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That match has gone down hill since APS took over from the previous USPSA match. They have run off most of the good shooters in the area who simply shoot the other matches. They always set up the same stages for the 3 gun match and use them for USPSA. I've got nothing against matches / clubs being for profit, but that club illustrates all of the potential downsides of caring more about making money than putting on a good match. Eric the stage designer is the only good one there and I don't know how long before he burns out.

I don't expect things to be any better next year, in fact I'd guess they will be worse. The same club has the match again next year. They ran ROs ragged this year so I bet they will have even more trouble getting staff next year. Stages were good, better than they looked on paper. Management was a disaster that was easily predictable if the MD had been paying more attention ahead of time.

Just to be clear, I was being facetious. I've got 1 Automatic Accuracy Shadow, and 2 CGW worked up Sp-01s. I have no plans to get rid of them.

I plan to add a couple of mag pouches and a holster to my backup gear. When packing for the last major I shot last year it occurred to me that I had 2 guns, twice the ammo required, clothes to handle a 20 degree change in weather in either direction, rain gear, etc, but no spare holster or mag pouches.

Now that the shadow 2s are becoming available the original shadows are totally uncompetitive and useless. *Runs off to check the classifieds for people selling their shadow to buy a shadow 2*

Here's my full parts list for my SP-01s. Cajun Gun Works 10040, CZC race hammer and CGW sear TR-PIN (floating trigger pin) H-pin x2 (hammer pins) RP-TRS (reduced power trigger return spring) 75 Shadow line trigger 1485-T2 disconnector (short reset disconnector) Recoil springs 11lb x2 SRS-2 (firing pin, fp spring, fp retaining pin, hammer spring 11#, FP block lifter and spring, ) Extended firing pin (included in SRS-2) 75060 Stainless steel guide rod 61050 Extended firing pin (spare) 61100 FP retaining pin (spare) Dawson Precision Dawson .205 h / .90 wide 019-115 CZC CZC Competition Rear sight Flat mainspring plug Stainless mag brake Trigger bar spring Right side 1/8 inch above bottom of trigger bar Left side just touching trigger bar

You would want to remove any small parts like sights before nitriding. The temperature of nitriding would likely make the sight body brittle and would definitely destroy the springs in the sight.

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Ironically I broke the Cajun Gun Works firing pin in my practice SP-01 the other day. The gun still fired but the tip of the firing pin would protrude through the breach face occasionally and prevent the first round from loading. Still made it through a 500 round session while broken, set everything off. I would have changed the firing pin a while ago, but I wanted to see how far it would go. It broke about right at the end of the taper. The retaining pin was also cracked but still functioning just fine. This gun has seen just over 45,000 live fire rounds + dry fire 5-6 days a week for 2 years. I do use a snap cap in the chamber while dry firing.

They already have done away with minor in Limited. Minor is uncompetitive for most shooters. You are free to shoot minor if you want, it just isn't competitive at the top.

Interesting observation about the guns starting to feel different. I'm at the same point with my primary practice gun, which has around 50,000 rounds on it along with lots of dry fire. It just feels different than my other two, smoother and less mechanical feeling to the action. I'm about to pull it apart and inspect and replace anything that needs it.

I'd agree that it is worth it if a bunch of work doesn't need to be done to the new Shadow 2. How many reasonably stock shadows have you even seen. I looked for one for a year and never found one. I ended up owning 2 SP-01s and a Automatic Accuracy Shadow.

That's what I'm thinking too. Although I doubt it's the sear, since the issue is in DA. I'm guessing it's just wear between the trigger bar and the disconnector but sear cage is a good point too. If it was SA I'd lean more towards the sear.

First thing I checked. It definitely has not walked, it's solidly in place with red loctite. To adjust it I'm going to have to take it out and heat it. I'm mostly curious about what has worn to alter the timing enough to cause this issue.

Virginia Count adds a different challenge when used. Nothing lost by having it as an option.

My practice gun is ready for a tune up. It's got around 45,000 rounds through it along with almost daily dry fire. This is a SP-01 (not a shadow) with all the Cajun Gun Works goodies. It has begun doing one odd thing. In DA if I pull the trigger very slowly occasionally the overtravel screw bottoms out before the hammer falls. Of course the easy fix is to back out the overtravel screw a touch (it's a 75 shadow line trigger). I'm curious as to what could be causing this though. In SA the hammer clears the sear and isn't close to the frame engaging the overtravel screw when the hammer falls. I do think this gun needs a new trigger bar spring, which is on the way. Any other things I should think about while going through the gun, other than the normal springs? Thanks.

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My experience is that it took me about a year from when I started to get my reload where I was comfortable. My standards changed along the way. First I wanted to have the reload done within a step on a field course. Then I wanted to have the reload done before my the mag coming out of the gun had hit the ground. At that point I was doing a consistent 1.1-1.2 reload. I spend a LOT of time getting my max speed reload down to less than a second over the span of a year. It took a lot of work to drop those last .2-.3. Most of the gains were from moving my weak hand faster and also bringing the gun in closer to my body. Having the gun closer meant that my grip is reestablished sooner and the gun is stable faster for the next shot. The main reason I pushed my reload speed (also did the same work on my draw speed to get down to the low .8 range) was to get it done so I could focus on other things. Having the gun reloaded and ready let's me focus on how I enter a position, or be aiming the gun sooner.

That's a good point.

Usually a slide is more expensive to manufacture than a frame so they cost more.

Those are new that I've seen. Looking at the pictures the Boogies appear to be a good bit thicker.

Seems like the easy compromise would be to pick up a 40 cal barrel. Just use 40 for sport and swap the 357 Sig barrel back in afterwards.

I believe the bumpers are removable so they can be run with just the lenses.

20k seems super low to need to replace a hammer and sear. The only way I can see needing to replace them that soon is if something was wrong with the setup. Having an over travel screw too tight can cause the sear to drag on the hammer hooks and wear both out. I've got close to 45,000 rounds + almost daily dry fire on my practice gun and it's still going strong.

At this point No. Video quality is questionable at best since most is taken cell phones. Camera angles vary, sound can be out of sync, all sorts of issues come into play for now that make video review untenable. Some time in the future, after we switch to all classic targets and have tons of free cash from the influx of new large corporate sponsors (Coke, Red bull, Nike, etc) we can pay for professional cameras and camera crews to produce consistent quality video; then we can consider video review.