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Any wild rumors, total fabrications, or even potential facts about delivery dates for either Stock 1's or limited pros?
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16 hours ago, motosapiens said:
Buy Lanny Bassham's book
if you need to.Everybody could do well to read it & and absorb it, in my opinion.
Does Brian still sell that here?
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2 hours ago, Racinready300ex said:
I'm cool with that too, but I've also shot stages that took a couple people 30 mins just to figure out how to shoot all the targets. And unless you get there the day before or someone tells you exactly what to do you're hosed. One that comes to mind, I was pretty new and had a more experienced shooter not said told me exactly what targets to shoot from each location I never would of got it. And it still took me more than 5 min. That I don't like.
Makes perfect sense.
The extremes of anything kind of suck.
Last summer I shot a stage that had a 25 yard dash followed by a 30 yard dash, and most of the r.o.'s & scorekeepers were over 50. The very fleet of foot were happy though, but I think even they got tired of the hike for pasting.
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On 8/4/2018 at 4:05 AM, Hi-Power Jack said:
If they PLUNK in your barrel, there is NO problem.
Bet the other five will probably also successfully fire in your gun
But, just to be sure, I take the five that do NOT Plunk, and put them
in my practice pile - most go bang anyway
I have about a 10-15% reject rate on 9mm, using a 100 round gauge from Ben Stoeger pro shop (money well spent even though not cheap).
I don't care. The 85% go in the big pile & the 10-15% go into the practice only pile. Can't remember the last time that I had any issues with rounds from either pile.
Dies wise, I have the EGW size die as well as the Lee U die, they are both fine but I prefer the former. EGW seems to give the same amount of improvement but with less effort.
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1 hour ago, Racinready300ex said:
Another reason to have shooting challenges and not memory challenges.
I like that as a general rule, but everybody likes the occasional opportunity to do what they excel at. I expect and am fine with seeing the occasional track meet guy stage & the occasional bulls eye shooter stage as well as the occasional head scratcher.
What is less fun for me is when you get a whole lot of just one type of stage.
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7 minutes ago, 223to45 said:
Should be able to make 5 or 6 easy walk thoughs . Shouldn't need any " alone time ".
Sometimes you can not even make 1 reasonably clean walk through on a complex stage with multiple options, 5 or more shooting positions and a dozen people trying to go this way and that all at the same time.
But in general on an average stage I think you are correct.
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18 minutes ago, Mcfoto said:
At the monthly matches I attend, when I am on deck many times I'm not given "private" time. While there are the diligent re-setters who are busy taping, there are a few who are running the stage as well who can be rather aggressive and get in the way. My understanding of USPSA etiquette is the on deck shooter should have priority in "air gunning" the stage. Apparently in practice that is not the case.
On very rare occasions when that happens I say something about it and then that fixes it.
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On a complex memory stage with a big squad it can be a big deal, particularly for those shooters who did not have the option of spending good quality time planning the stage before the match.
Often courtesy is shown to the person who will be first, but not always.
I guess if it was me and I could not prepare I would tell the r.o. I was not ready and ask to be dropped down the order.
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1 hour ago, davsco said:
in the interests of PR and customer relations
You treat everyone the same, we all eat the entry fee(s) or nobody eats the fee(s).
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On 8/26/2018 at 10:05 PM, pbRex said:
I would much rather make it look like something from the factory.
It is a Tanfo, no matter what you do everyone will think it came that way from the factory.
The mag opening on my 40 stock 2 looked like the gun was cast during an earthquake.
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23 hours ago, Andyk said:
A couple years ago I got DQed at a Tier 2, first stage, first gun. Since I had not fired a round yet on the second gun, I thought it would be fair to transfer that entry to my daughter. MD didn't see it that way.
1 hour ago, davsco said:i'm not advocating for a refund, that's different.
If I understood Andyk correctly he inquired if his match fee (entry) could be used to allow his daughter to shoot, which is the same as getting a cash refund and applying it to another shooter.
Maybe I misunderstood .
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11 minutes ago, pskys2 said:
I understand and agree. But it is still a switch not a carrot.
+1
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11 minutes ago, pskys2 said:
DQ is a punishment.
I think of it as a training tool and a means of protection.
As an r.o. I am not in the punishment business.
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12 hours ago, davsco said:
that's kinda crappy. what's it take, a minute, to add/replace a shooter on a nook?
I think the MD's obligation would be in following the rules and treating everyone equal. To the best of my knowledge the rules do not allow a cash refund or ,friend-family-somebody who will pay you for the entry, reassignment option for the second entry.
