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20 hours ago, TheChewycookie said:
That feels like underselling their focused accomplishments by calling them exceptions.
Look at someone like Rob Leatham. He's still winning Single Stack national championships despite being over 60, has double knee replacements, and is due for another set of bionic knees. Is he an exception? No, he is a focused and experienced person doing what he's capable of.
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.
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3 hours ago, twodownzero said:
How serious a crime must one commit before it's unacceptable to flout the law?
I'm not sure there are any limits anymore as long as you have the political connections.
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19 minutes ago, CClassForLife said:
I agree that a person's physical peak is somewhere in their 20s. Does this mean that once this physical peak is passed that all of a sudden it is unreasonable to pursue one's potential? What's the point if you can't ever reach your best anymore?
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.
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13 hours ago, engineerjet said:
I can get pretty aggressive during the reloads
I would probably fix that first.
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35 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
The rules simply spell out the options if your ammo does NOT drop the popper. Regardless of anyone's opinion, that procedure clearly and consistently rewards accuracy and power.
Unless the calibration shooter gets an edge hit . . . . .
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28 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
again, it doesn't say that specifically, but it also doesn't say that a hit anywhere *should* drop a popper
I agree with you 100%, the rules don't tell you if a popper should always fall with a hit in the scoring zone and legal ammo.
29 minutes ago, motosapiens said:I'm not 'interpreting' anything,
'Taking a position' if you prefer.
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1 minute ago, motosapiens said:
fwiw, it seems to me that I am the one defending the current rules, and saying they work well, and as intended.
Maybe it is more correct to say that you are defending your opinion of how the rules are supposed to be interpreted. Again, if it says anywhere official that a hit in the calibration zone with match legal ammo should not drop poppers 100% of the time then that is great. Else, if we are going by opinions there will never be consistency.
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4 hours ago, motosapiens said:
sounds like you are trolling. IMHO, that's how it was designed, and that's how it should be.
Not trolling. I just think that IMHO does not matter - regardless of whose opinion it is.
"Rules, without them we live as animals"
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9 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
That means that some people are going to get a full-diameter hit low in the calibration zone with a sub-minor round. That's legal, but they should still get the mike if the popper doesn't fall. That's how the rules are written,
If the rules clearly state that a hit in the calibration zone with match legal ammunition should not drop a popper 100% of the time, I just flat can't find it.
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37 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
because everyone knows that the vast majority of calibration challenges are edge hits or low hits that should in fact be scored as a mike.
I guess I am not part of 'everyone'. In my opinion if you hit the target anywhere in the calibration zone with legal ammo then you have done your job and should always get your 5 points.
I have no problem at all with your opinion of how things should be, if they ever make it clear in the rules that your opinion (or mine) is the right one I think the dispute would die.
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On 10/10/2021 at 11:31 PM, YVK said:
Yesterday I failed to activate mag button twice in one match.
Failed to activate, or pushed too hard and bound the mag? It can be hard to tell exactly what happened after the fact.
With match adrenaline I had issues with the latter, bending the spring so you can only push the release so far was the fix for me.
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8 hours ago, Southpaw said:
I don't know source of the above quotes, but here's what NROI says about this:
Side issue, just a curiosity.
The person who wrote the referenced article was the instructor when I took the r.o. class.
When I came into the class I brought a couple questions with me that did not have a clear answer from my reading of the rules (dremeling maxwells on production guns prior to the production rules being revised was one of the questions, forgot the other one).
The instructor/author read the book the way I did and gave the answers I would have come to on my own.
Later on Troy got involved and the instructors answers were said to be wrong.
So, what I am wondering, are these "insights" articles to be taken as the gospel when they are not written by the head cheese? Perhaps they are approved by him prior to publishing?
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1 hour ago, varminter22 said:
We too have had to do this. I think it was fair. And better than throwing out multiple stages.
Unfair is when wind gusts are blowing the other way . . . . .
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8 hours ago, varminter22 said:
The rule book does not exempt Level 1 matches from the quoted rule.
So what is proper?
Not sure that question is being addressed. When I have the timer my opinion/philosophy/etc does not mean dee diddly squat - any call needs to be justifiable by opening the rule book.
36 minutes ago, Paul B said:3. Once CRO'd a match that in the afternoon a strong sustained wind was blowing down range. The kind of wind where you have to tighten up your hat or hold it on with muffs. The poppers set to any reasonable calibration would simply blow over all 4 poppers on the stage. In the end we had to set the poppers very heavy and repaint in between shooters. If we saw a hit we scored it that way even if the popper did not go down. Perhaps the stage should have been thrown out but it wasn't.
Even in the shooting sports we use common sense when we have to
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On 10/15/2021 at 5:47 PM, waterboy said:
I wish I still had my XD Tactical in 9mm. It was a great gun and would be a perfect starter gun for competition
My first XD is a 40 cal 4", it might be the last pistol I would sell. That gun came with a test target in the box just like CZ's do. I was so happy with the 4" that I ended up getting a later manufacture 5" in 40 and 9 and eventually an Xdm 9 when the 5" XDs disappointed.
Only the first XD came with the test target and only the first XD was anything special or what I would consider accurate enough to make me happy for IDPA and USPSA (40 loaded to 145 pf is just fun), so I've wondered if manufacturing tolerances or other aspects of quality control have cheapened over time.
My Xdm 9 still shows up at matches in another shooters hands (he is either production M or GM now) and he beats me like a red headed step child. Great gun, if I was smarter I would have never moved on from it.
