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"Aim small miss small" ?
Missing easy steal and swingers is I think a subset of what you are talking about.
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" I felt it was just best to take the DQ out of good sportsmanship. "
You are a better person than I am, this happens a lot.
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Got my first. leaned through a port to shoot down range. as I pulled back out and started heading down range my muzzle caught the port wall. RO didn't even call it. Someone behind him did as his angle was bad. RO wasn't sure so I asked the two dudes who saw it and they both said yea just barely but past 180.
I was 8 shots in to the match and ended up ROing the rest of the day.
Well, got that over with.
Guess it's therapeutic to vent!
Maybe you earned a dq and maybe you didn't, I was in the same situation and got a 180 call from the cheap seats that turned out to be close but only that when I saw it on video later. People tend to panic when you start taking 95% of the 180 degrees that you own and tend to call 160's .
After review my take aways were;
Work more on never getting too close to the 180
If you are not running the shooter or the timer then there is no reason for you to try and make borderline calls from the sidelines
If you are the shooter and the r.o. didn't call it and there is any doubt then just keep shooting and enjoy the match.
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I bought the accu shadow. I am a mediocre at best at shooting USPSA.. I got it so there would be no doubt in my mind if the trouble was my old worn out beretta Elite 2, or me. I am SURE its both. By taking one thing out of the equation, i can focus on improving me. Make sense?
You would have had me just at 'it is my money and I wanted one', but I think your logic is valid.
Right now I have an old beat up SP01 that I bought third hand & at a good price & I have the new hoity toity LS, it is a toss up which one I am going to end up making my match gun. They both do the job well and have their pro's & cons.
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I started with a .170 but actually ended up needing a .150 to get my 91154 Shadow hitting correct at 25 yards
Worth noting that the sight I purchased direct from Dawson was already drilled whereas I had to drill the sight I purchased from Shooter's Connection
I've only drilled one sight, worked fine but made me nervous about the bit potentially taking metal off of the slide. If there is a next time maybe I can dull the sides of the bit with a stone first, may not be necessary but I worry about these things.
Just a data point, I think the Dawson 0.185 will be right for me with my SP01 and CGW fixed rear.
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.090" wide without it being a custom order. That sight would sell like hot cakes if they did. Actually, .085" wide would be perfect.
I have only had one 0.090, and it broke off during a match, maybe just a freak occurence thing if they are holding up ok for you ?
Not impossible that I bumped it at some point in its life I suppose.
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Really would like to run Clays & 147, but the manufacturers load data has me a bit squeamish (ok, too squeamish), they stop at 130 grain max bullet weight and their max loads don't make minor http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/pistol .
Anyone know of load data that would make a person feel a bit more comfortable ?
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Did the .170 work?
Took a while to settle on a load and get back to the gun, life gets in the way.
Anyway, the .170 did what it should have (based on shooting with a Dawson .150 and then using their handy dandy formula on their website).
I should have paid the extra $10.00 and waited the extra 3 weeks for a 0.185 though. I will play with shooting 12 o'clock sight picture 0-15 yards and aiming a smidge below desired point of impact on the occasional longer shot, might learn something about how I do with 12 versus point of aim in the process, and then I will cuss and order the 0.185
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Jack, stop listening to BS and do what you like.
Life is risky. Worrying about a one in a hundred millionth occurrence of a primer hitting a corner of the slide on the way out is just dumb when there are other things much more likely to kill or injure us.
Valid.
I really like knowing about risks (be they great or small) though, after that what you decide is what you decide.
In movement shooting sports I think the highest probability risk is probably not gun or ammo related, running around obstacles as fast as you can with your eyes and mind focused on targets leads to the occasional impressive hard face flop. There is also the thing about heat stroke & heart attack, for a lot of folks running and getting the heart rate up does not happen outside of a match.
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I am now a vendor and have them ready to ship custom within a week.
If I'm looking at things right my guess is that your holster works with your hanger and there is probably not an option that would work with a Stoeger BOSS hanger?
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When I was at Miami Rifle and Pistol in Cincinnati it really put a knot in the pantyhose of the guy that cut the grass. He really, REALLY hated to run over those live rounds in the pistol pits with the mower.
Another one of those things that makes you go hmmm. I helped on a 32 round stage at a large match this year, probably picked up 50 + - live rounds laying in the rocks/dirt of the shooting area, some before it was stomped on and some after it had been stomped one or more times, it is interesting that a whole lot of people can stomp on a whole lot of live ammo and you never hear of an issue.
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http://czcustom.com/comp-tacrhcz7585sp01.aspx
We have this comp-tac . Works for the long slide
Well, it was supposed to work for the long slide
.Bought one from comp-tac (you guys did not have the color I wanted) & I'm assuming that they told you by now that the spacer dimension does not work for the LS. Any inside info on what and when for a fix / redesign ?
Interesting..here is a holster out of package with LS-P out of the box. perfect fit. maybe ours are special
Hmmm.
If the difference is that you have a different diameter / different material plug that seems like an easy fix. If it is kydex material dimension tolerance or maybe plug screw hole location tolerance that would make the cheese more binding.
My gun would go in tight, but so tight that the compressible tubing around the plug screw held it too well for a reasonable draw. It might have been ok for somebody that wanted a carry holster and didn't care about competition though.
