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Pick classifiers that are actually field courses. I don't believe the stand and shoot classifiers are a true reflection of skill level.
A different way to put it is that some classifiers don't seem to proportionately value match skills.
Classifiers like "can you count" (5 shots point blank range - reload repeat) seem like a waste of ammo.
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Many people don't know anything, that guy doesn't even suspect anything.
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"When he was born, the Doctor slapped his mother"
Rodney Dangerfield, paraphrased
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I find the discussion interesting.
USPSA is a franchise model. When a club (landowner), chooses to affiliate, the are choosing to operate a franchise of the USPSA matches.
Think about it like this. If I franchisee of McDonalds signs the agreement but then decides to only service Big Mac's with mustard instead of "special sauce" because it's healthier, what do you think the reaction would be? Both from those that stop in and like Big Mac's despite it being "safer"? What about McDonalds corporate for messing with their brand - even in the name of health?
What's stopping a restauranteur from creating their own restaurant with their own menu - calling it better? But then call it McDonalds?
Truth told, it might vary well be a minor local rule - but how do we evaluate those local rules - if we allow a minor non-match affecting modification without evaluation, what does that set up for a precedent? Who does the evaluation?
That's why there is a process for a local exemption process. Maybe no ammo in the safety area is something easily handled through that? This is actually one of the misunderstood rules that people make assumptions without understanding. I've had several people try and warn me about going into the safety areas with ammo from the beginning until recently.
What does one get when agreeing to affiliate with USPSA? Well, you get a standardized rule set, national pool of members to draw from, a classification system, a series of championship matches from section, area and nationals and a common set of experience for members to share in. Each club, has to determine the value that USPSA brings to them and whether it's worth addressing the rules differences and accepting them. I know that, despite being a local group of newer and experienced shooters, our indoor club experiences benefits and benefit USPSA as we've have many shooters that show up for "classifier night" as well as have developed a ton of USPSA competitors, officials and match designers.
Specific areas are suffering from a lack of resources, and I can understand Vlad's frustration. The fact remains, though, it's not just to be a rule nazi, or USPSA apologist, but expectations are that as a landowner if you affiliate with USPSA, that you can host the match as required. While those of you will call it landowner prerogative, not a DQ, but refusing or expelling someone for not following a local rule, why bother affiliating in the first place.
Very well written.
For what it is worth, it is often the case in my part of the world that local clubs do not choose to affiliate with the various shooting sports. Rather, a portion of the local club members or in some circumstances an independent group of enthusiasts, desire to use club facilities for shooting sports and attempt to make the sports happen within the framework of the club.
Standing in front of a diverse group of club board members and making the case that "this and that safety rule should be temporarily waived because this particular sport feels they are too restrictive", can be a pretty tough deal to close. Particularly because some of the more restrictive rules are adopted in reaction to unfortunate events.
Having enjoyed USPSA and other orginization matches that were shot within a tightened local safety requirement or two (announced at the pre-shoot meetings or by signage) and not having witnessed any pain from same, it seems like there is some merit to the go along and get along approach. Perhaps there had been advanced approval from the home office for tightened restrictions, I do not know.
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Hmmmm, seems like in every other similar instance that comes to mind there is always a clause that says "Parent orginization XYZ's safety regulations shall be followed along with any local regulations that are more restrictive".
Usually worded much better than that.
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First question is why 9mm?
Why not 40 and shoot major?
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$'s ?
Besides cheaper lead it seems a lot easier to find 9mm brass laying about.
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I had always heard that the higher the bore axis the more muzzle flip the gun would generate,
I suspect that this is strictly accurate in the case of revolvers & perhaps all single action rifles and pistols and shotguns.
When you look at where the recoil force is applied in semi-auto pistols it does not seem reasonable that you can discount guide rod elevation, striker spring reset action & etc. Perhaps you can just look at the one thing and ignore the rest of the gun, I don't claim expertise, but this seems like one of those apples and oranges comparisons.
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Muscles, as previously noted, would get my vote, not necessarily arm muscles alone though. I think the question is similar to 'why do most people shovel snow to their left?', 'Why is a persons best move to the basket normally to his right?', etc..
