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  1. 12 minutes ago, motosapiens said:

     

    Those 3 ladies are badass shooters. I shoot against Jalise pretty regularly, and while we went back and forth for a few years, she has opened up a gap on me the last year or two, and she rarely seems to make mental mistakes.

     

    I'd guess personal preference and strength/skill may play into the major/minor thing too. I'm a grown man, so I shoot the same speed with either one. Once I figured that out I stopped shooting minor entirely.

     

    Oh, they are all better than me. Just looking at Randi, who wom ladies, she had the only perfect score on Stage 20. So, yeah, she shot lots of points. Still, I didn't lose on points but rather time. I don't want to shoot Minor when I can shoot Major since I'm not exactly a 2A kinda person, more an AC kind. 

     

    Regardless of points, I do think 10 rds had a sizable enough advantage to make it viable at this year's Nats. Now that I know why, I might try Minor in SStk at a, uh, major if it has similar stages. But for Nats? Major is the default if you can't do both.

  2. 1 hour ago, motosapiens said:

     

    it sort of felt like that when stage planning, but i think in reality, the number of movers, and the number of 11-15 yard targets and partial targets created a lot of opportunities to drop points. I felt like I lost a couple seconds here and there to having to do extra reloads, but if you shoot 60 charlies with minor (which isn't that many) you're about 10-15 seconds behind the guy shooting major with 60 charlies.

     

    All I know is three ladies beat me down while shooting Minor while I shot Major. Well, and I also know I was still slower with Major. In the local match using the same stages I could absorb some worse hits and Mike's and still have a higher HF on some stages by just going faster. In the real match I feel I might have done better Minor but I'm not good enough to switch on the day. Ten round plans seemed better but maybe only slightly especially if you went 1 for 1. If you did that Major was way better but Minor gave you lots of room to make up bad shots.

     

    I did like that there seemed to be compelling trade-offs between 8 and 10 round plans

  3. 4 hours ago, RJH said:

     

    What is this?  

     

     

    "Aaaand....  TWO ALPHA!!!!"

     

    I started doing it, too. It makes me want to shoot better.

     

    8 hours ago, broadside72 said:

    Many stages were not fun for the major shooters. While legal they did ask a lot of those shooters where the 2 extra rounds were a big advantage to most shooters. Box to box stages are not fun but they do hammer you on planning and execution more than a course with a lot of movement. Things like popper order relative to the activator in the array to get best timing etc.

     

    I thought the match heavily favored Minor/L10, which I think is what you are saying. The stages for the most part did a good job of playing off the Major with 8 rounds versus Minor with 10 but on the whole it felt like shooting 8 rounds was being punished. I get how it was due to it being a match for Production and L10 not just SStk &revo so it made sense. The stages weren't that awesome, though. Nothing worth remembering as a stand-out. They were pretty generic.

     

    I go to a local match at the CMP and we shot some of the same stages again. That made me realize that without the excitement of Nationals the stages were rather bland. The short courses with movers were the most fun to shoot again. 

     

    I hope the future Nationals have better stages.

  4. 3 hours ago, motosapiens said:

    i don’t know anything about the inner workings of the match, but it seems plausible to me that at least some issues people have mentioned like the awards banquet not being fancy enough could be related to the covid situation, or the move to a new range. the same guys ran the 2019 and 2020 nationals, which iheard less whining about. fwiw, i VASTLY prefer a less formal and quicker awards ceremony at the range than a drive to somewhere else. i will admit the food was better and the prize table more organized at frostproof last fall.

     

    ill keep going to nationals because the best competition in the country is there.

     

    I dont know, bit having been to the SS/L10+Revo nats last year at CMP it seems to me they might have got the exact same amount of Porta John's and the same amount of food as last year. It wasn't enough for the full match attendees but was fine for the more sparsely attended Coof-Nationals.

  5. 1 hour ago, BritinUSA said:

    Who is actually running the cameras/livestream, is it USPSA, separate company or individuals ?

     

    I saw the USPSA tech guy (whose name I cant recall) setting them up but as to who is changing feeds IDK.

     

    Personally I like the idea of a feed of just one or a couple stages close together so if you know the schedule or want to see yourself later you can follow a specific shooter. I also like the Super Squads being covered. Maybe two feeds?

     

    The real question is how much is this service worth to the membership? I personally would pay $0.00 for it but would be much more interested if I was competitive. It has potential, but is a "nice to have."

     

    I'd rather the Porta John's be plentiful and well-appointed, the food to not run out at the award banquet, and the awards to be handled a bit better. The idea of seeing what exactly the prizes are before the walk would be cool, as I have no idea what the top peeps got.

