power striker spring in it. Never any problems with federals. My 40 pro has never had a failure to ignite.
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good luck finding someone that has a sub2000 in stock, Id like to buy one also
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Welcome to the forum. Lots of great info on here. I think that just about everyone started with a single stage press. Its a great way to really get to understand reloading. There are some really great matches here in IA if youve never tried shooting practical pistol
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It almost looks like your looking for your shots on the targets to make sure you got your hits before leaving the position. You need to be able to call those shots and get moving. Everytime you look for the hits thats aleast 1 lost second. The other thing I noticed is it sometimes you where good about following the gun into the shooting position and other times it looks like you entered the position, found the targets and then presented the gun to engage the targets.
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This is a great example of why we are not allowed to move though out a stage with our fingers in the trigger gaurd.
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The first mistake is the Ro needs to make sure to not put themselve in a position for this to happen. If the Ro doesnt stop the shooter when he gets beside the Ro and the Ro ends up up range that is the second mistake by the RO. It would not be fair to dq the shooter for the Ro screwing up twice on one stage. To make my point, say you shot a stage with a hallway type set up with a port on the left side and one directly across on the right side. The shooter engages the left port and the ro gets right behind the shooter or a little in front to watch the trigger finger, when the shooter turns to engage the targets in the right port chances are the ro will be between the the shooter and the target or atleast get swept by the gun during the transition. At that point do we dq the shooter for not having eyes in the back of his head to see the ro standing there?
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If you are trying to pickup speed in classifiers , especially production, the easiest way to do that is do alot of dry fire practice working on the draw and reload. Pretty much most of the classifiers will require those two things and if youre new to uspsa chances are you can probably take aleast .75 sec off each one of those if you work at it. That would be 1.5 sec saved on a classifier. Dry fire is free exept for your time and you dont need to worry about giving up points to gain speed there.
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Para pistols
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Budsgunshop.com has a couple of p14's instock. I didnt see any p16's there though. If your going to use it for limited division the p16 would be a much better way to go because of the extra capacity
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When shooting uspsa you need to learn to do things that in idpa might get you a "failure to do right" penalty. Learning to "Game" stages in uspsa can really help bump you up a couple spots on certain stages. I am mostly a uspsa shooter but shoot the local idpa matche. One of the big things I see in idpa is people making up shots when they get a down 1 hit. In uspsa with hit factor scoring if its not a "D" zone hit you need to move on. Especially if your shooting major.
Why no Colt raceguns?
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Because for limited and open you need a high cap gun to be competitive. And in limited some people like the extra wieght of the full length dust cover like on a sti edge