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The reason you hear the bore axis comment so much about the XD and the XDm is because there is a huge difference between the muzzle flip/control between the XD/XDm and the Glock platform. I own both the XD 9 Tactical and the XDm 5.25 fully accessorized and the difference when shooting the 2 platforms is readily apparent. I love the refined look and feel of the XD's, the grip angle, grip size and the adjustable sights on the XDm are great out of the box features but when you shoot these guns side by side with Glock, MP or even Ruger's SR9 the control difference is a no contest. I have not measured the difference in bore axis between the 2 but the difference is easily seen and felt. I would be the first person in line to purchase another XD pistol if the barrel and slide were lowered more into the frame. The 2 pistols I have are 100% reliable and both are super accurate just as they came out of the box and with the addition of tungsten guide rods and mag wells to add a little weight and the excellent PRP trigger kits they are a much refined polymer pistol to be sure. I purchased these 2 pistols for my wife to shoot because she loved the way the grip felt in her smaller hands but because she cannot hold on to them during long strings of shooting steel they very rarely ever get shot now.
I realize that this post is not going to win any friends on here but through all the bore axis comments in this post no one actually mentioned shooting the 2 platforms side by side and this is what you will need to do in order to form a good opinion. Once you do this the bore axis comments will make a lot more sense, I in no way wish to start any animosity but this is the truth as I have experienced it.
Disclaimer - My only experience here is with 9mm 125 - 135 power factor competition loads. Larger caliber / hotter loads might make things different.
For me, my Glock 34 was a lot harder to control for follow up shots than either my XD's or the 5.25 XDm (sold now, I prefer the XD's). In my case I think it was about the particulars of the gun/human interaction rather than the inherent nature of the guns. The Glock did not point naturally for me (I'm one of those who would be a natural bird hunter with a Glock) so I think I was always fighting the gun to bring the muzzle down rather than things happening sort of naturally with the XD. The perception I get going back and forth is just that the XD makes things easier, recoil with either at minor pf does not seem like much.
In any case, side by side comparisons to find out what works best for the individual makes a lot of sense.
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That's why I need to work on my stage planning.
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Me too. Have added ghost reloads & etc to my walk throughs, which seems to help and am lucky enough to have access to much better shooters who are happy to help me with the planning stuff, which really really seems to help.
The other thing that I learned from my oopsie (actually from talking stuff through with more experienced shooters after the fact) was that things look different to different folks depending upon where they are standing during the event. If your gun is pointing to your left and someone is watching from behind and to your left you may get 180 calls from the cheap seats starting somewhere around 165, the angles can allow a spooky view around then and folks can get excited when it is real time and they don't know where the gun is going to stop. The big kids tell me that what the R.O. says happened is what happened.
This isn't a comment on whether or not you broke the 180 (alma may be right, I just don't know), but I though the "listen to the R.O. and ignore the other stuff" advice was good info.
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My last oopsie was a 180 degree problem doing what you were doing at about 1:25 (right handed shooter moving backwards and to the left during reload, your body is already angled left and the muzzle goes to a more severe angle as you bring the gun in to your body ).
I couldn't tell if you got close to the 180 in the vid, so this is just a for what it is worth. Since my recent unfortunate event I tend to look for such things
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"I think more is made about the bore axis then the reality of it being a hinderance."
I think it is one of those things that we lay people focus on because it is easy to see and measure. It seems likely that marketing people are also quick to pick up on this for the same reason.
A skilled mechanical engineer could take a look at the entire spring/mass system of gun 'a' versus gun 'b' and probably give a fair evaluation of relative recoil performance. Most likely the reports would be boring to read though so we would probably still elect to stick with the 'bore axis' thing
. As I sit here with gun in hand pondering the guns reaction when fired I wonder about things like recoil spring axis & slide weight & etc.. -
I do the same thing when my head goes into a 'close target' mode. Live fire practice with difficult shots and dry fire practice with same seems to be helping. At a match just telling myself not to rush the sight picture or follow through seems to help also (adrenaline seems to take care of the rush part so telling myself that I don't need to rush the gun does not seem to hurt anything).
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I picked up a used 4" that is impressively accurate. Later I bought a 5" and am struggling to hit with it.
Anyway, the 4" had a 10 meter target group included with the paperwork in the box, the 5" didn't, a friend said the sample target is supplied by Springfield if they do warranty or custom work on a gun. If you have a similar 10m group with yours that may be a clue.
If you don't enjoy the mystery you could probably just email Springfield with the serial number and ask.
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I like to down a few shots before the match to get a bit loose & on an even keel.
The other thing I'm working on is a pre-buzzer mantra for me, for every stage not just first stage. It will probably be something like 'be smooth - see the front sight', but, counterintuitively "I am behind - this needs to be my best stage all day" seems like it is helping me to focus, possibly replacing nervous thoughts with thoughts about the need to execute? . If memory serves I think Benos had a mantra that he shared either on this forum or in his very excellent book. I was not serious about the shots.
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If they are the real deal and you're geting them for 1/3 retail then that's a helluva deal.
