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Thanks I'll tune my load. My Proddy load is 130pf with a 124 plated and N320. Prolly have to cut a few grains off the powder load, but I prefer a high cycle rate to flat shooting on the continuum.

That was the most uninformative video I've ever seen lol Thanks for all the comments much appreciated! Looks like I'm gonna go SCS with all steel for lowest OA weight and fastest possible cycle rate. I could care less about recoil impulse or the dot bouncing.

In order to play this sport you have to accept the following: - The rules mean nothing. RO's and MD's can make up rules and calls as they see fit along the way. - The RO's and MD's will cheat and make exceptions to the rules to benefit each other and their friends. - RO's and MD's will never admit they are wrong no matter how obvious it is to everyone and anyone who can see otherwise. Even if you catch them lying/cheating on video they will still deny it. - If you get DQ'd on a bad call you have to smile, be happy and thank them for DQing you or they'll ban you for life. - The stage designs will put you in danger with rifle and slug steel on the same stage as pistol and birdshot steel that is at an unsafe distance to shoot with a rifle or slug. - If you are in the firearms industry the MD will not accept your registration to a major match in order to force you into sponsoring the match to be able to shoot it. -Major matches are a marketing event not a shooting event. There are precious few exceptions to these rules.

It's been a few weeks but I thought I'd share my sob story and rant a bit. I got DQ'd from Western States Single Stack because my 1911 was 43.2oz, which is .2oz over the limit. Needless to say I was livid. They told me I could shoot for no score, but the match was more IDPA than USPSA so I decided to drive home that day. My 1911 is a STI Trojan in .40 (bushing barrel), with an Ed Brown (steel) magwell and beavertail, Dawson sights, SV ambi safety, VZ Alien grips, and a Doug Koenig hammer. These are some of the most common 1911 parts on the market, so I am having trouble understanding the purpose of this 43oz weight limit rule. How the hell does a stock 1911 with the most common add on parts on the market get DQ'd from a major match? What is the purpose of this stupid rule? Having a heavy gun is not an advantage, its a disadvantage, unless you're living the in 1980s. I think we all can agree that in the modern age, having a lighter gun is an advantage, not a heavier gun. That's why people cut up their Limited and Open guns and we run SS rods instead of tungsten like they did in the good ol days. In my view this rule is an idiotic relic of the 1980s when people were stupid enough to think that weight absorbing recoil in a handgun was more of an advantage than increasing transition times with a lighter gun. That a competitor would get DQ'd from a major match for this stupid rule is absolutely ridiculous. In order to make weight I could have: cut up the slide, used a custom lightweight composite grip, used a plastic race magwell and mainspring housing, fluted the barrel... but why the hell do I have to make custom race modifications to a single stack gun that's supposed to be in a "practical" oriented division? Not to toot Rich Wyatt's horn, but that's pretty ridiculous for me to have to cut up a stock gun to make weight for single stack. **** this rule! There should be a lower limit for weight not an upper limit, so the gamers can't come out with a cut up slide and race out their single stack gun the way they do their Limited guns. Yes I will suggest to my area director that he propose doing away with this ancient relic of the 1980s. What say you?

Why would you be shooting a 55g bullet for accuracy in the first place? Use a better heavier bullet for anything past 200yds and who cares how the 55g shoots as long as it goes bang.

+1 the tube is in too far

Long Range - 69g SMK Hoser - Cheapest 55g I can find

Focus on the target See a sight picture of the front sight but don't look at it Ignore the rear sight Get a new coach

I use Tarans base pads with a STI tube and grams internals

180g RNFP xtreme plated 1.150" 5.0g of N320 to make major 4.5g for local matches and 3gun

I was so pissed... but now after seeing that people a lot better than me didn't get in, I'm less pissed. aside from needing more big matches, the existing big matches need to think of strategies to accommodate us in future seasons. I can't get into anything except nationals and its really starting to kill my interest in this sport. if the big matches can't expand with the popularity of the sport, its not going to be a good thing for the sport as a whole. at the least they should either double the match so tac ops and limited shoot 3 days and everyone else shoots 3 days, like handgun nationals. or they should restrict entry by classification. start with M and GM and work your way down. being a shamelessly sandbagging B class shooter, that's not ideal for me, but at least it makes more sense than a bunch of people who suck shooting the match because they logged on 30 seconds before a M or GM, who could have won the whole match. kind of makes whoever does win it look like they only won because other people didn't get in.

I wear it centered on the top portion of my belly. I load 2 weak hand.

If you grab AR mags like a pistol mag with the base in your palm, bullets forward. If you grab AR mags like a tennis racket, bullets backward. I do #1 myself but there are people a lot better than me who do #2. No one has given me a convincing answer as to why one or the other is functionally advantageous.

Salomon Speedcross 3 FTW!! I used to wear football cleats, I'll never go back. The only drawback is they only last one season.

another solution is to spray some duracoat inside the takedown pin holes on the upper receiver, and let it dry of course. you could do multiple layers if need be. for me that has added just enough thickness that the takedown pins now need to be poked through with a punch, which is the way I like it. but it sounds like yours was out of spec because that sounds like a lot of play.