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Dominate Defense is hands down the best belt system I've ever used. Inner belt has an elastic piece in it so even when ratcheting down outer belt it won't bunch up.
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When I had my Czechmate it ran best up around 174PF. I did have 2 poppels in the barrel.
I would imagine if you want to go lower with it you'll probably need to change springs. Probably get down around 7-8lbs for a recoil spring.
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6 hours ago, RJH said:
My section, which is not very far from shreds, seems to have the same plan as his.
The one issue with "sanctioning" USPSA through club dues and fees is that many of the people that run the clubs are interested in shooting bigger matches. So their classifiers and activity fees matter for Nationals slots.
To the many of us that are just club shooters and part-time volunteers, being affiliated with anything doesn't really matter. But to the people that are more serious and want to shoot higher level matches it does.
I don't have any correct answer, just my observations of why some clubs will continue to pay USPSA
Nationals slots won't matter if this continues. They won't have a hope in hell of filling up a Nationals with awarded slots. Be able to walk on the day of the match and shoot.
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17 minutes ago, BritinUSA said:
The longer the 'club sanctions' continue the less likely they will be to return as USPSA clubs in the future. The larger clubs may grow accustomed to the extra revenue they now get to keep.
USPSA may have to provide incentive for clubs/members to come back, any cost involved in those incentives will impact the org's bottom line. So its possible that revenue will never return to pre-sanction days.
The clock is ticking, as warmer weather begins so to will the impact.
You have a point here. I didn't really think about the extra money to put back into the clubs. It might not even be just the big clubs that like the extra revenue. My club has run 2 hit factor matches in January. We have more money to spend on targets than normal and took advantage by ordering extra with the money that would have gone to USPSA.
I think what will bring the demand back to USPSA is shooters wanting the classifications. Especially the newer shooters and with the turnover that USPSA generates there are always new shooters coming to tryout USPSA and older shooters fade away.
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16 hours ago, Farmer said:
If I read the OP right I think he wants to shoot one gun in different classes, not multiple guns.
I missed that this is in a Steel Challenge forum. Disregard my comments as we are a USPSA club. No experience with steel challenge. But I do see at the one in Indiana that they have people signup for 2 divisions on the same squad all the time.
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4 hours ago, Boomstick303 said:
I never measure the metrics of USPSA's economics on membership. I do measure it on hundreds of clubs possibly holding back their USPSA fees.
This is the strategy that the club I help manage has decided on. We renewed our charter in December but have been running hit factor matches. No real change in the structure of the match. Just not advertising it as USPSA, not running classifier and not sending results/activity fee to USPSA. All the people in charge are still USPSA members and are RO/CRO with enforcement of safety.
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My club quit allowing it. Several years ago we did and we had a few guys shooting 2 guns on the same day. Guess what shooters were always in the back at the safety table screwing around with storing one gun, getting another gun out, swapping rigs, filling twice as many mags.
We have normally capped our squads at 12 shooters. Get a 2-3 of those guys on the same squad and everything grinds to a halt.
Now we run a match and it is 2 days. Come on Saturday and shoot 1 gun. Show up again on Sunday and change division for $5 and shoot another division.
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3 hours ago, BritinUSA said:
Further, I would suggest a restructure of USPSA. I think there should be two corporate entities; A COMPANY to manage the BUSINESS such as finances, contracts, taxes etc. and an ORGANIZATION that manages the SPORT.
Revenues would go to the COMPANY, which would set a budget that the ORGANIZATION must adhere to. The ORGANIZATION must be transparent and answerable to the membership.
Profits from the COMPANY would be disbursed via grants to L1 clubs to enhance their facilities, or to purchase equipment such as timers, tablets, steel etc.
Increases in affiliation, activity, classifier fees would be made by the COMPANY only if costs outstripped revenue. Fees would be reduced if there was still an excess of profits after all grants have been fulfilled.
What they are doing now is not sustainable. Everything seems bloated compared to where it was 10 years ago when I started in this sport. Used to have a part time president, managing director and a couple people in the office doing paperwork/affiliations.
They used to have 6 divisions and one club was taking care of 2 of the nationals every year. The classification system wasn't as fast but that was ok since most people were only shooting a couple matches a month and they could wait. Practiscore wasn't even around and we used to carry around paper to score a match.
The one constant that hasn't changed is that on the whole the national org does nothing for the local clubs. I just got my club's new charter and it came with a fancy charter, a $200 cert from Brian at Hunter's Gold and some stickers/patches. No affiliation discounts so my club can buy more steel, no coupons to buy targets. Basically, thanks for the $50 and make sure you get in your 7 matches and 4 classifiers so you can have the honor of sending us $50 again next December. -
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Overseas but looks to be available.
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My club is going to hit factor while we are indoors for the winter or the board gets things straight. Basically USPSA ruleset with divisions recognized. No classifier and no report of the match to USPSA. Just uploaded to Practiscore.
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I'm probably the only weirdo in the country that actually have a Limited gun setup for .357sig. I took a 9mm barrel for a CZ TSO and rechambered it to .357sig. Shooting 135gr S&S Casting at major is actually softer than .40.
