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  1. zzt

    9mm +p+

    I reload everything, EXCEPT defensive rounds. Since Federal HSTs are available, why bother. Also, the notion of using XTPs @ 1300 fps is not a good one IMO. It will go through your assailant, especially if it clogs with clothing. Then you risk hitting an innocent bystander. In a defensive situation you are not going to be shooting through barriers, so why do you need hotter than FBI spec ammo? Why do you even need 18" of penetration? That is still going to go through a body. 9" to 12" is what you need. There is factory ammo out there that will consistently penetrate 12" even through denim or a barrier.
  2. The club I shoot SCSA at the most stores everything in a Conex. There are shelves for some things, but stands and plates are stored on the floor. The stands stack neatly. Plates, because if you drop one pulling it off a shelf, you break your foot. Caps, etc. go into 5-gallon pails. Cases of paint, tape and other accessories go on shelves.
  3. I buy 115 JHP by the case (3900) for a tad over 9 cents each. Good plated bullets cost more, because no one offers them in bulk. You can buy hard cast and hard cast coated for less, but they are less accurate. Also, the lead up comps. Same for FMJs.
  4. So, use JHPs. You can buy them in bulk for less money than good plated. Super accurate. I agree on the 147s. Get them up to 144 PF and one hole groups at 25 yards. FWIW, my bullseye shooting friends tell me you have to drive 9mm fast to get bullseye accuracy. FWIW2, RMR 124 JHPs over Sport Pistol or AA2 for 132 PF are superbly accurate. I bought 1k just to try them. I'm back to 115 JHPs now.
  5. Zoomy, most good gunsmiths are swamped. They are not accepting new work until they can clear a good portion of their backlog. Here is a tip. If you find a good local gunsmith and he tells you 8 months, ask this. I can't leave the gun for 8 months. If you have another barrel job and the fixture is set up in the mill, call me. I'll be right over and you can do mine before you tear down the setup. Quite possibly you jump the line. Most smiths will do all the 1911 barrel work at the same time. They won't finish any other work a customer ordered on the gun, but they will do the barrels while the jig is set up on the mill.
  6. Having had this conversation before: same primer, same powder, different charge weights to get to say 132 PF: 147s produce the least actual recoil, 135s next, then 124s the 115s, etc. Plug it into the formula and see for yourself. For 'felt' recoil, 115s hit your hand hardest, then 124s, 135s and 147s. So if you are looking for the absolute lowest actual recoil, and the least felt recoil, shoot 147s. Then take a nap while the sights return.
  7. This ^^^^. I don't mind doors, drop ports, shooting from swaying bridges, running up and down A frames, throwing a 20 lb. sack of sand onto an activator that is out of the shooting area, unloaded starts where every mag you will use has to be on the start table, seated starts, etc. What I don't like about some of these props is when the stage designer decides to get to cute. On a stage at a LIII match, the shooter had to run up a 6' A frame, engage one target at the top and another halfway down the opposite side while descending. I warned shooters about the slippery A frame. After two squads it was muddy. Even so, a few got DQ'd because they slid down too fast and broke 180 while engaging the target. IMO, that is not good stage design. My main problem with track meets is I'm old and slow (76). I don't care for score. Bit it is very tiring when you RO five shooters and have to run along with them for a total of 40 yards, then walk it again scoring. On some stages I have to give up the timer, because I can't keep up with the jack rabbits. On others where you have to run backwards 20 yards for the first shot, I definitely give up the timer. Otherwise, I'll end up down range of the speedsters. Stage designs that allow a number of approaches are interesting. When you see six different stage plans executed, that's a well designed stage. When everyone shoots it the same way, it's boring. So are 32 round stages with only four views. Shoot 8, run a little, shoot 8, repeat twice. Geez! Have a two target array shot through a port. Run around a wall and shoot three targets. Run up, shoot two on the left and two on the right. Mix it up. Throw in a head shot and a long one.
