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  1. You are right I should have included an under 450 category. The wording next to the categories is mine, just give your opinions when you post. This Poll is not about a rule to force a MD to do anything (I am a new local match MD). I am interested in what shooters want to shoot and why. Thanks (everyone) for the feedback, lots of good posts here.
  2. I vote for 300 yards, hitting the A zone at that range requires marksmanship and a good rifle. But not the specialized equipment and skills shooting at 600 meters requires.
  3. The CFR&PC has a 300 yard range, and years ago we used it for 3-gun. Currently the 3-gun match takes place on the Action range, and the longest range available is about 40 yards. Our last match (yesterday) we used some air soft IPSC targets, both classic and metric, this worked well.
  4. I am still using WC844 was about $6 a pound when I purchased it. The only place I can find surplus powder (WC844 or WC846) now is Pat’s and they charge $ 99.00 + shipping & Has mat for 8 pounds, you can get H335 for around $120.00 anywhere, not much of a savings. My load at current component cost. Powder (H335) .043 55 FMJ .08 Primer .026 Once fired brass .07 Total .22 As cheap as wolf if you pay for brass and use only once. Any one has a source for cheaper powder or brass, pulled bullets, etc.?
  5. Don’t waste your time developing a sub-minor load, tuning your gun for it, and getting used to the lack of muzzle flip. There is no real advantage, for a new shooter, to shoot below minor loads. If you shoot a real IPSC or IDPA match you will need minor loads. As for taking down steel any 130-135 pf loads 125- 147gr. will work just fine. I started shooting production with 125 pf 147gr loads, worked ok, very little flip or recoil. Now I shoot a 125gr 135+ pf load out of a much lighter gun (M&P) for some reason I just shoot better with them.
  6. I shot as a teenager at a range (Lewis range central Florida) that used a mountain of tires as a backstop no dirt just thousands of car tires. Some one told me it was closed as a fire hazard years ago, don’t know if that is true, but it makes sense. We use tractor / construction tires at our range but they are covered with dirt. I believe it is illegal to bury car / truck tires here, it may be a county or state law.
  7. If you are one of the very few 3 gun shooters that uses a sling as a shooting aid or one of many open division shooters who uses a bipod a FF hand guard is a must. But in twenty years of shooting local matches (limited or tactical division) IMHO a FF hand guard would have made no difference. A standard grade AR with quality ammo can stay in the A zone at 300 meters or on a 6” plate at 100 no problem, if your shooting targets more challenging then this YMMV. Locally (Central Florida) I haven’t shot a target past 100 meters in years. A good trigger, good ammo, reliable rifle and magazines and knowing your zero are a lot more important.
  8. Joined 12/22/88 All most 20 years. I don’t shoot as much or as well as I used too. (Yes I know there is a connection) I have also taken a few years off in those 19+ years from IPSC. But I still look forward to shooting every match. A10666 Gary Schmal
  9. I have set off primers in both my Square deals and my 550, no big deal. Years ago I ignored Lee’s warning on Federal primers and blew up the plastic primer chute on my Lee 1000. Then a good friend blew up his lee 1000 twice, the second time the entire primer tray went up, parts of the tray cover cut up his right hand pretty bad, this is not a second hand rumor I saw both his damaged press and hand with my own eyes. On the Lee 1000, the primer sits on a post, there is no spring loaded cup to keep it centered on its way to the shell holder, also there is nothing but air between the shell plate and the row of primers leading to the primer tray. Because of the design of the Lee, primers are much more likely to be set off in the shell plate (because they can slip part way off the post and get seated side ways into the case). Also because there is nothing to block the flame from that primer from reaching the other primers in the chute, having more then one primers go off is much more likely then with other presses and finally when all the primers go up, there is nothing but plastic between the operator and the explosion. I have nothing against Lee, Most of my rifle dies are lee, I also own other lee reloading equipment, but I cant recommend the Lee 1000, it’s to light to make a good boat anchor and I cant think of anything else it would be good for.
  10. Well I started IPSC about the time you quit, so I will try to being you up to date in terms of equipment / Divisions. In the late 80’s there was one division, the compensated single stack 1911 38 supper (10+1) was considered high cap and the pistol to have, compensated single stack .45’s using 155-160 grain bullets were still competitive, minor caliber pistols and revolvers were few and far between. Para wide body frames then became available and for a short time the .45 (13+1) was king again. But soon shooters learned to make Caspian and Para guns work in .38 Supper then Bending to pressure from Para and Caspian USPSA removed the ban on extended magazines and how fast you could reload became much less important. About the same time pistols with red dot sights started wining matches. USPSA shooters were divided, many were happy to be able to shoot fast with out being distracted by sight alignment or reloading, others believed these were important skills that should be tested when shooting IPSC. The solution was Limited Division, (No comps, no optics, 10mm and above Major.) Limited Division soon became as popular as Open and was dominated by .45ACP wide body 1911’s but Single stack .45’s were still competitive. Then along came the .40 S&W cartridge and STI / SVI guns. Soon Limited became Open with out comps or optics. Bill Wilson and some others were not happy, they wanted a place in the USPSA for non race guns, but USPSA was not interested, Bill and friends left to form IDPA. Thanks in part to the success of IDPA at attracting new shooters USPSA started pushing Production Division, (and recently Single Stack Division), Stock pistols once again have place in USPSA / IPSC. In the last few years Production Division has really taken off. I’m going to stop now; I did not cover L10 or Revolver Division, IPSC vs. USPSA or lots of other stuff. A lot has happened in almost twenty years, there is a place for every one in USPSA. IDPA is different but fun, it’s becoming more and more common to shoot both.
  11. I recently switched from SS to Production. Not to save money, but that is a plus, but because there is little interest or participation in single stack at my club. Production on the other hand has become our largest division. The G17 is a fine pistol, but the finger groves and grip angle don’t work well for me. I went with the M&P9, I can’t think of anything negative to say about it. I did a 0 cent trigger job and blacked out the white dots on the sights, the rest is stock. I like grip tape on an un-checkered 1911 but the grip texture on the M&P works for me as is. If you haven’t reloaded 9mm before it’s a lot less forgiving then reloading 45ACP, it’s very easy to over crimp, and if you use range brass, make sure you gage your match ammo. I am using EGW’s undersize sizing die and still gets few that will not fit in the gage.
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    Water guns

