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You know what you like and your opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. That said, going from production to limited sucks much of the fun out of the game for me, if they change production I'll either move back to ss or just leave USPSA and focus on IDPA.

Nice. For what it is worth I don’t call a coated bullet load good unless I have confirmed it still flies true out to 40 yards or so. Seemed to me like I was overcrimping in the past and shooting curve balls that would break past a certain distance. I suspect you will be fine but you might want to keep an eye on leading when shooting coated .355 . Would also be very interesting to compare velocity of the two with otherwise the same load.

Hmmm, wondering if the ricochet off of the water closet shot Kevin Costner made in Tin Cup has a parallel in USPSA?

Might want to get somebody else to post that . . . . . Happy Thanksgiving!

The second quote started with me, looks confusing the way I quoted it. Anyway, different strokes I suppose, there is no way it would make sense to me to put much time or effort into this sport and not get the gun and load right as the first priority. If it was hard to do a bit of load development (I think it is fun) and/or if load development was quickly perishable like the practiced skills I would likely agree with you.

In Brian Enos book he states that he could shoot 50 yard groups at about 1.5 inches and anything greater than 3 inch 50 yard groups was unacceptable to him. Lots of other commentary in his book about the importance of practicing group shooting. Benos is not a mere mortal, his accomplishments exceed most. It would be interesting to learn from other top pros regarding what they will tolerate in group size from the bench. To me a reasonable time spent on load development is low hanging fruit. Unlike skills development, once you get the gun and load right it does not tend to rapidly fade away with a reduction in practice time.

I thought this was a good read on the subject https://www.amazon.com/Glock-Competition-2nd-Robin-Taylor/dp/0966251741

Exactly the opposite of my experience. Beyond the occasional 35+ yard target with a no shoot (for example) and some of the long distance classifiers knowing that your equipment is very accurate is a nice confidence boost.

Love this thing https://benstoegerproshop.com/100-round-9mm-luger-hundo-chamber-checker-cartridge-case-gauge/ , not cheap but well worth it to me. That said, 99% of the rounds that won't pass the gauge shoot just fine in my CZ's.

I just remove them entirely, never could see any improvement in my bench shooting or USPSA/IDPA match shooting by using them. Your mileage may vary .

Was the temperature at the match colder than it has been when the gun shoots well? If so and you have a trigger with the overtravel limit screw you might try backing it out, or the freezer test that folks use to get the overtravel ample on Springfield XD’s,

Or pick up range brass shot by a Glock. I like my G21 but it does bulge brass even with light competition loads (170 power factor). With the BB you are pushing the entire case completely through the die.

Fixed it.

Don't most revolver shooters tune for weights around 5.5- 6#? In general I agree with you but on that rare start with a very difficult target or one hand only classifier 8# is a problem for me.

Been there but it was a USPSA match, just gave the guy a reshoot for being interfered with, if he would have tried a mad dash uprange the guy with his nose in the iPad and the buddy filming him would either force him to wait or end up between him and the rest of the targets. Now, when I see a mag dropped by accident I signal folks to stay well back

If I didn't think I'd get another "well, apparently you can't read" response (paraphrased) I'd send an email to HQ and ask if it was a typo. Maybe somebody of a more optimistic nature will. As I understood it part of the justification for losing our rulebooks (now available on Amazon for something like $9.00 ea ) was to be able to fix stuff like this efficiently.

Local club does (or did) 1 outlaw per year, Texas stars come out of the shed, reload rules get put in the shed, it is more fun.

Dollar wise probably not. Philosophically, deliberate waste of ammo makes me crazy. The initial reload rules were supposed to provide for maximum conservation of ammo based upon the belief that conserving ammo is wise in a tactical situation - unfortunately calling a shooter for round dumping under the initial rules was too subjective - so, rather than let shooters reload as they wish the rules were changed to force shooters to waste ammo, even though avoiding waste is supposed to be one of the self defense oriented priorities of the sport. J.Wilson noted that she does not want the sport to be "USPSA light" , it seems like that is the only reason for deliberate waste and loss of some really fun targets like the Texas star.

Got it. Thank you.

You guys don't shoot production do you?

If you do the results would be interesting. It would be nice if we can quantify/share experience with how much the longer pin and lighter spring actually gets you in reduced pull weight.

Apparently you don't have evil stage designers who like to make 11 shot plans tempting or 8-10 shot plans with some challenging shots on steel . To the o.p. , the Glock will take you to grand master if you put the work in, if I was self defense oriented I would try to see if that worked for me as a first option.

Not sure how common it is but with my home range you can't have a match and not allow range members to attend. It gets down to either drop IDPA or let range members shoot regardless of their IDPA status. Personally, I quit paying IDPA dues when they changed the rules and made my CCP gun (Springfield XD 4") 0.25" too tall to be legal. They don't give a hoot about my wallet - I don't stuff theirs. Disclaimer - current rules requiring the waste of ammo to be competitive and making some of the best/most fun range equipment (e.g. Texas Star) illegal also make me crazy so maybe I would have exited eventually either way.

Same set up. I never had issues either until I dropped a CZ during the draw (came forward with it before if was vertically clear of the holster), based upon the bullet impact mark between my feet the gun landed muzzle first. For what it is worth, not telling anybody else what to do just noting that with my kaboom and another kaboom noted on this forum somewhere and the r.o. fatality from a dropped gun I have become cautious. From Cajun Gun Works website "As with any competition grade non-firing pin block firing pin, it is not recommended to carry your CZ with a live round loaded in the chamber.". I do not see any similar verbiage on CZ Custom's website. To each their own, but personally I'm looking to get away from both or either extended fp and light fp spring in non FPB equipped CZ's. With federal primers I'm thinking that you can still get a reasonable weight double action and are not likely to even notice the increase in single action pull weight. Another FWIW, one of my CZ's was left oem on the firing controls except for a reduced weight hammer spring, it is 7# d.a., during a match I don't notice the difference except for that rare stage where the first shot must be a very difficult shot, I haven't attempted to reduce hammer spring weight further yet.