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The only gun I could shoot in two divisions is LO, then Open. They have to make LO legal first. As far as two gun shooters, we do it all the time. The club I shoot SCSA at allows two guns per shooter, even though the match is held on two days. Some people want to shoot more than two guns. I am almost always on a squad with four or five additional shooters, all shooting two guns. We run through once, then again for the second gun. It goes like clockwork. Sure, the Timing or Scoring RO has to help out with painting sometimes, but it doesn't hold anything up. We never hold the next squad up unless we were significantly held up by a previous squad. If a club only allows one gun, I don't bother going.

Precision makes nice coated bullets. So, I don't think it is them. I have tried to make one 9mm minor round that was perfect in both the PCC and pistol. Hasn't worked out. Try this. Take ten sized and deprimed cases. Seat a bullet at 1.150" OAL. Drop it into the chamber. If the bullet rests on the lands, decrease the OAL until it does not. That will be the max OAL you can use for that bullet in that gun. Load the other 9 cases to the same OAL. Load them in a mag and cycle them trough the PCC. Make sure you slingshot the charging handle so you get the maximum force going forward. Measure the OAL when finished to see if there is any setback. If no, you are good to go. If yes, experiment with shorter OALs. Magic marker your feed ramp if there is one. If not, mark the chamfer around the chamber and the rear of the barrel. You want to see where the bullet nose is striking. Adjust OAL until the bullet feeds directly into the chamber. If you have a feed ramp, the bullet should strike halfway up. I'm willing to bet that you get occasional setback with your short OAL. Setback increases the pressure and the resultant velocity. That is going to raise your SDs. I seat and crimp in separate operations using the Lee FCD crimp die. I now have zero setback issues. CFE burns at the same rate as AutoComp. It is the fastest of the Open major powders. Try selling it to an Open shooter. Powders like Sport Pistol, N320 or Competition are muck better suited to minor loads. You keep the pressure up for 124/5gr 132 PF loads and get a much cleaner, more consistent burn. Any of these powders will reduce your SDs.

That explains what happened at on club I shoot at. The members wanted alternating USPSA and SCSA matches. They shoot Mar thru Nov. 9 matches. They did that for a while and USPSA said nope. Shoot more USPSA matches. So now they have 9 USPSA matches and SCSA only on months with a 5th Saturday.

FWIW, my home club is not affiliated with any orgs other than NRA and CMP. I run monthly 2-stage action matches on the pistol (bullseye) range. We use USPSA rules, plus one club rule. We use USPSA and IPSC targets. We use Practiscore for scoring. I shoot USPSA, so the rule set was a natural. So were the targets. We place barrels at each firing position so shooters may stage their mags. When I first started this, only three of us shot USPSA. We were the only three with holsters and mag pouches. Now, every shooter except one wears a belt with holster and mag pouches. At least nine joined USPSA and now shoot in sanctioned matches. Everyone knows the relevant rules. Shooting in these matches and following the rules gave these shooters the confidence they needed to shoot sanctioned matches. Same with our steel matches and the Summer steel league. Surrender draw and SCSA rules. Twelve of our shooters now compete in sanctioned SCSA matches. So, I don't think hit factor matches or even outlaw matches hurt USPSA as long as you are using their rule set. I think it helps a lot. Plus, you can draw USPSA shooters to them. We have six new to us USPSA shooters now shooting our matches.

"required" to tune the gun properly. 10 lb. recoil spring, 18 lb. mainspring and 'open' radius on a Cheely firing pin stop contribute to a perfect return to zero after each shot. The gun wears a custom 3-chamber, 6-port comp with two 3/16" poppels in the comp in a V2 configuration. Load is 10.8gr AA7 under a 115 JHP. Added later: slide action with 7 and 8 lb. springs is too violent. Plus, the muzzle returns high.

That doesn't mean they are correct. They are not.

Blue for everything. Just make sure everything is clean before applying.

FWIW, I had two 3/16" poppels put in my main Open gun after testing with the comp alone. I lost 3 PF after the poppels were put in. Shot flatter. Still made major, but I upped the charge anyway.

Nope. Faster now. Some are full in 45 seconds. The rest in 60 seconds or so.

A 5" Prodigy with optic for $1376 and free shipping gives you an awful lot for your money. It is hard to justify spending more for an MPA, especially given their spotty quality.

