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I hear BaggerDubs has a very nice new house nearby...If you talk sweet to him you never know what he might offer. The fiancé moves in this weekend - I can no longer offer free accommodations to my shooting friends - no telling what kind of shenanigans you all would start! But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun...

It will be very interesting to see how many people don't shoot the match now due to the change of venue.

I hear BaggerDubs has a very nice new house nearby...If you talk sweet to him you never know what he might offer.

Well apparently it has been a year and a half since I last posted here. Upon review, I had pretty much stagnated on my shooting development, even seen some major regressions at times. I started on my MBA at the beginning of last year and have been struggling to find a good work/life/school/shooting balance. My professional ambitions are very lofty (Hence the MBA) and add in the fact that my girlfriend works nights, so our time spent together is very oportunistic, there has been very little time for shooting. I think I have the work/life/school balance working pretty well right now, so I am going to try adding in more shooting. I won't be able to practice 2-3 times a week like I used to for various reasons, but I am going to make it my goal to have at least one live fire session every week. I am also going to make it my goal to dry fire at least 4 times per week. By trying to meet these lofty goals, I am finding that scheduling is becoming extremely important. On weekends, I can't get up at 9 and start being productive at noon and can't go home and lay on the counch for an hour. I can unwind from work just as easily reloading as I can watching TV. For at least the first major of my 2015 season, I have decided to shoot single stack. I have been getting bored with production and felt I needed a different challenge. It was slow getting everything together to properly compete, but I am finally there. I had been dry firing with my Springfield Range Officer a bit before Xmas, but more just to get a feel of the gun. I have to say....those skinny mags are a bit tricky. I'm finding that a developed pause right before insertion is crucial. I can't sling it up there like my production mags. A slight error with them might only cost me a few tenths of a second, but with SS that can easily be a full second added. Sunday was my first match with the gun, and only got to zero the gun in the day before. I made the decision to just shoot for points this match. That lasted all of the first three stages before I decided I wanted to see what would happen if I cut it loose a bit. I'm glad that I changed strategies for one stage as I found out that I can shoot that gun just as fast as my production gun. In the heat of the moment, I didn't notice any difference in recoil (which I noticed when trying to shoot straight points). My big problem of the match came on the last stage. It had arrays that forced you to shoot eight good shots three times in a row. A single miss on steel forced a standing reload. After cutting loose on the previous stage, I had a hard time changing gears and going back to basics. I need to be able to change gears not only between stages, but between arrays or even individual targets. I will design some drills that force me to switch gears. Single Stack is going to be a difficult challenge to master, but I think I am up for the occasion.

I personally wouldn't go with the priming quick change assembly. It's pretty easy to change primer rotary plates so to me it is not worth the expense. The other stuff looks right to me.

Just an update. I finally got it working now. While lightly greasing it seemed to work for a bit, it only stayed working for 50 rounds or so. Turns out, the ejector rod is pushing up and hits the case feeder. I had used the shell bearing kit from PowerFactor shooting that I got at a prize table last year, but that was pushing the rod up too high. Remove that kit and the rod wasn't coming up anymore. I went 150 rounds without a hiccup last night, except for those pesky small primer brass that I missed.

So plan at least 3 extra rounds per piece of steel...

Just to torment a certain individual....wait and release the stages the week before the match. Still publish round count and such so we can all plan accordingly, just no diagrams until the week of.

I'm reloading 45 ACP. The press is brand new out of the box (ordered from Graff's as brother in-law gets dealer pricing). It seems as if there was some stiction due to being over greased as when you push forward to prime, the casefeeder part didn't move. I cleaned the grease off and put a thin coat back on and it seems to be working fine now.

Maybe no paper targets, but you can use the self sealing targets now.

I just got my new 650 set up, ran through ~50 rounds without dies just to watch the operation and then finalized my set up. Once I was dialed in on my load, I was having problems with the cases not being pushed into station 1 as I pushed the handle forward to prime. It appears as if this works off spring pressure to slide the case in the rest of the way, but I do not see a way to adjust this pressure. Any ideas?

At Blackhowk Range (SW San Antonio) this Sunday, River City shooters is having the first USPSA match of the year. 7 stages for $25. PM me for futher details. Here is the local match schedule: 2nd Sat - AASA (American Action Shooting Association) @ Bullet Hole 2nd Sunday - RCSC (River City Shooters Club) Steel Challenge Match @ Blackhawk Shooting Range 3rd Sat - AASA (American Action Shooting Association) @ Bullet Hole 3rd Sunday - Alpha MIKE USPSA Match @ Cerdar Ridge Range (Bulverde, TX) 4th Sat - AASA (American Action Shooting Association) @ A Place To Shoot 4th Sunday - RCSC USPSA Match @ Blackhawk Shooting Range There are also some Steel matches at CEdar Ridge Range but I forget exactly what days they are. 1st Sun and 4th Sun come to mind. Welcome to the forum and competitive shooting. You will enjoy it.

