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Damn!! That looks nice.

I didn't find anything offensive about the book. The problem for me is that the beginning is so drastically different from the ending. I would feel good about recommending the beginning to anyone. It has more historically accurate and interesting data about the "gun culture" than any other book I've read, and I think it does a great job of representing the viewpoints of most gun owners by giving data on how we arrived where we are today. The ending does NOT represent the average gun owner. I can not recommend the book to my mother for example (or anyone who isn't already a member of the gun culture--or anyone who doesn't have the ability to take things with a grain of salt) because the story depicts gun owners as a group commiting violent sexual crimes and murdering political figures. This is described in detail in the last few hundred pages. For me is was entertaining. For many others though, I could see the beginning of the book increasing their affinity for firearms (no matter their previous views), but the end of the book would almost certainly further their conviction that gun owners "...fill in the blank..." Any prejudice they had prior to reading the book would just be confirmed and amplified, especially if a gun owner recommended the book. An earlier post, "...not a good book to have on the shelf when big brother comes callin." pretty much sums it up. Its message is extreme in a way that can't be accepted by everyone. It is still one of my favorite reads, but I don't recommend it to many people.

+1 EricW. The first 2/3 was a great, great read. After that...

Wow! That is nice. How expensive could it be? I bet you can get two of them for the price of one used Edge. I want one.

With the Weaver set at 1x, you are going to see the front sight no matter what mount you use. I had one mounted on a 20 inch gun, and I could see the comp in the field of view. The Weaver is a great scope for the money, and you will have the same problem with any 1x with a wide FOV. So given that, you should probably just use the rings that give you a good sight picture. I have a set of WARNE 1" medium height tactical rings that I'll sell you cheap. They are NIB. I am using the same rings on my AR, but in 30mm. Just send me a PM if you are interested.

You could get two Uncle Mike's doubles and bolt them together for a solution under 40 bucks. When I shoot SS I just reach behind me for the last mag. It really isn't that much slower. I use Universal Shooting Academy single pouches.

I use Tightgroup for 9mm, .40 and .45.

I never feel like I shoot well...but sometimes I shoot well enough.

...not that I would know what that feels like. Nice gun. :wub:

I am feeling something very similar to penis envy...

The key to faster reloads is to hang your tongue out the left side of your mouth to help offset the weight of the gun in your right hand. I think looking helps too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-ocJ3P3JI

Hey HoMie, yep that was Tri-County and a very, very wet day. There were lakes in all of the bays on the stat shack side. I learned how to count to 10 by 2's a few years ago so counting to six is no problem, but I get really confused when shooting steel. Counting by 1's seems like twice as much work. Thanks for the compliment Bill and Underlug.

Hey, You know, you are right. When I'm shooting a pistol, I smile after shooting a really good stage. But today I was smiling big after every stage no matter what. I'm not going to rush out to buy a wheel gun just yet, but I'm thinking about it. There is no doubt that I had more fun shooting today than I have had in a while. I actually cut the after-stage-smiles out of the video because they were just too big and cheesy. :goof: I'll see you guys around. Trevor

Hey Jerry, I had a lot of fun shooting the revolver. Thanks for talking me into it. BTW, Ohio says I got a 92% on the classifier!! Woo Hoo! We'll have to do it again some time. Here's the video. Trevor

As cool as the .22 video is, it is almost certainly illegal to discharge a firearm within your city limits. There is a good reason for that law. As evidenced by some of the previous reactions; it isn't safe. Shame on you!

BIG TIME!!!

I sure hope it's legal. I shot a Springfield that came undercut as a standard model from their custom shop at the Area 1 Championships last year. Nobody called me on it...