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http://czcustom.com/comp-tacrhcz7585sp01.aspx
We have this comp-tac . Works for the long slide
Well, it was supposed to work for the long slide
.Bought one from comp-tac (you guys did not have the color I wanted) & I'm assuming that they told you by now that the spacer dimension does not work for the LS. Any inside info on what and when for a fix / redesign ?
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"I hope they are filling those barrels behind the target with sand or clean dirt. When shot at just the correct angle, a bullet can be deflected around the inner curve of the barrel and exit through the side. Several local clubs use 50 gallon plastic barrels as vision barriers and I've heard bullets whizzing around inside the barrel when someone hit the barrel at just the right angle."
It does sound pretty impressive when a bullet enters the barrel just right and circles for a while!
No media is in the barrels I was referring to, I'm not sure that the risk is any different between a barrel at 5 yards and a barrel at 15 or so yards though. The bullets are hitting the barrel at the same speed for practical purposes.
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I've witnessed open port detonation 3 times. All 40s. Twice at local matches. Once at the USPSA 3gun national event in Tulsa. The event in Tulsa required surgery.
More interesting, and scary, was when a friend and I were downrange pasting targets at a local match. He reached up and grabbed the top of his ear which was bleeding on both sides. A bullet fragment from the bay next door had come OVER the berm and gone through his ear.
That was the day I bought some wrap around shooting glasses from Rudy Project.
I didn't see it, a friend saw an ammo flip detonation that he said he thought required 3 hand surgeries to repair (might have only been two though, he was not sure). I did not ask the caliber.
No blood, but got a good whack in the era muff from a rock flying from an adjacent bay. Didn't know what happened, I was doing unload and show clear and about the same instant I closed the slide, whack, my first thought was that I must have set off a round somehow although that did not explain the thump I felt. Have noticed since that that club places barrels behind targets that result in a close shot with the bullet going into the rocks, thought being that this will help cut down on rocks flying.
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Hopefully you will be able to change the title of this post to "My one and only, and last, DQ".
If you don't quit and do keep pushing I think you can count on the occasional DQ.
Many examples out there of pro's who still have the unfortunate experiences at this or that match. At my last match, two very good shooters and very experienced R.O.'s DQ'd.
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I can't explain why, but it gets easier. I'm about the third year into shooting USPSA and the second year into shooting multiple matches per month.
First two years this made me crazy. This year so far I have missed one target & that was because I was overconfident about my plan and did not count targets.
Perhaps part of the why is that I recognize the problem and now try to give myself a minimum of an hour to walk through a six stage local match. Usually the full hour is not needed unless the designer has gone crazy with memory stages, but it is nice to be very relaxed about things.
On bigger matches, more walk through and maybe bring your own lunch so you are reviewing the afternoon stages instead of waiting in a line for food.
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Finally got around to doing something useful.
Loading 147 s & n coated at 1.135, had run some 1.14 - 1.145 loads with no issues but I prefer the safety margin.
75 degrees f.
3.0 titegroup in an SP01 (not a shadow) gave me 866, 873, 855, 864.
Same load in a LS gave me 877,876,841,888. I expected to see more of a difference.
2.8 in an LS gave me 814, 832, 859, 853, 825, 844 did not try any in the SP.
Oh, for reference 850.3 fps = 125 pf.
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After I posted, realized I may have WSF highjacked the thread. Not what was originally asked. Sorry Raven.
You should indeed feel deep shame.
Now if you had said something comparing results with Clays or Clay Dot or Bulls eye, or had asked if anyone had also chrono'd the loads in a LS, that would be ok.
All that said, since the WSF data is an interesting option in these days of uncertain powder availability (and the original question has been pretty well covered) , I can be forgiving, don't know about Raven though.
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CZ-75 CTS LP P
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We had 3 CZ-75 CTS LS-P at the local match on Saturday. So much for being unique!
I think it is a plot. It is like whoever makes you a nice gun is already making plans to sell a lot more of them.
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I load SNS 147s at 1.13 with 3 grains TG 130PF.
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No lube groove ?
I forgot whether they changed the design or have always been no groove.
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For those of you bold enough to say so, who entertains the possibility of making GM despite giving a lot of shooters a multi-decade head start?
My dreams are more along the lines of B class and regular bowel movements.
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CZ-75 CTS LP P
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Ok, I know I am being lazy and I could do a search and all that baloney.
But.
I just bought a buttload of sns 147 grain lead. Anyone have an oal figured out that works well for this lead in this gun ??
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CZ-75 CTS LP P
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How do they feel different? Larger, smaller? Could it be the different trigger? Thanks
When I have the gun in my version of a correct grip:
SP01 - Pressure from the back of my gun to my strong hand is high toward the lower portion of the gun (where the main spring housing would be in a 1911) and low in the web between thumb and forefinger.
CTS - Pressure feels more equal top to bottom
Effect to me is that SP01 feels more secure getting to hand from the draw and CTS feels more 'right' when shooting. I prefer the CTS for my particular human construction (about average sized hands for a 6'1" guy a bit on the skinny side) , but maybe the next person would prefer the SP01 and the next two people after that would be equally happy with both.
Seeing the aim point, not just the target
in Handgun Techniques
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Understood.
I think it is a common thing to find some targets that make you define a different aiming zone. For me it was learning to aim at an acceptable (smaller) area on steels rather than just the center of the round part & on movers I still have a thing about aiming at the center of the brown thing. When I shoot steels reliably the guy in my head is seeing the sight on a smaller circular target within the larger circular area.