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Regardless of what anyone else says it is refreshing that a major match finally enforced the rulebook to the best of their abilities. I have been to matches where the gun was weighed, I have been to matches where it was put in the box but I have never had the safety mechanisms checked on the gun and I certainly have never had all three done in conjunction with being chrono'd. That includes two Nationals, the Carolina Cup and a dozen or so other major matches. By the looks of it there are a number of shooters who weren't expecting you to do it. I think in the long run it is healthy for the sport. Good for you. Pete

About a month ago I was at the range and one of the club members had a 1.5X4 Nikon scope mounted on a JP rifle. As we all know Nikon makes really good camera's and lenses. This guy let me put a mag through the gun and I was really impressed with the scope. It didn't have all the bells and whistles that a $800-$1200 scope has but for less than $300 you got a lot of scope for your money, and for someone without designs of competiting at the very highest level of the sport it was more than enough to be competitive. YMMV.

FTDR1911 on XBOX360. I only really play hardcore team deathmatch. I got tired of laying laying the wood to someone and them not going down. The only downside is the 13 year olds that think it's cool to kill their own teammates. I have been playing the Beta version of COD5 for the past week and it is pretty damn good. Instead of helicopters at seven consecutive kills you get a pack of wild dogs that are like heat seeking missiles. It's hysterical to watch guys on the other team trying to run away from them.

I can attest to that. The stage that you SO'd at the S&W Championships two years ago had a non-thret tucked behind a threat target. I should know because that was my last stage of the day and I hit the damn thing. At our local matches we will sometimes but a non-threat behind a popper. You wouldn't believe the number of people who see steel and hose.

Sorry, No. They would be considered slide lightening, which is verboten in all IDPA semi-auto divisions. Interesting look. kr The rulebook defines slide lightening as the removal of portions of the slide to gain a competitive advantage. A case could be made with that slide that there hasn't been enough material removed to gain an advantage and that it was done for cosmetic reasons. I'd don't think that slide would be that much lighter than one that had been flat topped and serrated.

in idpa can you shoot long dust cover and bull barrel or does it have to be short dust cover and bushing barrell for esp No bull barrel in a 5" gun. With shorter guns yes. Long dust cover no. Sort of. You can only use a bull barrel if it is 4.2 inches or shorter. You cannot have a traditional commander length gun (4.25 inch barrel) with a bull barrel.

Prayers out.

There are a lot of assumptions going on in this thread. Charles Daly actually did a lot of home work before building these guns. They used really good parts from good manufacturers when building these guns. The president of Charles Daly posts at M4Carbine and been very up front about what their plans are. Several big name trainers (i.e. Larry Vickers) that have gotten samples have commented on well built they are. The prices listed on their website are like every other dealers suggested retail prices and sell for a good deal less.

Has the USPSA board ever approached ESPN about including a match in the X Games? I know ESPN used to have shooting disciplines in their great outdoor games so I doubt they would be reflexively anti-gun. I was just curious if the subject was ever broached.

Very first stage of my very first USPSA I got swept by a shooter. The stage required the shooter to start facing uprange at the start signal the shooter drew and as he was turning and I had the experience of looking down the barrel of a loaded XD. The RO (a friend of the shooter) didn't DQ the shooter. I filed a complaint with the MD and the AC. I don't know what happened to the complaint as I have never been back to that club. SO'ing an IDPA match at a local club we have a guy that everyone knows is an accident waiting to happen. He finishes the stage, I tell him to unload and show clear he stops for a second like a deer caught in a head light and turns to look at me as if I had just issued a range command in Greek. As he does so his muzzle follows his eyes right to me. After being DQ'd he had the audacity to blame me for it. I was SO'ing another SO who put one into the ground about a foot and a half in front of his right foot during a draw. I have never seen a guy so embarrassed in my life. He practically ran to the the car in shame. There are others but in the immortal words of Albert Einstein "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

I see it a little differently. I view the intent of FTDR as a punishment for Failing to do the right thing. It is for acts that push the envelope on a match DQ for cheating (but don't quite rise to the level of a DQ) or for unsportsmanlike conduct. IMHO The problem with the FTDR is that it often requires the SO to assume what was going on in the shooters mind. There is a difference between making a mental mistake and intentionally using an inappropriate technique to gain an advantage. I believe the intent of the FTDR is to punish intentional acts not mental mistakes. I could see how some would apply at FTDR. I wouldn't have. Either way you are forced to assume something you can't know for sure. I won't call it unless it is blatantly obvious and I am not shy about making tough calls.

Drop turners- OK in IDPA. No FTN on disappearing targets. For the most part you will get a FTN on a swinger, but not always. If for instance there is a no shoot or a prop directly in front of the swinger that causes the swinger to disappear when it stops moving than technically you can't be assessed a FTN.

That is the only appropriate penalty IMHO. If a shooter is going to do something that stupid and reckless with a loaded firearm I don't see how anyone can trust him to be safe ever again. He doesn't have the judgment necessary to play with a loaded gun.

I have had a shooter or two ask why I am shooting a gun that everyone who has spent time in the military knows is crap. Oh well. I bought one just because I didn't want to be another Glock shooter in production. I don't mean that to disparage Glock shooters but sometimes taking the road less traveled is a reward in and of itself.

I shoot a Vertec 92G in SSP and production. For me it is the only Beretta I'd buy. That isn't a knock on the other Beretta's but the straight backstrap, the ability to replace the front and rear sights and the beveled magwell makes it a fit for me and what I want in a "game" gun. I don't see what the XD has to do with Beretta's. I own one and while it is certainly a good gun but that isn't what the poster asked about.