Vlad
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So where would that leave all those other carry guns? What if I wanted to shoot a CZ75SA in .40 or any number of major caliber guns which hold more then 8 rounds but less then 86 million and which can be carried and shot in SA? What if you want to shoot a double stack 1911 type with reasonable carry mags? I think of Limited 10 as the Production on Steroids. I'm not even going to address the fact that many states are still going to be under the ban because of local versions.
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I am quite happy with my new Rudy Rydon. Thank you Jim.
I wonder what the right path for feedback to Rudy may be? Jim, how much to they care about shooter feedback vs biker feedback (for example). I would like them to make lens ever so slightly larger. I find that the Rydons offer marginal coverage for my eyes. They do the job, but I wish the lens where just a tad larger. It seems that all the glasses with RX inserts have a bit of this problem, and I don't see why they can't make a couple of different lens sizes for the same frames.
Just a small bitch, I still love them
Vlad
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So ... How much drop in trajectory do you get when changing your load at the ranges we shoot? It is an honest question, I never really checked but so far all my loads are in the same general range. Now .. if I very my .308 load by %10 I get about 1" change in POI. At 100 yards. Maybe I'm underestimating the problem, but do you really get that much of a difference at the 7 to 25 yards we usually shoot at?
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Well, then I don't know what to tell you. Not that this is a urination contest, but over here I'm paying property taxes, state income taxes, and sale taxes, which all together are actually getting to equal my federal taxes and I assure you those are not peanuts.
I can assume that all of OR is not as bad as your home town so you may consider commuting. Around here, if I want cheaper housing I have to move almost 80 miles over the PA border aor move south almost to the border of Maryland and good luck finding work. Not that PA hasn't been tempting me, at least I could carry there.
But, my wife is still in school here in NJ and my job is not terrible so ... I get to pay for her textbooks and bitch about it.
The $10/h for sysadmin work does sounds bad though. I made more then that 10 years ago working as a student sysadmin. Boy am I glad I never moved to the left coast during the bubble
. At that rate I would change my line of work.Vlad
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Where in hell ARE you that someone pays that much per hour???????!!!!!!!!!"...Welcome to the age of $20.00 per hour jobs."
Huh .. New Jersey. I did the math and I make a lot more then that but I still have a hard time making ends meet. Welcome to the state in which a 80 year old 3 bedroom home costs $240K and my car insurance for two cars and two people with perfect records is $2000. Should I talk to you about townships where your property tax payment is getting close to your mortagage payment?
I grant you that I am not a hourly employee, but the students we hire make a min of 7.50 and some as much as $15/h
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1) GM Card
2) Yes, I'm sure I'm loaded and ready!
3) Yup, he's loaded, all right.
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It does look mean. However I really dread the first (next?) major huricane that skids along the cost and hits the mid-Altantic. It seems to happen every now and then, and I suspect most of my state would get flattened. We really dont get prepared for this things in NJ or NY. In fact a number of folks really worry about NYC getting hit, and sooner or later it should happen.
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At my club we shoot monthly 7 ot 8 stage matches. We get a pretty good mixure of stage types. However we also have 3 really large and deep bays and those often get some really complex stages with lots of walls, activators, ports, and little tricks. We generally only have one, max two, per match built that way and sometimes none.
However these are the kind of stages which really stress my plan making. Shooting L10 or Production like I do, means that I have to really break down the stage and make sure I keep to my plan, remeber were all the targets are, where I reload, which were engaged from what port and so on. It seems that every time a part of my plan goes wrong, a forget to do a reload, forget about a target, think that I have already engaged a target but haven't, run past a shooting position and have to come back, that sort of thing.
Any hint on how deal with the complex stages? Note that my problem is not making the plan, which I can generally figure out pretty quick, but remembering it and following it. This is not a problem I have with more "normal" stages, but a house of horror type stage with about 30+ rounds gets me almost everytime.
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LOL. Damn, now I wish I got my Storm in ICE. Instead I have boring kydex.
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No one mentioned "About Shmidt" or most importantly "The Pledge". The end of "The Pledge" almost hurt physicaly. To those two you can add "Twelve Monkeys", "Brazil" (the long version, not the "love conquers all" version), "City of lost children", and a whole bunch of the ones already listed.
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If you have the cen-dex Lo-boy, you may also want to take a look at their Storm which is the higher version of the same.
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Juat to keep this thread alive, I took this test twice for real and a couple of times the online versions and I wave back and forth between INTP and INTJ.
Seriously, either the tests are bogus, or there is a major INT* representation here which I'm sure someone would love to write a PHD paper on.
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I just ordered one of the new HiViz ones for my CZ. They enclose the fiber in a plastic body which is supposed to make them really hard to damage, but the drawback is that you can't change the fiber even if you want to. I'll have to find out how well they work.
Here is a picture:
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Hmm, I have been trying to reach them over email with no luck. I guess I have to call them.
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Vince, I completly agree.
<waits for gasps of surprise to stop>
But make sure that the wording prohibits the behaviour after the draw, so pointing your gun at your .. uh ... gun .. yeah thats it ... half way through a course of fire is still a no-no. Which kinda leave us with defining what a draw is, and while the idea that the draw ends when you put your finger on the trigger is am attractive one, RO's may have a hard time seeing it without moving in front of the shooters's 180.
Then you have the problem of defining lower torso. I guess you can use the belt line as a guide but that is again hard to see by the RO.
Frankly I do not think there is a good complete answer. I would just modify the existing rule to limit the sweep on the draw to the lower half of the body and let the RO define when the draw ends.
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Also I'm with Kenny. First shot is meaningless as the shooter may have to run for a few seconds to get to fire the first shot. Angles and planes are not so interesting either for the most part as target presentation can muck that up.
