Vlad
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Right, what I'm saying is that I've been down that path and on paper at level shots it shoots exactly where I want it. I've swapped front sights until I'm where I want to be.
The problem is when I shoot a targets at downwards angle.
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Sure I'll take your targets.
I'm using the usual USPSA type sights flat black rear, dawson, 0.100 fiber front. I won't deny that I don't obsess over perfect zero's mostly because I don't think anyone currently makes an adjustable rear for my M&P so I can only mess with it so far, although I use the upper A not the lower one so it isn't exactly a huge target. Under ideal lighting conditions and with my mind into it, I can normally group about 3" at 25 yards offhand and where I want it. I'm just a bit puzzled by the change of POI from changing the height of the target.
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I bet you're aiming with the fiber in your front sight, not the top of your front sight.
It is possible, but then why am I doing that only when shooting towards a low target but not when shooting level? I've been thinking it is that with small low targets I subconsciously move the gun under the target a bit so I can see the target that would otherwise be hidden, then tipping up the front sight to compensate (possibly with the fiber level with the top of the rear) and then shooting high.
I'm not sure though, I'll have to conduct more experiments, but I appreciate any input.
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This has been driving me mad for a while.
I'll go zero my handgun, my usual "procedure" is to staple up a USPSA target, move back 16-18yards and shoot for head shots. If the shots land at the top of my front sight, plus or minus my usual error rate for shooting offhand, then I call it good.
Then I go shooting matches and it mostly shoots where I expect it to, unless it is small steel in 3 gun. Strange right?
Well I'm starting to notice in lots of 3gun stages we now have these 4" wide steel targets which might be engaged with shotgun or pistol. Without fail I miss these high until I adjust my point of aim to shoot WAY low, as in under the target low. Later in the match I may run into them again except now I have hold the correct sight alignment to hit them.
It occurred to me recently that the big difference is height of the target, so I tested it today. I placed a paper target at the usual height, and a self resetting target 4" wide target about 10" off the ground, both at the same distance, and shot them a bit. The results were clear if I shot the paper target my shots would impact at POA, at match speed. If I shot the lower targets my shots would land 2-3" high if I shot at "match speed". If I slowed down and focused on it as if shooting groups, my higher aimed shots would tighten their group but land at the same elevation, the downwards shots would also shift back up to their expected POI. Speed up, the POI would climb up again. Crouch down and shoot it a match speed, POA is POI. Stand back up, they skewed again.
Clearly I'm looking at the sights in a funny way when I'm shooting downward but I have yet to figure out why and how I'm doing it. Has anyone else seen this problem? How did you solve it?
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no. I never trimmed any handgun brass.
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I have no dog in this fight, but people on wearing tactical shoes will argue that safe conditions for square ranges don't apply in "real world". If you rifle goes down or runs dry in a middle of a fight and there is no handy blue barrel then you keep it and sweep whoever to get back in the fight. As the video is that of training for a movie where that is the sort of thing that might happen, lets not assume that safety rules are the same.
I kinda get what they are saying, There is no 180 in an actual gun fight, or so I'm told. If you are trying to make a "realistic" movie ...
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I don't like the notion of muscle memory, your muscles don't have any. You build actual memory and increase your input processing, that is it.
Like so much of our game there is a lot of visual input processing going on here. Sure, your NPA helps a LOT here and after enough drifire you can probably draw to a A blindfolded at a know distance, but almost everything we do is vision driven. I don't like to wait for the sights to appear I like to LOOK for them as the gun comes up on the target. I look for them hard nowadays.
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Didn't your handguard some with them? I think mine came with 2 or 3 bits of rail, search your spare parts box.
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My 550 shell plate turns fine when there is a primer in the cup.
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When you say in the tube do you mean in the priming cup? The tube really has nothing to do with the shell plate rotation.
If I understand you correctly, if there is a primer in the cup, the shell plate doesn't rotate but if there is no primer in the cup the shell plate rotates? And then it also doesn't sit the primers fully?
It sounds to me like something is messed up with the primer cup assembly, Call Dillon, they'll probably send you a new one or may have additional ideas for you to try.
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Taccom magnet version
anyone have a update how there'r working out??