  6. 1 hour ago, Racinready300ex said:

     

    Whats more likely, that everyone shoots sub minor or that the popper was jacked?

     

    I've wondered this myself. Not about the popper, because match staff try their best and poppers are a mechanical device and can have variability which the calibration challenge addresses satisfactorily, but rather what ammo actually gets used during a match. The chrono procedure is so generous and hard to fail that it makes me think that some shooters don't even try at all to have ammo which makes PF. Certainly an advantage, until it isn't.

     

    BTW I did see some popper issues in my RO match squad which got ironed out. The thing is, they aren't meant to be easy and are to reward power factor. What would be something to see but practicalities and expense limit it is inclinometers and bases to poppers so that they can be exactly calibrated for the correct PF. I saw it done in France but I can't see it being done in USPSA. I honestly wouldn't bother with it because it's more trouble than it's worth.

     

    1 hour ago, rowdyb said:

    I did hear other complaints from people working g the match but si ce I didn't directly experience them no reason for me to pass them on. The ROs were more pleasant at this Nats than any other I've attended. 

     

    A thing I forgot in to say was my drop in confidence when seeing paper back ups appear suddenly in the middle of the match. And one time hearing the score keeper say all my hits disappeared from the pad when he hit review. Made me very leery and I starting taking a cell phone pic of the tablet and the paper. A worry I would have preferred not to have.

     

    I think the competitors were more pleasant than any Nationals I've been to. It certainly made it easier to be nice to them.

     

    The issues necessitating paper backups were out of the match staff's control as far as it was explained to me. Something about an iOS update and Practiscore making the app have odd behavior. It didn't affect my stage but I was glad we did paper and had a solid crew and consistent scoring ritual. I'm one of those traditionalists who favors paper over the pad due to it never crashing or being screwed up die to an update. It also feels permanent and significant to fill out that sheet with all the scores. A class act is to have custom sheets for every stage with individual targets to fill in. 

  7. I thought the match was very good for Single Stack, and a bit less for Production/L10 due to the stage construction. I shot SS major and several times wished I had two more rounds in the gun due to a different plan I could have run or more often due to poor shooting skill leading to a make up shot. 

     

    I very much enjoyed the IPSC-style carnival stages as I feel this match is aimed at preparing competitors for the World Shoot where there will be lots of short stages with challenging targets or activator sequences. 

     

    From a match official perspective, I didn't like having no paper backup to start, then having to go to them on day two. We should have had them from the start. Toilet facilities were an issue, as was lunch. It was late and honestly pretty poor quality. 

     

    I liked the smaller squads and the late start each day (due to AL law). I didn't like AT ALL the way there were stages with multiple movers in a double bay and the squad was split for those bays. It led to staff resetting and backed up the match. Next time just put two whole squads there and stop this split squad stuff. That works for simple stages with no reset other than pasting and/or full staff reset.

     

    I liked the vendor zone but wish CMP would expand the Action range so we can have a permanent bathroom facility, pavilion for eating, and a vendor area like at Universal. 

     

    Overall it wasn't the best Nationals ever for me, but it was the best major I've been to at CMP. Hopefully things that were done right at this match continue to happen and we can improve the things which were sub-par.

     

    One last thing: Large poppers are awesome and anyone who doesn't think so must have shot minor. ;)

  8. 5 hours ago, motosapiens said:

    Lots of us don't run our mags all the way forward. I'm more comfortable (and faster) with them set more to the side, and I've seen plenty of other M and GM shooters with similar setups. Seems like personal preference to me, not a matter of better vs worse.


    I get it, but the hip bone rule was a bit of flavor that has been lost. Now things will all start to look more the same, and I find that less appealing than how things were before.

  9. On 4/15/2021 at 2:56 AM, Bakerjd said:

    Is using target focus shooting possible if you are blind in one eye? Everything I've seen says you are basicly looking at the target with one eye and then the other eye sees the dot over the target and when they align you fire. I'm getting my CO gun ready and want to know if this is possible?

     

    I also have monocular vision, to some extent. I've been struggling with trying to target focus both with irons and recently learning to use a dot. I can tell you sometimes it works, and I hope it will become easier over time. When it does work I see a very fuzzy picture of the sights or the dot and a highly sharp image of the target. What seems to work on an almost instinctual level is aligning the entire window with the dot serving to show me the center, onto the target. I try to do the same with irons, but the dot makes it so much more obvious and straightforward.

     

    Good luck and I hope you keep us updated.

