konkapot
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Got glasses a few months ago; prescription seems to be working. I've got an appropriate amount of balanced clarity on the sights and target. Up close, no problem, far, no problem.
The issue now is that when I am in direct sunlight and the targets are in shade, my front and rear sights reflect so much of the sunlight that they look like One Big Blob of Sights. Cannot distinguish between the front and rear sights at all.
I'm NOT talking about shooting INTO the sun.
I don't have any sight black laying around, so have used flat black spraypaint to try to get rid of the glare, but this has not helped.
Is this a "glasses" issue? Any suggestions?
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This makes no sense. Use the actual gun. The sensor can go on the magazine basepad.
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How is there clickbait on this forum? When did that become ok?
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My hope is that they continue with the small ones, and then in about 3 years make another switch. Perhaps a hole that's off-center would be nice.
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Re: #2 I'd think PTSD/emotional distress.
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Legit experts will soon chime in, but my experience has been that no matter what you do that crack will, eventually, come back and get worse. Maybe suitable as a practice mag.
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This has been discussed periodically; agreed on rewarding rather than punishing. General once it becomes a Club Culture Thing "That's what we do here....we tear down the stage we finish on" it's really a non-issue.
We spend a lot of effort discussing the small small small percentage of dickhead shooters here; for every Shoot/Scoot Guy there's the other 99% of his squad that tears down and helps RO etc.
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Agreed; I cant think of any range in/near Columbia that could pull off a nationals.
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No idea what I was looking at; it was a doc with a list of allowed modifications. In double checking, I can't find anything with a line "z" in it. Crazy stuff.
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Somewhere (maybe this forum?) there's a chart ranking reliability of 2011/1911 magazines. 2011 .45 were the least reliable.
Probably a frustrating project.
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Is visible (non internal) slide lightening legal for ESP? I'm looking at line "z" in the rules and thinking it might be.
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4 hours ago, Ssanders224 said:
What a garbage fire.
Here's a hot take....
Stop putting so much thought into "what people want", what people think is "fun", what the current trendy stuff is, blah, blah.
Build concise rules and divisions around what makes competitive sense. A place to shoot high capacity Major, a place to shoot Low capacity Major. A place to shoot a dot with Major scoring, a dot with Minor scoring, etc.. etc.. Everything else is minutia, and flat out doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
If an organization continually tries to chase what they think people "want", or what might be popular, they just end up chasing their tails, and ultimately it's a recipe for failure IMO.
At some point, once the competitive product is established, maybe it should be a little less "What do the members want", and a little more "How do we find members that want what we provide".
What this guy said!!!!!
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Shred why ditch the "must have optic" rule?
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How soon will you have .40 bullets in stock?
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Post count bumping is unpleasant to watch.
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PM sent. Take a look at the Dillon website and compare prices. Be sure to ask the seller for pictures and/or vid to ensure function.
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I had the old style STI aluminum grips on a shorty Open gun and MUCH MUCH MUCH preferred them over the polymer grip. Seemed like a happy medium between the polymer and the steel grips.
The older STI grips cracked though.
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Again, gotta do some timer work. Many times the lighter gun or heavier gun or better grip angle or worse grip angle might seem "better" but lack of measurable difference can be shocking.
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What range in Columbia SC could host a nationals? Mid-Carolina?
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Agreed on 550; don't overlook the Square Deal B either.
The bad news is that once you Really Get Into this sport, you'll end up shooting MORE. Getting into reloading to "save money" always ends the same for all of us.
Another thought.....for a long time the conventional wisdom was that if you are only shooting 1k per month, reloading might not be the way to go. There's the upfront outrageous outlay, plus your time, plus the inevitible fiddle-faddling that goes with reloading. The buddy I referred to above found factory reloads in 9mm at $340/case. Call it $4k per year. Do some napkin math. If it's only 1k per month, and you can reload 9mm for $225, your savings is $100 =/- per month. All number are "ish."
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I've found ok deals on powder on Gunbroker.
Press-Depends on how much you'll be shooting, where you'll be reloading, and how mechanical you are. Regardless you'll want to stick with Dillon products.
If you are reloading indoors, are very mechanical, and will be shooting a lot, that easily points you in one direction.
If you're only shooting 1k a month, will be reloading in a shed, and are not very mechanical, that points you in another direction
Absolute best thing to do is link up with the local shooting crew; on an internet forum it's harder to screen through personal biases. By talking to actual live people you'll be able ascertain "well that guy is full of s#!t." Talk to dudes, take a look at their reloading setup, ask them how they like their SDB, or 550, or 650 etc.
In this environment, you might find guys selling presses or accessories because they are getting out of shooting/reloading.
USPSA people are pretty good about being helpful; a buddy of mine is getting into reloading and I polish/tumble his brass for him, saving him the cost of the tumbler/separator.
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@motosapiens Why were there crickets in the lobby of a hotel????!?!
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I'm at about $225/thousand for 9mm..40 I'm using old stock bullets, so price isn't accurate.
Pricing it per round is like pricing gasoline per ounce; you buy primer in blocks of 1000 or 5000, bullets, generally, come in boxes of 1000.
You need to buy your powder in 8lb kegs. Primers should be the absolute most you and/or your buddies can buy at one time. Bullets should always be bought in the largest quantities you can swing.
Brass-Something is moderately up if you're buying brass for 9/40. You know somebody who's getting free brass........even if you don't know you know them yet. Obviously 38sc or 45acp are the exceptions.
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I'm not seeing anything on the USPSA site. Shouldn't be surprised.
Are back up guns truly needed?
in USPSA/IPSC Shooting
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+1 to having a second gun, and +10 to typically needing it NOT because something breaks in the middle of a match, but because something broke during training with no time to replace/repair before a match.
I've done this regardless of what division I'm currently shooting in.