  8. FWIW, the first five red dots I bought were Burris FF3 8 MOA. The first was on a competition 1911 45. 40k rounds later it is still going strong. I did have to send one back after a long while (5-6 years), because the windage screw let loose. Three weeks later I had it back. Different serial number, and it still works. I do agree there are better choices for USPSA and SCSA.
  9. What FPP says is correct. It takes practice. You are actually training your subconscious to shoot where you look. When I am in the zone, I don't see the dot. I see the target and I hit it. Look, shoot; look, shoot. As long as I am shooting regularly, that's how it goes. If I take a couple of weeks off, I have to retrain my subconscious. Until I do, I'm aiming and slow. FWIW, I prefer round windows. All my 'serious' competition guns wear 5 MOA SROs. The only exception is the PCC for SCSA. It wears a 12 MOA dot. In the rare instance I shoot the PCC in a USPSA 'style' match, I swap the diode for a 6 MOA.
  10. I'm more cautious than those above. I buy roll sized, fully processed, once fired, same HS brass for my 9 major loads. I'm at 175+ PF, so I don't take chances. I pick up practice brass and reload it to minor. That being said, my shooting buddy loads major in mixed HS, range pickup brass. He has yet to have a problem.
  11. I started shooting dots at 8 MOA. In fact, the first five dots I bought were all 8 MOA. They were, IMO, much better suited than the 3 or 4 MOA that were available at the time. I tried some 6 MOA from a company, but quit because the battery would not last for a eight stage SCSA match. Currently, all of my competition pistols wear 5 MOA dots. I'd like larger, but I love the SROs. I run a 12 MOA on my PCC for SCSA. FWIW, I prefer sharp, somewhat dim dots. Less distracting.
  12. There is some silly stuff in this thread. The original question was silly. Why even consider doing away with major? What are you afraid of? Losing because you don't shoot mostly As? Same thing with rejiggering the scoring differences. Why? So you, a not so good shooter, can place higher in the overall? Raise the PF because it is too low. That would kill 40 and 9 major. No it wouldn't. I shoot Open now and my FP is 175+. The gun runs better there. When I shot Limited, my PF was 172. Going to 175+ is easily achieved. All it would do is make 180 PF harder to shoot. Then people would say the scoring differential should be increased, because 180 is harder to shoot than the mouse fart 9mm factory most are shooting now.
  13. FTP, you are in error. Trijicon warrants their dots for the life of the original owner. Leopold's warrants their dot for lifetime, even if you are not the original owner. Burris warrants their dots (FF 1, 2 ,3) for life). Don't know about the FF4. If you don't warrant your dots for lifetime, I'll never buy one.
  14. That is exactly why I started shooting USPSA in Limited. I started shooting outlaw matches at my home club many years ago. The stages were set up by Limited shooters. I was shooting a 1911 45. I kept thinking WTF? I'm doing four reloads in a 1911 with no magwell, and these guys are blazing around with only one reload. All guns were placed in the same Division and scoring was minor. So I was at a double disadvantage. I bought a double stack and shot 9mm factory. When I decided to start shooting USPSA in '16, Limited it was. SAO, major scoring and mag capacity were the deciding factors there.
  15. Earlier in this thread I mentioned one of the trends today seems to be big stages so even the Open guys have to reload. Well, surprise. At the match yesterday, none of the six stages were more than 25 rounds. Most were 24. I wondered if the 25s were there so the CO and LO guys had to reload. I didn't have to reload once. Even the Classifier was one of the new rungun types. I've mentioned many, many times on theses forums, there is always a place to reload without costing time. I practice them, so I don't have a problem with them. I don't think limiting mag length would sit well with Open shooters. It's the RACE Division. Limiting to 140 would just smoosh CO, LO and Open together. Then the only difference would be where the dot sat and major scoring. If that were the case, why not have just one Division. Optical Sight 9mm; major and minor scoring. I do think there should be a mag limit for PCC, if only to keep the stupid ones from hurting themselves. I still marvel at the yahoos using plastic Glock mages with huge metal extensions on them and 57 rounds inside. The have to constantly hold the mag in the magwell when they shoot and run. Otherwise it would shake loose. Why? Most have now come to their senses and run smaller extensions. I don't shoot PCC in USPSA, but I do use it for falling steel matches USPSA 'style'. Three ETS 40 round plastic mags are light, reloadable and handle even the longest monster stage. If I shot PCC for USPSA, I'd just use one of them. If you need more than 8 makeup shots on a long stage, you need more practice.
