motosapiens

my wife talked to the open gms around here and insisted in 38sc for her open gun. to her credit, she does help pick up brass and works a couple majors every year where we scavenge hordes of brass. so far we have never had to buy brass.

i don’t mind a few flakes here and there, but this particular batch was unusual. 5-8% of the bullets were completely filled with what appeared to be dried polishing compound and media flakes. i had quite a pile of refuse when i. was done cleaning. I wrote to the mfr about about it and it looks they are going to replace the remaining 1800 bullets. fwiw we have sot 8-10k of these same bullets previously without issues, so this appears to just be a bad batch.

of course you believe that, which doesn’t bother me.

you are free to believe that you know what the rulebook says, but thats just like your interpretation, man… it is pretty obvious that intelligent people can read the same words and come to different conclusions about what they mean. thats why we have a supreme court, and dnroi, and arbitration. there are a lot of gray areas.

and your gun will probably last longer and work better. seems dumb to me to spend 5-10g on a gun and then use cheap crappy mismatched overpressured 9mm brass.

meh. “correct” is whatever troy or jody say it is. either alot of people misunderstood what they were saying before, or they are saying something slightly different now. i don’t care too much either way, but im happy to remind people that its a loaded start if they forget.

got the springs ordered, but further inspection and troubleshooting suggests a possibly different cause. it turns out what i thought were metal shavings might actually be polishing media. we got a batch of jhps that have a significant amount of polishing compound and media clogging up the hollows. not entirely sure how that stuff is making it into the frame, but after shooting sunday and field stripping the gun, thats what it looks like. so i spent an hour or so cleaning out the hollows on the rest of those bullets, which was even less enjoyable than it sounds.

my solution to this problem has always been to just grind the slide stop down so it will never activate, period.

ive been a competitive athlete my whole life. running, cycling, xc skiing, enduro, and now hockey. currently in the summer i typically pedal 3-5 hrs a week, and spend a day on the moto riding backwoods trails. in the winter i spend a similar amount of time on the ice, with some xc skiing as well. i have always been in better shape than almost everyone my age, but it still wears me out to build a stage, shoot/ro/reset 6 stages and tear down. part of it is also the mental fatigue of planning and visualizing each stage. if someone is not tired at the end of a local match, i wonder if that person is actually doing their share. for sure its not as tiring as cycling the leadville100, or terrible two double century (which i have done), but its still a lot of work if you are doing your share.

^this. i don’t get tired from running 20 yards, i get tired from carrying walls and nailing fault lines, then resetting steel all day, then pulling up all. the spikes and carrying props back to the shed.

if i lived where the op lives and had enough cash to consider spending 3k on a class, i would probably arrange to spend 8hrs with steve anderson at his range in ohio (i prefer driving over flying)and then do it again in a year. i have taken classes from ben when i was first starting out, and then later from tim herron and charlie perez (cha-lee, who posted in this thread). all were very helpful, but the smaller the class is the better it is imho. trying to learn stuff with 10 other shooters is annoying.

correct.this is one of. the main attractions for me over other shooting sports. if some people hate that, they can do steel challenge or some other standstill sport.

what constitutes a physical stage? I have done plenty of stages at nationals that require 20 or 30 total yards of running, but that doesn’t really seem all that physical to me.

I think most of the complaining is from the same two or three people that don’t even shoot anymore. I think most of the matches I do are pretty well, balanced, and have enough physicality, but I suspect it is more than some other parts of the country. The bottom line is that after set up, then six stages with reset and then tear down. I am usually pretty darn tired at the end of the day.