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RJH

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  1. They wouldn't be shooting at my match then, and shouldn't be shooting at any USPSA match, and shouldn't be shooting at any USPSA match
  2. Id probably start with Ben Stoeger books and kind of go from there. I took one of his books a long time ago did just a little the dry fire stuff in it and in no time at all I'd moved from B class to A class. Then I quit practicing and just hover around upper b lower a now I'm sure if I would have put more into it I would have gotten more out of it, another guy I know used the same book to get to m class, then he kind of quit practicing and hangs out in the high a low m class now Both of those examples show how it's not just getting the book or taking a class that matters it's what comes after that that will help you to improve The reason I suggest going with a couple of books and reloading gear instead of a class at this point is because you can buy the books for 20 or so dollars and see if you're actually going to commit to doing the dry fire routines and other practice. If you go to a class and spend $500 to $3,000 and come home and don't put in any work off of what you learned in that class you're not going to get any better. Me being the cheap guy I am I want to know that I'm going to put forth the effort before I spend that kind of money
  3. Buy a couple of dry fire books and movement books and a timer By press and a bunch of components Practice and dry firing and movement skills Take a class in about a year or next time there's one close to you so you don't have as much tied up in travel etc Even after you take the class, the dry fire books and press and components will be very useful However, if you're not going to dry fire and live fire practice no class or books or press is going to help you get better Good luck
  4. Dug around and found some of my old data. This is out of a 4 and 5/8 Ruger Blackhawk With 158 grain lead bullet and 16.7 grains of h110 I was getting about 1310 FPS With the same bullet and 17 grains of h110 I got 1365 FPS I'm not recommending these loads and load at your own risk. Just passing along velocity information
  5. It is pretty standard to have a place to unload your loaded firearm and by that I mean any of the random bays at the range. Most ranges you roll up and you ask for a place to unload your gun and they'll tell you go to the back one of the bays and get it unloaded. Some clubs might even ro to clear your gun. Once again, there is no reason to make this complicated.
  6. Going to be hard to ask range members to leave that are not shooting a match, and they're not in the match area. Best just to shoot your match and not worry about things outside of those parameters, unless they're actively pointing guns at you, then do whatever you feel you need to
  7. Velocity with h110 and a 357 will greatly depend on barrel length. I would probably stick with the more modern max load, but I would compare data across several books if possible. However, you would *probably* be fine with the older loading in the bigger frame 357s Don't load light loads with those powders,they should be max or very near max 110/296 is a great powder for heavy revolver loads , have fun
  8. Look up Ben Berry's podcast on YouTube. Lots of info there. He is a new board member
  9. I'm having the same experience. For a lot of shots I would rather have iron sights. Tight shots and distance shots the dot is nice though. And I like a red dot when shooting three gun because we shoot so many small plates. But for general USPSA I still actually prefer irons. After shooting a dot quite a bit last year, I'm going back to irons for a bunch of what I shoot this year. One of the matches I shoot has a lot of fairly close and fairly open targets generally, so a dot is not a huge advantage at that one. Won't be the most conducive for maximum performance switching back and forth, but I'm probably not winning the Cadillac anyway LOL
  10. Maybe I wasn't clear, the fun and challenging is the reason I like level 2 matches and like to go to them. Shooting in the rain is what I am not interested in and since I can't forecast the weather several months out it means I probably won't be shooting level 2 matches anymore. It is too big an investment for me to risk getting locked into shooting in crappy weather.