I totally agree with the earlier post about buying the gun you think is coolest. The feeling that my gun is cool makes me shoot better because it gives me confidence that the guys behind me aren't laughing at my dorky blaster. I've never bought a gun I didnt' think was cool, and I never will. More importantly, I've never bought a gun that I didn't think others would find cool. There are some who take pleasure in beating other shooters while using lesser equipment. I was not blessed with enough manhood to fall into this category. Not a single word of this post was written in sarcasm, honestly. I meant every word of it, honestly...no really, honestly. Ask anyone who knows me, really. Guns: Production, G17 because the best local GM shoots one. Limited, SV Sighttracker because it is "the flatest shooting Limited gun, period". Limited 10, Springfield Armory Custom Shop 1911 because that is what TGO shoots. Rifle, JP-15 16in V-Tac because JP was the coolest before I met Taran Butler and decided that MSTN is the coolest. Now I want an MSTN. Shotgun, Winchester SX2 Mk2 because after spending money on all the coolaid above, I couldn't afford a Benelli. Just buy the gun you think is coolest. I've never regretted it and neither will you.

Wow! Pretty harsh words. I don't see why the VIP wouldn't run just as well as any other 2011 offering. I've never had an STI product that I wasn't totally satisfied with. I would buy the VIP if the price point were a little lower. I saw a used one going on the forum for 1,700 recently. For a gun that I won't shoot any matches with...Ouch. Other than that, I'm sold.

It sounds like you already have the ability to shoot accurately. I think you should put all your attention on speeding up. If you can cut 1 second off a 10 second stage, you can affort to shoot 10 C's and get the same score. If you never try to go fast, you'll never find out how much you can push and still end up with an acceptable alpha count. Based on you shooting 98% of the available points, I bet you can push it a lot! In your case, shaving 5 seconds off a 30 second stage will improve your score by almost 17%. Assuming it was a 100 point stage, are you going to shoot 17 extra C's to save that time? I don't think you will. Just don't throw any Mikes. I agree with the other advice about speeding up everything but your shooting too. Be willing to give up a few points coming into and out of shooting positions. Start shifting your weight towards the next position as you break your last shot (depending on how far out the target is). You might shoot some C's, but you will save half a second each time. Also take the extra time to get your feet set where you can see all or most of the targets you intend to shoot from that area. Shifting your feet as you transition from target to target will cost you lots of time. I think it is pretty generally agreed that the top shooters win with their transitions, not their splits. Do everything you can to cut down on your transition time and you will be able to afford an increase in time for your splits. If you watch the USPSA promo. video, you will see that the top shooters actually have slower splits than some of the other shooters in the video. There is a very wide range out there of what people consider to be the ragged edge. Some people feel on the ragged edge if they shoot a single D. Some people only think they are on the edge if they throw more than one M. It sounds like you are on the extreme conservative end of this scale. Try shooting a match shooting for the AC zone instead of the A zone and go as fast as possible. I bet you jump up a long ways in the overalls. To get into M class, you will need to figure out how to shoot A's fast. But I think you can shoot A/C's fast and make it as far as A. You can always put some attention back on accuracy after you have found the speed. Shooting slowly won't get you out of C class, no matter how accurate you are. The fewer points on the stage, the more true this will be. For what it's worth. I can't even tell you that I follow my own advice. I just shoot towards the center of the target and hope to get my hits.

Tight Group for everything. (9mm, 124g molly, 4.0g, 1.135oal, 130pf) Glock 17, stock (.40, 180g molly, 4.6g, 1.18oal, 175pf) 5in SV, Shueman AET (.45, 230g molly, 4.2, 1.26oal, 175pf) 5in 1911, Nowlin Not only can you load everything with it, it is almost dirt cheap!

.40 S&W is pretty much the only choice for Limited because it is the smallest caliber allowed to make major. Because of magazine capacity, it has an advantage over .45 and because of major/minor scoring it has an advantage over 9mm.

I've been using the Universal Shooting Academy pouches and love them. Then again, they are going to be 4x the cost of the Blade Tech, and they have a great product too.

Most of that looked pretty damn good to me! You have skills that most people I've shot with would be happy to have after a few seasons, not after one match. The first stage and a half looked really smooth and confident. After you made your first mistake, were you trying to push hard to make it up? That's the only think I can guess about from watching the video. It looked like the harder you tried the more mistakes you made. I saw Butler shoot once, and it never looked like he was in a rush. He just did everything right the first time and ended up being faster than everyone else because of it. Maybe he would describe his successfull actions some other way, but that's what I saw.

That looks nice. I can't wait to see one at the range so I can shoot it.