PatJones

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just get rid of Virginia count? IPSC seems to get along just fine without it.

I went to Pala last year specifically because revolver got to shoot in the main match. Why do we always have to shoot on the off days? Are folks afraid to get beat by a revo shooter?

If you look at an unseated primer, the anvil is just proud of the cup. If you seat the primers until the cup just touches the bottom of the primer pocket, the anvil pushes in and applies the correct amount of pressure on the primer pellet. Something like the K&M tool allows you to feel this. In practice, a small bit of flattening is tolerable. It's not ideal, but it's more tolerable than a primer that is not fully seated. If you flatten the primers too much, you can crush the pellet of priming compound inside the primer. You would have to be really trying to flatten the primers too much, but just be aware that there is a point where it's excessive.

Once you tune the springs for light double action shooting, the single action is a little light to be trusted.

No that holster ain't slowing you down. My Double Alpha holster bound up occasionally on the draw if you didn't come out perfectly straight. I'm back to open front Kydex. I find it more consistent and no slower. If you haven't done it already, treat yourself to one of the adjustable holster hangars. Having the revolver in the correct location and angle for your hand is a bigger deal than a skeletonized holster. As a side note, I don't really dig things touching the crown of my barrel, even plastic. Once that peg gets dirty, it acts as a lap. The dirt embeds in the plastic and that dirt can be hard enough to wear away the steel, think about sandpaper. If I had a comp on the end of my barrel I might not worry as much.

I load on a 550. When I first got the press, I experienced some failures to fire in my 627. Hand seating primers did help, though I chose to seat the primers before running thru the 550. This year I gave up hand priming, but I've really had to pay attention to keeping the shell plate tight. I run the shell plate tight enough that it doesn't run completely smooth. It seems as though any tilt in the shell plate can lead to misfires. I install the shell plate and tighten the center screw until there's drag when turning the plate. I then lightly tighten the lock screw, this makes it easier to make very small adjustments. I then loosen the shell plate retaining screw just enough to make the press useable. There's usually one spot between 2 of the 4 positions where it doesn't move smoothly, i just find the tightest adjustment i can live with.

I'd imagine an extended pin could strike the edge of the chamber when dry fired. It's not a good habit to dry fire a 22, but in my 12 years as a gunsmith I've only seen one rimfire Smith that had a firing pin long enough to cause a problem.

What exactly is your question?

Really? The grip safety on my Single Stack has over 18K thru it, and the Alumahyde is holding up pretty well. I've worn it off the corners of the beaver tail, but that happens with any paint. Alumahyde has a shelf life. If it's a big job, I buy a new can if my current one is over a year old. If it's a small part, I just redo it if the paint doesn't cure.

The color and gloss can vary a bit depending on how much hardener you use.

Nope

I used to use one of those. Great sight picture, but they bend easily. The blade bent down slightly twice. Sucks shooting a match with a gun that hits low unexpectedly. I really babied it after the first time, they bend down against the sight body and you lose elevation. I went back to factory after I found a crack where it attaches to the sight body. I've been meaning to buy a Bowen with a custom narrow notch.

I thought the grip modules were just that, grips. Per Appendix D4, "...Replacement grip panels are allowed provided they do not extend below the butt of the gun to form a make-shift magwell."

What state? In Colorado you're allowed to possess magazines that you owned prior to July 1st 2013. The law is silent about what state you were residing in at the time.

If you shoot anything besides a 38, HKS is often the only game in town. I have a Safariland for the J frame, but I use HKS for the 44 mag.

That's only for the 38 caliber stuff. For the big 6 shot guns there's only one flavor of moonclips for each caliber. A bit of movement in the moonclip is fine, especially for the 45's and 40's.

Any updates?

Same could be said of production division now too.

You can shoot more than one gun, but if you're changing guns every weekend you're only gonna get better at changing guns. You gotta pick one and stick with it for while to get better at shooting.

In practice try putting a paster on the front of your optic and use it as an occluded eye scope. It'll force you to focus on the target, not the dot. I started shooting ICORE in early 2012 and USPSA shortly thereafter.

I shot revolver exclusively for the first 3 years of competition, both USPSA and ICORE. I then picked up a single stack so I could shoot both single stack and revo nats at pasa park. I shot production for a couple years too, but I always came back to revolver for 2 to 3 months in the spring before the Rocky Mountain ICORE regional. You can't dabble in other divisions, you have to stick with it for a while but there are things to be learned.

Some of these heavy bullet loads listed in the Vihtavouri loading manual make major, and they're not listed as +P. The top rows of data in this screen shot are for a Hornady 147 gr XTP. A 147 XTP over 6.9 grains of 3N38 makes 177 power factor. This is regular published 9mm loading data.

In USPSA the minimum bullet diameter to make major in revolver division is 9mm. I don't know if 9 major is safe in one of those, but it's legal.

No, it makes perfect sense. The 1911 has a single action trigger, production and CO are for shooters with "crappier" triggers. You can shoot whatever you like in USPSA, we have a whole division for that.

I shoot Revolver and Stinky Stack. I'm typically the highest classified competitor in these divisions at a club match so I'm chasing the GMs in the other divisions.