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Gregg K

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  1. For your intended use, the EOTech is heavy and expensive and not the best for a game gun. I have had and seen too many problems with the Romeo plus the price is not a good value. Like @Haywizzle I would look at the 2 Holosun choices he mentions, they are a good value and very durable and great for a game gun. Both of the Holosuns can be had in green as well as red.
  2. I've been down this road. I would get everything 1/4" 500 or 550 and not look back. On down the road you won't have any junk mixed in with your good steel. Like they say "cry once".
  3. I had some that were visibly warped and some that split apart some at the joint between the 2 halves. I called S&W and they had no problem replacing them but I think it took 6 or 7 weeks so you getting some new ones first is a good idea.
  4. While handy, I have found that using the McFadden loader accelerates the wear on the end of the feed lips, I use the loader on practice mags but never on my match mags.
  5. I noticed that the load assist bar that goes through he follower would sometimes drag so I just removed the load assist button completely and just stick a screwdriver blade in the hole to load the mags. No more drag
  6. I have actually been told "going hot, gas it up" so it does get worse.
  7. Thank You! I really appreciate the huge amount of thought and time that this took to put together.
  8. O' great, now you have me trying to figure out how to pour a concrete pad for the shooting area on OL.
  9. It's good to experience different clubs and get used to when things aren't perfect and just focus on the shooting. I have been to matches where you had to stand off to one side of the box to keep the targets from overlapping which is stretching things too much in my book
  10. To reaffiliate a club is required to hold a minimum of seven USPSA matches with four separate matches offering at least one classifier stage. The requirements for an SCSA affiliate are to run three SCSA matches a year, and to include at least two of the eight official stages in each match. Since they are having monthly matches it would seem that they would have been able to meet the USPSA minimums without cutting SCSA matches unless this is a club that pretty much gets shutdown in the winter months.
  11. Evidentially your MD isn't into the sport enough to frequent this board
  12. I have seen some pretty strange things over the years regarding stage setups. I used to shoot a match at a club that never could get the stages setup right. They setup the day before and was a 55 mile trip for me so I didn't participate in the setup but would get there early enough to make corrections. Sometimes it was hard to even recognize the stage from looking at it. I was that PITA guy for that club. They didn't really care about it being right, they just didn't want to be called out on the improper layout. After the match you would have to hound the MD for a month or more to get them to send in the scores. I gave up on that club and now we are both happier. If a club claims to be official, I expect an effort to be made to actually be official. The stages won't always be perfect but I expect some effort be made to get it mostly right. I worry that if too many outlaw matches send in scores like @Dr. Phil mentions with 3 foot spacing on Outer Limits that it could impact peak times. I don't know if scores from the local level have any effect on peak time or if it is only based off the world shoots.
  13. I'm sure you are correct and I totally misread the post. My apologies.
  14. Really, how? (Secret Squirrel list?) I have a 100% time and when I look at one of the top shooters in the top 20 and calculate his percentage it comes out to be 152%. How many after the top 20 are shooting 100%? Are there 200 people shooting 100%? Other than knowing that I'm MILES away from the top guys I have no idea how far down the list I fall. With a name I can go calculate someones percentage but who is in the top 100? They have the data, I would like to see it.
  15. Everybody else's percentages are the actual number, no reason that GM should not be. We can figure this out but there is no reason to make us go hunt it down.
  16. You could have at least "tossed" them my way.
  17. I don't know what Ruger recommends and what they do in their factory mags probably changes with each batch but the last 2 value packs of 3 that I bought from Ruger were wound to 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 turns out of the box. There are so many variables involved that you probably just need to run what you find to work with your combination.
  18. I have replaced the magazine latch plunger spring with a Kidd higher tension plunger spring. https://www.kiddinnovativedesign.com/Magazine-Latch-Plunger-Spring--Higher-Tension_p_421.html Also, is your barrel a Kidd as well or at least a full length and not a sleeved barrel? I have also had best luck with HV rounds and a standard or extra strength recoil spring. As mentioned you may as well just get a double mag body and try it. You'll spend more money on ammo just trying to figure this out than what a mag body costs.
  19. Like @Hoops mentioned, most of us in this area run the TK double mags with Ruger internals. I have been running the same internals for the last 3 1/2 years with way more rounds through them than what your wife has put through hers. I do smooth and polish the outside surfaces of the Ruger metal feed lips where they rub the bolt. Many years back they came smoother than they do today so I just started slicking them up myself since I have the tools to easily do so. I have also contoured and polished the feed ramp in the mags but probably isn't really a necessity. The TK double mags do crack after a while but hasn't made them malfunction plus TK has replaced them for free any time I have asked to refresh them. As @Hoops mentioned, one of our local shooters had a Kidd gun that I don't believe ever made it through a match without malfunctioning until he went to the TK double mag bodies, factory mags fit pretty sloppy in his gun. His Kidd gun runs fine now on the doubles. I mention this since you said you also have a Kidd gun. With Ruger springs in the rotors I wind them to 2.5 turns. Make sure that you only start counting the tension turns until after the long vain on the rotor contacts the feed lips, then count the turns from there. I have seen where others didn't tension properly because they didn't know when to start counting. As mentioned, run good HV ammo and clean the inside of the mag bodies when you see the wax ring start to form (if running the clear mag bodies)
  20. @ZackJonesAfter looking at this again I see I made an assumption because of the USPSA rules in my head. Choice one is not a good option if you can't stay holstered when shooting just one division. I would prefer another option that aligns with USPSA rules. This is the USPSA rule that I'm referring to ... 5.1.9 A competitor must never use or wear more than one firearm during a course of fire (see Rule 10.5.7). Having a rule that matches up with USPSA rules would be helpful for the RO's especially since we are forced to be USPSA RO before we can be an RO for SCSA. Yes, this is also a dig at no separate path to RO SCSA. Choice 4 is still good since it puts the responsibility on the competitor but doesn't match up with USPSA rules.
  21. I'm in favor of 1 or 4, all or nothing. Easy to apply. Number 4 puts the burden on the shooter to be responsible. For consistency with USPSA rules, number one would be best. I would be good with either #1 or #4 but like I said I want it all or nothing.
  22. @ZackJones In reference to the new stages proposal, is it in the plan to eliminate any current stages or would we have a pool of 16 stages to choose from? Thanks
  23. I'm wondering what the procedure is to certify a timers accuracy and can multiple timers be triggered to run at the same time for verification. I'm sure Jerry can do it. I'm just curious about how it gets certified and documented.
  24. I would have thought that for a record attempt that the plates would be freshly painted. The marks on the plates indicate more than 3 runs. Thinking this wasn't the Guinness attempt
  25. I ran into the same thing with Mini-Mags and Rem Oil. I quit using it. It's OK if you burn them all up the same day but don't let them sit a week.
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