Vlad

Oh and I forgot this, but adjusting the mags DOES help with extraction. One of the problems is that the top round rides to high, and bumps the ejecting round off the extractor.

Oh yeah, I also polished the chamber, which helps with extraction, but rounding up the rear of the slide makes the gun cycle with less effort which means more energy is available for extraction. I own more 22s then I can shoot, they are like watered gremlins. The reason my wife bought it is because 1) it is pink, and 2) she has very very small hands and the Sig fit her well. To be fair, not long before I made the Sig work she decided that she liked my Mark II better, and she bought herself a Mark III she now adores, which I think makes the .22 handgun household count 5 or 6. I'm not even gonna try to count the rifles.

My wife has one, they are problematic BUT they can be made to work. Step 1) adjust the mags. The feed lips are all over the place. If you have the metal mags, put a round in it and gently squeeze the front of the lips around it so it doesn't pop up or point up. This is the biggest change the gun needs to make it work right. I hear they now have plastic mags that don't require adjustment. Take the mags apart and remove the rough edges on the button channels. This works best if done from the inside of the mag with a thin file. Step 2) Round up the rear of the slide where it presses back the hammer. It will allow for much smoother function. Remove all casting flash from various internals. Step 3) Shoot 1000rounds of mini-mags. Now you have a working gun. It is accurate enough but not Ruger or Browning like. I nice plinking gun or maybe even steel. Sig needs to be smacked upside the head for allowing this gun to bear their name without being correctly tuned. Note that they don't make it, it is made by the same german company that makes the Walther P22, they just put their name on it. With .22 conversions for their full size guns, I'm not really sure why they sell it.

Bates M6/M9 desert boots or Converse Desert Tactical. I love that type of boot for pretty much everything but high snow or stand hunting.

If money is an issue then look at the Millet as well, I like that reticule better, it is pretty darn close to true 1x and yes its light up mechanism is really dim, but the other you are looking at don't have it either. Spend the extra money of a decent mount?

I've used lithium grease and slideglide with no ill effects, and I've applied them pretty heavy.

Out of curiosity, how did they fail? I have one of their slings and I like it, though I admit I haven't used it a lot. So far the only problem I've ran into is that the webbing can get twisted inside the adjustment buckles but I couldn't tell you how that happens because I haven't done it, other people have done it to my sling when playing with it. I'm also a bit worried that the quick release might be to easy to release if you snag your gear on something, but so far no problems.

I've never heard a new shooter complain that stages are too hard, then generally seems to think hard interesting challenges are fun. Of course, to them everything is a hard and interesting. It is the regulars with bad backs that complain when you make them shoot spinning stars from cooper tunnels.

My first smart idea that I remember was taking the the leads for a electrical tester and stick them in the wall socket. Did I say leads, I meant lead, and I mean both ends of it. Did I mention this was eastern Europe and the sockets are 220? Yup, it smarted. A couple years roll by, and playing with my Matchbox cars I managed to lose one under the couch. Well, I wasn't old enough to be able to lift the couch, and I couldn't quite see where it went so I stuck a lit match under it to see better. Turns out that when the underside of the couch caught fire, I did have enough strength to lift it up on one end so I could drench it with pots of water from the kitchen. I even cleaned up everything nice and neat and my mother didn't find out about this until many years later as we were moving and she saw the underside of the of the couch with a huge burned out hole. I still got smacked. And then there was my grandparents TV set. This thing was a huge old beats with lots of tubes in it and it was always breaking down. For a while, the back cover was off, because every now and then something went strange inside of it and my grandpa would smack the back of the circuit board with a plastic rod to make it work again. One night, I was watching TV, and the something went strange. Being overtired I forgot the stick and just smacked it with my hand ..... I have no idea what amps or volts moved through that thing my arm tingled for a week and it took twice as long for the blackened skin on my left hand to finally fall off. And there was highschool ... Picture it .. Mid eighties, Bucharest, Romania.. A very old prestigious high school in a huge building from the mid 1800's. Massive building, with all sorts of old piping and ancient heating systems. Hell .. You can see the pictures http://sfsava.licee....licvir/poze.php (the internet is awesome). Now picture the old chemistry labs, hell you don't even need to imagine it, there is a picture of it on that page. Well, that is a picture of the NEW chemistry lab, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I have fond memories of of that place, but we hated chemistry, well we hate the chemistry teacher really, we were fine with chemistry itself, as it turns out. One boring winter, some of us decided that if we wanted to be free of that class, it wasn't going to happen by itself, we had to make it happen. We also decided that cabinets holding the chemicals were easy enough to lock pick with a dull spoon, and that there are times when the lab is unlocked and unsupervised. I'm not going to go in great detail explaining our thought process, because frankly it is was one of those things that only make sense to 15-16 year old boys, but suffices to say that lots of pure sodium was shoved very deeply and very carefully into the drain pipes. Water was turned on, and some running away at speeds that only teenage boys can achieve might have been involved. One of the more interesting results was not so much that the lab needed some remodeling, but that the old pipes were so bizarre that one of the side effects was that the heating system also burst, apparently it was an old coal fired boiler that was retrofitted to gas with classic communist eastern European quality parts. However the most interesting part of this we didn't do THAT much damage to anything but the pipes (and some of the lab), in fact as far as I know to this day the school still thinks this was a problem with an over-pressured boiler that caused strange side effect, oddly localized to a lab and some burst radiators around the school. We did get quite a bit more of a result then we expected though. Turns out they close the school down in the middle of winter when the heating system fails. This was a very much unintended consequence because it meant I was stuck home with my mother for 2 weeks. I sure hope the statue of limitations has expired on this. PS: Holly crap, I checked out the website of my old high school some more, and the damn chemistry teacher is still here. Gah, I can't imagine the number of smart kids who ended up hating chemistry because of that woman.