My definition would be that of Kenny plus a "or first shot fired", just to cover the unlikely and dangerous case of a target being within that 1m of the start position.
As for why you would cross yourself, look at where the muzzle is pointing while the gun is holstered and you go thouch various movements like walking, sitting, standing, getting up from prone. In many of this cases the muzzle is crossing you. However the gun is considered safe because it is not in your hand, but holstered. However as soon as you draw the gun you could be DQed for crossing yourself by pointing the gun at your leg, foot, and what not. I think that point of the rule is to avoid DQing people for being shaped different then others or for using anything but an FBI cant production holster, but I'm just guessing.
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Jake I get what you are saying, but really this is a voluteer sport. The guys running the matches don't make money, they use your fee to pay for targets, props, range maintance, insurance, IPSC fees, water, porta-potties, and whatever else. When Those folks get tiered of showing up 3 hours before and leaving 2 hours after, you will not have a match to go to.
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Funny to see this thread. Just today one of the guys I was shooting with end it up having a jam because he looked at the holes, looked like he had 9 in there, and managed to feed a 11'th round in the 10rd mag. Not only did the mag not work but there was the risk of him being penealized for having 11 rounds in the mag and moved to a different division. As we have all agreed that he had no competitive advantage by jamming his gun and that he really didn't mean it, we ignored the mistake, but the lesson is: Count your rounds as you load them and ignore the holes. My personal aproach is to use ammo boxes with 10 rounds per line and always empty my partials into full rows and only load a mag with a full row.
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I don't really have a horse in this race and I see the points of both Vince and Jim, however I have a different question. Lets say that Glock offers a chromed slide. According to Vince, I can't buy a tenifer Glock and send it to an aftermarket shop and have it chromed. I have two questions:
1) Can I send it to Glock to have it refinished? Lets say that Glock doesn't plate in house and ships the slide to a contractor. Can I contact the contrator directly. If no then what is the difference, practically or legaly?
2) Lets say that I send my slide to third party to have it chromed and then I go shoot a big match. How will anyone know if the gun was plated by Glock or someone else. Even if you can tell apart the finishes, on who does the burden of proof rest? How can we be sure that all factory jobs look the same? Most third party shops do better finishes then factories anyway. I suppose you can ask for copies of workorders or shopping info, but who brings those in their range bag? Maybe the factory keep records or maybe it doesn't?
What I'm saying here is that as far as I can tell these rules are not enforcable, thus they are more an honor code. I'm ok with that, but it seems to me that people who want to break these rules will, and there isnt much anyone can do about it.
If I am wrong, please let me know. I honestly don't care about the issue itself, I'm just trying to understand the system.
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I don't shoot clay bird games, in part because of what you describe. I have tried it twice and in both cases I found the setup really hard on a new guy like me. That, I don't need snide comments about shooting it wih a combat shotgun. Guess what .. I'm not buying a nice double for a game I haven't shot before.
Perhaps the solution is Practical Clays ...... where you add a timer. Without time issues target presentation gets harder and harder. With time being scored, then the top guys can get faster while the rest can still shoot.
Oe maybe I'm just crazy that way.
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I have CZ75B, though Vince has a point. I just read the online manual and now the manual says that the hammer should be lowered on the firing pin stop. However the printed manual I have, which is older and different in more ways then one, talks about the half cock. It may be that my manual was writen for the Pre-B models and because I got a strange model (military contract gun) I may also gotten a strange manual. I concede that point and withdraw my manufacturer issue. Though it does puzzle me that they have the same procedure for the 85 Combat which lacks a firing pin block.
I maintain it is still an unsafe practice, though I am a bit less concerned about the legal issues as the practice is in line with the manual.
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Edited to add: amuzingly my CZ does not have a firing pin stop, so from that point of view the manual is still wrong, but I know what they meant. I just found it funny.
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Hey, I'm not arguing. However two different ROs have insisted I lower my hammer all the way down. I started a thread in the Rules forum to see if I get some feedback from the folks with the levers of power. Honestly my reading of 8.1.2.2 and 8.1.2.3 combined with the production rules is that the hammer has to be all the way down, which I think is wrong.
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Given my reading of 8.1.2.2/8.1.2.3 about the definition of valid states and what the book says about what decocked means and combining that with the fact the both old an new rules make it clear that a production gun can not start cocked, my interpretation is that the hammer must be fully down.
I would love to hear that I am wrong.
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As I am getting ready to shoot production for a while, another post noted a problem I knew of for a while. The rules require manually decocking with the hammer all the way down, which I assume means that the hammer should be resting on the firing pin, as opposed to a halfcock notch.
Leaving aside the fact that decocking a Sig using the decocker leaves the hammer at sort of half cock, there are a couple of serious safety issues. First there the obvious that a gun with the hammer resting on the firing pin can be a safety issue by itself. Not all guns have a firing pin block. Second, my CZ manual clearly states that if I manually decock my gun I should only drop it to half cock. Thus USPSA asks me break the safety rules as recommened by the manufacturer. And lastly there is higher risk of a AD by bypassing a safety feature (half cock notch)
At least on my CZ there no real difference in trigger pulls between full decock and half cock. They weight is the same, and so is the length of pull, though it changes the ammount of takeup. In fact the extra takeup makes the shooting from halfcock harder but that is something I rather have then a less then safe decock.
Am I missing something? Why do we have this rule? Is it really clever for USPSA to ask shooters to bypass recommended manufaturer safeties and procedures?
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. At that rate I would change my line of work.
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I've had the same Panasonic for about 4 years. No problems what so ever. I'm so used to mine working that I'm surprised that anyone has problems
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