ATLDave

So you're asking whether a few weeks ago someone else posted on having an inaccurate gun either manufactured by this maker or a totally different maker? I mean... I have no idea?

Are you suggesting a whole black-painted target as hard-cover? Prohibited by the rules: 4.1.4.1 Cover provided to hide all or a portion of a target will be considered hard cover. When possible, hard cover should not be simulated but constructed using impenetrable materials (see Rule 2.1.3). Whole cardboard targets must not be used solely as hard cover. There is no such thing as "hard cover perf" or "hard cover non-scoring border." The WHOLE THING is "non-scoring." 4.2.4 When the scoring area of a cardboard target is to be partially hidden, course designers must simulate hard cover in one of the following ways: 4.2.4.1 By actually hiding a portion of the target (see Rule 4.1.4.1). 4.2.4.2 By physically cutting targets to remove the portion deemed to be hidden by hard cover. Such targets must be fitted with a replacement non-scoring border, which must extend the full width of the cut scoring area (see Rule 4.2.2). 4.2.4.3 By painting or taping the portion of the target deemed to be hidden by hard cover a single and visibly contrasting color.

I'm not sure that's even permissible. Perfs are for scoring areas and no-shoots. There's no such thing as hard-cover perf. If it's painted black (or whatever color is designated), it's hard-cover.

It's easy to get the roll pin slightly bent in repeated take-down/re-assembly. It can be a very subtle bend, but it will contribute to binding.

For guns that are both full-sized semi-autos chambered in 9mm, those two guns are about as far apart as you could get.

Go look at the classifier diagrams. You will see many, many classifiers where the hardcover line does not coincide with any perf. There are many interesting hardcover targets where the hardcover line runs at a diagonal, or bisects the A-zone or C-zone horizontally. For example: https://uspsa.org/viewer//18-08.pdf Your preference for only having hardcover coincide with perfs is just that - a preference. Not a rule, nor even a typical practice among more sophisticated MD's.

That's an atypical experience. Poor accuracy is not a "known issue" with Tanfo's in general or the Match models in particular (just to the contrary, in fact). You may have an individual lemon. Any particular shape to the groups?

Hard cover routinely doesn't line up with scoring perfs. Scoring hardcover has nothing to do with perfs... it has to do with the painted or taped line. Perhaps I misunderstood the question.

Funnily enough, when I took a Stoeger class last year, he told me to stop using my legs so much to transition the gun on mid-distance transitions. His new book emphasizes driving the eyes (as others have pointed out) and then letting the gun come along without a lot of effort or tension. You may need to try both approaches and see which one produces results you like better.

I spent an hour this weekend whittling on the locking block for my DAA racer holster as I go from an old frame to a new frame. The new frame triggerguard is just a touch larger and was causing my well-seasoned holster to bind up when trying to put the gun in the holster. Nothing that you are likely to notice in-hand, just another of those little dimensional variations the Italians seem to sprinkle on their products as though it were parmesan.

Fair enough re: the vertical point.

It's analogous to a holster in the end-of-course sequence. You are correct, of course, that just because a PCC has a flag doesn't mean people want to see down the muzzle. Believe me, I'm one of the people that thinks USPSA did a less-than-stellar job in coming up with the rules integrating PCC into the game from a logical consistency standpoint.

Number of X sold to competitive shooters is a drop in the bucket for a manufacturer who is working on government-scale contracts. Tanfoglio isn't that kind of manufacturer. Glock is, S&W is, FN is, Colt is (was?). Tanfoglio is not. Sales to competitive shooters are not a drop in the bucket to them - that's why way more than half their SKU's are guns that are directed to very specific competition niches. It's pretty obvious that the competition market is very important to their business model.

The rule* is just trying to stay parallel to the handgun procedure. At the "hammer down" command, the shooter is being required to prove that the gun is empty... not with a visual inspection, but by dry-firing it. The flag is analogous to a holster - it's not a substitute for proving the gun is empty. You prove the gun is empty, then you holster or flag. *Well, the authors of the rule.

No mag disconnect. As you are now realizing, getting a little too aggressive with taking out either over or pre travel on the Tanfos will give you problems. They don't require a lot of either, but they definitely require a little.