I'm running Federals in mine. I run my remingtons in bolt or lever guns.

Really? when trying to a import a best guess at the format (which failed) EWS said that it would override the match attendees with the the ones from the file.

Does anyone have a sample of the online squadding file format for the import file? I'm trying to figure out if there is a quick way to load competitors into a EZwinscore match by generating a input file of some sort, and there already is this input method, but I can't find the file format anywhere.

Sure .. and trivial too .. oh wait ..

Oh no, it is not just in my head, its even worse, there are shots I struggle to make in practice that I can make in matches without thinking. It's odd, I admit, I think it has to do with letting myself see what I need to see and during match I worry about footing, 180, time, reloads, etc, and just trust my eyes, grip, and gun but in practice I force them. I dunno.

Yes, I've noticed that about myself as well, even with slowfire. If I setup a target at 15 yards and practice head shots I need to spend a lot more time aiming then when I do the same thing on the clock. I'm sure that means I'm doing something wrong, just not sure what.

You sound like you think I'm disapproving of your choice, I certainly don't. My point is that if you want to be the best USPSA or IDPA revolver shooter you can be, at some point your choice of handgun will limit how far you can go. You can certainly focus on being the best you can be with the tool of your choice but if you want to focus on being the best you can be at the game that is when the competition element become more important. At least the above is true is for me. As far as I'm concerned I'd welcome anyone who wants to shoot even if they prefer a Blackhawk. Hell, I'd place better if everyone used a Blackhawk

You are certainly right, you should always shoot your own game, but if I wonder if by straying to far from the pack you are also missing a part of the competition aspect.

I do the same flip trick and I point the headstamp towards me, because that I was I can weed out the oddball stuff that doesn't work well for me, like the federal non-toxic stuff.

When you get really used to the machine and it is setup just right, you can crank out 500 rounds but you are pushing it. Normally I load about 350-450 rounds in a hour and that includes refilling primer tubes (the manual way), restocking brass and bullets, etc. My record is 12 minutes for 100 rounds including getting primers ready and boxing the ammo, I was running late for a match, but if you push at that rate you will make mistakes.

Somewhere in the 4.0 range is good for a 124 in 9 minor. 3.5 ish is par for 147's. You might be right it has been a while since I've loaded 9, but I also think my CZ had a tight barrel as it has always chrono faster then it should have for the charge.

Double and triple check your charge weight, those cases in the background look overpressured (and so does your recoil report). Also 4.1 is a bit much for minor if I remember correctly, I think about 3.5 to 3.6 should do it. Be very careful of double charges, TG is a easy powder to screw up because of its very small charge, if you are not careful you can fit a quadruple charge in there.

I didn't know Frank well enough, but he was always the kind of person you depend on, always helpful and never with a bad word to say. I liked the man.

I'd think the best thing would be to stop talking to them or shoot their matches, but thats just me.

The iphone video thingy only handles things in apple formats. Picture attachments work fine. Moving data back and forth can be odd sometimes but there a few good and I free apps that fix that. Might as well wait a few months as a new version is supposed to come out in summer and likely a Verizon version as well. Using the iPhone as a replacement for cable to upload data to youtube will likely be very disappointing.

Nik is correct, and having shot a CZ for years that rule is kinda stupid, but it is the "law". Actually, I don't only think the rule is stupid I also think it is a bit dangerous because you are dropping the hammer on a firing pin that the firing pin safety disengaged, where manually decocking to half cock can be done safer, as you can let go of the trigger as soon as the hammer moves. On the other hand I think USPSA has enough rules (and divisions) aimed narrowly at one type of gun or another so I'll rather have this as a necessary evil instead of a rule book the size of a Websters Dictionary.