  10. 32 minutes ago, obsessiveshooter said:

    If everyone hates the constant change, then how about a "war to end all wars" type of huge sweeping change, to where things are settled and where USPSA really wants them to be in 10 years?  

    I personally think they are heading in the right direction, allowing magazines and attachments that people outside USPSA are already using.  We've been racing out our pistols in every single division for years, and we know that the recent changes won't do anything to the end results.  They will, however, improve the shooting experience by giving shooters more [better] options on setting up their belt, and the lights will probably help level the performance gap between polymer and steel frame pistols.  And, we are more likely to draw from the Timmies with WMLs already on their pistols than the recent first-time gun buyer, and despite how full your matches are, USPSA needs to have a growth mindset to survive.  Those who have been in USPSA from the beginning might see the changes as an abomination, but these same changes would make perfect sense to a serious pistol enthusiast just coming into our sport. 

    And if a magwell fits in the box on a production pistol, why would that be a problem?  It would preclude the gargantuan magwells, and still give the shooter options for how to set up and balance his or her pistol.  

     

    Bottom line: If we know it's all about skill, then let's apply that concept and get rid of as many restrictions as possible. Liberty!

     

    You sweet summer child. You missed the entire point of the equipment differences which make divisions interesting and different challenges from one another.

     

    Who exactly do you mean when you say "where USPSA really wants them to be in 10 years?" Who exactly do you mean by USPSA? Do you meqn Foley, Martens, Troy? Someone else? Did you mean the membership? Because we, the membership are expressing our disapproval of how those in leadership positions are diluting the divisions and reducing our enjoyment of the game. You can discount our desire to keep things traditional, but it is that reluctance to be faddish and to have stable rules which make USPSA the most prestigious action shooting sport. 

     

    The reason for restrictions is to provide for different shooting challenges and meet the desire to have different buy-ins for participation. More options to set up your belt is actually fewer options, because we will all end up with some variation of the Open rig. That is less choice, not more. You can choose something worse, but why would you?

     

    As for USPSA growth, were membership and participation numbers dropping before PCC, CO, and now light weights? No, they weren't. So why the radical changes? Sponsorship opportunities? Who do those benefit, exactly? Why are the costs so high that we need sponsors to have matches? Who exactly are the people who didn't play USPSA because they couldn't have a light on their 50oz carry gun or shoot a rifle at pistol targets?

     

    USPSA doesn't need radical growth. It needs to stay true to its principles and to its egalitarian ideals. It needs more ranges. It needs more clubs. That will get more members and more matches, not rifles at pistol matches, 50 oz "carry" guns, open rigs for everyone, and light weights.

     

    Look, I get what you're saying. It seems sexy and inclusive to open rules up and allow everything. But you could already do that. Shoot Open. There was no need to change the rules to attract new shooters. The game was fine. Adding CO could have been done differently but for the most part it integrates well with the other divisions. But, reducing the differences between divisions and making everything an equipment race is not liberty. It doesn't increase options but rather it makes anything other than the best possible option untenable. If I can have a heavy gun, I need a heavy gun. If I can have a laser on my rifle I need one. If I can have mag pouches up front I need them. If I can have a 50rd magazine I would be a fool not to.If I can have a magnet I have to have one. See how more options actually just increase costs and make people have to buy new equipment?.

     

    What happens, or at least did in my case was when Production got to be just like Limited I said "to hell with this, why not just shoot Single Stack?" Single Stack is more like Production than Production ever was. Restrictive equipment rules have great appeal because everyone can compete at a lower buy-in. That is crucial for member growth because there really isn't an entry level division anymore. "Liberty" killed Production. 

  11. I got some brass battery weights recently and can make an x300 wml weigh the same as a frame weight. Yes it makes a Glock shoot a bit better, at least for me. I'll be running one for CO. I wouldn't go any heavier without some way to add more weight to the real of the gun as it is pretty front-heavy now with the light weight. Maybe when they allow magwells (you know it's coming) I can have a brass one and balance things out. 

     

    I didn't ask for these stupid rule changes, but I'm going to take advantage of them.

  12. On 4/21/2021 at 4:16 PM, Joe4d said:

    open major,------- current open rules.
    Open minor---  no frame optics, no comps, 140mm mag limit... all scored minor.
    Limited Major------ Current Limited rules.

    Limited Minor----- box and weight rule.
    Limited 10/8...   10 round minor scored, 8 round major scored. 40 cal minimum for major auto, .357 for revolver. no optic, no comp

     

    Maybe call it Optics Major and Optics Minor, as it's not really Open if your gun has to have some restrictions besides actually being a handgun. The only thing I'm not liking about your divisions is basically eliminating Production, but the BOD essentially already did that, so why not just rationalize everything and get rid of every gun other than a 1911/2011 by killing any trigger type rules? Poors amd sponsoreds can shoot weirdo guns and damn the sponsorship dollars from CZ, Sig, and Beretta!

