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    Replacing my Comp need recommendations

    in Open Pistols

    Posted · Edited by BSeevers

    I use the one piece barrel/comp from Brazos, with no popple holes. Works just fine. I think flat and soft is a little over rated. They are all pretty good but it becomes a "shades of white" difference as you decide which one and I did not see any important difference in holes to no holes so I don't have them on my current gun.

    Pick one, don't change anything and practice.

    Open gun no red dot

    in Open Pistols

    Posted

    Yea its weird how 20 years of inflation and raw material prices increase, but a Open gun is still $2500-3500 give or take a little. Relatively guns are a lot cheaper today. That's cause we now buy mass made parts instead of one off prototypes.

    As too shooting Open without a dot? Go for it. Show your manhood and do it in .45, no comp, no magwell, SS. :ph34r:

    WTB #6-48 Countersunk Mount Screws

    in Open Pistols

    Posted

    I only red locktite my scope screws and have so for many many years. Anything else loosens up. By the time you need to remove your scope(which should be like once or twice in its life) the locktite is broken down by oil and solvent that I just use a new wrench and careful firm torque to remove.

    Heat is not a good idea on a plastic part and of course fine on metal. I had to drill out a stripped screw once. You only need like 400 degrees to melt locktite so a brief hit with a propane/butane is fine. I have see somebody use a soldering iron with ok results.

    As to finding the size you need I have seen people up in size as mentioned, very successfully.

    Learning to call your shot?

    in Handgun Techniques

    Posted

    I think you can make M and not call your shots. Classifiers can be somewhat muscle memoried if that makes sense.

    I know you can't win consistantly or shoot at high levels in any class, without shot calling.

    Bill is right on the money. I'm living proof of the above quote. Without getting into too much here I looked at shooting differently than most. I worked on all the other skils sets first and when I felt I was a good around shooter I started working on accuracy which was last yr. I did pretty well doing it this way. I tried working on accuracy but I never really decided to make it a priority. All my range time had been spent practicing shooting on the move, position work and everything else except accuracy. Don't get me wrong, I was trying to shoot A's and did pretty good job most of the time. Then a stage will come up and noshoot-mike then a couple of stages later, mike-mike.

    Just like the above quote my point is that you can do well without calling your shots but at some point you must learn to call your shots. If you don't you'll be inconsistant. You will have a good match or stage then the next one you'll tank.

    Learn to call your shots

    Flyin

    Here is just my $.02. I think that in order to "call your shots" you have to have a precise sight picture and really focus on the front sight. Really notice how the front sight tracks; up and back down. If you are very focused on that front sight, you will "see" in a split second where the front sight was when the shot broke. What also helped me is by not really focusing on the rear sight. Only if I think the shot is pretty hard, I will then consider the rear sight in my sight picture.

    P.S. Sorry if I confused you. I don't explain these things to good. lol. :roflol:

    I have disagree wholeheartly. Shot calling is knowing where your shot impacts at that exact moment it breaks. Even if your sights are misaligned you call the shot. That's why you see a good shot caller makeup a miss in .15 second.

    Now you are doing a good thing. You are aiming on every shot which is the prelude to becoming a great shooter. There is more.

    The more is you can shoot faster with less of a precise focused sight picture if you are calling your shots. As you open your awareness you see more and shoot faster. Nothing personal just trying to help. I believe you are in a great position to make a leap forward. You are way ahead of the local SPEED demon. He's fast. You know him. Sometimes wins stages over the M's, might even be a M but "crashes and burns" so often it becomes a way of life. Oh that's another different problem but to the point he won't even listen, learn or much less change. He doesn't have accuracy as one of his skills.

    The issue that John talks about is if you are not calling your shot then you start to shoot faster but start to miss. Shot calling is a skill and needs to be developed, no shortcuts.

    Thanks Bill! :cheers: I appreciate all of the information you are giving me. The above bolded sentence is what my problem is. I need to learn to call my shots to be successful in the long term.

    P.S. Bill, what exactly do you mean by opening my awareness?

