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Just used this thread to help me work thru a polish job and installing CGW internals on a new CZ75 compact ... THANK YOU! Great resource! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Unless there a reason to go docker I would say shadow is the better option. Better potential trigger. And my .02 would be go CGW for the work. Bad experiences relayed to me about AA and I have excellent direct service with CGW. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Parabellum firearms in Avon,IN hosts indoor USPSA once or twice a month. Dates and times on their website, www.parabellumfirearms.com Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

VZ Diamondbacks 1.204" $75 + shipping Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

First major of the year is in the books! I got the hell out of Indiana weather and went down to Frostproof to shoot the Florida State Championship. Thankfully I was able to avoid any of the terrible weather that showed up Friday morning. So I went in to this match with a little less live fire practice than I was hoping to have under my belt. The weather got rainy and cold for a few weeks before at home and it really put a damper on my ability to get to the range. I did, however, make a point to set aside more time for dryfire leading up to this, though still not as much as I probably should have. I started off on the classifier stage, Window Pain. This is the first time I've shot this classifier, its a much more movement oriented classifier than I'm used to seeing. It was a decent stage to start on, and I was ok with my performance. Something that plagued me this match was make up shots. I clearly wasn't waiting and seeing A's on each target. While not a good thing, this did point out how much better I'm getting at calling my shots. I made up a lot of shots quickly, however, still ended up with 11 deltas and 1 mike for the match (the mike I did not call at all), which is an area that needs improvement. One thing that I think needs improvement to help my accuracy out a little is grip strength. I catch myself with a lazy grip on the gun frequently, and that translates to the sights jumping around a lot more than I would like. I need to work on my grip strength and tighten up my hold on the gun to really see some improvement in accuracy at speed. On a semi positive note one thing I tried to focus on this match was setting straightforward stage plans. I have found that the more I try to game something or get tricky or push limits the less it seems to pay off. For this match I tried to shoot everything as straight forward as possible. I failed on a couple stages where I could have thrown in an extra reload to allow for make ups on tough partials or longer steel shots, and it definitely bit me. On one stage in particular, the 7th I think, I got a little ahead of myself trying to scream past a small piece of steel and it came back to bite me in the form of about 5 missed shots and a reload before I was able to hit it. ouch. After looking back I see a few things I could easily keep in mind and potentially cut about 7-10 seconds off my overall time from this match. (Obviously theres a lot more to go, but there are some time adding errors that are glaring) A good take away for me is that I felt like I had a better approach to this match mentally that I have in the past. I had some struggles and put up some shitty stage performances, but I was able to stay positive and not let it affect the next stage. Thats a big win for me, as I have struggled with the positive mental aspect of sports in the past. Another positive is that I feel much more confident with SHO. I've made a point to incorporate that into each live fire training session, at least a mag or two, and I am already seeing improvement. This match had what I'd consider a fairly tough freestyle / SHO stage, and I'm happy to say I ended up shooting it clean. I could have turned a couple deltas on long targets to C's or even better A's, but one step at a time. I did not feel nervous about the SHO when stepping up to the shooting area and that certainly helped me perform better. Overall my match performance was acceptable. I shot 86% of points after penalties (1 mike and 1 NS). I finished 6th overall at 77% of the winner Shane Coley (he's a beast) and finished first of 11 A-class shooters, as well as finishing above 6 of the 8 Master class shooters. My goal going into the match was to finish at 85%, so I was unable to achieve that, but I did come away with some positives and I think it was a good start to the season. For upcoming training I am going to focus on improving grip strength and tightening up my grip, continue working on SHO and WHO, as well as movement and position entry / exit. Thats a long list of stuff to improve on, but I feel like if I rotate and pick one at each practice session and just hammer on it I might see some gains. pov match video (3rd pers video is getting compiled and will be added)

