mjmagee67

Straight to open....

At the beginning of December I was looking for some .40 caliber hole punchers and was checking the usual go to's. I found the Acme undated their stock daily and they limit orders to 1K. I also found a small outfit out of Texas called Cimarron Bullets, on a whim I placed an order for 1K. They arrived in a week and were just good looking coated bullets. The coating was uniform and cured properly, the weighs were consistent, the diameters were spot on, and the shot just fine. I will be placing orders with them in the future. I like to spread my money around and I've never had an issue with coated bullets from any vendor. They all worked fine for USPSA stuff.

Bullseye your one stop shop for .38Spl powder....Cheap, works with all bullet weights, can load bunny fart to +P, and usually easy to find....

Umm you just supported my point. It seems the ergonomics of the 2011 work better for you. I never said anything about hand size, just maybe the 2011 fits your hand better allowing you to control the recoil better.

My bet is it's ergonomics. The STI fits your hand better or you are just use to the grip or a combo of the two. There s lot to be said about your grip and controlling recoil.

I use Cajun CZ trigger return springs, 20,000+ rounds later still haven't broke one on my Stock II. I use PD hammer & main springs and a Henning plunger spring.

But I'm a lowly USPSA shooter

That's very gun dependent. But, I have yet to find a bullet that didn't have acceptable accuracy at 25 to 30 yards. I did find that plated bullets regularly had the largest groups. As with all things YMMV.

I've used both in 9mm & .40SW and haven't noticed any difference in loading, reliability, accuracy, SD, and/or PF. I use them interchangeably. Personally I think they are snake oil, but at one time Match Primers were all I could find, so I bought a butt ton or them.

Where were the rest of the people at match? Someone there should have had an IQ above refrigerator temp. If I had witnessed that I would have instantly called BS. As a shooter and RO I'm not ever going to let another RO make a BS call without voicing my opinion. I would have to rule book out and be asking for clarification. Bad calls affect ALL of us equally.

Mobil 1 5W20 is my go to....Typically have some leftover from change the oil in my Wife's Tahoe...Been running it for years on every gun I own....Shotguns, ARs, pistols, bolt guns, lever guns, .......All that other gun oil is just over priced snake oil..... The gun industry just doesn't sell enough oil to make it's own...they steal from other industries...

That is my exact load...same bullet, same OAL....I use Fed or Win SPP..

Is it available in the wild?

Simple answer...YES.

I have no issues with the value of USPSA. Everytime I shoot a match I giggle at the cheap fun it is..... As far as Practiscore goes. It's really a fantastic tool. I'd definitely but the maker a beer or two and a steak if he wanted. I hope he gets enough compensation for it. BUT if Practiscore pulled the trigger, I'd be fine with paper and an Excell spread sheet. I wouldn't want to but I would.

In my 51 years on this planet I have come to the conclusion that it takes less energy and time to do a job correctly than doing a job halfassed. Load your test rounds do a plunk test. Find the longest round that will plunk and spin. Then subtract .008 inch and your done. Quite literally it's only 5 minutes worth of work. That's a crap ton less work than loading a few 100 rounds driving to the range to find out they don't work correctly, driving back home and tearing the bad rounds apart. Then reloading another few 100 and maybe repeating the process..... Just a thought.

Yep looks right to me too. If I had a dollar for every round I have reloaded that looks like that I'd have 35,000 dollars sitting around...……..

So here is my reloading data from the last several years. All using VV N320 and coated bullets. The bullets were manufactured by either Leather Head/Gallant or Acme. I've found that Leather Head/Gallant and Acme are pretty much interchangeable, I believe they use the same molds. All loads where using mixed brass and Federal SPP (either match or standard). 124gr 3.8gr N320 COL 1.115ish, Av Vel 1046, SD 12.4, PF 130.8 135gr 3.5gr N320 COL 1.115ish, Av Vel 988.9, SD 9.1, PF 132.5 147gr 3.4gr N320 COL 1.120ish, Av Vel 892, SD 9.6, PF 131.1 I have found in my guns that the 124gr and 135gr shoot the same as far as group size at 25 years the 147 seem to open up a bit. All three will hold an A-zone pretty easily at 25 yards if I do my part. I went with the 135gr, they are a happy medium...….. On a side note everyone of these loads has been chrono'ed at LII or LIII matches and they reinforced my data..... As with all things in life YMMV......good luck.

It really depends on your gun. If I shot a Glock I would never use 10 round Glock mags. getting that last round in the mag is a pain. I shoot Tanfo's and came from CZ's on both those brands the 10 round mags are really easy to load. So I use 10 round mags for matches. I have different color base pads on them. In practice I use my 17 round'ers. It just simplifies things. The 10 round'ers are match only so they don't get used as much and I can't over load them. I have been known to use a 17 round mag with 11 in it for the start, but that is stage dependent. On most stages you just don't need that 11th round. If my opening position is 3 to 4 paper targets I see no reason for 11 rounds. Now if I open up on 5 steels and 2 paper targets, I would probably Barney up....

Why don't you just stay in your class and leave the others alone. I have never understood why people whine constantly about other classes they don't shoot. It's like they are hurt by the other classes.

Touche.......

The side of the wall is both the wall and the support for the wall........

Works great on my Android phone. It has some very cool features. I like the Classifier Calculator and the fact the rules and classifier set-ups and WSB are right there.

I'm thinkin small frame v large frame.....but every single time I think I get in trouble with the wife.

Several years ago I would be inclined to agree with you, when scoring was paper based. BUT now with computer based match scoring (Practiscore) it's a non-issue. Once programed in to the software it is just a drop down menu and the computer/software does the rest.