  16. Even with that loading, ported shoots flatter than unported. I do something similar. Back when my home club did not allow ports or comps in their outlaw matches, I fitted a plain barrel to my 2011 Open gun. I shot factory minor. When they allowed comps for loads under 140 PF, I switched back. My 132 PF 124gr load using Sport Pistol or AA2 absolutely shoots flatter in the comp'd barrel vs. the plain one. It is a small difference, but it is there.
  17. Not everyone pays attention only to their Division. Many pay attention to the overall. There, they pay a penalty for a standing reload.
  18. LoL. I complained about that for years. I shoot Open have zero problem doing a reload. I always had to when I shot Limited. However, some of the stages are a handicap to Prod, L10, and SS shooters. When you can hose 16 shots without moving your feet, you force a standing reload for the locap shooters. Yes, the stage was legal because they placed an additional shooting box nearby. So you 'could' move if you were so inclined. Fortunately, that has changed. There are a lot more shorter, challenging courses now. Most are 24+ so the CO and LO shooters have to reload at least once. Also the is a LOT more running. Shoot one target from the start position. Run 20 yards to the other end of the shooting are and engage one more. Run 15 yards up one side engaging targets as they become visible. Fire through the ports at the top. Run around a wall and shoot the ones on the right. You've just covered 40+ yards.
  19. You get FtFs like that when the nose of the bullet strikes the end of the feed ramp and bounces up. Bullets are tight when dropping in the chamber, because Barsto barrels have very short leades. As suggested above, drop your OAL by .010" and see what happens. When you plunk rounds into the chamber you should be able to spin them my hand. If you can't, you need a shorter OAL. Normally, I'd say get the barrel throater. However, you have a feeding issue to solve first.
  20. I don't care for flush with the breech face firing pins like the Dawson. I prefer extended ones such as Cheely's. If you had grunge in the firing pin channel, it is possible it got stuck and protruded a bit. It may have dented the primer, but not fired it. Then you changed your grip to drop a mag. That movement and push may have been enough to finally fire the primer. Unless you are using really clean burning powder and JHPs, the firing pin and extractor tunnels will collect a lot of crap.
  21. I'm curious as to why you want to shoot major in a Prodigy. It is a perfectly fine LO gun. Major doesn't buy you anything unless you move to Open. In that case, you want a real Open gun with no MIM parts.
  22. zzt

    TS2 in Limited Optics

    I put an EGW dovetail mount on my TS and an SRO. Works perfectly well.
  23. I put Harrison Custom grips on one of my 1911 competition guns. They very closely approximate my 2011 grips.
  24. I prefer steel grips on 2011s because they balance the gun on my weak hand index finger. Every one of mine balances there. Since it is balanced and the weight is between you hands, transitions are quick. I prefer lighter bullets because slide action is faster and the sights some back quicker. I had been using 124s because I got a super deal on them. Now that I'm out, I'll go back to 115s.
  25. I still do. A Sig 1911 Tacops in 45. Made in Germany. First rate. I did have to replace the MIM hammer and the sear after 40,000 rounds. Otherwise, original. BTW, the 40,000 were 45 rounds. I also used the receiver for my bullseye 22 conversion and my CWA 22 competition conversion. So it would be fairer to say I had to replace the MIM hammer after 65,000 assorted rounds. Not bad for a MIM part.
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