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Thanks guys.

Trigger pin in a Shadow 2 with about 10k rounds through it is starting to walk itself out while shooting. Is this a Thing or just One of Those Things

A tough topic; most new shooters actually think they're pretty darn good, and have no need of education. There have been threads on how to grow match attendance over the years, and the threads that stick in my "brain" are those that question the compelling need to have MORE shooters. More does not necessarily equal better when it comes to club matches that, in many cases, are already at the 60+ shooter level. I've done a lot of firearms training over the years, and another thing that sticks out is that we put all this effort into this New Shooter. This New Shooter will show up, shoot, come back, shoot, join USPSA, shoot, become an RO, shoot, help run matches, and so on. The reality is different; sometimes we put a lot of effort into bringing in a new shooter who shows up, waves his gun around for 5 stages and then leaves, never to be seen again. Anecdotally it doesn't seem that we get much ROI on all this effort to bring in new shooters.

Another option would be to simply shoot it as-is. Gun probably isn't holding you back, you have piece of mind re: the warranty, and you get a lot more familiar with the gun before you decide whether/if/when to modify that thing. I picked mine up as an impulse purchase, with no intention whatsoever of switching out of Limited. Touched the gun, bought it, and switched to Production on the spot.

Shooter makes ready under RO direction. Shooter assumes start position. Buzzer goes off, shooter draws his gun and then stops himself, saying that the time delay between "Stand by" and the buzzer was less than 1 second. Shooter wanted a re-shoot. Thoughts?

Generally most new-er shooters are in Condition Black when shooting, so a warning that happened 6 seconds and 6 targets ago doesn't register. They are unaware of what they did.

Might be tough to be productive for 40 days straight. Fatigue/knowledge absorption etc. Seems counterintuitive but maybe schedule breaks in there? Every 4 or 5 days have a regeneration day?

Would like to PM with you Nick.

Another option....rather than making further modifications....would be to stick to a really solid dryfire routine. Livefire too. Then more dryfire.

I polished the chamber lightly, ensured the gun was well oiled, and tightened the crimp on my ammo. This helped a lot but the issue still occurs with less frequency. Will play with it over time; the gray one runs 100% and will be a match gun. Will advise as I cipher through this.

Swapping slides is genius. Will try that today.

I have done nothing yet; was really hoping that new gun(s) wouldn't already need new springs. The pin that holds the extractor in; is that a reusable pin?

Gray CZ Shadow 2. 2500 rds of reloads/factory ammo with 100% reliability. Black CZ Shadow 2. 500 rds of same ammo. 5 failures to extract. Two left empty cases in the chamber and 3 left the empty case partially extracted, but being pushed from underneath by the next live round in the top of the magazine. I am new new new to the platform. Suggestion?

All good replies; thank you very much!

Should I just suck it up and get an additional Shadow 2, or will one of these others suffice as a back up? Although my dreams of glory have long faded, I'm still a 35k rounds a year guy.

Bought a Shadow 2 and love it. Will be acquiring a back up gun; is there enough commonality between and Shadow 2 and a Shadow or Stock iii to have one of these (cheaper) guns as a back up? New to these platform(s) so be gentle.

Well..............it's not a 1911. 220s are great guns, but the trigger, even in single action, will never be as good as a good 1911. The bore axis DOES sit higher in a Sig, but you won't see/feel much difference after the buzzer goes off. Mag wells etc are harder to find than for 1911s of course. I personally find the thumb safety not quite as ergonomic as that on a 1911/2011; probably more a hand dimension issue. Didn't shoot mine enough to have anything worthwhile to say on durability. Accuracy-wise, better than minute-of-plate-rack for sure.

Also depends on the difficulty of the stages; lots of tough partials can cause minor shooters to bleed out points. Lots of tough steel could push it back in COs favor. 22 round stages........ etc

From Frank Garcia-He said that in a match you need to get about 93% of the available points. From Mike Seeklander-That he would take every round he's ever fired in training BACK in order to train again, but train better. Both super informed guys and much better shooters than I.

As long as it's not an unsafe shot, i.e. too close to the shooter, there's really no way to say that the target wasn't "engaged." I don't know that deliberately shooting a prop is the way to go.

Shot a 226 in L10 for a good bit; probably 35k rounds in the space of a year. No issues with the durability of the platform. For me my support hand slightly depresses the decocker while shooting; nothing a dremel couldn't fix, but that probably made the gun illegal for Production. Wollf (I think) makes a reduced power hammer spring "kit" that helped out a lot with that DA trigger. Doesn't address the CO part of your question but the platform was solid.

Great stages. Great match.

Stages look great. Why the 90 second par time on all of them? What is that contraption at the far right end of Stage 3?

I have access to a lot of factory .40 ammunition. Manufacturer claims 1300 fps out of a 4.5 in barrel. Any thoughts as to what the velocity might be out of a 6 inch gun? Won't be able to chrono until next week sometime. Just looking for some collective wisdom.......

Stages up anywhere?