Vlad
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This stuff is fun to read, but just so you know there are still places where things like this still get shot. At my clubs 3gun matches we use 2 real vechicles (a truck and a sedan) and we do start shooting from inside or around and recovering weapons form trunks and so on. The fun part is when you start shooting your 16" comped AR from the driver sit out the passager side window and you set the headliner on fire.
Vlad
PS: When retrieving shotguns from trunks make sure that you dont rip the sights of the gun and have to shoot 8 targets with slugs and without a front sight. Don't ask me how I learned this.
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That after years of being smug about my 20/20 vision and ignoring my mild astigmatism I jumped one class within one month after getting glasses. What I really learn is that sometimes you have to put aside pride, vanity and the like and just do the right thing. It pays off more then you might expect.
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I've been flirting with the idea of a Saiga .308. AK design 16" or 20" barrel for about $300 new. I want one just because but it might make a fun Heavy metal gun anyway.
Vlad
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Sounds to me like this rule goes against the freestyle ideal and a really dumb idea. That aside I'm curious what happens if you have that stage and everyone shoots it using all the positions but the last guy figures it out and skips one. Does the stage get thrown out?
Can you define the whole stage as being one big free fire zone and thus calling it one "position"?
Vlad
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As far as can tell, not yet in the US.
Vlad
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Hey .. I would have been out there with the wet targets myself, but I admit that today was pretty bad. I keep on trying to make it to your match but stuff keeps on coming up. Heck, my best match performance ever was at your match so now I want to see if I can do it again
Vlad
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Well .. service aside they are also about half the price most of the time and I'm sure that means a lot to the bean counters.
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This is one of those things which would be more easily solved in a open carry state. No need to flash anything, its always there to be seen, legally. Of course, you did the right thing.
Vlad
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I wouldn't knwo about the differences. I know that when I broke mine, the replacement was slightly different then the original but I have no idea what the 85 uses.
So far it seems that going to a lighter recoil spring cures my problems. I'm now running with a 10lb spring and a shock buff. So far I'm not seeing any wear on the shockbuff after about 500 rounds. I had replaced all the mag springs with extra power ones and that had reduce the error rate dramatically but I still got the jam every now and then until I went to the lighter spring. I was going to call it good if it worked for the whole 7 stage match today but it got canceled due to the repeat performance of Noah's flood or somthing like that. Apperently my fellow shooters want to see the targets through the rain or something. Whimps.
Vlad
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I used ebay to recycle hobbies. A couple of years back I sold some Magic cards,some old roleplaying books and a few roleplaying novels and miniatures. I turned those into a Savage 10FP and a scope plus it payed my for my build of an AR-15 and some other small bits. All together maybe $2000 for things that cost me less then $1000 and where now used.
Ebay, where you can sell a quarter for a dollar!
Oh yeah, so I'm a geek. You have a problem with that?
Vlad
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No kidding. Just last week my Scorpion blew its first bulb after about 2 years of hard use. I recalled that the packaging said it came with a spare but for the life of me I couldn't find it. I called and the lady was very pleasent and managed not to laugh at me being obtuse about following her direction for finding the obviously located spare bulb.
I think I'll call them again and order a new rubber body and maybe a new lens cover (mine has some minor damage from leaving it on in my pocket for way to long) and pay for them, because I sure got my $35s worth out if it. With Surefire being the big dog and at twice the price I don't mind helping out the little guy a bit.
Its good to know I'm not the only one that had a pleasent experience with them.
Vlad
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I .. can't ... move ... Three ... more .. deserts .. to .. try ..
I hope .. you ... are .. all .. well .. and happy ...
Vlad
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This year I finally gave up on the cheap Magnum lines mostly because I wear out the soles to fast. I like the feel and how they work but the soles are gone in 3 months, as I wear them almost all day and I walk for 2 to 3 miles with the dog on sufaces that eat up rubber.
However I discovered that Magnum/Hi-Tech also make decent shoes. I have a pair of their hikers which I use for shooting and I really like them. They are very light weight, good traction, and they have that uppwards curved heel which makes the silly walk a bit easier.
I also got a pair of their higher end tactical boots, the Elite. I got the winter version with 400gr Thinsulate so I can only give you a partial report as it has not been cold enought to wear them much. These things are a completely different beast then the cheap end Magnums. They seem to have a much higher quality, a completely different multilayer sole, decent insoles and a very solid feel. I did go for the waterproof version and that might have been a mistake as without a sidezip putting them on and taking them off is not easy. They do need to be broken in a tad but it looks like they are going to work out.
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Under IPSC rules however, as soon as magazine capacity hit 20+1 (three rounds more than I could stuff in a G-34) I'd have to look at making a switch.
Getting there .. On the CZ forum Angus reported being able to stuff 19 in his SP-01 mags.
Vlad
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I think, and this is just my opinion, that folks like Dave S are true exceptions with more talent then most of us can even imagine. I think that it is also possible that Dave S and the Glock are matched to each other and that it may happen that a stock glock with a stock trigger feel best to him.
