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GoinHot

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  1. Shooters Connection Tournament Series​ is just the best I've seen. The Pro is a bit larger if you want to carry a lot and the Ultra is smaller but still larger than most bags on the market. I have the Pro and at most matches I pull the inner out and just carry that. Works great, you will not be disappointed!
  2. Interesting comments from everyone. I hope this has shed some light on the subject for Haraise. Of course everyone is encouraged to weigh in with their thoughts but at the end of the day, one of the people on this topic is the one I would listen to closest. Any time you see some thing from kurtm read it a couple of times. Then write some of it down. Kurt Miller has been there, done that on any thing you can think of with a shotgun. It is really cool that we can have someone like Kurt take the time to help us out. I'm not discounting what Mike Cyrwus from Accurate Iron says at all and having him build your M2 would be fantastic. Having him commenting here is also awesome. Between Kurt and Mike you are covered. I just want to say thank you to these guys for passing along a life time of knowledge. If you are not familiar with who these guys are do a little checking, I think you will understand why I say when they speak listen up.
  3. The Salomon's are great shoes. My wife and I are both outdoor nuts as well as USPSA competitors. We had both suffered from plantar fasciitis last year. We were both wearing Keen shoes but figured our problem was caused by something else since we were wearing quality shoes. We even bought new Keen's thinking ours may be worn-out. Finally a foot doc explained the importance of having shoes with a flexible toe box. The Keen's we had were very stiff bottom shoes. We decided to try the Salomon Speedcross shoes and our feet felt better right away. We have since bought other Salmon shoes and love them. Great arch support, padding in the heel and overall fit. We did find that they run small and for us a half size bigger was perfect.
  4. Great job Pat! As always informative, fun and fast paced. For all of us that enjoy the sport take some extra time to help another shooter, they will keep coming back and we'll have a place to shoot.
  5. For the magwell I have tried them all and like the Dawson well enough but put a SVI/Infinty on the latest gun and it's really cool. As always they build great stuff. You can find it at the sviguns.com website under new products. It is a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for from SVI. For mags the ones that have worked the best for me are Dawson.
  6. I have been shooting 147gr lead bullets with WSF the past year and it works great. OAL of 1.145 and a PF of just under 130.
  7. I think it's great that there are classes for shooters that want different things from shooting USPSA matches. I don't have anything against the shooters that want to shoot limited or open guns. High cap frames and all the mods that make up guns in those classes don't fit into what I like about our sport, that's just me. I like 1911's. I like to set them up to what I think is their full potential. I really don't care if my finished gun weighs 44oz or 42oz. I don't care if the magwell I chose means the gun will not fit into a box - think about that one. Really, you are going to get a box and put my gun in it, goofy. Oh yeah don't forget to put your holster where someone else wants you to wear it and use one they tell you to use. Could you imagine the look you would get from the founders of our sport on that one. So for me I was happy to find L10, I don't have to use a hi cap gun and as long as I make major no one messes with me, perfect.
  8. We have the squad preload on tables up against the berm. All shooters preload at the same time, no shell in the chamber and chamber safety indicator must be visible.. After the guns are preloaded you cannot touch them until you are called to the line by the RO. If you change your mind about something after you preload you must wait until your are under the supervision of the RO when it is your turn to shoot. The RO may allow you to make a choke change but you would have to unload first. If you want to change the choke do it before you load at the preload table or safety area, again the chamber safety indicator is in place . Seems to be working fine and has allowed the match to move along better.
  9. GoinHot

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    Zappos has the Salomon Fellraiser for $110 in womens sizes. My wife has been competing in the Salomons for about a year and loves them. She says they are one of the most comfortable shoes she has even had.
  10. Love my Inov8 Mudclaws. The cleats are much deeper than most so it depends on what you need for your club. Comfortable and very light
  11. I like it. Yeah it's different and more geared for TV but that's the whole idea. I still like going to matches with 600 yard shots that doesn't change. It is just a twist on what we have done for a long time. I am the 3-gun match director for our club and we have a couple matches a year set up like these - total high speed hosefests. They are always the best attended matches. My really good shooters like to see what they can do against each other in this format and the average shooters like it because they are hitting things and having fun. Not to mention I get a lot of the wives and girl friends out that day because it's more fun for spectators to watch the high speed action. I hope the show survives. I love having guys come up to me at our pistol matches and tell me they have been watching 3 Gun Nation and want to come shoot our 3 gun match now. Any thing that promotes our sport in a positive way helps bring more people into the sport and that is what's all about.
