rowdyb

at 50 i think i'd be happy just to have all 6 on the paper..

With titegroup and 147 grain blue bullets I had to lower the powder as they shot much faster than the 147 plated xtreme I had been using. My competition load is 3.1 of titegroup under the 147gr blue bullet and consistently am at 880fps out of my CZ75. That's 130pf all day, every day. I like these bullets for their good price, consistent accuracy and support of the sport. I recommend them completely.

I prep most the time, even on quick shots. I've just done that in tons of practice, so I don't think my finger could come off reset now if I wanted it to, hahhaha. When I shoot other platforms it takes me a few hundred rounds to get back to perfect on the Glock.

to me, it is the shadow trigger. you just can't make a gun, i mean trigger, with the firing pin block (fpb) in place and operational as well as you can in the shadow model with no fpb. stock to stock, shadow wins. modified to modified i still give it to the shadow trigger. now my sao gun with the fpb still in is very nice. but the shadow guns i've shot with similar work are just a little better in the trigger.

two tone sp01 shadow has brought my fever down a little, but not much

in my 1050 i leave my titegroup in it with the powder and measure written on blue tape. press is in my garage, not exposed to sunlight. i load about 500-600 rounds a week on it. the over 10 year old hopper was green from 10 years of tittegroup in it. so got a new clear one. no issues. each round goes bang.

there is a definite difference between a sao shadow (non fpb) and a regular sao trigger.

i run a 75b converted to SAO in esp. magwell, trigger, grips, sights, springs and so on. all done by automatic accuracy. i think it's a great gun for esp.

i use the 18 rnd sp01 mags with the flat stamped base pads. really the only thing that fits in my magwell on my 75b

i too shoot them, in 9mm. i really like them and they totally support the sports. only thing i notice is on my 1050 i have to bell the cases much less than the xtreme plated or else they really set back. outdoors i notice no smoke. indoors i can, especially if the venting is poor at the range. i like them, i use them, i recommend them. nathan has been nothing but helpful for me!

standby equals long exhale for me until the beep goes which equals inhale. i've worn my heart rate monitor during stages and stages i hold my breath or don't breathe well my heart rate is double my resting hr. when i breather properly its only 50% greater. not sure if i can say i shoot better one way or another, but i know which one feels better to me when the stage is over. and that's breathing more.

Well as parts are cheap I'll get new pins, slide stop lever and locking block. And the glock store is a 5 min drive from my house luckily.

So I am on my second set of pins in my gen 3, g34. The stock locking block pin (the upper, smaller of the two) was walking out frequently so I changed to aftermarket pins. The same pin is walking out again now. The gun has probably 20 thousand rounds through it in the past year. Should I be thinking that the frame is "worn out" and that's why this pin won't stay in now? On the stock locking block, stock slide stop lever, stock trigger. Aftermarket springs and other SSP/production mods all around.

Nope, only 12 guys in esp ex so only 1st place got the bump to master. I still have a little bit to work on before I'm ready for that leap. My day will come. Sorry you didn't win a gun,what with having a ringer up there doing the drawing. =)

I am in squad 1. Yep, looks like the weather will be crappy compared to here in so-cal. Guess I'll bring a jacket.

if you're using gopros software to edit, i understand your frustration. i just use imovie or windows moviemaker. congrats, i love my gorpro for shooting vids.

See you at the match btw. I like dot torture for trigger control and well roundedness. Works for the 'aim small, miss small' way of thinking. But you can do that drill on any ol' regular square range. Based on what you said I would do what I call my Set-Up drill. (standardized by Gordon Carrol he calls 1 Setup 1) Take a barricade and place 1 or 2 targets 10yards in front of it. At the start position, which is 2 yards to either side and 1 yard back, place a target in the open 10-15 yards in front of you. On the buzzer, draw and engage that target w/however many you want then move to the barricade and roll out shooting the target(s) you placed from cover. Do it both directions. You get draw, movement to cover quickly, use of cover, breaking a shot from stopping and so on. For reference I do it clean anywhere from 2.80 to 3.0 with one shot draw and one shot on one target from barricade. This one drill covers a majority of what you consider your weaknesses.

IDPA, ESP. I can run a single action gun. If I had a shadow slide I could run that. But as I have a B in the rule book it says you need to retain any safety that came with the gun. Trying to maximize what I got... If shadows were on the DOJ list in CA I wouldn't even of had this problem...... So if I had a 9mm 1911 I'd need to still have a functioing grip safety and so on. Youd need to keep the safety plunger in your glock and so on. E1.6 if you wanted the actual rule sited about the safety thing. The trigger is permitted in the allowed modifications for the class.

czhase, Thank you for clarifying to me the later/sooner. This mechanism is still new-ish to me. Kneeling, I thought you were super busy? I have a pm going your way. kfd, thank you for that description. do you happen to have pics or just a little more detail?

I want to modify my 75b, it's currently single action only, to lift the firing pin block much sooner than it currently is being done. I know removing it is an answer, but for competition rules I can not do this. So what can be done to get the fpb engaged as soon as possible? I hate having sooo much trigger travel on a SAO gun just to reliably move the fpb. Thanks.

no, it means that i;ve been worried when i travel to other places and that i've stuck rounds in the fridge over night and then transported them in a cooler to where i chrono and shot them when they were at 32F. and that when i've gone to see family in warmer places and in the east county of san diego in the summer where temps are 100 i've done the same. i've also left rounds out in the direct sun for hours in the summer to see any difference versus ones kept in the fridge. since my house is pretty temperate i do what i can to modify those temps.

i think it all depends on how much you shoot per month. for me, that's about 1,500 rounds of 9mm per month at least. i've only got 4lbs of titegroup and 4lbs of n320 left..... and i refuse to pay above retail. so yeah, i might be hurting later. i'd rather pay another $400 for another sirt gun and dry fire the hell out of it than pay $400 for 8lbs of powder like i have seen people do on gunchoker.

for a 125gr moly coated bullet i use 3.6 of titegroup and in all sorts of temps and settings out of both a g35 and a cz75b i am always above 1000fps. that might be too close for some, but as a round never goes below that in chronoing hundreds of rounds i'm fine with it. i just got some n320 as back up powder and plan to report back a comparison soon.

147 plated from xtreme 8c winchester spp 3c 3.2 titegroup 1c range brass free so i'm making 9mm for about 12 a round. seems cheap internet reloads are about 30c a round at best for 115gr 9mm. so i'm getting the round i want, the pf i want and normally better qa/qc. and saving 18c a round each time. say you spent 2 grand on getting into reloading. you'd need to make about 11 thousand rounds to recoup the cost. i shoot about 1,500 rounds a month so that's only 7 months to get to where i'm ahead on the deal. i only spent 1,500 getting into reloading so i recouped my savings much quicker than in the above example.

Ive been shooting the 125gr round nose from Blue Bullets. I chose them initially because of their contingency program. Now having shot a few thousand I can say that I really do like them. I am always happen to let people shoot some at a match or whatever. As others have said, also super nice to deal with via phone or email. The only negative I've had is that sometimes the plactic bags get popped open in shipping and I open a usps cardboard box to 775 loose bullets.