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If the powder check were a critical safety feature, it wouldn't cost extra. I used mine for the first year. After only nuisance beeps, and never an actual wrong powder throw, I've now gone nine years with it collecting dust in the box. I got the 650 for auto-indexing, which in itself is the best preventive measure against double-charges.

I spend more time north of SA in the hill country, and the attitudes are the same. Even my pro-gun (not Fudds) friends who live there are noticeably anti-carry and are always making excuses for the cops, government, laws, and traditions. The best pro-freedom part of the state is the backwoods of NE Texas, an hour out of Lufkin. It's another world.

I can attest to this, but it doesn't bother me. I leave my powders in the hopper nearly full-time, some powders are in there for months before I get back to that toolhead. And then, it still gets topped off as it's used, so there is always a half hopper at least in every one of my six toolheads, and in my RCBS Uniflow, too, for that matter, as it has IMR 4350 in it for several of the smaller batches of certain rifle cartridges I do through my single-stage presses. Caveat, I live in a very dry part of the country, so maybe low humidity helps.

I visit Texas twice a year, and I've found the exact same scenarios and attitudes. The worst part is that it is perpetuated because people think it's normal. It's the same line of thinking and tradition that makes texas an anti-open-carry state requiring a license for ANY form of carrying a handgun for self-defense. Texas is not a gun-carry friendly state.

I can run. Bring on the pits!

I'm really glad this thread popped up. I was just about to drop the coin on a Volq trigger for the old stainless Ruger 10/22 International that I'm going to start using for Steel. I'll be shooting the Irons division, and love the Williams peep with fiber optic bead that I put on it last week. Tonight was going to be its first match. I drove all the way out there after working all day to find that the match had been canceled. I need to start checking my email more throughout the day. Anyway, now I just ordered the Hornet Black Max based on these recommendations!

Uh, best for what?

Yep, I agree with that.

Depends on how much you are pushing the envelope. I used SPM's exclusively for everything for years, and still do for .38 Special loads for Steel Challenge.

So if I read those rules correctly, there is no magazine capacity limit in this division. I can see how it is "not fair" to put the score in with other divisions. If it's going to be allowed, the MD needs to do the additional paperwork. We show our scores to family members, friends, even sponsors. We shouldn't have to tell all of them at the same time that the guy who beat you "didn't count." That's lame.

What kind of holster were you using?

I've tried a search, but haven't found it yet. What are evenly cinched magazines?

Check and application going in tomorrow's mail!

Those shooting a "minor" gun have an advantage in less recoil, and sometimes in greater magazine capacity. "Major" guns therefore get more points on less than perfect hits to help compensate.

Wild West Guns (Las Vegas) and Battle Born Munitions. WWG is a great gun shop with awesome gunsmithing services. http://www.wildwestguns.com/ BBM is the importer for Denel / Pretoria Metal Pressings in South Africa, making ammo since before World War 2 for the Allies. http://bbmun.com/index.php?route=common/home

Taller front sight to bring groups down, if a change is necessary. Did you replace both sights at the same time from the same company's kit?

This.

Thumb is ready on safety during the draw. After rotation, it is disengaged as the gun is pushed forward and the weak hand comes in. Safe and natural.

Eventually you will get to where you feel the difference in recoil and your body will start an emergency reload from muscle memory before your brain even tells it to reload because the gun is empty. But until then, you can still help plan it out. Don't count total shots, but you can count make-ups more easily. Look at the stage and plan ahead. IDPA is short stages that will usually only have one reload spot to worry about. Have a plan A for not missing, and where to reload. Have a plan B for where to reload when you know you've taken one or two make-ups.

I put the Carver Customs magwell on my G41 for USPSA Limited-10 and Multigun Heavy Metal Limited (which uses a big bore Limited-10 pistol). I also put the Arredondo +4 extensions on two of my four magazines, just for the extra length, because I didn't need the capacity for the Limited-10 in either sport. However, I have noticed that it is still very easy to seat the standard magazines inside the very wide Carver magwell. I could probably even do it on the clock without noticing a significant difference. I do not know if the Carver is IDPA ESP legal. ESP is the only division I don't shoot there.

Indeed, and that was the primary difference between Major and Minor for decades. But now, as long as you are going to shoot Minor, you can also have a higher capacity, so you might as well. And for those looking for every edge possible, the higher-capacity revolvers have less angle to turn for each shot/trigger stroke.

Different reason for the rules. Selective-fire is general issue for service rifles. Suppressors are not.

I learned to purposely cant the gun inboard when shooting weak-handed. It feels more natural and seems to help with recoil control and subsequent shots. I don't remember where I learned this, but I suspect it may have been the Shooter Ready video from Rob Leatham. I spent a couple months' allowance on it when I was a kid and devoured every technique, wondering if I would ever get to get into the sport. I sure wish I'd been able to do it while that young. I might actually be good at it by now. I will go see if I can find another copy and review it for old time's sake.

I'm shooting a 625 in ESR and a 65 in SSR for IDPA. I enjoy both divisions. You can get a used Model 64 or 65 for under $300. Another hundred will get you a nice trigger job. That's a lot of money left over for holster, speedloaders, and especially ammunition. I'm looking forward to trying my 625 at a USPSA match, too.

You will eventually be getting more DIllon stuff and after a while you'll realize the value has far more than evened out for all the other things. Pay the shipping now, but amortize the cost over the next few decades that you'll be a Dillon customer and look at it that way.