I was in the same boat. Love my sp01 so I looked for a similar gun for carry. I opted for the CZ 75 compact. Mainly because I didn't want the decocker and I actually thought the steel frame wld help the gun be more shootable. Usually my concealment issues are size related not weight. Still waiting on delivery but there is no shortage of people who love the compact size CZs (both P01 and CZ compact) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think it was discontinued but now is back. As said above if the 9L is cheaper just go with that, an apex sear and new sights wld be my first addition to either model. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think I have a gun problem. I literally couldn't get the 11.5# to light anything off, so moved to 13#. That was running okay until I switched to the S&B's. No its easily 20% light strike situation. I'll pull the fp tomorrow and check, but I doubt it's fouled in there. I would tend to agree that there's something going on besides the hammer spring. I've got two shadows and both will run S&B primers 100% with the 11.5 lbs spring. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm pretty new to CZ as well, just got my production shadow set up going in Oct this year... Came from an M&P. So far, and I'm guessing it will continue, I LOVE the CZ. Great great great guns. Feel great in the hand and eat up recoil very well. I would say you will not be disappointed if you pick up a 75 for IDPA. And to be honest, when tuned the CZ DA/SA is absolutely no more difficult to shoot than a striker fired gun. I personally think it's much easier overall. And that's coming from someone who 1 year ago would have argued all day long that a DA/SA gun for speed (competition) shooting was a ridiculous idea. CZ triggers can be THAT good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Something to consider regarding the Dawson ice magwell. It is very deep. I initially had one but after some issues with mags not being seated fully I switched to a S&A one piece magwell / msh. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jealous! That is slick!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The weather has unfortunately gone "winter." While the last few months were wonderfully mild we're now experiencing some chilly weather, oh well it was fun while it lasted. I was able to shoot a couple locals last week, one indoor and one outdoor. I've found that indoor matches are a little more difficult because its considerably harder for me to find the front sight. Like most, I use a fiber optic front, and when indoors it gets zero light and really doesn't pop at all. That being said, after having shot a couple indoor matches since my last outdoor match, I definitely noticed my front sight yesterday while shooting outside! A few observations from the last couple matches, I feel slow. I feel like my splits are slow, unnecessarily slow on closer open targets, and I move slowly. For the most part I've been making a point to speed up my transitions, and I'm happy with my progress so far, but my overall stage times need to come down, and I think being able to work with some faster splits will help, as well as quicker foot movement. Now I know that chasing screaming fast splits is generally not the best way to speed up a stage, I'm more just looking for a small improvement in my times, which of course like all things will add up over the course of a full match. I've found that I'm about 2-3 seconds slower than where I want to be on most stages.. sometimes more, sometimes things click and I end up with a decent pace. One things I've noticed lately is when making up shots, which I need to stop having to do, I've come up after a reload with an empty chamber several times. Due to my grip the slide release on my CZ does not engage on an empty chamber and if I've made a couple make ups that I didn't expect, or have a make up on a 10 shot array, I am not picking up on this and end up costing myself a couple seconds by way of dropping the hammer on an empty chamber and then having to rack in a round and then continue on. Eliminating this frequent mistake is probably going to be the easiest way of getting my overall times down, and will be something I'll keep in mind moving forward, but I'd also like to get myself moving faster. Recent classifiers, Eye of the Tiger 09-14 and Disaster Factor 13-01. So classifiers have given me fits lately.. I've not been approaching them with the right mindset and its cost me in the form of quick times littered with mikes. I'm trying to change my approach and work on consistency vs trying to blaze away. Eye of the tiger was a tough one, I thought, for minor scoring especially. I looked at this one before shooting it and decided I wanted to keep my pace between 3.5 and 4 sec, but knew I would be dropping some points no matter where I ended up, as this classifier essentially is the first half of El prez, except with ridiculous no shoots and hard cover making headshots the only option at 7 yards. I ran this classifer 2x, this is because I shot the local match 2x, once in production and once in Lim10- Minor (with limited off season shooting availability