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yeah, i switched out the tip. didn't seem to make a difference. I'll check out the videos that ben53 references. I probably won't load 45 again until next winter (unless I can't get any more SPP before then), but I'd like to get it straightened out. thanks for the thoughtful responses.

once a year I switch my 550 over to .45 acp. This problem is only happening with large primers. They seem to be spitting out the bottom of the primer tube at random intervals. It appears that the little white plastic thing that goes back and forth and supports the stack of primers is not going forward, although it works just fine with small primers. the more primers there are in the tube, the more often it happens, which makes sense because there is more weight pushing down on them. Any idea what things to check?

Seems like an interesting conversation in theory. in practice (working 5 or 6 nationals and another 6+ area matches and hundreds of locals), i've never yet seen a situation where i knew one of the shots was a shoot-through but I couldn't determine which one. But I'm also pretty diligent about examining and fixing any holes or disturbances in hard-cover. I have seen situations where RO's were less diligent where it couldn't be determined for sure that a hit passed through hardcover because the hardcover was not repaired, and there were multiple holes, and none of them lined up well enough to be certain where the bullet went. In those cases, if you can't prove the shot went through hardcover, I don't see how you can do anything else but score the hit. Really this discussion shouldn't be about reshoots, but about designing, building and maintaining a stage so that you can tell whether or not a shot has passed through hardcover, and to reduce the likelihood of it doing so.

As my dad used to say, everyone on earth knows something you don't. I've learned alot from discussing stage plans with complete noobs just because they are different people from me and sometimes pick up on things I miss. It's very easy to get into a rut of doing what you're comfortable doing instead of looking at different ways (even ones that seem dumb at first) and analyzing them.

^^ it only makes no sense to noobs who don't want to think about it or know about the history of these decisions. It makes pretty good sense to experienced competitors....

who the hell cares? If you're serious about shooting, buy a gun that fits the division you want to shoot. don't try to change all the rules to fit your favorite gun. I honestly don't care if you shoot 8 round 38 super major, but I think you'd be dumb to do so. I'm guessing the other 15 guys that still shoot singlestack would agree. having said that, I know some LE agencies carry 357 sig. it makes sense to me to let those folks shoot their duty guns in competition, but in all the years I've been working matches, I've picked up exactly zero 357 sig brass, so I'm not sure it's really a thing.

what about velcro jacket closures, and pockets? What about pulling velcro apart slightly, but not removing the belt. Seems like rather than teaching people to jump to conclusions and invade privacy, it might be a better idea to just put porta-potties near safe tables and ask people to not do stupid stuff, and then stop worrying about it.

wtf? someone told you to listen to portapotties for velcro? I don't know whether to lol or turn you in to child protective services....

around here we've been pretty much completely ignoring it and letting people make their own individual health decisions. I know dozens of people who've had covid, but none of them got it at the range, and none of the gave it to anyone at the range, so completely ignoring it seems to be the appropriate response. fwiw, no one ever seems to get a cold or flu from their shooting buddies at matches either. It just doesn't seem like the sort of environment where viruses are transmitted.

true story. our club actually reshoots if it is a uspsa match, but if it is an outlaw steel match, we just ignore it and drive on (and we state that in the shooters' meeting).

Lim10 is a division to shoot if the only guns you own are 1911's and the lim/lim10/open nats are in your backyard. I've also shot it once or twice at locals when I show up and all the stages are even more biased against SS than normal.

first things first.... don't stress. you're not going to learn to shoot M level splits overnight, but yah, you do need to be able to shoot faster than .5 second at 5 meters. I taught a little girl to get started in shooting a couple years ago, and I tried to make her journey a little shorter than mine. One of the drills we worked on was shooting multiple shots at close range (more than 2 anyway, usually 4-5 depending on the mag capacity). Oftentimes shooting only 2 shots (especially for a noob) is not helpful because you may never even see the sights on the 2nd shot. Heck, you might not see them on the first shot, because noobs (and experienced shooters) often blink on the first shot. But shooting 4 or 5 or 6 shots gets your mind used to it and if you concentrate on seeing what the sights are doing while you do that, you may find that after the first shot, you start to see more of what is happening. If you're not used to the idea of gripping hard with your weak hand, you'll need to think about it alot at first. However hard you are gripping, you need to grip alot harder. It is often not as much hand/forearm strength as it is habit. With my student she was at least used to holding onto a 2stroke motorcycle in national-level off-road racing, so she didn't struggle as much with grip as some. Really tho there's no way to fix your problem without repetition. You might want to ask someone good at your local matches to give you some grip advice, but people's hands are different and guns are different, so i'm not sure there is a 'correct' way to grip a gun.... but there are probably several wrong ways, lol. Anyway, I advise you to set aside a hundred rounds of ammo, and shoot it 5 rounds at a time, at a target 5 yards away (or maybe just into a dirt berm), and try to pay attention to your grip, and to what the sights are doing, and force yourself to pull the trigger uncomfortably fast. If you can get a good shooter to spend 10 mins helping you with this, it may make some of the concepts clearer. hopefully you can see the facebook vid of a little girl in her first CO match with a 320. https://www.facebook.com/tresa.worrell/videos/10219342389530324/