Yeah, that's truly bizarre. In any event, "MOAR LOCKTITE" doesn't help unless the threads and hole are cleaned and degreased. Trust me.

This is key. I struggled for a long time with the sights on my Tanfo's until I realize that, for some reason, they had come with what appeared to be grease (reddish brown, thick goop) in the hole for the adjustment screw. By "struggled" I mean that I had to use a paint marker to put reference points on both the sight body and the head of the screw so that I could see if they moved relative to one another during a course of fire... and go re-adjust in the safety area. This was just a constant thing. Finally realized I had some kind of lubricant in there (plus lots of old loctite), cleaned it out, degreased it... solved.

The rear sight lowers? It's not-uncommon for the screw to back out, which results in the sight getting higher. If it's dropping, then it's tightening against the springs?? Do you have the spring(s) that keep upward tension on the sight in place?

The next instructional video I create/post will be my first one.

You need more overtravel than that. If it's "perfect" and just clears with no contact whatsoever then you still have too little overtravel... one little speck of gunk reducing the overtravel by an infinitesimal amount will put you in the land of a dead trigger during a match. (I've been down that road a couple of times.) I now like to be able to see a tiny sliver of darkness between the hammer step/sear interface when the trigger is pulled all the way to the rear and I manually move the hammer back and forth through the part of the travel where the sear release/reset should be occurring. You're not going to win any match because you got the last 0.1mm of overtravel out of the trigger, but you absolutely might lose it because you went 0.1mm too far.

CHA-LEE You didn't tell the shooters to do anything. If someone were going to sweep themselves because they are told their front fiber is breaking, they'd do it regardless of whether the RO is the person telling them or not. If someone is going to whip out their gun when someone tells them their gun is broken, they'll do it regardless of whether it's the RO or not. These were impulsive reactions to information, not obedience to commands. Let me ask you this: Were you surprised when the shooters did what they did? I bet you were, because neither of those actions was a reasonably forseeable reaction to being told "I think your front sight fiber is broken." I would concur with your view that it is better to get through the "range is clear" stage before providing information, but certainly after that point (and even before), those reactions belong to the shooter and the shooter alone.

As others have said, don't get too wrapped up in trying to pre-plan until you see the stages in person. The advice to let people know that you're shooting your first match is very important... It is likely that your squad will let you shoot last on most or all of the stages so that you have a chance to see other people's stage plans. USPSA is full of helpful people, and you should not have difficulty finding one or more people on your squad to help walk you through the stage planning process, explaining what they're trying to do/looking at, and all-out spoon-feeding you a workable stage plan. Try to avoid plans that require a lot of avoidable uprange movement (a common 180 trap for newer shooters, particularly if a reload is thrown in) or that require a lot of "memory" component (stand here, shoot every other target I can see, stand over here, shoot 2nd and 5th targets available, etc.). Some of that may be dictated to you by the stage, but don't bite off any more than is necessary to complete the course of fire. Another common suggestion for new shooters in production: register in limited minor for your first match and load up your mags. Learn how to basically navigate a course of fire safely before you throw in the whole reload-every-time-you-move complication of the capacity-constrained divisions. You want to make your first foray into the game as low-stress and simple as possible. One note based on the linked stage diagrams - looks like a few of them may involve tight quarters with you being forced to move the gun between you and walls that don't leave much space. Be super careful not to point the gun up or down past the 180 during those close movements; beware, too, of sweeping yourself. I've seen several new-ish shooters point their gun right at their own chin as they squeeze past a tight corner or wall (instant DQ, plus an extremely unsafe situation). Try to give yourself as much space as possible - even if it means stepping out and back into the fault lines - and maintain a very acute focus on muzzle control until you get into the firing position.

Oh, that is terrible. I never got to meet the man, much less take a class from him, but I found his interviews and videos of parts of his classes fascinating. He was clearly at the far right end of the bell curve in terms of thinking about all things practical shooting (and a number of other topics, too)... what a loss.

I have heard AA#2 called "the poor man's N320." Great stuff. Tiny, tiny, tiny spheres for granules... many powder dispensers will leak a little with this powder. It both meters and leaks like water!

Your training/knowledge allowed your brain to properly prioritize fear of an AD/ND above fear of contact with the ground. So it was fear that motivated you - fear educated by knowledge and experience.