    Yes um i'm new to nurf super saoker water guns i was wondering if anyone here knew a proper way to loading ammunition into my firearm please help should I use tap water or filtered water? -love ak
  13. I think it’s important for a new competitive shooter to have others shooting in the same class and division to compete with, and measure there progress against. The popularity and makeup of the different divisions varies from club to club. At our last match Limited was the largest division followed by Production (20+), Open, L10 (about a dozen), SS (5) and revolver (1).
  14. I guess I am a little backwards, I started shooting IPSC in open, then shot in limited for a long time, then L10 (with a single stack) then PSS. I just purchased a M&P 9 and shot it in Production Saturday, and its not just me several other long time limited shooters at my local clubs are now shooting in production, its not just for new shooters. Shooting productions requires you to focus on the basics, accuracy, reloading and planning out you stages are important because you’re shooting minor and are limited to 10 rounds. Production is all about shooting, everyone’s pistols, holsters and ammo are very similar, you don’t have the equipment related distraction you have shooting in open or limited, this appeals to both new and veteran competitors alike.
  15. Shooting USPSA with an M&P9 This review is from the prospective of some one with little experience shooting Production or production pistols. I switched from limited to L10 ( and later to SS) as soon as they became divisions because I prefer shooting a skinny guns that fit my hand, non- race holsters that I can ware all day and I like the challenge of reloading. But Single Stack is not catching on where I shoot, Production on the other hand is often our largest division, so I purchased an M&P9 to give Production a try and shot it for the first time at a match Saturday. First impressions: The M&P is light much lighter then my other 9mm pistol (CZ Clone) yet the recoil was vary soft and the sight lift appeared about the same. The barrel is short only 4 ¼ inches but holding it up to a 5” 1911 the sight radius is only about a ¼ shorter, I had no problem shooting A’s and hitting steel. The grip with the medium back strap fits my hand very well, trigger reach with the small back strap installed is too short for me. There is also a nice large beavertail on the pistol, geting a good grip out of the holster was easer then any other pistol I have ever used. I had originally planed to use grip tape but the texture and shape of the stock grips worked well for me, I am going to leave it as is for now. Trigger was long, gritty, with a lot of over travel. Using the online DIY trigger job instructions I removed most of the over travel and lightened/ smoothed the trigger pull by modifying the sear and polishing the striker, performed only about a quarter of the steps and I am happy with the trigger. Sights, blacked out the white dots with a marker, the sight picture is pretty good with the stock sights. The magazines are easy to disassemble for cleaning and the numbered witness holes are handy for loading the 17 round magazines with 10 or 11 rounds. Overall I am very happy with the M&P as a Production pistol.
  16. For about a dozen years I loaded my shotgun at waist level, weak hand, this worked well standing still. About a year ago I started practicing loading at the shoulder, strong hand, this worked much better when moving. So my plan was to load my old way when standing and the new way when moving. This worked fine during practice. But when I attempted to put my plan to work in competition, switching between two entirely different ways of loading just did not work. IMHO you will run in to the same thing, you are going to have problems transitioning between shooting from the hip and shoulder between courses of fire or even targets and will lose any advantage. You can engage any target from the eye level, but not from the hip.
  17. I tell guys that shooting from the hip is faster and that they should give it a try all the time, if they are in my class and division. Seriously, engaging a line of full size poppers at the same distance from a stationary position, from the hip, would most likely work well given lots and lots of practice. The problem is hitting smaller steel targets or clay birds or Texas star at various distances, while moving or from ports or prone or keeling or leaning around barricades or walls, well you get the idea. Shooting from the eye level is the best all-around way to shoot, most of us don’t have the extra time to practice a skill(hip shooting) that MAY be an advantage once a year, if that. I vote stunt.
  18. When we moved out in the middle of no where. We had a lot of problems with our land line, static that would come and go, cross talk, at least every month or two the phone would go dead, some times for several days. Dial up speed 14 to 28 if it worked at all. Over a year a go I canceled both the land line and dial up service, we then got satellite internet from a company call Wild Blue. Could not be happier, works fine for us, using a wireless network we run up to 4 computers a one time, no problem. Not as fast as cable or as cheap as DSL but they were not an option for us any way. Yes we lose our connection in heavy rain, but not for long and no snow here.
  19. AK74

