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The SX looks a bit like my trusty Browning Gold which also has a shorter loading port. By the looks of the picture you can take quite a bit more off to make quads easier.

Yup, next local multi gun, I will just bring what I have which is a field pump 5+1. Right now I can practice loading 4 (simulating from a caddy), but cannot begin to think of starting load-2. For me loading two is way easier than weak hand loading 4. I could never do that consistently with any kind of speed. Load 2 is faster and easier to learn. Quad loading is the current target for most. I see lots of used 4 shell caddies coming to the classifieds page as folks tradition to load 2 or 4. You should be able to get a great deal if that is what you want.

I am adding a second CR speed keeper up front.

That's what I found at Home Depot on the shelf as well. It's not bad.

Might be a little light of a charge but not a bad place to start most shooters go with a heavier bullet in 9mm. Is this for competition and if so do you know about powerfactor?

Shooting on the move is a needed skill but not necessarily something that you should always look to do. As a Production shooter, a lot of my stage planning it spent breaking the stage down into chunks separated by reloads. Never do a flat footed reload. Reloads should always be done after leaving one array of targets and be done before arriving to the next. Very often you will be planted and shooting 6 to 10 shots. There is nothing wrong with that. The rule I always heard is if your feet are moving then you are reloading. It is however important to be ready to shoot as soon at you step into your shooting position and if possible try to get your momentum started again before or as you finish from that position. Economy on motion will always be key in USPSA and the less time you spend getting into or coming out of positions the better. Like others I usually start overall by counting the targets. Then as I walk through and break down the stage I ensure that my stage plan adds up to the correct number of shots fired. By the time I finish my plan I also want to know exactly where I will be when I engage each target. Usually the fewer positions the better. Options are an important element of USPSA shooting and they are a personal thing. You need to discover for yourself whether you will be better off shooting some targets from a distance or running up for a closer shot. Also, you will have a preference on where and how many extra rounds you want to have in your magazine to do make up shots on steel or other hard targets. This will be a personal thing. The most advanced type of stage planning will include making estimates of the high hit factor on each stage. This will give you insight onto whether speed or accuracy is relatively more important on any given stage. Beyond that understanding how fact you can sprint from one area to another and your relative splits on and between various targets can help you with advanced planning but that level likely isn't required until you get above A class.

Thank you. That sounds about right. I figure if I focus on reacting whenever I hear this then maybe I can shave a few hundredths off the clock. My reaction time to my blackberry alerts used to be scary fast, even when I was dead asleep.

I actually found something similar at my local Home Dept. It didn't work quite as well as my Pro Grip but being able to pick it up off the shelf locally was nice. I can look at the product name when I get home. Looks like Amazon has quite a few related products as well. Seem to be popular as a pole dancing accessory (Nelson Sports Products Dry Hands for example).

Wow! Just post that picture as a response and close the thread.

I like the idea of the studs but have had the same issues as others. Trying to do it behind the back doesn't help either. I think I am going to reposition the clasp to be just behind my holster so I can at least see what's going on. I will let you know if that improves things. I am about ready to cut the factory keeper off and apply extra velcro at the overlap as well.

After you grind the mag release do you hit it with a checkering file?

Anyone have a download for the standard shot timer beep? I am wondering whether anyone has set their phone's notifications to the shot timer sound. I figure it can't hurt to get some random reaction practice as those emails come in throughout the day.

Like a military style hand guard. Pictures would help.

That's what I heard. 40 to 9 works but there other way around is a no go.

This is a thread drift but I was just asking someone about this in a PM. Especially now given the new reloading rules do you find that most shooters performing emergency reloads the majority of the time? In a tactically perfect world I would prefer to leave cover fully charged which would require a setup for a flat-footed reload with retention on the clock. I have to think that this will almost always take longer than the emergency reload in front of a target array.

I ditched my readi mag and arm band awhile ago. We had some good times...

Not defending the show but you have a bunch of civilians who over night had to figure out how to fight without the benefit of expert instructions. I bet all sorts of bad habits would develop and be perpetuated. It would be like a reboot on all the lessons that have been learned about effective gun handling. The best instructors are backwoods sheriff's deputies, a guy who shoots a crossbow without sights, and some national guard dropouts.

If you are cutting down a TS by yourself you can't go as short as the CTS because the serial number is close to the front of the frame. Mine almost touches the last number with this cut. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/uploads/monthly_01_2014/post-5345-0-17958500-1390103625.jpg

I am not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. I followed the link and saw some match photos. In multiple photos I noticed what I assumed was Jesse's shotgun because it looks like it's racing in Nascar with all of the stickers on it. I am not sure why that question was taken as being offensive and what kind of research that you think I should have done before mentioning a course observation. I wasn't there and I am positive that many others helped but this just stuck out to me in the pictures. No offense intended to anyone else. As I have not shot 3 Gun since 2005 (and that was local) I would actually be very interested in hearing your take on the typical type of assistance being offered at matches. It's great to see how the community and the more experienced shooters step in to help the others. Not to mention all of the work that goes into match planning, setting up, administration, and take down. I haven't read the comments on this thread in detail because it seemed that there were some strong opinions on either side. Enough cannot be said about the local MDs and others who actually make the matches happen. I spent a few years as an MD for a local USPSA club so I know the thankless hours that go into that. I understand the concerns about 3GN taking over buy I will say that I think it has brought some well deserved attention to the shooting sports and it personally got me excited about getting back into 3 Gun. I couldn't have imagined how much the game has changed in the last 10 years. The changes seem to make it much faster and easier to set up and run a match and have made it more accessible from a gear perspective. I understand the resistance to having a formal governance structure but as a resurrected 3 Gun shooter looking at different matches in my area I am very confused about minor differences in equipment and rules that seem to mean little to the overall operation of the match. It makes sense that 3 Gun matches should be built on a common set of rules while giving clubs some ability to modify rules for particular circumstances. At the same time common rules can help shooters to know what strategies should be used for best performance. They can also help stage designers and match directors since stage design parameters incorporate best practices for safety and efficiency of running the stage and match.

I remember you saying it awhile ago. Here's the thread. Talk about never picking a fight! https://www.okshooters.com/showthread.php?163768-3-Gun-at-OKCGC-Saturday-Jan-26-2013 I'm glad you clarified things for me that our club matches need more help rather than less new shooters. I'll start recruiting ROs along with new shooters from now on. Jesse, How many people used your shotgun at that match?

Good point about the RO. Could you get the same basic design with a parallel fault line on the front to keep the shooter from having to run back up range? I think it would change very little but allow for a much safer stage.

Yes. I reload just 9mm and it's totally worth it because of the softer shooting performance. I load in the basement but find somewhere else today tumble brass. Buy your press from Brian Enos.

P.S. I like the idea of the close target through barrel. Maybe put a second one along side it and back them up a bit so you can shoot them from the same spot. The other recommend about having a few targets outside of the ports might give the same result of allowing the competitor same options about when and from wherever to take them. Just because that is aways how you see stages doest mean it's the best way to design them.

I will clean them up!

It's hard to tell where the shooting boundaries are. Mix it up and place some targets so that they can be shot from more than one place/window. Give the shooters an opportunity to at least make some of their own decisions about engagements otherwise wise you might as well save the set up time an put a bunch of boxes down with specific mandatory arrays from each box.