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1 hour ago, DKorn said:
In any case, as the RO my reaction is going to be the same regardless of my opinion- defer to the CRO on the stage if possible, or call the RM and let them decide. I’m also going to try to reason with the shooter first and try get them to just do the reshoot.
Or try and talk them out of it if it is a local & I'm tired & the weather is miserable
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1 hour ago, swordfish said:
subconsciously
Amazing how that works, seems like you just feel it after a while.
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I do not like a trigger with near zero pre-travel, I do not have a lot on my guns but I do need a smidge.
Other thing is getting used to the gun as noted by others.
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Had a gunsmith suggest that shooting + - 300 rounds of copper jacketed bullets can smooth the bore & help with leading issues.
Any opinions on this?
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Going to a major I'm going to bring a lot of extra ammo, going to a club match I will bring an ample supply.
What I'm not going to do is go full Nazi on some person at a local because they didn't plan on my clubs equipment causing problems at the match.
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59 minutes ago, Hi-Power Jack said:
I don't
+1
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Anybody ever answer this?
Old post but was wondering the same thing.
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43 minutes ago, Shadyscott999 said:
I think as a minimum, if you are going to use stars and plates and things that require reset and activation, the RO's at majors should be required to reset them so they are done correctly and consistently for every shooter. A lot of REF on these types of props are due to being incorrectly or differently reset by competitors.Makes sense.
If memory serves they told us not to mess with the polish plate rack & its door activator, for all the rest of the stuff (pasting , ports, steel, doors, swingers) one person made a walk through when the squad was done resetting. They had one stage with something like 29 plates so you sort of had to get the bull work out of the squad or maybe hire Boy Scouts or something.
I have screwed up reseting an activator/swinger myself at a local and still hear about it
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26 minutes ago, MemphisMechanic said:Tim Herron
Yep. Wasn't around him but very briefly but he seemed like a good representative for the sport.
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10 minutes ago, Shadyscott999 said:
Those props are really fun to shoot. Competitive equity is blow out of the water by using them. They should be held to level 1 matches IMO
At this point we both understand each other, I wish you could attend this years Missouri state match so we both had that as a common point of reference. Saw a couple of the big name shooters their last year (Matt Hopkins and a SS guy I can't remember the name of), they seemed fine with it.
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3 minutes ago, Shadyscott999 said:
Since when can a shooter decline a reshoot over REF?
1 minute ago, MemphisMechanic said:Since local rules, yo.
If Joe Blow says "I don't care give me a mike or whatever" or "I did not bring enough ammo" , I do not know of a section in the book that prescribes how you force Joe to reshoot. I guess maybe you could dq him? I would not vote for the dq if there was any other option.
And yes, I have only seen this at local matches.
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2 minutes ago, Maximis228 said:
I find most shooters dont care about competitive equity in the grand scheme of things (They just want to have fun). So when you have a Texas star (Or similar type prop) that drops multiple plates with 1 shot or 1 plate inadvertently knocks off another... Reshoots are rarely if ever called. Which is BS. This is why they don't belong in majors.
Hell... Ive seen texas stars in 3 gun where you can shoot the center of the star with birdshot and knock off all 5 plates with 1 shot. Super lame. Ive seen every plate retention type fail.
I've never been to a level 2 match where shooters didn't care about equity or even a local club match where range equipment failures did not result in a reshoot (unless you had an r.o. who was not trained or a shooter that declined).
Steel works well if you have good steel and know how to set it up and maintain it.
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7 minutes ago, Sarge said:
We put a brand new MGM Star in a state match and it took 3 sets of springs to make it through 300 shooters. On the last day it needed constant work between squads to salvage the stage.
Ick. I'm sure there are better and worse designs and certainly have been at matches where there was problem equipment. My local club purchased a magnetic clamp type star either last year or the year before, I can't ever remember seeing a range equipment failure with it.
5 minutes ago, Shadyscott999 said:Circus props have no place in major matches.
My most fun & favorite match every year is the Missouri state USPSA championship, plate racks, multiple Texas stars, a really tough polish plate rack (&*$#!), just a ridiculous amount of steel spread out through 10 or 12 stages. I mean no offense and I don't know what those folks know or do different which makes things work, but it is a great match.
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15 hours ago, Sarge said:
Same as a Texas star. Just another way to use falling plates. They probably SHOULD be illegal in larger matches because of failure rate but thats not the case.
You think it is inherent to the equipment?
Maybe it is, but most issues I see seem to be with home made designs, or unstable bases that move during the match (particularly when the ground is soft) , or plates that were not adjusted well from the git go, or pivot points that have never seen oil.
