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I was genuinely confused, and I suspect it is unclear for many. The RO on my squad, called it a no shoot. The three RO’s on the other squad said they would not call it a no shoot. I texted TGO, and he was unsure. The funny thing is the same RO who made the call yesterday, called an identical looking hit on a scoring target as a miss.

At the end of the match, I pulled the tape and took this picture of the no shoot.

At a match now. My shot edged the steel, and splitter hit the no shoot behind. No grease ring on no shoot. penalty for no shoot or not?

Make sure you really tighten the battery cap. Despite the manual saying tighten to initial resistance, my experience is the dot may be intermittent or not work at all if you haven't really tightened down the battery cap. It is a bit awkward because of the angle of the cap and the placement of the rear lens housing. While every dot has some issues, the SRO has generally been quite reliable for me, my wife, and many friends.

My wife and I use this battery tester to help diagnose issues, so we can rule out a low battery as a possible cause of a problem.

Duracell or Renata. I have broken so many optics, I decided I needed a new CO strategy.

Dot went out. I shook it, fired a shot, and worked the slide, but couldn’t get it to come back on. After a dozen or so shots, using just index, it came back on. My wife and I have five between us. She had one where the dot went intermittent, and it stopped holding zero in windage. That is back with Sig for replacement. We love the optic — bright, great in a forward sun angle, little frame, and lots of dot intensity adjustment in the usable range. Do wish the up and down buttons had more resistance, as you have to be careful how you grab it. Also, for competition use, wish Sig ditched MOTAC, as it is just a possible failure mode.

I have been running a R3 Max as primary on a G34 CO pistol for just over a month. Prefer it to the SRO. Yesterday, during a match, the dot failed. Will be sending back to Sig.

Syntech 150 is my match load in a Gen 4 34, chronographs at 138 PF, but feels very soft.

You must not shoot CO!

Your USPSA classification is mostly important for impressing non shooting friends or arguing on the internet. Those of us in USPSA know that your classification is like making sausage, with all sorts of weird results based on luck, skill and your personal ethics, but match performance is what really matters. As an aside, personally I love a paper GM, because they can be a match saver — as in, “I really had a bad match, but I beat a GM.” For better or worse, the USPSA and Steel Challenge classification systems reward peak performance rather than consistency. Match placement favors consistency. I do think that your PCC classification should not move your pistol division classifications.

Interesting topic. My wife and I got to shoot a number of larger matches this year, and were just discussing differences in matches. Here is what matters to us. 1) being efficient with our time. Much prefer a two day match format to three days. When you consider travel, looking at stages, and the match, three days equals a week of your time. Wish only Nationals was three days. 2) quality and attitude of the RO staff. At Area 2 a few days ago, the RO staff was universally friendly and professional. When there was an issue like calibration or another call, that happened efficiently. That has not been the case at some other matches we have shot over the past six months. Not sure if the Range Officers were worn out from long matches, not treated well, or there was another reason. If I were the match director, I would orient RO staff so they understand that they set the tone for the match and that there is an expectation of professionalism and friendliness in their interactions with competitors. I don’t want to eat provided food or wear most shirts. Cold water on stages is greatly appreciated. Warm water laying in the dirt, that the RO’s dog peed on, not nearly so attractive.

Link?

I think some considerations are drop safe gun or not, practice or match.

CZ USA apparently has released, or is about to release optics plates and reserve sights for the OR.

My wife, after improving the magwell on her X5 Legion, did mine today on the P10F.

My wife has been shooting a pair of 320 X5 pistols and really liking them. We got her a pair of the new 320 Legions. She really likes them but has been having sporadic stoppages with both of them, using 115 ball PMC and AE which runs fine in her other X5 pistols. After a fair amount of trouble shooting, switching slides and recoil springs, the trouble seems to be with the Legion lowers. I have no idea what is going on, but a possible difference is the Tungsten in the Legion lowers which may change the characteristics of the polymer lowers.

I believe Springer is still developing plates, though Pro model plates are supposed to fit. There is no RTS2 plate yet and SRO overhangs too much. We are using the DP Pro, which requires no plate.

I emailed and GGI confirmed their current competition trigger will work with the X5 Legion.

I had a problem with 150 Syntech and OEM mags with CZ Custom 140mm extensions. 22 rounds of 115 ball worked fine, but not the Syntech. I assume the volume and profile of the 150 bullet, compared to the 115 ball is the problem.

Perhaps for Production, but for CO, is 2,000 necessary, if you use the FCU from another legal 320? Seems if you meet the weight limit of 45, you could do what you want — whether that be a Legion grip module or a modified current X5 one?

After Magnus, I am surprised you didn’t say bring three or four.

Which pistol is your wife’s?

Between my wife and I, we have 5 Gen 5 34 pistols, tens of thousands of rounds downrange, and have yet to break a single part. That is unless you count optics, as we have broken a bunch of them. Before I spent a bunch of money setting them up, I would see how your performance compares to the S2 and P10F. Up close no issues, but on skunks and other low prob shots, I find the Glock trigger harder than others.

Auto forwarding works great right up until it does not, and you get a stoppage.