Vlad

Seeing how the last thread about pants here was started by Jesse I'm half thinking he was trolling

So .. I guess we need to define external influence. A couple of years ago, I had the strangest jam. Mid-stage, I was shooting at lay-down target about 4-5 yards away and my gun jams. I look at and I start laughing, as what I see is a piece of gravel stuck in the ejection port. The best we could figure it out was that the rounds hitting behind the laydown target hit the pit floor gravel, which launched itself in some way or another at my gun and landed in my ejection port while the gun was cycling. We are not talking crud in my mag kinda gravel, we are talking 1/3-1/2" rock. I cleared it and finished the stage trying to not pass out laughing. Now .. is that an external influence? Well .. I sure as hell didn't spit rocks at my gun, but on the other hand the rock was doing nothing offensive, laying there in the sun until I did a drive by on it and its friends at which point it angrily reciprocated. Without my action there would have been no rock. Without the action of the shooter in the OP there would have been no splatter. I don't have a strong opinion on this, so I can see it either way, but I've always read that as "Buddy threw a can of Monster at his head" or "Deaf deer wondered over the berm" sort of external influence, not the reaction of the environment to the shooters actions.

And having discovered it wasnt made of cheese, we never went back.

When that happens, rack it with extreme prejudice, it will come out. To avoid it make sure your thumb follows through and pushes the shell beyond the catch. How worn are your dummy rounds? I find that in my 11-97, the rims take a severe beating just from jumping into the action and hitting the bolt release latch and when that happens they eventually get deformed enough to not get out of the tube. It may be time for new dummy rounds.

Is it me, or are the specs for this saying it has an exit pupil thats like half the size of a Vortex or a Meopta. How is that working out in practice for the folks that have tried it?

Actually they are more like those guys who "wash" your windshield at intersections by first putting lots of dirty water on them and then asking to be payed to clean it. I wouldn't pay them to stand in line (or clean my windshield) but they create the situation and force into it. When I come to power it will be ok to run them over PS: Steve from NSA, when you are reading this, I was kidding, I'm not endorsing vehicular homicide. Unless its powder scalpers, screw those guys. I kid, I kid. No, not really.

Well it is my understanding that we have been getting a lot of our powder from Australia now. If Australia has imposed a limit on shipping that powders that creates a bottle neck for us. Simple solution would be to manufacture more here, but I do know that there are constrains on that as well.

Time to maybe have some powder manufacture capacity back in the US?

The good news is that they are fairly rugged, they should last you a good long time, and at $65 a piece they not only beat any alternative, they beat any alternative for the foreseeable future. I know I'm buing more of them at this price.

OMG, Nik as a slow driver. Thats quality humor right there.

Fighting trousers, clearly.

I thank you gentlemen for schooling me in why I usually ignore this forum. Thank you for reminding me. I'm clearly a most unserious shooter and person, exemplified by the fact that I've been shooting production all wrong with 5 mags for the last decade. Plus, I clearly have no idea how to deal with new shooter's equipment. I'll respectuflly bow to the higher wisdom in this thread.

Mr Black Knight, perhaps you wish to re-read my post. I couldn't care less what other people shoot, and frankly I can't be bothered to care about most of the USPSA rules but I do because I run match. I'm telling you exactly what the 50-100 new shooters I deal with every year are telling me. You may or may not care about unicorn guns, but there are a lot of new shooters who care because they believe it matters. I'm not really sure what division needs 6 mags btw, SS maybe? certainly not production but I'm not even sure what that has to do with anything. If you think you should put more work in, you go right ahead, I propose you volunteer to be the person giving the new shooter introduction and try to explain to them how our rules make sense. It is always good for a laugh.

Yes I do, fixed.

Bring your SS rig, bring ammo, come on out and shoot. Amusingly you can't buy handgun ammo locally without an FID, but you can order it online from a number of places and have it delivered.

Yep, they are consumable, just more consumable then the last version, thats all. And at some point I'll need a new shotgun, but for now I'm still using my 11-87 and unloading it via the shell latch is not really easy or even possible. Nowadays I half cycle them and drop them out of the ejection port before they chamber. The buckling, that is a bit more of an issue, but as you said, consumable.

no Because 10.5.5.1 says the handgun being holstered the rule doesn't apply. And thats the key part here. The handgun on the table is NOT holstered and thus not covered by any of the of the exceptions of 10.5.5.1. This is simple. If you placed the mag in front of the gun with finger tips straddling the muzzle line, you are fine. If you put your hand in front it, you are not.

If you holster your gun at make ready, then wave your hand under your holster before Stand By, is it sweeping?

The mantra has always been absurd because a cross bow beat long bow which beats bent piece of dry branch. If you think the mantra is true why do we not have a single devision in which revolvers shoot against open guns? Why do we have Limited being different then production?

So there are a couple of problems with the new Brownells dummies. For the price I think I can live with it, but something that you should be aware of. The older ones had more shot and they were heavier, but that is somewhat of a personal choice I guess. It does have a secondary problem though. With less shot in the shell, the wad sits higher and the it doesn't make it to the brass, plus the brass is shorter then the previous ones. This means there is a structurally weak part of the shell and given what we do with them, they eventually bend and buckle. here is what mean: Additionally the rims seemed to get beaten to snot a LOT faster then the older ones:

That will buff out, call 800-762-3845 and ask them for the special polish

So you think its ok for a division which was designed to be "friendly" to new shooters and all manufacturers to be dominated by $2000 guns with waitinglists? You think it is ok to say "No, you SHALL wait for the hard to get gun, you can't build your own even if it is identical" I know there still people out there telling each other how USPSA is for gamers with expensive guns and how real guns can only be used in IDPA and for the last 15 years or so the answer could be well we have production, and revolver and more recently SS. Of course now we have "factory custom" raceguns for productions, and the one true ocho gun for revolver with no other competition so .. yeah, that doesn't work anymore does it?

Ramshot does, but their powders are unicorns on double rainbows nowdays. Other stuff I see in stock on and off, but TAC is missing in action.

well it is a lot less relevant then, isn't it? Its not like you are going to require a DA first shot with an empty gun start.

What do you do with brass in your NSY bucket?