  12. No problem with WSF and 147gr 9mm loads. Tried loads with a PF from 129 to 140 all at 1.145 OAL out of a 5" 1911. Accurate, reliable, consistent - what's not to like
  13. Worked up various loads for a 5" 1911 using WSF, 147gr cast bullets. No problem with an OAL of 1.145. Settled on the 3.5 load. Shoots, feeds and feels great. There is a big difference in the PF from barrel to barrel, work your way up slowly. Schuemann barrel was 140 PF with 3.8gr and stock Springfield barrel is 134. 3.5gr = PF of 129 3.6gr = PF of 134 3.8gr = PF of 140
  14. Bullseye and Clays for me these days. Used 231 for years also, no problem.
  15. If I'm at a multi day match I will clean the feed ramp and chamber after each day. I clean the top end of my 1911 after 500-700 rounds and the bottom at 1000-1500 rounds. New recoil and firing pin spring after 3000-5000 depending on the gun/loads. It is not a big deal and I like to see how things are holding up.
  16. Very sad news indeed. Guy and Jake Kempton built my first comp gun in 1984 and I still love that gun. Took it to a match last year and let a few guys shoot it and they all thought it had one of the best trigger jobs they had ever felt. Guy, Jake, BE and Rob were all very good to me when I started shooting. They made it fun to learn the sport I still enjoy close to 30 years later, I know it sounds strange to me too saying 30 years. It seems like a very short time ago that we were all cracking up, laughing about movies with Bill Murray in them and calling each other "Dude". Everyday is a gift and in the end it's the people that make life special - we'll miss you Guy. BE, thanks for posting I'll spread the word here in Prescott. Tom Callahan
  17. Thanks Jesse, great job of explaining the product and some of the additional modifications you make to personalize the gear. How long is the barrel on your M2? Good luck this year on the 3-gun nation tour !!
  18. Interesting comments. I am the match director for 3-gun in our area and have been thinking about many of the same things you guys are. We are concerned about the rifle portion of the match and thought about changing our "neutralized" paper target rule to 1 hit in the A/C, A/B or 2 hits anywhere. This gives more shooters the confidence to only take one shot on a target They can still take two shots at every target if they choose. For the folks not reloading the cost of rifle ammo, if you can find it, may lead to them not shooting the match at all if we do things the way we always have. The other item on the table is the number of small steel targets out at distanes of 200 to 300 yards that often have shooters taking a higher number of shots. Maybe we have fewer of those and incorprate more positions for the shooter to engage them more than once as they move down range - getting closer. These are unusual times and hopefully we can get back to a better place soon. Keep the ideas coming !!
  19. I have to agree with the savings of less than 20%, why would you? I often see things for sale used that are way too close the the price for a new one. It it's not new. it's used - price it that way. It will sell. I do get a little concerned about used competiton guns that say "less than 1000 rounds through it". Hmmm, maybe. It comes down to knowing the seller for me I guess.
  20. Jeff, do you like one better than the other? Thanks Tom
  21. I am just finishing up loads for my 9mm with a new powder. Went with N320, 3.8gr, 1.160 OAL, 147 gr FMJ precision delta. 5" 1911. PF is 135. Seems to all work just fine.
  22. Great folks to work with !
  23. Another vote for SNS casting, I must be crazy to say this, you guys will buy up everything from them I just know I'll be sorry !
  24. Just ran a 132 PF with 3.6gr of N320. 147gr FMJ bullet, 5" 1911 and an OAL of 1.160. I like the way the heavier bullet feels at the higher PF and plan to try a slightly hotter load to see how it feels, probably around a 135 PF. The heavier bullet at slower speeds feels sluggish to me. The gun will make a diference and the recoil spring you are using will also be a factor. Good luck!
  25. It depends on what you are trying to accomplish with the video. The POV on the head and video from behind are great to show others what you did and saw. If you are using the video as a training tool you need the camera in front of you or to the side. If you put a video camera on a tripod in a position where you can see yourself in action you will be able to learn a lot about what you do under stress and how you are doing with the things you are working on. Obviously you have to think a bit about positioning the camera to avoid getting damaged but it's not that hard. You do have to take into consideraton the splatter off poppers and rocks that come off the berms that will be flying around. I have used the same video camera for two years to record 3-gun and pistol match action with no damage to the camera. The others in your squad have to be ok with something out on the course of fire but I have never had anyone even know it was there once the beeper goes off. They all tease me about shooting it and of course I tell them it is a bonus target - they get to keep it if they hit it. Try it out when you go practice to see what you think. My shooting partner and I are all over it now after every match to see how we are doing with things we are working on. You'll be surprised how much you learn.
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