Only your first sentence is correct. All else equal, a lighter slide will be driven rearward at a higher velocity than a heavier slide. More effort is required to arrest the slide in the space available. More effort equals a heavier recoil spring. Here is an easy to understand example. A 1911 firing a load that requires a 16 lb. recoil spring. Tap the slide to mount a Picatinny rail, then mount a tubular red dot such as those used by bullseye shooters. You have added several ounces of weight to the slide. You have to drop to a 12 lb. recoil spring to get the now heavier slide to function. Another example. The slide of my Open gun was lightened from 13 oz. to 10.5 oz. Firing my 115 JHP @ 1520 fps major load requires a 10 lb. recoil spring. Firing a 115 @ 1150 fps factory load requires a 6v recoil spring.

Most 2011s running 7 or 8 lb. recoil springs are Open guns. Most 2011 slides are heavier than CZ slides. The lighter the slide the heavier the recoil spring for the same PF, everything else being equal.

Chambers in most PCC barrels are looser than pistols. Even with a retarded operation buffer system, you will still get some soot on the cases. Long barrel or short, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

If you only shoot JHPs or plated through your comp, it doesn't get dirty. You get a little carbon, but you can still see the machining marks at the bottom of the chambers. If it bothers you, spray in some solvent and wipe it away. The first time I did that I had 12k rounds through it. I also use clean burning powder.

If you are willing to pay the price, Widner's has cases available.

I get emails all the time noting 8% or 10% off.

Over the past year and a half I've bought assorted bullets when I found them reasonably priced. The problem is most places were limiting quantities allowed. I lucked out and bought 6000 9mm 124 plated. I was buying 9mm HAPS by the case, until they were no longer available. Now they are, but exorbitantly expensive. Right now I have 1k or slightly under of eight assorted 9mm bullets (JHP, plated and coated). My current plan is to shoot them all up this year. Then standardize. For 115 JHPs it will be PD 115 JHP v2. When they are in stock again, I'll buy a couple cases. I'll do the same as I was doing with the HAPs. Open the last case, order another. If I can work up acceptable 9mm minor and PCC loads using the 115s, I use them for everything once all the other stuff is gone. That would be nice. One bullet, three loads-major, minor and PCC. I'd start with three cases of 3900. When I got down to 10k, order another case. That way I'll have enough bullets for almost a year if this crap happens again. Same thing with primers.

It really depends on your gun's configuration. As suggested, try the 3N37 with your 115s. If you have lots of poppels, the gun will probably hit your hand harder than you like. The solution is to make more gas. Try 3N38. If the hit is still to hard, sell the 3N37 and try AA7. Sprinkle the HS-6 on the garden for fertilizer.

I hear you . I would if I could. I can't keep up with 9mm. I shoot too much. Last year I went through several cases of factory minor for no other reason than I couldn't keep up with demand. I'd load major and PCC and still couldn't keep up. I shot the last USPSA match last year Open minor with factory. Didn't have enough major loaded. If I knew then what I know now, I'd have bought an automated press.

Well, as much as I prefer shooting 40 minor over 9mm, I'm going to change. For one thing, the 3000+ 40 heads I thought I had turned out to be mostly 45s. It's not worth changing over the press for 800 40s, so I'll sell the heads and give the 2.5 gallons of once fired 40 brass to a Limited shooting friend. I just received a CZC SS 9mm barrel for my CZ 75 TS 40. I'll be fitting it shortly. I know that conversion works, because so many others have done it. Hopefully the mags will work as well. Then I'll just stick with 9mm and 45.

I must just be lucky. Every time I've checked in the last 6-7 weeks, the 124 JHPv2 have been in stock. Never the 115s.

I use AA7 and SWMP and I get nowhere near the sparks you show. Also, they are super clean. If you are getting more than just a thin film that wipes right off, change your lube. I have nothing against 3N38 except I cannot fit enough in the case to make major with a 115 JHP. I wish I could use it. It is often easier to find than AA7.

@kewi Here is some additional advice. Do your transition testing on a steel challenge range, and on the clock. Steel Challenge is ALL about transitions. SCSA is all surrender draw, but you can scoop draw for your practice. Smoke & Hope, Speed Option and Five to Go are stages with wide transitions. Load 10 rounds in each mag and have at it. Record your string times and compare. After about 20 strings with each gun, you will know which is fastest. Talk to good SCSA shooters. They will tell you a light gun transitions fast, but is harder to stop without overshooting. A heavy gun will stop on a dime, but is slower to move. You have to find the right balance. That's why I recommended you try other peoples guns. Since this is practice, do some strings as double taps. You may need more than 10 in a mag for that.

He should be warned. If it continues, DQ for unsportsman like conduct.

I hear you. Unfortunately, I cannot eject someone from the match for being a slacker or an ahole.