IDPA changed their rules making the 4" XD illegal for CCP division (0.25" too tall - Glock was where the money was), so I quit paying IDPA dues.
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2 hours ago, Brooke said:
What are you saying?
That it doesn't take a $1500 TSO or the like for a shooter to make it to GM or belong on the super squad (ref. Bob Vogel for example) . Some of the everyday shooter priced plastic fantastics are flat out great guns.
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11 hours ago, shred said:
Around here they don't even want you taking a cab or an Uber or anything not involving a very trusted person. Because one of the last drugs they give you going under is an amnesia drug so you don't remember things you did while wide awake, even afterwards.
A nurse I know tells this story-- she got a colonoscopy and insisted with husband beforehand "when I'm done, we're going to Waffle House". She gets home and says "Hey! We didn't go to Waffle House!." He says "Yeah we did, here's the receipt".
Good point. The person with me when I had mine has had a lot of fun with it since she figured out that I didn't remember squat about what I did afterwards.
They really could insert an alien anal probe and you would not know the difference.
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12 hours ago, obsessiveshooter said:
It absolutely amazes me that people usually dive into a 2011 without checking out a TS/TSO first. The CZs just run and run and run and run. The peace of mind is priceless. It doesn't even cross my mind that my pistol might malfunction.
Agreed, but the Glock and XDM crowd might see the CZ as overkill if all you want to do is win matches.
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12 hours ago, obsessiveshooter said:
I thought I wanted a 2011 when I first started USPSA. Back then an STI Edge was the hot ticket. Fortunately for me, the local GM shot a Tanfo in Limited, so I was able to see early on that it really is the shooter.
I really like Tanfo's when they are right, but I have purchased 2 that do not shoot worth a darn and they are notorious (ask Patriot Defense or any outfit that makes parts for them) for lack of quality control. When that happens do not expect much from IFG.
Where I have gotten is to look for a used one that works well from a trusted seller.
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15 hours ago, Chills1994 said:
I just looked at the pilots for my RCBS trim pro.
The biggest pilot is for .45 cal.
Then .44 .
Then it jumps down to .35 cal .
Maybe RCBS sells a .40 cal pilot???
Alternatively, if you could ream out regular .40S&W brass primer pockets to take a large pistol primer.
Or if enough people got together and approached Starline brass about making a large batch of large primer’ed .40S&W brass .
Don't know how much it would matter, but when I was thinking of cutting brass another poster pointed out that 10mm is tapered.
40 for reference
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On 10/13/2021 at 10:05 AM, gargoil66 said:
We both know why too. The more vice like our grip is, the faster we can pull the trigger without moving the firearm in the process. Since I shoot revolver, grip strength is very critical in performance.
Not arguing, but I have seen a lot of guidance suggesting that you work on trigger control by trying to get the mechanics right while pulling the trigger rather than outmuscling the gun.
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4 hours ago, Dirty_J said:
The real problem is overzealous RO’s that call them on 178-179° when they aren’t 100% sure (as they should be) any time you’re going to make a call to end someone’s match.
At a level 2+ you have the luxury of positioning 3 people to watch the shooting, the running to weak side 180 break should be called correctly.
When there is just 1 r.o. and the other person is scoring ahead things get dicey. New r.o's tend to get nervous when they see a person is going to reload while moving to their weak side and the r.o.'s are usually positioned on the strong side so that they sort of have to look through your back to see the gun. I used to cock my strong hand wrist toward my strong side to avoid the 180 break but dropped that habit when I got dq'd by an r.o. who imagined how I had my wrist oriented and called the dq through my back with his x-ray vision - I've seen about the same thing happen to others on two or three occasions - beware the new r.o. on a learning curve.
When running a shooter I personally can't call a 181-190 break in real time with sufficient certainty to dq anybody. Past a certain point, say 200, they get easy to call even when everyone is moving and when the stage is not oriented square to the 180.
The best r.o. advice I've received on 180 calls is "you will know it when it happens", in other words the stuff that is not ticky tack is easy to see.
The best shooter advice I've been given is "don't let the r.o. make a mistake" , in other words make it very obvious where the gun is pointed when doing something that makes new r.o.'s nervous.
And yea, dqing people really sucks.
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5 minutes ago, pskys2 said:
Of course that depends on "if" one could find 10mm brass.
Given how high it is priced my solution was to buy enough factory ammo to make it through a match, use that brass forever on an as needed basis but otherwise shoot 40.
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On 9/26/2021 at 2:53 PM, jbauman915 said:
I never have gun issues with my guns unless its ammo related pretty much, but since I started shooting again a few weeks ago after a major support arm injury, I have been having periodic malfunctions with failure to feed due to limp wrist. I have a hard time gripping the gun still with support hand and after decades of shooting proper grip I sometimes forget I am monkey gripping with strong hand right now to make up for that. These guns are race cars and finely tuned with ammo, springs etc. If you fail to do your part and grip the gun proper each time, then you are changing the characteristics of what it was tuned for.
I have never been able to duplicate the issues some guns seem to have if they are not held tight, got curious one day and set up a test where the gun was fired (Sig 9mm in this case) without any grip pressure whatsoever and still couldn't force a ftf. At matches I also do not see folks getting ftf's on the weak hand or strong hand only classifiers.
Not picking on anybody or any gun, I just can't duplicate this often mentioned issue with my guns and if I could I think I would have to modify the gun so it would be reliable when fired weak hand only - maybe less slide spring weight?
Now that we have magnets, 4 or 5 pouches in Production?
in USPSA/IPSC Shooting
Posted · Edited by IHAVEGAS
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.