    Mach 10

    I am certain years ago that many believed the military was wasting money when they lunched the first small useless satellite in response to Sputnik. Well I am using satellite Internet right now; the kids are watch satellite TV. GPS, weather forecasting, satellite imagery, communications, mapping, and the list go on and on. As government spending goes I consider this money well spent.
  20. “In an earlier thread somewhere here, a suggestion was made to insert a small "mouth" bushing in front, to take up the cartridge differential in length. This could be "press fitted" and "cyanoacrilate" bonded. The result would be a "correct mouth spacing" for the smaller 9 mm case, but with a slightly larger "freebore". A new chamber "reaming" would be advised for the slightly larger/tapered 9mm case base.” I have no idea if its been done to a IPSC race gun or how well it would hold up, but this modification has defiantly been done to many old military surplus pistol cambered for odd ball cartages in the past. I have seen pistols in 7.62 Long (old French military cartridge) modified to fire 32ACP, and I have a Star military pistol in 9mm largo modified to fire 9x19 that works just fine.
  21. The turn out at our last match was larger then normal, thanks the upcoming state match, we had 84 shooters. I believe we had 6 or 7 SS shooters, more L10 shooters then that and one revolver shooter. Our largest division was production with about 25 shooters, back when production was new there was little interest or participation in it at our club for several years, then is just started to grow, now its one of our big three (Limited, production and open). I guess my point is you can’t look at one club, at one point in time and predict the future, maybe SS will be the next Revolver division or maybe it will be the next production division. I believe there is room in the USPSA for SS, lets make it a real division and see where it goes.
  22. Unlike most of the short quizzes that are no better then Astrology this one is fairly accurate IMO. I wonder how many of us on this web site are similar personality types. BTW I am also an INTJ.
  23. In an ideal world matches would be as setup days before match day, several experienced competitors would walk them looking for problems and the written description would be proof read by a one or more RO in addition to the author, in the real world this dose not always happen, even at large matches but it should, if these gaming examples are from a big (Area and above) matches some one defiantly dropped the ball. On the other hand Local matches are full of these type of gaming opportunities. Setup is often completed just before dark the night before or just before the walk thro the morning of the match, the written descriptions are often less then compete, time to completely debug the stages is often lacking. IMHO it may not be cheating but its not very sporting either, to me freestyle is not about looking for typos in the course description or mistakes by the volunteers that setup your local match.
  24. AK74

    3 Gun Pics!

    Here is my Heavy Metal setup, Homemade FAL, 870 & single stack .45. My tactical setup, AR, 1100, and Para. And in Limited a modified AK (5.45x39).
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