    Ok here we go. For most people they need to see "more" to have the ability to call your shots. Awareness is what this is. Its more than just seeing the sight. You need to be "aware" of more to shoot better. Don't take this literal but seeing is like reading the script of a movie and awareness is like watching/listening to the movie.

    Some of the simplest things are so hard to verbalize.

    To get the awareness you need to train yourself.

    powder and primer availability

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted · Edited by BSeevers

    Kim

    Run for the hills, hoard hoard hoard.

    I think all "stuff" with be short or restricted supply for a while. Its making it back but what happens is those who were shorted last year are buying everything they see before the "hoarding". See the cycle? When home supplies reach a certain level we start to see shelves at stores full.

    My beef is I am finding Feds at stores but they are $39-45 a thousand. If I don't buy em somebody else does. They pop up online for less(powder valley, midway, grafs, Others) but you gotta search every day and buy them right then. :angry2:

    Learning to call your shot?

    in Handgun Techniques

    Posted · Edited by BSeevers

    I think you can make M and not call your shots. Classifiers can be somewhat muscle memoried if that makes sense.

    I know you can't win consistantly or shoot at high levels in any class, without shot calling.

    Bill is right on the money. I'm living proof of the above quote. Without getting into too much here I looked at shooting differently than most. I worked on all the other skils sets first and when I felt I was a good around shooter I started working on accuracy which was last yr. I did pretty well doing it this way. I tried working on accuracy but I never really decided to make it a priority. All my range time had been spent practicing shooting on the move, position work and everything else except accuracy. Don't get me wrong, I was trying to shoot A's and did pretty good job most of the time. Then a stage will come up and noshoot-mike then a couple of stages later, mike-mike.

    Just like the above quote my point is that you can do well without calling your shots but at some point you must learn to call your shots. If you don't you'll be inconsistant. You will have a good match or stage then the next one you'll tank.

    Learn to call your shots

    Flyin

    Here is just my $.02. I think that in order to "call your shots" you have to have a precise sight picture and really focus on the front sight. Really notice how the front sight tracks; up and back down. If you are very focused on that front sight, you will "see" in a split second where the front sight was when the shot broke. What also helped me is by not really focusing on the rear sight. Only if I think the shot is pretty hard, I will then consider the rear sight in my sight picture.

    P.S. Sorry if I confused you. I don't explain these things to good. lol. :roflol:

    I have disagree wholeheartly. Shot calling is knowing where your shot impacts at that exact moment it breaks. Even if your sights are misaligned you call the shot. That's why you see a good shot caller makeup a miss in .15 second.

    Now you are doing a good thing. You are aiming on every shot which is the prelude to becoming a great shooter. There is more.

    The more is you can shoot faster with less of a precise focused sight picture if you are calling your shots. As you open your awareness you see more and shoot faster. Nothing personal just trying to help. I believe you are in a great position to make a leap forward. You are way ahead of the local SPEED demon. He's fast. You know him. Sometimes wins stages over the M's, might even be a M but "crashes and burns" so often it becomes a way of life. Oh that's another different problem but to the point he won't even listen, learn or much less change. He doesn't have accuracy as one of his skills.

    The issue that John talks about is if you are not calling your shot then you start to shoot faster but start to miss. Shot calling is a skill and needs to be developed, no shortcuts.

    Tragedy

    in Humor

    Posted

    Time to start hording, I mean stocking up for the upcoming drinking season. :cheers::cheers::cheers:

    I cant stand hoarding cause it makes me make extra early trips to stock up before the hoarders get there

    Which Uspsa rule?

    in USPSA/IPSC Rules

    Posted

    I can recall last yr at a C-ville match there where two swingers, probably close to the hardest swingers I have shot. They were about 20-25yds and they weren't available at the top or the bottom, only visible in the middle of the swing. Also there were 2 no shoots on the walls. So if you chased up at all you got no shoots or if you chased down you got no shoots. You pretty much had to take 1 shot per swing and had to fire as soon as you seen the target starting to show. I remember one guy shooting alot, something like 8 no shoot penalties between two swingers. Rough......but I liked it.

