obsessiveshooter

I dialed back participation big time in the last 2 years, for a lot of reasons. I started my own business, so work became more exciting. I plateaued in skill, at least for the amount of time I was willing to practice, which was always close to zero. I live in Colorado and I realized that I was spending so many weekends in a dirt hole of a shooting range, instead of seeing the beauty I'm surrounded by. I bought a motorcycle and started exploring this past summer. I actually shot half the stages at the State match and realized "I'm not actually enjoying this, and if I left now, I could go on an amazing ride for the rest of the day". So I left. What's funny is, early into dialing back participation, I shot better. I finally made master in Limited. But then the not touching a gun for two months and showing up for a match really started to show, and I dropped in the results. Which made things a little less fun too. The USPSA organizational drama and the dying of Limited major also made shooting a little less interesting. Oh well. There are seasons in life. I don't want to keep doing things the same way out of habit. I want to fill my time with whatever actually gives me the greatest return on investment. Right now it's other things. But I'll still shoot when I've got a buddy to shoot with or if I get the itch.

3 allows me to be more target focused and use it like a red dot. Which allows for speed. Accuracy is just as good as if I had my sights set up for #2.

Do yourself a favor and see if the Mecgar competition mags run fine for you. If they do (and they should) then they are only like 20 bucks at gregcotellc.com

Titegroup. It's the OG powder for a reason. I use it for .40, 9mm, 45acp in all loads. It's dirtier than others, but an 8lb jug lasts a century, and it just works.

I shoot titegroup, so my pistols get a nice layer of black gunk inside. Would an ultrasonic cleaner completely remove that crap, or would I have to go in with a brush afterwards to get the gunk off that was merely softened or loosened?

If my name was McBlastyPants and I was signing up for a Taco Bell eating competition, I'd register as John Smith.

Carry optics is becoming cooler than Limited in the same way that Being a sensitive guy with soft hands is becoming cooler than being John Wayne. I don't know that I want to be cool, but I do want to compete with the heat. It's just too bad it'll need to be with 9 sillymeter. I'm getting one of my pistols milled for an RDS right now, but I don't know if I'll ever be motivated to learn to shoot a dot. I really hate 9mm, the soft recoil, the little baby bullets. It's not part of that adrenaline rush ideal that I got into USPSA for years ago.

you've been here 1 month, so it's understandable

This is the wrong forum for discussing home defense stuff, and it would drift the thread. There are other better places for that if that's your thing. But this is a competition forum and that's the singular interest here.

Any word on a .40 version, for those of us with hair on our chests that still have decent vision?

Well, I think Phil's ideas are just plain bad. Anyone who spent thousands on a .40 Limited gun would be so pissed at the Organization that they would likely move on.

how about a screenshot, for those of us that that don't InstaTwitFace.

Exactly, those 3 rounds end up being very precious on a lot of stages I see. Enough so that a serious competitor wouldn't consider 40 minor.

Awesome. Jared, you would know better than anyone: is a .40 planned?

I'm seeing things like "limited run" or "only 1200 made". Are they not going to make any more? With everyone wanting a 9mm 2011 these days, it makes zero sense to not continue production of these.

Your open mocking tone will drag this forum down. I get annoyed at how closely moderated it is here sometimes, but I really appreciate that it's a place where things are almost always discussed with civility.

There should be divisions for the pistols people aspire to own, so I agree that the prodigy type guns needed a place to compete. But as a Limited major shooter, I lament the dilution of the competition across a ton of divisions. It was exciting to shoot Limited years ago when everyone shot it. Now, not so much. Things change, so I guess I just need to learn to shoot a dot if I want to start enjoying USPSA again. But with the volatility of the rules etc, it would be hard to know what to buy into. Definitely not a striker fired pistol, because what if they merged CO and LO next year?

So there's no disadvantage if you overcome the disadvantage that isn't there. Got it! All these people buying the DWX, and no pictures!?! What in the wide world of sports is goin on here? Pictures, or you don't really have one.

Don't read this if you are wanting something upbeat... If this is progressive, perhaps it would be good to start some hobbies than can continue well into the future. No use starting something new that can just barely be done now, only to lose another closely held thing in the future. When my dad was diagnosed with Parkinson's, he started a lot of hobbies that he never was able to get off the ground of continue. Generally speaking, I think a lot of people keep themselves super busy all the time as a subconscious way to distract from bigger more important things. I could be wrong, but it may be that your real opportunity here is a chance to focus directly on things of intrinsic value and to look at some things you've been too busy to consider or contemplate. Big stuff like mortality, the meaning of life, God, family relationships. You know, the stuff we all need to sort out but will always get to "one day".

I'm all for the enactment of sweeping, disruptive rule changes that affect any and all divisions except Limited, as long as they force people to switch to .40 so I can start finding piles of that brass at the range again.

Forget about trying to divine the stage designer's intentions, they really aren't important. All you need to know are what is written about the stage and what is in the rules. I've seen it a few times at a local, where the squad figures out a legal, 'creative', advantageous stage plan but there is one guy who knowingly shoots it the slower way like a martyr, to show he's not a gamer. While competing in a shooting game.

A poll is NOT the way to find out, because people don't see or participate in polls. The info is already there. Just look at how many topics are Canik related and you have your answer. Canik has pretty much taken over the "Other and Comparisons" category, making it hard to find anything "Other" than Canik. Giving them their own section would just be good housekeeping.

If you want a cheap dot that will last forever, a knockoff Cmore railway will run and run. I liked mine so much I bought a real one. But the fake was honestly just as good. A Cmore will be so much better on a rifle than a pistol dot too.

Do you use a race holster, where the front sight might be knocking against anything you walk up to, like a table, barrel or whatever?

I just groan at the thought of a standalone division for "SAO", and people spending $4k on yet another tiny division. Do what you want with your money. But fewer divisions makes the results mean more if you want to actually compete at a shooting competition.