I want to shoot as much as possible so I signed up for both flights of this match). My first run at it was 3.69 and my 2nd was 3.80. Both were right about the pace I was trying to keep. Unfortunately I called a mike on the middle (headshot only / hard cover) target on my first shot. I did not let my sights settle and broke the shot high. The rest of my hits were there, although about evenly split between A and B, which kills the HF. With the mike this one was smoked. Next was my Lim10 run. I slowed down enough to ensure I wouldn't make the same mistake and added a little time to my overall, but got all my hits. Again, minor scoring smoked me and 4 B's ended up with a 65% run for Lim10. Next one was Disaster factor. I didn't push speed at all on this one and ended up shooting it about a 1-1.5s slower than I hoped. My hits were ok, but tight NS's on the top row of targets contributed to a few more charlies than I wanted and I ended up with a 65% run, which I'm ok with, because it did not involve mikes, and at this point thats an improvement. On a positive note I feel like I'm having more confidence in where my shots are going. Only occasionally do I get surprised by a hit on target that I did not call. I still get the odd Delta that I didn't quite call, but for the most part I'm confident in A's or close Cs. No to start eliminating the close C's and be confident in As! Heres match vid from yesterdays outdoor match (all but one stage that got cut short due to phone storage issues). I ended up 1st in production, of 18 shooters, including a couple A and M's. I'm not sure about overall placement because practicescore was jacked up and they only got posted to uspsa. I shot the match clean, albeit with a few more charlies and delta's than I would prefer. 86% of possible points which isn't terrible, but isn't good enough either.

I started on an olllllld 450. Upgraded a few parts and never really found myself reloading a lot. It was kind of intimidating as there was so much going on at each pull... Work the primer system, powder system, insert case and bullet ect. I ended up only loading 1 round at a time to make sure I didn't screw anything up and end up with a double charge or squib. Bought a 650 last spring and LOVE IT. loaded about 15,000 rnds last year on it and just added a second. My first is now dedicated 9mm with a bullet feeder. 2nd is for .45 and anything other I might want to load. Go 650 if you can! It's a GREAT machine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have a bunch of these and they seem to run fine. I shot 10k or more thru an M&P with stock springs with no issue. And I've now show another 3-4K thru CZ with 11.5lbs hammer spring and they still go boom. If I can't get federal at decent prices id have zero problem buying more s&b. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

First post in a while.. Turns out starting a shooting journal at the end of a season, right when you put your house on the market is not the best way to dive in.. I have shot a couple local matches, an IDPA match and indoor USPSA. Other than that my practice time has dwindled in the last month. I am going down to Florida in January for the FL State Championship! Coming from Indiana weather I'm extremely pumped to get down there and hit the range. From now until then I have a goal of dryfire or live fire at least 5x a week. I'm guessing that about 4 of those sessions will be dryfire, and I'm hoping to get out to live fire 3 more times before its 2016 match time! Because my shooting and practicing took a hit there for a while I find myself quickly gathering some rust on basic skills. A lot of my dryfire has been working on draws and reloads. When I go a decent amount of time without good practice I find myself bobbling reloads and losing a lot of speed on my draw. On the reloads I've noticed my issues are in grasping the mags. When I have a bobble I tend to not get a deep enough grip on the magazine, this becomes painfully obvious as the magazine slams sideways into the magwell rather than sliding in and allowing me to return to the target. Ive been working on slower speed reps where I absolutely make sure I get the correct grip, and then once I feel comfortable I start picking up the pace again. This is my 2nd week of hitting the dry fire hard, and I'm already seeing improvement in the reload. My biggest issue with the draw is how quickly I'm able to find that front sight. More and more reps are getting that back in order as well. My last live fire session was positive. One thing I've noticed is with the colder weather my live fire practice sessions arent too elaborate. I set up some 18"x18" plates at 10 yards (about a yard apart) and worked on transitions. This is an area where I feel I've made some good improvement this year. Cutting down on time spent between targets has helped me pick up time in my stage performance for sure. I am doing a lot better in moving off target once I call a hit, and breaking a shot pretty quickly once I've got sights on the next target, but I can still see a lot of room for improvement in how