Just took the same gun and put an optic on it. Plan to mess around in LO this indoor winter season shooting minor. Stupid soft shooting in a heavy gun.
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5 hours ago, mreed911 said:
I'm particularly proud of how our local club handled it: they put it to a vote. End result is there are a decent number of club members that care about/want classifiers, and non-classifier matches would be less interesting to them... but a similar number who don't care and just want to shoot. We ended up splitting the matches - alternating between including a classifier and shooting hit-factor style matches. That might change now with the latest shenanigans and we end up going hit-factor only... but in any case our local club membership will get to decide.
My club did similar. We are going to hit factor matches as much as possible and will shoot the minimum 4 classifiers per year to stay an affiliated club. If things change at the national level we will then consider coming back to full status.
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1 hour ago, VU2AKILL said:
No problems like those indicated above??
No issues from my club. We have been using the newer style with small base for about 3 seasons. Haven't even had to swap any carriage bolts due to spall. Only issue that hasn't been mentioned is that these will not work well if you are running an indoor range unless you make some sort of wider wood frame to distribute the footprint and not have the base move every time it gets shot.
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2 hours ago, VU2AKILL said:
This is not what I wanted to hear. Dang it!! Were the welds on the poppers themselves or the bases breaking??
The new version has no welds. The popper comes out of the base so they can lay flat on a shelf. We stack our poppers up on a pallet rack shelf in our equipment garage. The bases then interlock so they take up very little storage space. The club I buy for is in the process of moving all of our steel over to Rangemaster.
We are local to Ray so we don't pay shipping. He either brings us steel if he shoots our local or delivers to us at the IL Section match. -
14 minutes ago, Maximis228 said:
Northern IL clubs have found rangemaster steel is less than ideal. We have broken more of their steel than any other vendor by a large margin. Every single popper has been rewelded multiple times due to their weld on bar stock they use to attach to the bases.
Buy once cry once and go with MGM.
The design has been changed significantly. The small bases and the poppers are an awesome design. No welds anywhere on them. Don't even need tools to adjust. The older stuff like they have at Pinetree is 1st gen stuff. What Ray is doing now is much better.
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2 hours ago, shred said:
No rule says you have to shoot 125.1 PF. Most Open shooters would probably load to 150-160 PF with similar powder and a lighter bullet and drive on with basically no change to the downsides of shooting Open (noisy, custom loads and guns). Eventually people would have lighter top ends made up, but that wouldn't change things much.
True. I like shooting major and the points advantage that it gives. Not everything in this sport needs to go to minor. The last 3 divisions that have been introduced have all been minor only. Leave the option of major in open, limited, SS, revo and Lim 10.
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21 minutes ago, Blackstone45 said:
Open still has a comp and frame mounted optic. If anything, getting rid of major PF might help Open. I'd certainly be far keener on shooting Open if I could just shoot 9mm minor through it.
Issue there is open guns are built the way they are to handle major PF and comps/popple holes won't be effective with minor ammo. My open guns don't run reliably on minor ammo and I am already only running 7lb recoil springs.
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1 minute ago, BritinUSA said:
I doubt that will happen. A better option would be to abolish CO, Limited-Optics is essentially the same thing anyway. Every CO gun is already LO compliant.
Then bring in Production-Optics using the IPSC definition.
I don't find CO to be a very interesting division the way it is. I'm an Open shooter the last few years and it just feels like when I shoot CO it is still only 1 reload on a course of fire. A change to 15 rounds would make it more interesting then it would be the new production with an optic. Also take out the need for magazine extensions.
What is the round limit for Production-Optics?
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Now they need to roll CO back to 15 rounds.
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Had a Titan a few years ago. Sold it pretty quickly. At those new prices for 2024 I won't be owning one any time soon. There are a few custom builders out there that are in those price ranges and you get to pick your parts/finishes.
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27 minutes ago, mveto said:
I use #5, in green, so far I’m really impressed with the 507 comp. I didn’t know how much I needed/liked green dots till i got the 507 comp.
I also use the #5 so far in a couple practice sessions. #6 might be a possibility in bright sunlight conditions. I do like the green but I've been running green fiber on my iron sight guns for years so I figured it would be a easy adjustment.
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4 hours ago, asierra350 said:
I had a TSO milled for an SRO with some slide lightening, I’ve been really considering doing the same with my Czechmate, I’d like to see if the sightblock makes any difference
Who did you have mill your slide? Did you have a plate installed?
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The GX holsters are great products. I have a couple of them but I wouldn't wait most of a season to get one. Guns come and go too fast sometimes. When I buy a competition gun it means I want to shoot it and not have it sit waiting for a holster.
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I just bought another one this week. Got the newest generation and it is a bit of an improvement over the older style one in the way that the hopper attaches. I use them with a riser and the proper die for flaring/powder drop on a Hornady LNL press. The newest one will be dedicated for .44 magnum.
The only better measure on the market is the case activated Hornady powder measure. By the time you are done setting up 1 of those you can buy roughly 5 Lee powder measures. I think I'm currently at 3 Hornady and 4 Lee powder drops. Both are great.
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I like the green. Been shooting green fiber on production and limited guns for several years. Bought my first Holosun 507comp and decided to try the green. I now have 3 in green.