a 'heavy frame x5' costs less than $900. It's a decent gun for the money but it's still a loosely-fit crappy plastic gun, and hardly an 'equipment race'. Having some kind of fake 'carry' division will simply result in a few high-dollar race guns built to those specs, so the people who don't practice will still make excuses. A more sensible approach would be for those people to get a race gun similar to what they carry and recognize that racing and concealed carry are different, but slightly overlapping things. If you carry a glock, race with a racy glock. If you carry a p365, race an x5 legion. I carry a P01, so I race a shadow 2 at the moment, and still shoot the P01 at the occasional IDPA or outlaw defensive match.

yeah, if it's not driving distance, it doesn't really matter how far it is, it just matters if the range is good and the airports are convenient and the surrounding area has an inexpensive and delicious taco place and mexican grocery store.

little girls can shoot fast splits, so yes, I think you can probably do it. However if you want to get good at shooting, you might be better off focusing on hitting stuff, and making quick transitions, etc.... don't get too carried away with splits because they are the least important thing. It's MUCH more important to shoot 2 aimed shots quickly at a 10-15 yard partial than to be able to double-tap a close target super fast.

depends on what you're doing. if you're a dude, it's easy to pee without taking off your belt. Most dudes do that. if you are a chick, or a dude who is not peeing, it gets more complicated. it is certainly possible to undo your belt and pull your pants down while leaving it attached to your pants and sit down and do your biz, but it makes more sense to me just stop by the safe table, bag the gun, and do my biz. I don't want to leave my gun unattended, and I don't want to drop my gun in a pool of blue poo goo, but maybe I am just being a pansy about the whole thing.

thanks for the quick replies. I'll take out the FCU and make sure everything is kosher. It's plausible i messed something up when put the trigger in and left the lever with too little downward spring tension, so that only a tiny nudge would activate it. If that fails, I'll just dremel the activator off and call it good.

ha, I wonder if they still have primers up there. Over the summer a buddy traveled to wyoming for work and sportsman's warehouse there had primers on the shelf.

We pre-paid ours at our LGS (Hawktech arms in meridian, ID, a top-notch shop and big-time supporter of shooting sports). We waited 6-8 weeks but we got the next one that came in.

Anyone ever experienced a premature slide lock in a p320 x5 legion? We've only had the gun 6 weeks or so, but It's happened to mrs moto twice now in practice. on inspection, the stock followers definitely contact the slide lock with 1 round left, but pretty lightly. Looking at her grip, it doesn't appear there is any way her hand could be contacting it on either side. We're using it for CO, so don't really GAF if it locks anyway. Just wondering if this is a thing before I take a dremel to the slide lock.

I would suggest practicing shooting targets like that in live fire. make sure you are tracking the dot and shooting 2 aimed shots, not just one sight picture and pulling the trigger twice.

makes sense. All the real badasses are shooting seniorstack..... (like me, btw..... ) I'm also guessing the people who have already registered are either darned good (earned slots from their area match), or are decrepit RO staff like myself that are shooting ss/revo.

At A1 you could use the side berm, we just chose not to as shooters, since it's easier and simpler to unbag at the start. I *believe* it was the same at worlds, but don't quote me on that. I don't really recall seeing people unbag at a side berm there, but I wasn't really paying that much attention.

easiest and safest is to simply have a table or 2 barrels next to the shooting box and bag any guns that need to be bagged right there. As an RO and club BOD member, I like that because we don't have people wandering around with uncased guns, even if it's a short wander from the shooting box to the side berm or uncasing area. As a shooter I like this because it's simple. The whole uncasing against the berm concept makes some sense in USPSA, where you can't always have a convenient table at the make ready position, and where you normally end in a completely different spot than where you started, but in steel challenge I think it complicates things unnecessarily to case/uncase anywhere except standing in the shooting box. as shooters, we prefer to uncase at the start and we did so for all the big matches last year, including area matches and worlds.

bad idea. most classifiers are dumb and boring, and some of them take 20-24 rounds anyway. how about just making real stages with slightly fewer rounds? As the new 2020 classifiers show, you can have a very interesting stage with just 12 rounds.