Got my self squadding info....Ken must be playing some elaborate joke. Self Squadding opens on April 1.

Any southeast MI matches between Dec 20&29? Doesn't have to be USPSA, I'd be up for a pin shoot or just competing in general. Thanks?

2015 Pistol Match Announcements (Note: This list is user maintained! That means the Mods do not edit the list. If you want a match entered,quote the MOST CURRENT announcement post,add your stuff and delete the quote stuff at the top and the bottom of the post. Do not just copy and past the text as that will delete all the links. Use the "More Reply Option" mode on the editor and use "preview post" to check if your edits look like you want it to. If things get screwed up, just cancel and try again or get someone to help you. Please do not ask questions or discuss matches in this thread. Open a new thread for such subjects. Keeping this thread clean makes it much easier to use! Thanks!) January 15-18: 2015 Florida State Championship, Frostproof, FL February March 04-08: Desert Classic/Area 2 Championship, Mesa, AZ 13-15: Alabama Sectional, AL 20-22: 2015 US Steel National Match,New Smyrna Beach, Florida April 10-12: Area 6 Championship, Frostproof, FL 10-11: Battle in the Bluegrass VI, Wilmore, KY 24-26: 2015 Lonestar Innovation Custom Texas open Championship (2015 website not updated yet) 30-03: The Cowtown Classic 2015, Cresson, Texas May 01-02: South Carolina State Championship, Charleston, SC 06-09: Single Stack Classic/USPSA Single Stack Nationals, Barry, IL 10-10: USPSA Revolver Nationals, Barry, IL 15-17: Mississippi Classic 30-31; Idaho Section Championship, Twin Falls ID June 12-14: Double Tap Championship, Wichita Falls, TX 24-28: Area 1 Championship, Idaho Falls, ID 27-28: Briley West Coast Steel Championships, Piru CA July August 27-30: 2015 USPSA Area 5 Championship September 03-04: Area 4 Championship, Cresson, TX 26-27: Iowa Sectional - Ankeny, IA October November 07-08: Western States Single Stack Championship, Mesa, AZ December USPSA Match Listing THIS LIST IS NOT A PLACE TO ASK WHEN A MATCH IS - PLEASE ONLY USE THIS IF YOU HAVE A MATCH TO ADD AND COPY THE FORMATTING ABOVE!!

I'd go back to sleep at that point. I can deal with living in the Matrix.

I hate it when a dream is so real that when you wake up you can't tell the difference between the dream world and reality. Was convinved I got a 100% on my Finance Term paper for my MBA....extremely disappointed when I logged onto Blackboard this morning and saw that grades weren't posted yet. Went from thinking all I needed was a 50% of the final to get an A in the class to not even sure what I need to do to pass the class yet.

The only other thing I can find against it would be the first principle: On the other hand, I don't see it being a problem if say, a sectional championship opened up registration for section members first and the match fills up before other people can register. A club match limited to club members would just be a variant of that. If it was a case of the match always being full, then I see no problem in giving club members preference in registration. But if the match was not at capacity, not only is it not in your best financial interest to turn people away, it leaves a bad taste in peoples mouths about the way things operate. People should not be barred just because they are not a part of the "in crowd". I'd say limiting the match to club members goes against the first principle of USPSA.

I had this exact same issue with BBI 125's and this is what eventually solved it. I could never find the right bell for the Redding Die but the Dillon Die works like a champ.

They just CANNOT close a game! Time to make Verlander a closer instead of a starter.

Sounds like a stripper name

AngledTuxedo.zip Here you go.Need to zoom in really close to get the correct points to move and rotate.

http://uspsa.org/new_nationals/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14_USPSA_Nationals_Stages.pdf

https://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-join-renew.php Associate Foreign Anual membership is $35 (hint hint)

I am using a Redding Competition Seating die with 125 gr. BBI bullets. I have adjusted the bell on the case from barely any to way too much and everywhere in between. About 1 in 20 bullets have heavy lead shaving and about 50% had some but not much. Using mixed brass, but couldn't track the shaving issue to one particular type of brass (and was making sure 9mm makarov didn't sneak in either). I finally decided to stop messing with it and put the Dillon seating die in. Without changing the belling (from moderate), the shaving issue went completely away. What gives?