The real ones are made by forced labor in Chinese prisons, for 1/3 you get shoes made by juvenile deliquents and the occasional jaywalker.
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I got shipped 11's too! And I ordered 12.5...oh well...if anyone wants 11's pm me. They look fine...just the wrong size :-)
Pm ed.
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huh.. First I've heard of this problem. Going to have to research it now
If you search for coefficient of thermal expansion, it looks like the plastic part of the gun should contract 2-10 times more than the metal (not sure about which plastic is the right one to pick on the tables, 2 is roughly best case and 10 is roughly worst case).
Don't know if this is the thing about the thing, but it seems like a reasonable theory.
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Just curious - why are so many shooters fans of Salomon shoes?
Because ballet shoes aren't trendy
(yet, I'm betting on the soft ones to be the thing next year).
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Bought a used 4" XD and liked the thing so much that I added a full size.
Accuracy with the tactical so far is a lot worse than with the shorter version (group size at least double). I do not like this.
Haven't played with loads so far, was hoping that you folks might have some sage wisdom about what load works for you or what kind of accuracy you are getting out of the gun (or if there is a lemon every now and then).
Thanks!!
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The same thing happened to a friend, he made it through the match by putting those hand warmer thingies on the gun between stages.
Both of my XD's failed the freezer test at first.
I'm kind of suprised that prp doesn't say something about cold weather proofing on their vids or written instructions.
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Mix 5qts of Mobil 1 5w-20 and 1qt of Castor GTX 10w-40. Run it in a motor, at temp for 7 mins. Drain it into a clean aluminum pan (a plastic one will not work, as those heated hydrocarbons with adhere to the plastic). Immediately add 6 cups of M2C-33G approved automatic transmission fluid, as the polyalphaolefins molecules in the engine oil will bond with the ATF's kinematic viscosity modifiers, to produce what is know as a polypalesian compound. After cooling at room temperature in humidity less than 70% (if your in humidity greater then 70% 8oz of organic vegetable oil will need to be added), remove the top layer of oil (as this is where the majority of the monopalesian compound will collect, as the polyalesian compound is heavier) and discard. The remaining mixture is the best lube for an STI. You'll see best results if you use within 7-8 months, as the compound bonding will begin to separate and you can start to get oxidilysis.
I've heard that if you use this mixture on your Retroencabulator's hydrocoptic marzul vanes that side fumbling will be effectively prevented.
Depends upon the porosity of the flocculate.
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The STI manual used to say to stay away from grease / gun butter. I don't have any idea why or if they changed it.
I had an Edge like gun built and asked the gun smith what he recommended. "30 weight synthetic, and if you don't get oil on your shooting glasses after cleaning then you probably didn't use enough" , he was half kidding about the oil and I think he might have said 10-30 if he lived in the cooler climes, but for what it is worth.
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If you are talking STI, they changed the design a bit recently. Bought an Edge last year & the RM bound on reassembly after cleaning & locked up the slide. It was a real pain to ship back to STI as the local UPS place didn't want to ship because they couldn't rack it and verify an empty chamber.
Had STI just get rid of the thing & send it back with a standard guide rod, which I prefer for the convenience of fiddling with springs.
STI may have changed the design back to original or otherwise fixed the problem by now, don't know how often the issue occurred but do know that other folks have had the same problem.
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The 180 rule usually comes into effect running let or right and doing so while attempting a reload. It was suggested to me , as a right handed shooter , I rotate my wrist clockwise running to my right or strong hand. The opposite should be used running to the left or weak hand. Hope this helps. It has helped me.
Wish I'd have read this advice a little sooner . . . .
Other thing.
They had a course recently where you sort of had to start at a side and run along an oval shape, this had you moving more sideways but slightly backwards for the first few targets. When not reloading I've tried to get in the habit of sort of following the gun. When preparing, I followed my pointed but unloaded finger as it broke the 180 while traversing the oval. It is so much nicer to catch this stuff rather than get caught by it. Respecting the 180 is something I first thought that I would just know to do automatically, but now I think of it as something I need to look out for.
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What do you do when an RO in your opinion is taking too long to do thi
in USPSA/IPSC Shooting
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That is like saying that since granny can still make it through K-mart then she ought to do the mowing and maybe bail a bit of hay when she gets home. All people learn differently if they live long enough.
I'm lucky enough to be able to do all that is needed of me, but at 58 some days I need to grab a sit down when I can or suffer the consequences, & the need is greater with others of increased age or worsened health.
Sometimes it is a clue to relax. I know the problem but sometimes the answer is just not to let it upset you.