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My Tanfo production guns are good for about 10,000 trigger pulls before the lightest weight hammer spring stops reliably lighting off deep seated federal primers. CZ is a different animal though, so I was curious.

Cajun gun works was a slight interference fit on my CZ compact, impressive actually, I do not know if that is typical.

I had Cajun Gun works mill my CZ compact (picked a sight & went with direct milling I prefer less slide weight and a dot height closer to the iron sights height). They did a great job.

Was wondering how many trigger pulls the lightest hammer spring is good for before it gets weak enough to cause light strikes.

Ideally, eventually the competitor will get the right call, or no call. I find discussions of this stuff, including devil's advocate questions or commentary, to be instructive.

I don't disagree. It took a while to get my head around why I can do the same thing with the same gun but it is only a penalty if I am using the gun for production. Since the production ruling is part of Appendix D4 rather than the main body of the rule book and spelled out very clearly, that explains that.

Any idea how many rounds/dry fires that spring is good for in the sp01?

Agreed. 100% . Something I have done after a shooter told me I missed a 180 call was have him stand where I was standing (right side of right handed shooter shooting to his left) while I stood where the shooter was and then ask him if he could have made the call with certainty in real time while he and the shooter were both moving. Seems like sharing perspectives makes things smoother sometimes.

145 pf 180 grain 40 minor rocks! Enough oomph to drop poppers fast, pleasant to shoot, easy to control. Confused about your 40 Eagle. I found a write up saying the gun was available either with bushing or cone but that write up did not say if bushing was available in all calibers, link below shows what appears to be 40 bushing. https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/pistols/sti-international-pistols/--sti-eagle-5-0--40s-w--pr39811-.cfm?gun_id=101069406

???? I've run the same gun in the same caliber at IDPA level 2 matches under the old rules, one of the guys that used to write for the IDPA magazine and who has won several matches shot an Eagle 9mm.

The r.o. was positioned to his gun hand side and the shooters body blocked the r.o.'s view of the gun? Just guessing, happens at locals where you effectively only have one range official because the guy with the score pad is scoring ahead.

h A word of caution, oem Tanfo firing pins can vary in both design and overall length - they also can deform from hammer strikes and effectively measure shorter over time. Two Tanfo oem pins above from stock 2's. I guess 2 words of caution, when I checked the function of my firing pin stop with an aftermarket pin on one gun I found out that the stop no longer worked, I think the problem was due to a small difference in diameter but that is a guess.

And it is clearly not hammer down. As I understand it the move to open for a production gun is based upon the ready condition not being as specified in section 8.1.2 . If that is the basis of the move I don't see anything in the rules that would mean a limited gun is not subject to the same criteria when not in one of the described ready conditions. EDIT; Since it specifically states (production gun special conditions 1) the move to open in 1 case - but says nothing along those lines in the other - I think you are correct.

That one is kind of interesting. I don't see anything in the 8.1 section rules or the definitions that specifies whether half cocked is treated as cocked or as hammer down so I suppose somebody could see this as a dq under 10.5.11.2 . For production guns appendix D4 "special conditions 1" sez "Manually decocking to the half-cocked position is not allowed and will result in the competitor being moved to open division" so I reckon that is that. For limited there is not any special condition under D2/D3 so I guess the assumption you would make is to treat them the same as production guns - no dq, welcome to open.

The 2's look nicer and I think are a fine gun, but the original shadows (sp01) point naturally for me, from the draw with the 2 I was duck hunting.

Sometimes choosing the easy way for a few instead of the best way for the many is the hardest way for all. How long does it take to write an addendum? Agree with avoiding the new book expense.

I'd see that as coaching and if the competitor was unhappy with his move to open I would point him to the 8.1 example of starting with an empty chamber due to a mental error "the competitor is always responsible for the handling of the firearm". If it was a local match and nobody really cared about scores then I can't see where it would make much difference either way. When people do care about scores and placements then you can't give one person a break without hurting the people they are competing with, and you can get into a righteous mess negotiating between the break you gave one person and the different break you didn't give another. Just opinion.

Thank you for that correction, sold my Shadow 2 and did not remember that difference.

It is not the way USPSA works sometimes. As a lifelong engineer who has dealt with much more complicated situations than a shooting match and much thicker "rule books" my observation is that much of the rules grief is self induced due to an unclear book that no one is attempting to continuously improve. Your legal example is valid, when things are left unclear debate is created.

Serious question, why should anybody care about somebody else's philosophy? If it ain't writ it don't mean s#!t (should have been a poet).

That is an easy dq call for me, flat out dangerous. That is how my r.o. instructor told the class to do it, and the only path I can see to consistency. Would like to see many of the NROI survey write ups end with "and this is what we changed to eliminate the confusion" .

My experience exactly. For majors I would add a 5th to the belt just for the once in a blue moon need, for locals their is enough junk weighting my pants down already without adding a mag & ammo I do not need.

Leatham was/is an unusually gifted natural athlete who was looking at a basketball scholarship prior to injuring his knee. It would be nice if everyone had a high i.q. and excellent vision-reflexes-general health etc but it is just a fact that most of us do not have the God given abilities to compete with Einstein or Micheal Jordan or TGO. If God built you to be a jockey but you think you can be a great NBA center or rocket scientist you will just make yourself miserable. Not implying that many can not compete well if they work hard at it.

I'm not sure there are any limits anymore as long as you have the political connections.

When the point is something outside of just having fun with good friends: 1. Those with good vision/health/reflexes/drive make it to gm, and spend a lot of time and money doing it. The "I'm getting better and this is fun" stage. 2. 90+% (guess based on observation) get burned out with all of the time/money involved to maintain their level of performance & either quit or adjust their goals more towards that of a casual shooter. For what it is worth. The biggest shooting challenge seems to be keeping shooting fun and worth the money and effort in the long term.