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My experience is with tac sports and even when the model was called an ipsc sports. The barrel just takes a ton of extra wiggling to remove and yiu might see more wear on it. I also don't know the depth of the insert on the cgw bushing vs a stock one. You could still tighten the fit between barrel and bushing but not have it extend as far into the slide. Having knocked out those bushing to get guns coated they were all like that.

He wrote a big post on ig about how most shooters in the USA have no idea how good dudes are in other countries. Easy for US shooters to conflate a preponderance of gun culture with commensurate skill.

The barrel can't properly tilt without it

His Instagram showed the gun before he left the states

That's normal

A small crescent cut out at the 6 position?

Having shot the 9 Days of Nationals all the matches, or two major matches in different states over a 4 day period I can sympathize with how draining this can be.

The "new" high cap, minor only, iron sights division you feel might be coming down the pipeline is prod 15. And yeah at this point I don't really care if divisions turned into separate ones of maj and min to the exclusion of the other. Well, a sense of history and nostalgia...

Prod 15. Keep Lim a mix of min and maj

I just watched my video of the 2017 idpa classifier and I say you shoukd be able to make MA with the new one easier if you practice at all and aren't a wuss. Haha I was definitely blunt

Because many of you have never seen, or even shot, here is me doing it and talking about the strategy to do well on it. https://youtu.be/41RIqO-H49s?si=n5n8hAOnY9z7qSEm

True, having shot MA on the older 90 round it was indeed a way to separate people. And it was definitely a broad test of match skills. No surprise, given its similarly to the Hackathorn standards. (Google the name new kids) Personally, if I can't shoot MA in any division on the 5x5 cold, then something is wrong with me.

As I've said many times, "If you're good at sand bagging you only do it once." Yeah, people plaque and match bump hunt all the time. Interesting thought, to match bump you only need to beat 5 people at that day and time. But to do it via the classifier, you have to be ALL the people who shot it to get the numbers used. So bumping via the classifier is actually a skill "win" over a greater number of people..... And yes, I was at the Nats where the 5x5 data was gathered and I did shoot it.

I do not miss solid walls. They made stages much harder. And yes, lim major is decreasing in popularity. And in Jan 2024 we'll have "does the new 15rnd limit mean prod will grow?" threads I look fwd too

Not being trite, but the match search function on practiscore shows quite a bit if you can drive a little

There was a time not long ago when there was no 'equity bump' in idpa. Now you can't be classified more than one division apart with pistols, so there is no one who is say MA in ssp and and then MM in esp. That used to happen a long time ago, but the rules changed.

You can't convert a tactical to sao

We used to do tons of this on early tac sports, cutting the dust cover back, for the very reason you mention.

Thank you to those who've wished me well. I do appreciate it and it makes the work easier.

I wore it at the AR section match this weekend. Shadow 2, Prod set up. You can tell it is not as laterally stiff as other belts. But I liked it much better how it could tighten exactly how I want and sit where I want on my hips/waist.

From the Atals tuning thread pinned, you can make some good inferences for a TS

Aggression is its own security?

Just have everyone put 'WML' as part of their name if they're running one when they register. Run all the other stuff as normal but you now have a way to see at a glance who had one. Orrrrr.... as I've seen other places they just make the match in practiscore time plus and make two divisions, hand held and wml and that's it.

I've been away from competing seriously for over a year and half due to a major illness/injury. So just a reminder for myself and others.... Don't travel to a match without a spare gun. Don't make any changes to your gun before a match unless you can extensively test them. Check the zero of your gun as close as possible to the day your fly or drive out. If you're using ammo you bought versus made, get extra and check it. No matter what. Function, chrono, grouping. Don't "think" something is right or will work, but rather know.

Got the Eley Competition 9mm 147gr ammo today. Ran it in my gen 5 Glock 17 and a Shadow 2 Orange. It made pf in both of them. It functioned perfectly being slowly hand cycled and then shot in both guns. The extreme spread in the Shadow 2 Orange was 74fps, the standard deviation was 14, and the average pf of 10 rounds at random was 129.7 power factor. The rounds very consistently measured 1.142" for me. Round nose profile. I shot 10 rounds, standing freestyle, at 30 yards into a (size medium) fist sized group. This is great for me so super happy with the accuracy as well. I feel very confident picking up 550 rounds of this at Prod nats in a few weeks.