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  1. Interesting question. I’ll lead with a little background on on my perspective: my education was financed (in part) by a D1 athletic scholarship. I worked with my university’s sports psychologist in an attempt to perform more consistently. My techniques are not for everyone, especially folks with type A personalities (like my wife). It is more of an embrace chaos than control it type strategy. For me, minimizing the perceived effect of distractions works the best. Rather than think that a stage, race, or test should be distraction-free, I convince myself, with a surprising amount of success, that distractions are expected, don’t matter, and that I cannot control them so I mustn’t concern myself with them. Generically, I lump distractions into two categories: universal (those that affect everyone) and individual (those that affect just me). Universal distractions are more easily swept under the rug in competition as you can file them away as having the same effect on everyone. Rain? Nbd, it rained on the guy before me. Bad stage design? Everyone has to shoot it. Besides, you can’t affect the universal distractions. You can work these distractions to your mental advantage if you (sincerely) believe that you are better at dealing with them than your competitors are. Individual distractions are a bit harder to deal with. You have to convince yourself that they don’t matter, which is tougher when they only seem to be affecting you. I try to remind myself that the distraction doesn’t truely change my performance. For instance, tiredness, stress, mosquitoe in your ear; none of those things actually make me pull a shot off target. Only i can do that by thinking about them. Individual distractions are just inputs to the system that is me, I still control the outputs. (Or so I tell myself.) The other thing that worked for me when I was a serious athlete was to tell myself that distractions just didn’t matter because I was so damn good that I couldn’t be held back by something minor. Arrogant? You bet. But very effective. I got there by competing and training in bad or distracted situations and taking note of the times that it didn’t affect me and by comparing the magnitude of the distraction to the magnitude of preparation I put in. (For instance, I couldn’t let a night of bad sleep outwieght a decade of training). In the end, you must convince yourself that the situation you have at hand is one you can be successful in. If you honestly believe, deep down, that none of the distractions can really hold you back, they won’t. An aside on prep: regimen is good, it keeps you from forgetting, but deliberately avoid rituals. As an RO, I see a lot of folks get distracted by imperfections in self-imposed rituals that cause them to crash. I hope this helps, but I’m afraid it’s worth exactly what you paid for it.
  2. The wife just got me a new A5 for 3 gun! what barrel clamps are you guys using and do you find the center-to-center distances correct? I made my own clamp for my sx3 because the production ones put everything in bind due to incorrect ctc spacing.
  3. I just sold an sx3. I loved it, but as mentioned, it's tough to quad load. I now have an A5 so that I can try quad loading, but I miss the sx3
  4. Against better judgement, I just sold an SX3 that I was using for 3 gun. I already miss it. So when this happens can you wiggle the bolt at all? If you cannot, them it is, as you suspect, a mechanical issue and not one with the ammunition. If you can move the bolt a tiny bit, then it may be related to the shell binding. if it is mechanical, intermittent, and binds in both directions, that suggest to me that the bolt is binding vertically in the carrier. That could be happening where the lug engages the barrel, at the sloped area that pushed the bolt up, or at the sides of the bolt where it contacts the carrier. I'd check for abnormally tight fit, debris, and damage in those areas. It seems like it might be happening when the gun is hot and resolves when cool, which further suggests a tight fit that binds with thermal expansion. if it is not mechanical, but rather with a shell, make sure that the extractor cut in the chamber isn't raising a bur on the plastic hull of The shell and causing it to bind. I broke that edge over on mine with a stone to prevent hang ups. any pictures might help. Hope you get it sorted out!
  5. I should have. It isn't ultra lightweight, it weighs more than a pencil weight barrel. I think that it is like .550 under the hg.
  6. It shoots great! I haven't fine tuned a load, but easily sub inch at 100. No shift or any wonky issues. I didn't open the gas port any. I just keep everything clean, and it runs fine. I actually have an adjustable block that is on its most restrictive setting. It is getting plenty.
  7. For all the DIYers out there... This rifle is a few years old, but I just got around to sharing pictures. Some of you may have seen it around Rockcastle. It was an interesting build to me because I turned down and threaded the barrel. I wanted a 1/9 or 1/10 twist 16" with rifle length gas in a relatively light profile with a high-quality chamber, but couldn't find one at that time. I started with a 24" heavy barrel made by Wilson. This was my first barrel project, and i was afraid of messing up the threading, so I left an extra 1/2" just to be safe. So now I have the only 16.75" 1/9 twist barrel with rifle length gas on my block! I regret not blending the comp in JP style, but it shoots and feel great, so that is the important part. This was pretty simple to do, the biggest thing is getting centered in the jaws. The SS cuts like butter I think that we may put a friend of mine's barrel on the same diet!
  8. I would recomend DPMS's, I am very happy with mine through 5 builds and several reconfigurations. I orginaly got it becasue Mega mandates it usage on their monolithic uppers. Best $40 i have spent in a while.
  9. So I started with about the two chunks of aluminum I mentioned above. The ones that had two unintentionally tapered holes bored in them. The taper of the barrel hole was serendipitously the same profile as the barrel, so I left it alone, but had to alter the mag tube hole. The bolt holes were too high, and passed through the hole for the barrel, so I milled those off and added a hole to the center. Instead of a wide clamp with two Allen screws, I have a narrow one with a single screw. It seems to do the job though; I didn’t mangle anything at last weeks match. This was all done old-school; no CNC, EDM, water jet or anything like that, just a whooped Bridgeport with worn-out tooling, so it took a bit of time.
  10. lets try this again... here is the final product
  11. I just dropped my registration in the mail today, I am looking forward to the series!
  12. yes it has the dura-touch coating from winchester. Concerning the clamp; if it sounds too good to be true, it is. The guy that was gunna "make it for a case of beer" rushed it through in the last minute. He bored the holes per my drawing at the correct center to center distance...but didn't tighten the bit in boring bar for the final cut, so the holes were tapered when I got it back...and the exterior isn't finished. But he refused payment, so I guess I am ahead. I left the barrel hole tapered, it actually fitts the tapered barrel quite nicely, but I had to bore the magazine hole out to fit the way i wanted it too. The mill is back home at the farm, two hours away, and not in my garage, so this one continues to be a work in progress. I don't really have the tooling to cleanly round the exterior like Nordic does, so I think I am going to give it kind of an octagonal shape, a coat of black powder coat, and call it a day.
  13. Does anyone other than bladetech offer a holster for the witness with an accessory rail? I bought theirs, but it doesn't fit a new witness w/ the rail (or a CZ-75 w/o a rail) After an email or call every week for a month, I finally talked to someone who could help me return the holster.
  14. I can't tell for sure from the pictures, but the fracture surface looks as though that crack might have been in place for a while. Given the relatively low stresses in that area of the slide, it would seem most probable that a crack had been there since the slide was formed. We get all sorts of products in for failure analysis at the lab where I work, but never anything this cool! (probably because we don't have an FFL)
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