But I also think that for most shooters that gun/human mind meld doesn't happen that often. I KNOW that a better trigger allows me to shoot better. I know that I shoot a CZ better then a Glock because it fits my hand better. I'm sure I could train myself to shoot as well with a Glock as I do with a CZ but it would be no fun. If the equipment makes no difference, then why do top compentitors in other divisons go after the last bit of performance out of their gear? Shooting skills are important, but no one is serious about winning Limited with the small WWII 1911 iron sights, and no one is winning Production with a Lorcin
In my opinion the best way to avoid the $2000 Production gun, is to allow folks to make the $100 changes to their $600 guns which otherwise they would have to pay for from the factory in the more expensive models. If a feature is legal on the $2k gun and it is illegal on the $500 gun just because the manufacturer decided that fiber optic sights should cost A LOT more, then you haven't avoided an gear race, you just handed the reins to the industry. Define the features which are allowed and let shooters be shooters. The argument that this should only be allowed in Standard or Limited forgets that the number one feature of Production is No Single Action. As far as anyone can tell me that was the driving force, but somehow along the way it has turned into "whatever Glock is willing to sell you". I think that is a mistake.
Ok .. who needs the soap box? I think I'm done with it.
Vlad
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I am Ellen Ripley! Oh .. wait. I'm a boy. I'm so confused.
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This morning I was back in the same shop I quoted earlier and I realized that some of the prices I gave you were for used guns. For new guns he charges:
92FS $750
Sig226 $899
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Thank you for looking into it. While I'm sure that eventually the gun will actually exists, right now it seems to exactly and exemple of the problem I was describing. In a different forum Angus mentioned that a run of 100 was made or in some state of production. However given that as far as I can tell the companies don't admit it exists one has wonder if it should be on the list and it exemplifies the problem of the factory custom
BTW, I hope you also asked them what the expected retail price was going to be.
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Vince you wrote
However if you want to start The Vlad Gun Company, knock yourself out, but your products won't make the approved gun list unless IPSC is convinced that your guns are available to the general public internationally, and that you're more than a custom shopPlease tell me where I can obtain a CZ SP-01. As far as I can tell this gun only exists as a picture and a custom gun for Angus. I'm sure that it will be eventually available but as far as I can tell CZUB and CZ-USA make no mention of this gun existing. How did they convince IPSC that it exists?
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And why not. I qualify the following numbers by first saying that the prices I'm about to quote are from the shop a few block from my house. These are not prices I would pay because I would order my stuff cheaper and have them shipped to a different dealer, but that is not what you asked. The prices are of things he has in stock and which are suitable for USPSA production (so I can add the G34).
92fs $699
Sig226 $750
G34 (used!) $750
P99 $600
G17 $650
Sig220ST $900
USP9C $850
This are prices higher then a person who knows what they are doing would pay but they are about average for New Jersey. Excuse me if I don't want to advertise my home town on the Internet. To those numbers add a 6% sales tax, $15 in NICS (instant background check) and $2 for the permit.
However those numbers are meaningless because I can not purchase the guns I worry about. EAA (the tanfoglio importer) does not import the interesting models like the Stock Custom and the SP-01 is vapor. BTW the G34 mags are about $40 which means that a basic setup would be about $1000 and it is not all that rare or specialized of a gun when compared with the others. However as soon as they show up on the market I'll let you know what they cost.
BTW the Sig226 Sport has an MSRP of $1600 but I have never seen one in a store. The only one I see even online is on gunbroker for about $1200 but the reserve has not been met. Using Davidsons to locate one let me know that Shore Shot, an NJ shop a ways south of me, would be glad to sell me one $1780 including taxes and fees. Add mags and holdsters and you are looking at over $2000.
But it is not an equipment race.
Vlad
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The weather gets to me only when the course asks me to go down on a knee or prone in cold freezing mud or some such. Otherwise proper clothing combined with the right foods and drinks can keep you going. I got over cold weather during my dumber years when I though that winter mountain treks where fun.
I'll take a sub freezing January match over a 100F %100 Humidity match in August.
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My CZ does wherever the finish is worn. My sweat is murder on exposed steel. I can get my AUS-8 stainless steel pocket knife to rust by just touching it with a dry hand and I get nice fingerprint shaped marks on the blade. The underside of the dust cover of my CZ is getting a bit bare and the magwell has been exposed steel for a while from all the reloads and rust seems to love it. Not that I really care, I just keep it oiled and live with it. If I could I would chrome, but just to use the same finish which would chip of again sounds kinda silly and the other CZ finishes are not any better then the polymer which is what mine was covered with. I wonder though .. could I even have CZ refinish it with their nickle finish which they offer on my model even if the original finish was polymer, would that be legal?
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So if rust is not a factory finish, and I don't have to refinish a rusted gun, doesn't that mean that I would have a non-factory finish? Seriously, If my gun was blued by now it would have been oiled and bare after I got all the rust stains off. You have to see the grip of my Ruger MkII. The thing is shinny bare metal from using oiled steel wool to get the rust off.
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I think you already know that rust is not a factory finish.
Thats what I thought. Then if my gun rusts up, do I have to have it refinished do be production legal?
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Anyway, I think we must agree to disagree
Clearly. We are sitting on different edges of this ravine and only time will tell who was right. However I would like your opinion on my questions regarding finishes. Is rust a factory finish? Can I strip of a factory finish and use the gun in the white? What if it just wears out? Neither are factory finishes, and what is teh difference between a gun with worn out finish and a striped one?
Also I am curious what defines a manufacturer and will happen when someone starts building the STI Edge of Production. Hmm .. If I get a manufacturing license and make my own gun from bar stock and offer it on a website for an absurd amount of money , can I get it on the list?
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Well DSA thinks you can make them really short. Like 16" short. They also have a gunsmithing service and they might be willing to answer some questions. Here is a neat little gun for you.
Vlad