All that said, full size heavy poppers are going to hose you now and then if you shoot minor, unless there is no wind & somebody is really on top of maintaining calibration to the point that a hit anywhere in the scoring zone will drop them.
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24 minutes ago, yigal said:
cz use cheep materials and save manufacturing costs by making many parts from castings.look at the same part from tanfoglio- s.stop.- it's made properly and from better material ,
I like Tanfo's, but if they ever made two parts to the same dimensions it might possibly signal the end of the world or something.
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33 minutes ago, MemphisMechanic said:
However, every other firearm manufacturer out there manages to make that a lifetime service component without issue.
My 9mm STI Trojan broke slide stops about every 5k rounds and I had another 40 cal 2011 (not STI, ok it was a Fusion, I was once dumb and bought a Fusion) that chewed up link pins about every 2k. With both of those guns it was a timing / fitment issue that the vendors fixed by installing new barrel and etc.
Not sure where I am going with that except to wonder if CZ's don't just bang harder on the stops.
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On 3/21/2018 at 10:05 PM, johnbu said:
Use the wolff long slide spring and trim to the same length as the regular spring.
Tried today, feels very good. Appreciated.
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On 3/9/2018 at 3:15 PM, Steve RA said:
With coated bullets you really don't want any "crimp" as it will normally damage the coating.
If your bullets fly like a good curve ball, good groups at 0 -15 yards or so, deltas and mikes at 30 yards or so, that is your sign.
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4 minutes ago, IronArcher said:
Amazing how that other sport survives with those “trip hazards” for so long...
Seriously, if you can’t clear a 1” piece of wood, sports involving movement might not be right for you.
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2 hours ago, mlmiller1 said:
So if I understand, it doesnt require much more energy?
That is it.
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21 minutes ago, mlmiller1 said:
Just a hypothetical thought but thinking physics.... a 147gr bullet has about 1/3 more mass than 115. How much more energy does it take to move that much more mass? All that energy must be built up in the chamber before the bullet ever starts to move. Then due to friction of the bullet in rifling, how much more energy(pressure) does it take to get to the velocity you need? Of course time is also a consideration but you have to do all this before bullet leaves the barrel. It seems that since energy in this case is directly related to pressure & time, you would be building considerably more pressure than what would be needed for a 115gr bullet. In a 9mm where trying to make major power factor is already fairly high pressure, this might warrant some thought.....
Kinetic energy = 1/2 * mass * velocity * velocity
When you crunch the numbers at constant power factor it works out differently than intuition would suggest.
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7 minutes ago, RePete said:
The 2003 rulebook was better for the self defense game.
As for the Texas Star, which I love shooting, I have seen only once where it simulated something remotely defensive.
I agree. Might be a local thing, when I would go to a match with 40 people there would only be 1 - 3 people who cared about any defensive aspect and the rest was pretty much the same crowd that you would see for steels & bowling pins.
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BladeTech is my favorite after a smidge of dremel work to prevent the ability to bump the mag release & lok-tighting the tension screws.
I like RHT also when they fit well but I think they have a tougher time holding dimensions, at least mine have been hit and miss.
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3 hours ago, RePete said:
It has gone IPSC/USPSA lite.
Except that they have made some of the most fun targets, Texas stars and the like, illegal.
You can shoot a legal stage that incorporates zombie cows with clay pigeon brain targets or a martian invasion scenario, but you can't shoot some of the common targets your club already owns, that would not be realistic. I do not know if martian zombie cows would be realistic or if you have to choose either martian or zombie.
IDPA always has been USPSA lite for the majority of shooters, a fun game rather than a realistic form of self defense. I do not see why that is a bad thing & would like to see IDPA embrace the game rather than keep trying to straddle the fence. As is many quit IDPA because of the self defense pretensions (fishing vests & etc) but I think a lot of people could potentially come back if it ever embraced in principle what it is in reality.
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On 1/31/2018 at 6:32 PM, motosapiens said:
the last year or so I have had no first stage jitters (not counting the normal competition butterflies and excitement) because I have committed to calling every shot, and not rushing/trying/hurrying. I know from experience that if I call every shot, I will be as fast as I can be, and often faster than if I *try* to go fast.
Printed & placed on the wall.
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9mm Lee U die
in 9mm/38 Caliber
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I had the same issue with A Dillon die on a 550. As I recall the discussion, Dillon told me that is was worse with a particular brand of primers ( cci ???) and that some folks mangle the decamping pin tip a smidge so it is less able to spear the center of the primer & hold it.
The problem sort of disappeared on its own for me.