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1 hour ago, assaulter said:
I'm not ragging on anyone. I'm merely posing a question as to whether this is the standard that STI cuts their slides to, in the experience of the gun builders on enos.
That is the way I read it also, fair question, was responding to some of the negative commentary which may or may not be warranted.
Else, I do not pretend to know how to build a gun.
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Well . . . .
Tanfo outsmarted me, again.
Installed bolo a few weeks back - s.a. seemed right - just a bit of pre-travel like I prefer so I figured the bolo arc was just fine - d.a. travel was short but set off my federals ok - figured I'd shoot 1000 rounds or so & then get the bolo tweaked to fix the d.a. .
Upon shortening bolo I could not do squat to get hammer travel where it ought to be - eventually shortened past the point of "this can't be right" & started looking elsewhere.
I have no idea why the single action felt right before - or why the d.a. worked at all - but eventually figured out I needed to take more material out of the arc on the bolo as it was not able to drop down enough for the wing to get behind the trigger bar .
Now everything feels exactly right & d.a. is fine (new bolo & height not changed only took a bit off arc) , s.a. feels pretty much exactly the same except I have a smidge less pre-travel.
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1 hour ago, Sarge said:
I wonder if they just assume these will be worked over during the build.
That is what I was thinking. Before publicly ragging on any vendor they should get a chance to comment. Could be that the typical customer does not want to pay for more finish work that will be wasted anyway.
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Probably worth asking them if and why they think it is ok before getting upset about it.
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8 hours ago, blacklab said:
That's why I feel for the first offence there should have been a warning not a DQ. If there would have been a second offence then yes a DQ because then she would be showing she was just careless.
A warning for a soft sweep (say something during load and make ready that seemed pretty harmless) and a warning for a hard sweep as well (somebody with a 1.5-2lb trigger brings the gun fully across his weak arm while moving and opening a door as fast as he can during a stage & as an r.o. it scares the snot out of you)?
If different penalties for high risk sweep versus low risk sweep is there a way to write the rules so they are crystal clear?
Other thing, as r.o. I've been the recipient of a high risk sweep to my center mass a couple of times (when it happens it seems like it is always a 45 that looks like a frigging cannon barrel), if I could not have dq'd the person I would have gone home myself.
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1 hour ago, Akkid17 said:
I believe they have a rule that specifically states you must have a slide mounted optic. And I believe that came about due to someone winning a bigger CO match without a dot on the gun. I’d have to run down the rule to be certain
Appendix D7 - 13
Optical/electronic sights REQUIRED; must be
attached
directly to slide between rear of slide
and ejection port, and may not be mounted to
the frame in any way
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8 minutes ago, alecmc said:
I personally dont care for that argument ( too much reloading )
Everybody has things they do or do not like. For me reloading is a fundamental gun skill and a fun part of the overall challenge. My don't like is when a match seem to put greater emphasis on track meet skills than gun skills.
That said.
Limited time, you need to choose a gun type and go with it, and significant investment, by the time you have gamer gun, gamer gun rig, gamer gun accessories, sensible spares, you can be at around $2000 .
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4 hours ago, blacklab said:
sometimes I think people should apply common sense to the situation and ask themselves if it actually was an unsafe act.
1 hour ago, perttime said:My reasoning is that it pushes people to take the safety rules seriously.
If the speed limit on a curve is 55 but you can likely do it at 70 before risk starts becoming high, then it is rational for an officer to say ok he was only doing 62 & that it is not a worry so I will use my common sense and allow him to continue, and it is rational for a different officer to say ok he was speeding on that curve and that is a worry so I will use my common sense and give him a ticket so he does not create an accident in the future.
Common sense is a matter of philosophy sometimes.
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7 hours ago, johnbu said:
Some do need to be shorter than that, I have one.
Thanks. It is nice to have a sanity check.
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6 hours ago, yigal said:
trigger bar touch safety .
47 minutes ago, leemoe83 said:Trigger bar must not be coming up far enough after the slide pushes it down. Can you rack the slide and insert something in the magwell to see if trigger bar can be pushed upwards?
I think you folks have probably got me pointed in the right direction.
Thank you!
Life is going to get in the way of working on the gun for the next few days. Will explore as you have noted & come back with what I see.
Stock 2 Safety's
in Tanfoglio (EAA / IFG)
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Just nosy. Which sport allows you to start with hammer back on a stock 2? Maybe just using thumb over safety to help with weak hand only grip?