LilBunniFuFu

One of the problems I've seen with long time IDPA guys transitioning over to USPSA is the ingrained idiosyncrasies involved with the previous sport. Did you find your self cutting the pie, standing reloads, slide lock reloads, COVER!!!! If you noticed any of these things they do end up taking a nice chunk of time on the stage.

+1 he gets both hits. A way to mitigate this as a stage designer is to inter space no shoots between targets.

Welcome back to the game.

Racemaster with the serrations flattened on the locking lever. Very fast to draw and very secure when locked.

.40 for limited and the 9 for 3 gun/steel challenge/open if you decide to go that route.

Played with them before but am not a fan. Maybe if you have small hands it's fine but for my mitts it's way too small. No problems with feeding it any random .22 though.

Where are you shooting IPSC classic? How is the stage designs in the area you will be shooting? Is this doubling as a USPSA gun or straight IPSC? Personal experience for the best IPSC classic gun would be a bull barreled 40 with the cobra mags that fit the box. That way you can shoot 155's for minor and 180-200's for major when the stage designs benefit. The whole 3-2-1 rule with so many short courses tends to give the edge to the 2 extra rounds shooting minor. Hope this helps

Wow! You might want to rethink that! There are many references available to show that when different bullets are shot at the same power factor, the heavier bullet produces less recoil force. The heavier bullet also requires less powder to achieve that power factor which accounts for much of the difference. Recoil force is associated with both acceleration of the bullet and with the force of gas escaping the barrel. Since a light bullet requires more powder, more gas is generated. Look at all the empirical, experimental, and theoretical data available on the internet. This is really a settled issue, well beyond the argument stage. On the topic of time to target...with 9mm rounds of 115 gr and 147 gr bullets both loaded to 125 pf, the muzzle velocities are 850 ft/sec with heavy bullet and 1087 ft/sec with the light bullet.The differences in time to target for a 10 yd target is 0.007 sec and for a 50 yd target 0.036 sec. These are completely negligible for any practical purpose. Your reaction time to any event related to the target is way longer. More on the order of 0.14 sec or longer. Gut feel for stuff often leaves you mistaken. He might be talking about splits. If you have a good grip on the gun the lighter snappier ammo should have you back on target sooner. Meaning you can "double" without too much thought of the second shot. But for us mere mortals the heavier bullet are overall more helpful.

+1 for a racemaster. Use a Bladetech for production and 3gun.

S&A for me just because I have never felt like putting the money up for a bigger magwell. Have used them all though and at my level I doubt it is holding me back. Usually you will see the same types of magwells in certain areas. Down here in South Florida they tend to lean towards the Dawson Ice no gap.

Lot's of shooting to be done over at the WAC in clearwater.

Full dust cover, bull barrel, .40 is what you are looking for. Factory or custom doesn't matter as long as it's 100% reliable.

Welcome from Florida, whereabouts are you located and what are your interests?

+1 for the sear spring. Take it all apart and put it back together.

Light slide, light recoil spring, super light bullet, really slow powder. What kind of rig are you going to run, race holster, Kydex, WRS type stuff? Because you could always just run a hybrid type ported barrel and a slide mounted optic and run it in a retention holster.

Anything you have laying around will work. I've run bullseye type tubes and .223 comps all the way to C-mores and tac-sol comps. Honestly what helps the most in steel challenge is having a quick transitioning gun (check) and muscle memory of the stage (practice). Good luck.

Do it, you can recover later.

Welcome to the addiction.

+1 for 200s.

TG = dirty, no way around that. My experience in order of decreasing cleanliness. N320, E3, competition, clays, TG, Red dot, unique, Blue dot. Those are just the powders I have experience with.

Run it the way it is now for a while before you decide to go changing anything, you might surprise yourself with how good a stock STI actually is. Figure out your ammo situation first. I prefer 200s over the 180s over the 165s. I use the same toolhead and the same powder charge only changing from 200s to 165s and those are minor rounds in my gun. I only have to change the recoil spring. In order of importance. Ammo, magazines/basepad, trigger, recoil system, magwell, grip. This is of course in my opinion.

Most likely it was the recoil spring changing the unlocking timing.

Good looking work. How does that comp work? I would think that the ports ares too big for the small amount of gas a .22 makes.

Down in Florida it's always hot so I have never had a problem with N320 being sensitive. But most of the state is at or barely above sea level. temps range from 60-100 F. I keep my load between 130-135 just to be sure.

Edge, .40 major for everything.