I don't love them because if you want to mix and match shells (think slugs mixed into your quads) the length adjustment doesn't work so hot. When I got them I decided that would be a problem, and Tim graciously offered to take it back, but I decided to keep it for practice and such. I like the idea, but I don't like how the length adjustment works.
If you don't mix shells, and you always use the same shell brand then it is probably pretty good.
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I run a EFX-1 stock, with a DPMS spacer
That comes out to slightly over 14" depending where you measure on the clubfoot shaped pad.
It is not very light weight, but I wonder if you could do the same with the very similar looking but more expensive CF one made by lancer.
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My "I'm stuck in traffic" entertainment is PARAcast, Triangle Tactical, 3gun show, Steve Andersons That shooting show, , and Ben Stoegers PPS.
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I know it's controversial but lee claims there factory crimp dies improves accuracy?
The way I see it, it MIGHT do that if you have a canelure type bullet and you add a light crimp right into it to maybe balance the bullet better and maybe hold it back a fraction of a second later as even pressure builds or some such other reason, But I'm not sure that putting a slight dent in bullets not designed for it can help in any way.
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It stinks because I liked their products, but to me it always felt like they were almost out of business, their response time to any sort of query was terrible, assuming you ever got an answer.
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I'll combine some of the above ..
The X-dies have two modes, one in which they do NOT stop the brass from growing, used for initial sizing of brass new to you, after which you trim the brass and then adjust the die to the new trimmed length brass and it prevents it from growing beyond that. It's nice, and I use one, but I find that the primer pockets start to get loose around 5 loadings anyway so the next 5 possible loadings are not interesting to me, but what is interesting to me is that if I use proper brass management and keep track of my own brass separate from other random brass, I only ever have to trim that brass once and forget about it.
If you trim every time, the X-die does nothing for you, the cheap lee is fine.
I like the Reading competition sitting dies, specially if you switch heads often enough. I can go between 55gr and 68gr bullets really quick and they really sit the match bullets a lot straighter then the Lee one ever did. This is the one day really worth having, in my opinion. For crimp, I only crimp the 55gr bullets on canelure and I use the Lee die, I don't crimp the long range ammo,
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You feel free to express yours, everyone is free to be wrong all day
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And the flip side of the coin is many are thrilled to add a PCC division as well.
Sure, many people vote in ways I disagree with, drive hellaflush cars, or jump of bridges with glorified rubber bands strapped to their crotch. Also, I feel like many may be overstated. I was told many wanted welfare optics and so far I've seen exactly one person shoot it.
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It is a dumbass idea that makes me regret my vote for president. Apparently second order thinking skills are lacking in certain areas.
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Dean I assume I can still sign up for all 4? I'm planning on sending you an application tomorrow.
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It is always the human, that isn't the issue. The safeties are there to help when the meat bag messes up.
Specifically in this case what concerns me is brushing the side of the trigger against clothing, holsters, etc when holstering guns.
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Vlad: You plan on voting for Hillary? That kind of emotional thinking is pretty close to the anti-gun groups out there.
That is a pretty silly question. I'll ask the question again, if we don't care about a 3.5lb trigger with no external safeties for a 320 then why do we care about it for a 3.5lb 1911 trigger?
Look, we have safety rules for a reason. After 10 years of match directing, I'd like to think I've seen every single dumbass way in which someone can f*#k up with a gun, but I'm sure that there are new inbred ones being invented every day.
Being concerned about safety in a game where we run with guns is not an emotional question.
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I'm slightly freaked by the notion of a 3.5lb trigger with no external physical safeties of any sort, including one of the trigger lever thingies.
Then you shouldn't use it.
I don't plan to, but that doesn't mean someone around me can't screw up with one to my detriment.
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I'm slightly freaked by the notion of a 3.5lb trigger with no external physical safeties of any sort, including one of the trigger lever thingies. At that point we are getting close to asking why do we need a thumb safety on a 3.5lb trigger 1911.
Shooting high when shooting downwards
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I do wear glasses, but I have my prescription digitally mapped into my Rudy outer shields. I don't notice a distortion at any angle but I can try adjusting my viewing angle and see if that make a difference. Good idea.