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Interesting... I have not intentionally rolled my thumb incorrectly to make it go bang. I assumed I would end up with the slide cutting my thumb if I did so. Do you have video of making it go bang while rolling your thumb?

This.

While it is something I need to solve; every now and then I get a reload wrong a little bit and I run into it. It needs to go as it is an impediment to recovery and hurts speed.

I use the roll method like the video. When I see people pinching it makes me cringe. A little oil on the finger tip and you could have trouble. Roll method is fool proof.

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Thank you. Found a video that shows how to remove the plug and reinstall. Putting the link here in case someone searches and finds this thread in the future.

Is it legal in Production division to remove the lanyard loop on a CZ SP01? If so, how do you go about doing it and does it require a replacement part or can it just be removed?

Ah.... well, no. The camera is directly in front if the targets. But I don't think it would matter as it picks up the dot on target nicely. But range time tonight.. well it was cold! Gun didn't like it. Again, I am a lowly C class shooter, but I would lose the laser/camera solution. The feedback is too late if you have to go back and watch video. Are you going to be able to remember what your trigger pull felt like on the shot that ended up in the D zone? Probably not. You need to see the front site in dry fire and where it is as you execute the trigger pull. Did you pull the site left, right, up or down? If so, where would that shot have ended up? Call every shot during dry fire even when pushing your limits in Speed Mode. Don't judge the accuracy and get upset that you had a poor shot, but only pay attention to making speed improvements while calling your shots. The time for caring about where your hits go is when you slip into Accuracy mode. Don't try to work on both at the same time. Seriously though, Anderson's third book is training Gold! Plus, he is probably still paying off that $13k vet bill. The feedback is actually pretty quick. It's not a video, it's a still image showing all of the hits, numbered in order. When I use the software, it isn't a substitute for shot calling. It's just a check to see if my shot calling is honest. Very interesting. I guess it would give you similar training to a live fire exercise where you are working on shot calling (see Anderson's two target shot calling drill).

Ah.... well, no. The camera is directly in front if the targets. But I don't think it would matter as it picks up the dot on target nicely. But range time tonight.. well it was cold! Gun didn't like it. Again, I am a lowly C class shooter, but I would lose the laser/camera solution. The feedback is too late if you have to go back and watch video. Are you going to be able to remember what your trigger pull felt like on the shot that ended up in the D zone? Probably not. You need to see the front site in dry fire and where it is as you execute the trigger pull. Did you pull the site left, right, up or down? If so, where would that shot have ended up? Call every shot during dry fire even when pushing your limits in Speed Mode. Don't judge the accuracy and get upset that you had a poor shot, but only pay attention to making speed improvements while calling your shots. The time for caring about where your hits go is when you slip into Accuracy mode. Don't try to work on both at the same time. Seriously though, Anderson's third book is training Gold! Plus, he is probably still paying off that $13k vet bill.

Thank you everyone. For those of you that bought the Scorpion belt do you recall if the inner belt has one end tapered or are both ends square. I think the belt I bought my son is a Scorpion and both ends of the inner belt are square off and it is a pain in the neck to thread through belt loops.

My daughter is going to start shooting with my son and I. Guess what? She wants a pink belt and I would really like to get her one. Does anyone know if anyone makes a competition belt in pink? Can't find one.

Yup. His new book is back in stock on Amazon. I have been listening to his podcasts and his 3rd book reflects what he is saying in his pod casts. Good stuff.

I am only a C class shooter, so my advice isn't worth spit, but I like what Steve Anderson has to say about this. He makes the distinction between "match guy" and "practice guy". Practice guy is allowed to miss or drop c and d zone hits when pushing speed so long as you SEE that you did it. If you can't call your shot in dry fire then going really fast in dry fire might be damaging. So push it as fast as you can and just make sure you see that you would have had a miss. Don't bring "practice guy" to the match.

Grumpy, Well, my sizing die really isn't adjustable to my knowledge. It sits on a Dillon 650 so it's impossible to skip this step. After adjusting crimp I did the same test (racking rounds through the pistol a couple of times) and they did not end up with setback. Pretty sure this was a crimp problem.

