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I only have 1 experience with their custom shop guns (which are made in a different location, as I'm sure you know), and no experience with their normal production guns. Although I picked up a cert for an SR1911 off the prize table, so I do have one on the way.

nose-diving rounds where the round sticks at the way bottom of the feed ramp because it came up low and slow.

I would advise you to stop carrying about class awards. focus on learning to shoot more better gooder.

i must be doing it wrong. I have literally never replaced springs in a 22 mag, and never done any tuning on the mags, and we have a ruger, 2 vq's and a buckmark that will happily run 500-1000 rounds without a hiccup with a variety of ammo. Up til this year tho, we only shot every week.

wait, wut? that's your idea of good luck? I'm willing to accept a malfunction every 500-1000 rds. Any more than that is a problem that needs to be fixed. We had zero malfs at worlds out of 2 shooters and 9 guns (1800+ rounds), and none since then in practice or local matches either.

i don't think they've been out that long. I saw 4-5 at SS nationals. Other than randy rogers in 19th and me in 35th I don't know how anyone else did shooting them.

it's pretty much the assumption of *any* thread asking what gun I should buy. All I did was report my experience with the 2 guns in question.

Are you finding weaker ammo causing problems? or something else? what kind of problems? we've had pretty good success with Tresa's 10-22 once we replaced the bolt (her stock ruger bolt was out of spec and the extractor sat too far from the breech face), and used a lighter recoil spring. It still doesn't like feeding hollowpoints due to the shorter OAL (they miss the barrel and slide up), but it's been 100% with blazer and aguila roundnose bullets.

that's why I always choose a start position for pcc that prevents that. Muzzle touching mark, french start (held overhead with straigh arms), pick it from a table, something like that. Also helpful to put a banner or hardcover cardboard above ports and at corners so people cant aim through the mesh.

Appears to be turning on the dot of a pcc (i.e. 'gun handling') when not in a safe area or under the direct supervision of RO. Kind of a silly rule imho, but still a rule.

now you hurt my feelings, since our pcc's have c-mores. Luckily we don't shoot them at uspsa matches. (whew!)

I thought the context of my comment was pretty clear, but apparently people are confused. In responding to this: I posted that I don't think the RO who is running shooters is generally going to be paying attention to, or distracted by what is going on in the pcc unbagging area. I certainly never said rules should not be enforced, but as an RO running shooters, I am not going to be paying any significant attention to the pcc unbagging area.We can hire another guy for that.

the rules say an RO running shooters should also be paying careful attention to the pcc unbagging area? Hmmm. Perhaps my post was unclear.

that is absolutely true, but if I'm running shooters, I'm not going to be carefully watching the pcc unbagging process, so my point was that it shouldn't be distracting to an RO.

Hmm. I've worked alot of area matches and nationals, and I can't say I've ever paid very much attention to what people were doing in safe areas or pcc unbagging areas, especially not while running shooters. Can't say I've seen other RO's doing so much either. As long as you've got the gun pointed at the berm, I'm not too worried about constant surveillance to catch any slip-ups.

it is helpful to use most any electronic ear pro. It is even more helpful to call your shots without sound, and use your vision to decide whether to move on to the next plate.

wondering if someone violated troy's first rule.....

meh, this is fun to split hairs about on the internet, but in real life it's pretty easy to tell the difference between someone who is engaging targets and someone who is happily moving somewhere when his gun unexpectedly goes off. If he was engaging targets, then procedural. if he AD'd while moving, DQ.

3 years ago EVERY classifier at nats had weak hand. or at least that’s how it seemed if you listen to the whining whiners wine.

are you not ro certified? literally every serious shooter here is certified. im trying to think of an exception, but i can’t. for anyone that doesn’t like the way your local matches are run, get off your ass and be the solution.

o ring squeezes into the slot where the hammer contacts the firing fin. if you get the right size o-ring, you have to compress it slightly to get it to fit, so it stays where it belongs. another advantage to o-ring, you'll never forget a snap-cap in the gun and go to a match and get dq'd for it. You *might* forget an o-ring in the gun and have nothing happen when the buzzer goes off, but I always drop the hammer on a sight picture at make ready, so I think I would notice now.

2 separate points to address here. First, the time to be looking at targets is *while* you are shooting them, not afterwards. Probably the single most important thing you can do to get better is to learn to see where the sights are as the gun fires, so you know approximately where the shot hit (calling your shots). This requires not blinking, which takes a while to learn, and it also requires paying attention, which also takes a while to learn. You also need to see the sights for BOTH shots on a paper target, otherwise you are just guessing. Guessing works pretty well out to 5-7 yards, but then it starts getting pretty unreliable after that. You will save yourself alot of frustration if you learn to call every shot. second, regarding both eyes open, in general it is better to have both eyes open. it is also generally better to see the sights even on close targets. It doesn't take any longer to see them, and you may not need to really *aim* at close targets, but it still a pretty darned good idea to see the sights on every shot. Some people adapt very quickly to shooting with both eyes open. It seems to me like these are people with a strongly dominant eye. I do not have a strongly dominant eye, so I have never been able to shoot at any kind of speed with both eyes open and iron sights until I learned the trick from a badazz gm of putting a little half-inch square of scotch tape on my glasses to keep my non dominant eye from seeing the sight/target, but allowing it to see everything else (like the next target, the magwell, where my feet are going, etc...). Some very high-level shooters just close one eye or squint when shooting. You'll have to figure out what works for you, but I would advise at least trying to shoot with both eyes open and see what happens.

there is some truth to that. I get frustrated with the stages (other than the ones I build, lol) at local matches, but I only shoot SS locally when I have a major match in SS coming up, so I just suck it up and figure it's good practice to have an empty gun start at 3 arrays of 8 mini-poppers.

reloads are vital. not just reloading, but reloading and getting to the shooting as quickly as possible. I break the reload down into 2 steps (based on steve anderson's 'pause and effect'. First stap is aggressively get the mag out of the pouch and lined up with the magwell, basically a burkett reload. second step is in one smooth motion to insert the mag, rebuild the grip and present the gun to the available targets. You sometimes have to reload with very little space between positions, so every tenth until you start shooting again is just wasted time. Here's an example from a recent major match. There were ways to shoot the stage with fewer reloads, but they all seemed awkward and involved too much hunting/pecking and wide transitions, so I opted to do the extra reload but try to do it quickly. Also figured I was already losing time, so I might as well get decent points. It's super easy to drop charlies and deltas on the ipsc targets. I still ended up with 3C and 1D, but 27A, so I guess I'll take it.

I'm serious about SS and I used to think that. Then I decided to just man up and shoot major and learn to reload hella fast and stop making excuses. I've had more success with that approach. It's worth noting however that my thoughts on the topic changed as my skill level improved. IMHO the better you are, the less reason there is to shoot minor (assuming you have normal hand strength).