  11. Quite literally one of the main reasons I'm no longer very interested in shooting level 2 matches. While I wouldn't be worried about scoping out match diagrams before the match, as I would have already watched videos from last year's match to have an idea of what might be going on, I have decided shooting in the rain sucks. So yes I agree you do generally have to sign up way early if you wanted to a match, and that's the main reason that I don't. Anymore I have no interest in paying a considerable amount of money for match fees, hotels, ammo, take time off work, etc. to shoot in the rain. It's supposed to be fun along with challenging and shooting in the rain it's not fun LOL
  12. They did have an external extractor, and on those the slide was a different enough shape that standard 1911 kydex holsters didn't always work. I thought about buying one but saw enough iffy stuff about them that I decided to skip it
  13. They will know how they're doing if they start beating everyone else at their local match. If they start beating everyone at the local match, the next test would be to increase the percentage that they beat everyone by. Probably one of those locals made it to a major and if he shot 65% of the match winner and you always beat him by 20%, it might be fair to say that you might have placed 10 to 20% ahead of him in the major match. There by giving you an approximation of a major match finish and an approximation of how you would do against better competition. It would be as close as a classification system lol Wasting a bunch of time worrying about classifications seems silly when you can just apply direct math to people you actually shoot against. Here is a simple example. I don't shoot majors anymore, though one day I might. However there's a local guy that shoots quite a few majors. Me and him will trade wins against each other (not match wins) quite often. If I was really concerned, I could look at how he finishes at a major match and know that I would probably finish a few percent on either side of him. That's going to give me as good an estimate as a classification system that can be gamed, the targets put in the wrong place, has wonky hit factors from time to time, etc. All so somebody can win third B class out of five guys at a local So, y'all are still convincing me that the classification system is a waste of time and money. Edited to add: I have never seen anybody that really wanted to shoot a major that couldn't get around to shooting a major at some point. Back when I used to shoot them many times I was flat broke because I had to take me and my son. So we either saved up, shot an off day that had a cheaper rate, or worked the match. So I'm basically going to be calling BS on your point about somebody that just couldn't quite get it done but they really really wanted to
  14. If he only shoots locals, does he really care? I'll go with no. So if he really cares he's going to shoot level twos anyway and then he'll begin find out how good he is How important is a GM card really if the only people you are beating up is a bunch of midpack nobodies So, you're still convincing me that the classification system is useless. Until next time LOL
  15. Doesn't that just mean there were 219,211 people that shot? I mean some of those classifiers were mine and other than needing to be classified in a division in case I wanted to shoot a level two, they meant absolutely zero to me. They were simply submitted because I happened to be a member that shot a match, well several matches. It will be interesting to see how many casual members the new yearly rate drops, as I know there are a lot of people that don't shoot level two matches, and I think at some point they are going to start asking what they're getting for their money (unless they just really love the magazine ). Especially the ones that have been members for a long time and yet only shoot level ones and will probably never move up in classification anyway, because they haven't moved up in the last 10 years. At my local clubs that's about 70% of the people shooting. In other words they probably get a classifier just because that's what they did way back when they started and have since forgotten why they give USPSA money every year and just do it out of habit. And if we're going to go off of the 219, 000 some odd classifiers that were submitted, if that many people are submitting classifiers and really want them, it would stand a reason that they are happy with what they're getting, or else they wouldn't be submitting all of those classifiers. Unless they just happen to be like me, a guy who shoots some USPSA matches and is a member and so my classifiers are automatically uploaded whether I care about them or not The more y'all classification system updators talk, the more I'm convinced that the classification system is useless
  16. Why do that when it's been said (I think fairly correctly) that 90% of USPSA shooters only shoot at their local clubs. Kind of negates necessity of a classifier system
  17. The more I read of all of this the more I think USPSA should just use a Lewis class system, if anything, at majors and at locals not worry about classification at all. I can't believe the amount of worry this creates for some of y'all I mean damn, how many of y'all's local matches has enough b-class competitors in limited to justify worrying about this. Even in the bigger divisions by the time you break them down by class at a local, winning b class doesn't matter anyway. There was talk about how "competitors" do it earlier LOL, competitors are trying to win the match not their class and don't care about classification. (Crap, I guess that makes me a competitor. Unfortunately I'm a bad competitor because I almost never win the match ) And if the goal is for people to see their improvement, it would be much easier and much more realistic for that person to look at people in their local area and pick a guy and go "I'm going to start trying to beat that guy at every match". Then when that was done they could beat the next guy, till they're on top of the heap
  18. Agreed. I I'm not going to live my life on a bunch of what ifs and other erroneous stuff. I'm sure you can find a court case for dang near whatever if you look hard enough, but in general that's not going to be the issue. And I'm not going to hide in a hole over a .0001% chance of some oddball crap
  19. And a square deal will not do 223. I agree with the 550, though you are talking about doing quite a few rounds a month, just depend on how much time you want to spend behind the press
  20. That's interesting. If I remember right CHL stuff here is the same as driving while intoxicated. In other words you're fine to go have a beer with supper, but don't go to the bar (going to the bar with your gun is technically illegal here anyway)
  21. I never said I take my gun out of the holster. And I don't load or unload it in the parking lot. I'll leave it in the holster and just take my whole belt off and lay the gun in the holster in the car somewhere. So apparently I'm safe on all those range rules And as far as USPSA, I'm not going to DQ anybody who comes up to me and says hey I still have my loaded carry gun can I go unload it over here Mr range official. I'll say sure let's go get that thing unloaded. And then we will step into an adjacent Bay that is not being used, the competitor will unload and bag/holster his gun, and then I assume he will go get his other gun and put it on in the safe area. This is not that complicated
  22. Still trying to figure out who unloads their gun in the car. When I get to a match there's a decent chance of my gun still loaded and laying in the car when I go shoot. Then I just put it back on. Haven't shot nobody or been DQed for it yet
  23. I'm still trying to figure out why you unload your gun and leave it in the parking lot to go get a beer and a hamburger, that may be the most perplexing part of this thread
  24. Cop or not if he ask I would take him to a different bay and clear him, if it was joe blo with his carry gun i would do the same. Hell, I would be glad he asked to be cleared, least it shows some initiative. Crap happens and people sometimes run late.
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