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  1. Cliff - thx! I'll pull out the manual & see if I can get it lined up Appreciate the kind words on the banners! It was/is the single most important training tool to enable the success' I achieved ... HesedTech - I;ll check out that tread as well, thx!
  2. so the power was definitely those gray flat disks - didn't see any yellow makers but I didn't look that close. So thinking back 2 years ago I was shooting with Ben Stoeger and the morning of the 2nd day I loaded up my mags and the first round I fired ended up cracking the slide of my STI Steelmaster. at the time we just thought I somehow had double charged a load but with WST that would have been really had to do ... I'm now thinking that I had grabbed this box of loaded 700X rds and that was the first rd fired ... This is all starting to make sense now which means I DEFINITELY do not want to shoot these rds ... appreciate everyone's help in getting to the bottom of this - at least I didn't load 2000 rds with 700X ...
  3. well I pulled a few more and they were all 5.5g with 147g bullets ... looks like I'm just going to pull them all and reload with WST ...
  4. I'm going to pull a few more bullets to see what's up. I'm sure its 700x and the one bullet I pulled weighed 146.8 grains. OAL is 1.15 since I have WST now I may just pull them all to be safe & reload the cases with WST which is what I've been using forever and have good load data ...
  5. I'm trying to get my reloading back up and running and I'm having a problem with the cases not being centered on station 2 and therefore on the up stroke I can't seat the primer. It looks like the rotation plate does not center the case correctly over the primer so that will get inserted straight what should I be looking at to adjust to fix this? thx!
  6. Hi all I'm starting up reloading after a long break and found a box of 225 rds of 9mm that I reloaded a while back when I couldn't get any WST. the box says 700x. I pulled one rd and it was a 147 grain bullet w/5.4g of 700X. I looked in my reloading database and the only thing I have is data for 115g/3.6 g of 700X for a PF of 106 (an old steel challenge load). For a 147g bullet 5.4g of 700x does not seem right to get around 130 PF .... so anyone have any 9mm load data for 700x with 115g/124g/147g bullets? If my load data for the 115g is correct I don't think I want to try and shoot the 147g/5.4g reloads?
  7. I’m in the process of replicating a prop from a sci-fi TV series - Fire Fly. For those familiar with the show the prop was Jane Cobb’s Callahan Full Bore Auto Lock rifle. The prop master and gun smith who built it used the receiver of a Saiga 12 gauge to build the gun around. I am in the process of 3D modeling all the various parts of the gun but what I’m lacking are some good high definition photos of the Saiga’s receiver. if anyone who owns a Saiga would be willing to take a couple of close up photos of their receiver (left side, right side, front, back, top) I would be eternally grateful! Basic dimensions of the receiver would be a huge help as well. I’ve attached a pic of the actual prop for those who may be curious …. And thx in advance!
  8. Hey everyone! we're running a Black Friday sale again this year. 10% off our complete 8-stage banner bundle + FREE shipping Sale runs through midnight Sunday, code is: 10OFF8 we also have over 40 USPSA training banners patterned after many Stoeger drills & 15 official classifer stages of course you can always hit me up for any Steel Challenge questions which I'll answer & discuss on my weekly podcast as well
  9. ignore the Comp as I took it off years ago - they do absolutely nothing on a rimfire gun except look cool & their negatives far outweigh the 'cool' factor ...
  10. I recently saw a YouTube Channel video review of the new rules which stated that it was now legal to use IWB holsters but didn't see any specific reference to it in the rules updates. Did I just miss it or are they specifically not allowed. Please cite the actual rule if you know it, thx!
  11. just had a cancellation so we now have one spot open in the Fundamentals class on 24/25 April 2021 at the Port Malabar Rifle & Pistol Club in Malabar, FL. see Ben's website for details & email me if interested ..... $375 Ken
  12. as many of you know, last spring I cracked the slide on my STI SteelMaster while training with Ben Stoeger. I spent a few months unsuccessfully trying to source a new slide and after a while thought I might just have a $3,500 paperweight. Finally decided to contact STI (now Staccato Guns) looking to see if they knew where I could find a slide. To my surprise they said I should fill out a warranty claim instead which I did. a couple of days later I got a notice that I should send in my gun for warranty repair -- nice! after about 5 weeks I called to check on the status and was referred to Ricky in their warranty department. He told me that he'd been unable to locate a Steel Master slide and that they had stopped manufacturing them last Dec. he even asked his head machinists what would it take to mill a new slide & was told "a new machine shop ...". he told me he had several slides that would work but they were for 9mm major and the gun would not run reliably with minor so that was out. he then said to give him another week or so to see if he could come up with something. during that time I was prepared to tell him to just convert it to 9 major and I'd try to sell the gun to recover something out of it. just as I was getting ready to call him he calls me and says he's found a slide that will work & is sending to their machine shop to be milled & fitted! Roll forward 2 months & my SteelMaster just arrived in the mail today sporting its new top end. this top end can hold a slide racker which they also installed at no charge. also, because the profile is different, there is a brand new Comp on it as well - also no charge. Bottom line: when you buy a high end gun you pay more but you also get more - they stand behind their guns - period. attached are what the the gun used to look like (top pic) & with the new slide & Comp (bottom pic) (didn't bother setting up my studio to take a glamour shot like the original one ... lol)
  13. thx guys for recommending my podcast!