     

    It's pretty crazy that the rules against single-action and minor only in CO and Prod are the only things keeping those divisions from being essentially just like Open and Limited. I personally don't think it's enough, and the absurd weight limits, belt position change, 140mm mags in CO (should be 15rds), and now frame weight lights just make a mockery of having any pretense of those divisions being in any way unique challenges. Now they are juat slightly crippled versions of the two real divisions: Open and Limited. CO could have been an interesting mix of limited weight, limited rounds, limited triggers, restrictive belt rules, and slide ride optics but now it is basically an Open gun with a fragile optic that scores Minor.

     

    I for one say good riddance to Production. When we stopped enforcing modification rules because they were complicated and raised the weight limit it was all over. The proper response to Production mods being hard to enforce would have been a trigger weight minimum, because then you can make all the changes you want but still have to suffer with a worse trigger pull than other divisions, which is a fundamental principle of Production. The reasons Production is all but dead belong in another thread but are symptomatic of the way the game has changed over the past 5 years or so.

     

    I think the BOD should maintain the integrity of the rules and not be a rubber stamp. We all know or think we know why the rules were changed and the bylaws as well to make those changes possible. Now we just have to figure out where to go from here.

  13. 17 hours ago, HCH said:

    And yet somehow Lane won Limited last year with a glorified Sig 320, Coley was 3rd with a dressed up Glock, and Jonasson was 4th with a Canik shooting MINOR🤣

     

    Being able to own a magnificent gun is a consolation prize for not being on the Super Squad. Nothing wrong with it and nothing virtuous either.

  14. What has worked for me 100% has been the stock firing pin, PD FP spring (or trimmed OEM), Titan hammer, and 14lb "yellow" PD hammer spring. What you must do is trim the FP spring or use a lighter one so that when the hammer is fully down it is flush with the firing pin stop. Many people have far too strong firing pin springs and their hammers have a hard time overcoming it enough for reliable DA ignition. The firing pin should not be camping the hammer back at all at rest.

     

    This makes the gun not as drop safe, so don't drop your loaded gun.

     

    I've had good luck with this method even on some guns where the hammer spring channel has not been cut to the nominal depth which necessitates cutting coils on a hammer spring so that there is no coil bind. 

  15. From what I've seen 3 squads for partials or turtles and 4 for open targets seems to be the norm. Losing your scoring lines happens fast on head shots and on IPSC targets. No-shoot targets tend to last all day, and even the whole match depending on the array. Always have spare hardcover targets on hand above and beyond the expected amount because of scoring challenges where the target gets pulled.

  16. I am a bit disturbed at all the negativity towards the .org regarding the payment of match fees. Is it really not worth it to clubs to pay the classifier fee? The comments make it sound that a lot of people have grievances with HQ. I honestly would like to hear some of them, in PMs. No need to air dirty laundry in public, but it needs to get washed so to speak.

     

    I also have my issues with how things are being run and recent (and not so recent) decisions. It seems as if the membership doesn't get much of a say in how things are going. That needs to change.

  17. To answer the OP's question in why they are illegal:

     

    Because Claude Warner (a regional or section or whatever director at the time) took exception to one shooter's bullets out gear and made up a rule that they were not suitable for EDC. Said shooter made the point that speed loader pouches were essentially larger and even less suitable but Claude had it in for her so the rule got made.

  18. 17 hours ago, BritinUSA said:

     

    With all the changes to Production and Production Carry Optics neither division matches its original intent any more.

     

    Basically they are now both Modified divisions; Adding the Major/Minor options allows the competitor even more flexibility, and the trade-offs between optics and magazine capacity might make for some interesting decisions/competitions. 

     

     

     

    I'll agree with you Producyion makes no sense anymore as everything is allowed and 10rd mags are kinda stupid when you can slap a dot on a gun and suddenly have 21 rd mags. When they started allowing anything at all as mods Production was doomed. 

     

    Also, since starting to dabble in Limited I realize there is no reason to shoot Minor in a division with Major allowed as long as the mag capacity difference is less than 20%. It makes sense in SS because of all the reloads bit if you are telling me I get 20 rds Major and 23rds Minor then I'll go Major every time. With a 52oz gun and 200gr bullets it's not exactly hard to control Major, so why would I reduce my score for nothing?

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