    Flyin

    I had forgotten about that stage. Gee thanks for digging that terrible memory back up.

    I liked it :devil:

    I never understood the two pen rule.

    Its like the teacher saying you missed 4 questions but Im only taking 2 off.

    Is this an athletic sport? Or, I like physical challenges.

    in Stage Comments or Questions

    Posted

    I don't mean any disrespect to anyone but... It seems that it is mostly the older younger and out of shape fit people who don't want the "run and gun" stages.

    I think that there are two reasons for that. 1. They aren't able to do physical skillful things as well...and this hurts there pride. 2. Keeping your high classification Winning matters too much.

    So if they can eliminate the "run and gun" skill part of the stages they have a better shot at scoring at the top. Again this is pride.

    My point to all of this is, is it your pride that wants to make it easier for yourself so you look better?

    That was fun. :)

    Cabin fever anybody? :cheers:

    35WLN...that response isn't pointed at you. Somebody else mentioned crossing out and replacing words from posts. Thought I'd give it a go to lighten the mood.

    Perfect

    Is this an athletic sport? Or, I like physical challenges.

    in Stage Comments or Questions

    Posted

    Funny thing is I see both sides arguing the same way and with the exact same but opposite belief system. I could go as far as change "I like physical" and replace it with "its about shooting" in almost every point made in this post.

    I like shooting challenges too and smile at 50 yard shots cause it usually means more stage points since most don't practice that. Although I usually hear the same complaining about a popper at 38 yrds as I do about a stage with a set of stairs.

    For those who say "start setting up stages" I personally have ran clubs by myself for years with 75+ shooters showing up. Oh and that was a different era where "combat" idiots would complain that I was taking too long to set it up and the match sucked. New to the sport, I held back a lot in those days. Feedback is generally never appreciated but it can lead to great performances. But today I freely will try to "educate" someone giving that kind of neg feedback while lounging under an umbrella.

    I don't mean to be personally attacking anyone/anything in this reply, I just know I have noticed a trend in MD's to set up less challenging and less physical stages.

    I could start a whole new thread on "Stages don't have enough shooting challenges" When was last time you shot head shots at 15 yds? I never see that.

    I agree that you don't need to set up jungle gyms and rope repelling to challenge shooters. I set up an indoor one bay match one time and smiled as I threw off 3 GM's n M's with my target presentation and positioning.

    Now you can definitly go too far either way. I no longer attend a local match cause they started to put fast jerking Partial Movers with No-shoots attached at 30 yards. It turns into luck shots at that point and more to my personal point of view, It's no fun. I also no longer attend another match cause its so dry and boring it seems like the same shot over and over. No physical challenges BUT no far shots, little movers, no good obstacles, Same target presentations, and again no Fun.

    38 Super to 9MM

    in Open Pistols

    Posted

    I would not run an insert even if if it was $0. Sounds like a part ready to loosen or break with the torture test we put a serious competition gun through.

    Yea you can shoot 9mm in a 38Super or 38SuperComp in a 38 Super but why would you? You can probably use your Glock mags and holster, heck try the CZ top end on it too.

    What is up with people running the wrong caliber ammo in a gun? Make it in 9mm if you want a 9mm. Just cause it works once or twice doesn't mean it couldn't be doing long term damage. You know a 9mm in a Super is jumping an extra 4 mm that it shouldn't. Oh and slamming into the throat probably "on the rise".

    Here's an analogy. Sure your can use a metric wrench on a standard bolt. You can probably take the bolt off without damage and be a pitstop hero. You will probably round it off eventually by doing this.

    Your chamber and headspace will probably "round off" too since its at 40,000 cups or psi and a bit of heat.

    The calibers are different sizes or "specs" so I prefer using the correct ammo, extractor, chamber, etc for my gun. I guess you could counter that if its close in spec then why not? Well sure tolerences for variation are there but I stand by the idea to use your correct stuff.

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