fast I move from target to target. I need to work on pushing targets further away and really snapping from one to the next. As far as match performance goes lately one thing is for sure, my classifier performances have been crappy (only had 1 classifier). I really have got to get my head right about shooting these. No matter how much I read or hear about making sure you get your hits, I seem to just want to hit the gas and it ends up costing me mikes. My biggest goal for the coming year is to change my approach to this part of the game. Last classifier shot was Front Sight. I had pretty fast string times, around 2.5 sec for the turn and draw and 2 sec for the facing down range string... my hits on 2 of the 3 targets were good... 4 alphas on the first and i think 3 alphas on the 3rd target, however, my hits on the middle target were terrible. I think I had 2 mikes, and I know it was because I was trying to push so hard and not give up any time that I pushed past the target as I was shooting. As much as I know sitting here that it doesn't matter if I ran the classifier in 3 seconds flat with those mikes it means nothing, once I get on the line I just wanna go fast. I think my break through will be when I can accept and apply what I'm writing currently, gotta get the hits.

SSP - Master Got stuck in EX for a while and never really shot the classifier very well. Finally got a match bump after winning SSP overall at Indiana State this year. Woo hoo! Finally. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For me it's Lee dies, no head stamp sort, and yes lubed cases. Once they make it into the sizing die it's smooth sailing. And the press came as a 9mm set up originally. No rifle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've had this issue since I got my 650 last year. Sometimes it's very infrequent and sometimes it's 5 out of 10. Very frustrating. I chalk it up to me using it the cheapest possible brass (range pick ups). If I was buying new brass and still having this problem I would not be satisfied till it was fixed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No. Put your loaded rounds in it with the media of your choice and run for 15 minutes to get rid of case lube. what case lube??????? Something you should be using. Have never used it in the 15 years or so of reloading...why "should" I be using it? I would say give it a try. You might just surprise yourself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My guess is if you haven't shot a dot mounted gun before you will have a hard time even finding the dot in the glass. At range speeds you'll probably have to do some searching for it and at shit your pants reaction speeds you won't have a prayer of making good use of it. Now if you were planning on putting lots of range time or DF time towards it than I'd say you could definitely learn to make it an advantage. But without that I'd say you're not gonna gain much just by adding the sight. As a note I have never really used a dot on a pistol up until earlier this year. I tried an RMR on a mp core for a one day pistol class (appx 500 or so rounds) at a swat operator conference I attended this summer. I was very pleased with how accurate I was able to shoot at distance doing group shooting or taking precise shots, but when it came down to quick shots from draw or rapid transitions I really struggled seeing it at all. At the end of the day we did some dueling tree competitions and again I felt like searching for the dot really slowed me down- admittedly I had very little time with it before hand, and I'm certain if that's all I shot with since then I would be MUCH faster and more comfortable with it by now. But it's not, so I'm not. Haha. I guess take that for what it's worth.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Indianapolis International airport (on the south west side of Indy) is less than an hour away and Indy has far too many hotel accommodations to list. Up on the north side of Indy you would prob end up being less than 20-25 mins from the range Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Seems to me that minor scoring is a big part of what makes production such a different division. I'm mainly a production shooter and have been since I started. Occasionally I will shoot a match in limited and shooting major.. it's like a whole different game. Once I get where I want to be in production I will likely make a move to open or limited and try to learn that game. But for now shooting minor with 10rnd mags is what makes production so difficult to master... Or at least get to master. Minor shooting makes the focus on accuracy pretty heavy if you want to do well, which makes me feel like I'm building better basic skills by shooting production now. I definitely like what it is now, even though sometimes I wish I could be scored major or have 20 rnds for a stage! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Very cool! Those look awesome. Will make for some good practice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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