Vlad

I dunno, it is certainly possible this is the case with some matches, but the matches I've shot this year were certainly long range heavy, or at least involved enough shooting past 100 yards that it made or broke your match. And this is on the east coast. The big issue here is range availability. I don't want to think any match director wouldn't use the space if they had it, but not everyone has it. I'd say any rifle time is better then no rifle time, and if your range only has bays and maybe a 100 yard range, you do the best you can.

I think the other issue is that some of these targets are not exactly cheap and not usually available to the average joe to practice on. Sure, if your club has one and you shoot it 20 times maybe you learn the "trick" and it becomes a trivial target but the shooter who never sees one has to learn it on the clock. I'm not sure that it actually tests a skill as opposed to target availability. I think however that it is brilliant for target makers to gift these to major matches and then everyone at home needs to buy one to be competitive. That's just good marketing.

I'm with you. I found it very formulaic. If you strip down some of the tank specific bits, I thought it followed the Saving Private Ryan formula with a touch of Band of Brothers. The only thing that saved the movie at all was decent acting and couple of descent action scenes.

I dunno about the Lancer one, but I have the EFX-1 which as far as I can tell is the same profile by made of plastic instead of CF, I really like the shape, it has a bit more cheek weld then an A2 or Magpul fixed stock. My only complaints is that is A1 length and prefer the A2 length, but the lancer one has options there so there is that. The EFX-1 is heavier than the lancer, but I wanted the extra weight for a 18" barrel balance, so for you the Lancer would probably be better?

Read Brian's book. It really talks about this at length.

I'm signed up for the match and I'll shoot no matter what it is cause burning powder is better then mowing the lawn any day of the week, and I'll deal with blind stages, I just don't want it to become a crossfit event

Blind stages in competitive context seem like a really bad idea to me. The physical stuff I'm divided on, because if you ask me to.. I dunno .. rappel down a wall .. that is not a skill most of us practice. I'm pretty sure this was meant to be a match benefiting the SEALs, not recruiting for them

Don't worry too much about the small sear spring diameter. I have one in my gun and Apex sear, RAM, springs, etc and it works. Yes you occasionally have to take it down and clean that spring/plunger/hole because gunk slows it down, but by occasionally I mean like once a year. Even so, a new sear block is $25. If you want some of the fancy APEX triggers then they say you must upgrade the sear cage. My slide release has never really wanted to stay down. Just keep it down while you take your gun apart. The good news is that it self assembles when you put it back together.

For example last nite MS pushed a fairly critical security patch. You can disable updates, but you might want to just pull the network cord at that point.

Pretty much this. I load 68gr Hornady's so with a 200 yard zero they match my reticle's hashes out to 500yards. Then for close range I throw some powder under some 55's and shoot it, because the difference is negligible, but I don't take those past 100-150 yards.

IMHO, you just hate the internet and its peculiar ways for having discussions I think for most people it is short hand for "I think, but I could be wrong, so don't hold me to it" and is shorter then ITBICBWSDHMTI

So .. how straight is your rib? Something I discovered with my M3000 is that being a relatively inexpensive Turkish gun, sometimes the dude with the hammer and the welder might be a bit drunk. In my case, and I may be unique as so far I'm the only case I've heard about, the rib is not quite perfectly straight on the barrel, it is a VERY tiny smidge to right of the receiver and a bit more to the left by the time it gets to the muzzle. That means that if I have a front and rear sight mounted on the rib and actually use to aim after I have them nicely aligned it will shoot to the right. That means that I have to drift my rear sight quite a bit to make it all work. In theory the Beretta/Benelli/Stoeger people will fix it, but they've advised me to not even bother sending it in until the end of the season because the wait time if 8-10 weeks (or was when I called them). I may even not bothered now that I know how to aim it for slugs and it makes little difference for birdshot. I wonder if other guns have this issue as well.

So .. what happens if you open up the loop a bit as to barely touch the outside of the notch on both sides? That would end up placing the loop at the same spot every time, no? Oddly, I never really had problems weighing charges consistently and I'm a cheap dude. I use a Jennings JS-50 scale and a Lee beam scale. Whenever I need to check loads, I zero both with check weights, weight my charges on both, and keep going. My biggest timer saver when weighing charges has been replacing the Dillon powder bar adjustment screws with the Uniquetek micrometer doohickey, because I rather have consistent throws then measuring every single charge.

For me and my eyes, 50 works well.

That's fine. All I can tell you is that after I've been experimenting with loads in my MOA built gun, the only rounds that didn't run were some really terrible ones. Even the bulk 2 3/4 dram Rio's seem to run now that the gun is broken a bit, I've ran nearly 2 cases of the stuff in practice in local matches without a single failure. So far my only issues with the gun have been with some really light Estate's and a few Rio's early on. Heck the Estate's might run as a well now. I only have maybe 1500 rounds trough it, about 200 being slugs so we'll see how it proceeds.

Thats cool, but in my admittedly limited experience all shotguns have operating limits. For example the M2 recommends the same minimum load. You can get lucky and some guns will work bellow that, but looking around at what the worked over M2's and 1301's are willing to run, it seems to me we are all in the same boat.

What I find fascinating about these type of questions is that I've asked them 13 years ago or so. NROI has been consistent in their answers, why isn't this spelled out in the rules or a NROI FAQ of some sort?

This is one of the dumbest arguments I've read in a while, and that says something, I have to listen to PHD's all day. 1) Is it a disadvantage? No, the national champion shoots one, so clearly not an issue. 2) Is it safe? I'm trusting you to run around with a cocked gun and the safety off just 10-20 seconds after you decock the gun. If you can't handle decocking a gun while calm and off the clock you want me to trust you while going 1000mph blasting at brown? I rather you safely DQ while decocking your gun towards the berm while standing still. Heck, I'm thinking it is an extra safety feature to tell me some people shouldn't be running around with guns.

Yeah the QLS works fine but with only 2 screws, play around with it, but you can attach a QLS to a ELS belt with 2 screws and it is plenty solid

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I (and lots of people I know) use soft 3gun type cases, like the Safariland ones. They can hold 2 long guns and a pile of other crap.

the 7/8 Fiochi's have also been trouble free for me, but my my friends gun occasionally will fail to eject them. Maybe he is holding onto the gun harder then I am or something.

I've shot exactly one box of them through mine. They worked fine, but I saw no reasons to switch away from the Aero's I normally use.

Come on dude, ask a hard one. "Magical" lines are the property line and magical start time is the published start time of match or a match that build in the morning then whenever we start building.

Did you ask them? I mean there is a procedure for it and everything. As far as I'm concerned, if you parked at the range to participate in a USPSA match, you are under USPSA rules. As far as I know, I'm at least the 3ed match director in this thread to say so. If you are there to shoot skeet, you are not the USPSA match and I can't DQ you. If you are home you are not at the match. Look it, when you show up at a match and I don't know you, I have no bloody idea if you know which end of the gun is the one that goes pew-pew and I don't want you handling your firearm and pointing it at other people at the range. I've seen ALL kinds of shooters show up at our matches, from GM's to "I'm not sure what this button here on my gun does, cause I only bought it this morning and I don't read good so the manual is terrible because there are not enough cartoon kitten pictures". So for everyone's sake, leave it in your bag until you find out where the safe table is.