It really depends on the kid and no one knows your kid like you do. My son is pretty immature in many areas, but you put a gun in his hands and he transforms into another person. I say that if I could send him to school with a gun on his hip he would be a straight A student. He is 13 now and has been shooting USPSA for a little over a year. I started him on .22 pistol at an indoor range around 10. He has been walking with me while I hunt pheasant since around 3 and carried a cap gun shot gun for a couple of years before he started carrying a shotgun and shooting pheasants about 3 years ago. I trust him. He is safer than 90% of the adult shooters I see at the range or out hunting. Again, it all depends on your kid.

Shot Limited 10 for two years and did the first 6 months using 45. I switched to .40 because once you load the rounds down to the minimum needed to make major PF the recoil is much better. Also, recoil on a .40 is faster than a 45. 45 is more of a push and .40 is more of a snap. When you are looking for a quick follow up shot the snap of the 40 gets you back on target faster than the push of a 45. At least that is what I experienced and we reloaded both rounds.

Take a look at the data for the round you are doing. There should be dimensions for the crimp that you can measure. Make sure you get this right. When I first started competing I shot and reloaded 45 ACP. Didn't have enough crimp and had a round get the bullet pushed back and the gun went BOOM when it should have went bang. Went home and cycled the rounds through the pistol twice by hand and the setback was visible. A little more crimp fixed the problem.

I spent about 15 minutes doing reload practices last night with the Go Pro attached. Afterwards, I watched the video and I am happy to say not a single reload had a finger out of place. I am a C class shooter, set my par time to 3.5 seconds and did a draw, one shot, reload and one shot comfortably within 3.5 seconds with no finger issues. The timer, draw and shots added a level of urgency and distraction from the process so I think I might have this fixed. The finger is starting to feel natural where it is placed now.

Tim, Making the change to Production for at least a year. In theory, the thumb technique should be quicker.

Thanks for the tips. I spent some time last night just pressing the mag release to drop the mag. Gotta tell you it was really hard keeping my trigger finger in place. I got it down, but it is going to take a LOT of repetitions for this to be automatic. Will likely skip the bulk of the reload process and just drop mags for a week of dry fire and hope that burns the motion into my brain.

OK, so I had been shooting L10 with my single stack 1911 for a couple of years. I am a left, so I had an extended mag release and was using my trigger finger to drop the mag during reloads. It was an automatic way to ensure my finger wasn't on the trigger during a reload. I just switched to Production this month and when I had my CZ worked over I had the mag release extended and flipped. I have been practicing reloads at home to get used to the mag release on the opposite side and finally getting to reload like a right handed person (using left thumb). This weekend I received a warning from a stage RO saying that I had my finger inside the trigger guard on at least one reload. I was skeptical, but respectfully thanked him for the warning. Well, the Go Pro tells the truth. Big question here is how do I fix this in dry fire practice? I have been practicing reloads, but now I am unsure if I have been screwing them up. Guess I might need to wear the Go Pro during dry fire to make sure I am not screwing up with the trigger finger? Any other advise on how to make sure I never execute a reload like this again?

On average 1.5 per month. Kids need my time so I can't just indulge in my hobbies liberally.

A while back (there is a thread around somewhere with my woes) I was really struggling with classifiers. They did not accurately represent the skills I was showing on the other stages in a match. My head was in the way of my performance on the classifiers. I treated them differently and put pressure on myself in the classifier that I did not do in other stages. I have since relaxed and got my mental game under control. A classifier is simply the next stage in the overall match. I shoot them at the same speed and with the same desire for accuracy as every other stage and let the chips fall where they may. I am now finishing the classifier around the same overall ranking as all of my other stages (mid 40s most of the time out of ~100 shooters). If I have a classifier where I finish way out of what I did for the rest of the match (either high or low) I am going to review what I did very closely and either try to make it permanent or fix it.

I use the Mr. Shooter brass marker as well. The good news for me is that the range I shoot my local matches at gets very angry if brass is not picked up. The range will fine the club for not cleaning the bays so we always have one or two people on each squad picking up the brass after each shooter.

After having my gun go "click" during a classifier once I changed my start routine. I don't do a press check, but rather use a Barney mag. I check that mag when I eject it to make sure the one round that was in it is now gone. I am also only shooting 10 round divisions so the extra round is often helpful. I do the Barney process even if I plan or have to reload well before I might use 10 rounds. It IS my press check.