  14. There's no perfect place for this but I'll post it here & in the 'other shooting sports' sub forum so if it gets any traction the mods can combine them .... So, we have multiple , individual action shooting sports: USPSA, IDPA, Steel Challenge, Bianchi Cup, 3-gun. they are all different in some respect, have theiur loyal followers & detractors but the one thing they do all have in common is that they are 'Action Shooting' sports -- to excel at any of them you must master the ability to shoot accurately at speed. Given this, I think a great way to grow all the sports would be to have a combined world action shooting championship. while there would be zillion ways to do this the basic concept would be something like say a week long competition where competitors would shoot stages from all the individual sports and then devise some sort of scoring system to normalize between them and at the end you would crown a Combined Action Shooting World Champion. I think this would be an interesting way to grow all the sports and drive more interest and could help quell some of the never ending debate about which is 'better' .... obviously there are a million things to work out to do something like this and if you could ever generate sponsor interest so that there could be actual prize money like professional bass fishing, professional beach volleyball, professional bowling, etc where the top pros actually make healthy livings, that would go a long way. So what do folks think? please don't just comment on why it won't work as there are always solutions to roadblocks if there is enough interest but try providing constructive comments on what it might do or not do for competitive shooting is really the goal. if you think its a bad idea don't just say so because it would be hard to do, tell why you think competitors & others would not be interested .... so let's here what you have to say ...
  15. There's no perfect place for this but I'll post it here & in the 'other shooting sports' sub forum so if it gets any traction the mods can combine them .... So, we have multiple , individual action shooting sports: USPSA, IDPA, Steel Challenge, Bianchi Cup, 3-gun. they are all different in some respect, have theiur loyal followers & detractors but the one thing they do all have in common is that they are 'Action Shooting' sports -- to excel at any of them you must master the ability to shoot accurately at speed. Given this, I think a great way to grow all the sports would be to have a combined world action shooting championship. while there would be zillion ways to do this the basic concept would be something like say a week long competition where competitors would shoot stages from all the individual sports and then devise some sort of scoring system to normalize between them and at the end you would crown a Combined Action Shooting World Champion. I think this would be an interesting way to grow all the sports and drive more interest and could help quell some of the never ending debate about which is 'better' .... obviously there are a million things to work out to do something like this and if you could ever generate sponsor interest so that there could be actual prize money like professional bass fishing, professional beach volleyball, professional bowling, etc where the top pros actually make healthy livings, that would go a long way. So what do folks think? please don't just comment on why it won't work as there are always solutions to roadblocks if there is enough interest but try providing constructive comments on what it might do or not do for competitive shooting is really the goal. if you think its a bad idea don't just say so because it would be hard to do, tell why you think competitors & others would not be interested .... so let's here what you have to say ...
  16. I don’t mind you saying you disagree with me, but please get your facts straight when you make claims about ME personally ... thank-you.
  17. Speed comes from being relaxed as tense muscles cannot move as fast as when they are relaxed. If you have tension in your shoulders the only way to go fast is to muscle the gun which is not good. remember, you shoot with your hands and you must learn to crush the gun with your hands and relax everything else. also, are you looking at your first target with the gun pointed at the start flag or are you looking at the start flag through your sights? if the latter, that is a major reason for your 'slowness' because at the start signal your brain doesn't know where you want to end up (you're not looking at your intended target) and therefore your subconscious doesn't know when to stop the gun until your eyes do finally get to the target. after sighting on teh start flag & gripping the gun correctly you need to be looking at your first plate while waiting for the timer to go off
  18. your thinking is backwards ... faster times are MUCH harder to achieve than slower times. look at RFPO as compared to open, then pick up a rimfire gun and try to make those times. that being said, if you are a true GM in one division, with a little bit of work you should be able to make GM in others
  19. what gun you shoot it irrelevant to your competition strategy (ie - stage shooting order). The items you mention as rationale for using different shoot order are easily over come with training. you don't need to change shooting order, you need to up your training
  20. yep, Hunters Gold. They are photocromatic and change with conditions. no more changing glasses as conditions change
  21. when it comes to selecting a competition firearm there is only one feature that is mandatory, a couple that are very important and the rest are just personal preference. The gun must be 100% reliable. Even one hiccup out of 200 is unacceptable ( without m/u shots you only need 195 rds for a match) Important things are that the gun fit your hands correctly so that your trigger finger fits correctly on the trigger. I bought a $350 Browning Buckmark when i decided to shoot SC full-time and replaced the barrel & grips with TacSol parts, added a C-more and never looked back. Why? Because the gun just works. it eats anything and after over 125,000 rds its still going strong. Oh and ditch the commentator. they do nothing in a rimfire gun (ok, they may look cool) and can cause issues. It won't repeat all the testing i did to reach that conclusion but you can listen to my podcasts from last year or search posts here
  22. gun is now running without issue ... I'll look into those open gas plugs in the mean time, thx!
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