pointerman1967

TXpastorbob, Need to rotate the hand as you are inserting the mag. You start the reload by indexing the mag into the pistol and then rotate your wrist to end with your palm driving the mag into the magwell. Sorry if I am stating something obvious, but if you aren't getting the palm smack in at the end and just relying on fingers that may be your problem. If you are doing that and still having issues it might be that your fully loaded mags are really tight. If you can, get a base pad that adds a bit more room to your mags so they aren't so tight and that will also make reloads easier.

Thanks gentlemen. You are inspiring. Regarding the wrong hand... only left handed people are in their right mind.

Jack, No where near B shooter skills at this point. With my eye sight and body not getting any younger I am not sure B will ever be in the cards for me.

Malarkey, I believe your Fiance's 180 on this. You need to understand that the woman in our lives will at times speak to us from pure emotion and feeling. They felt it so they said it. That is good enough for them. She may have come to the realization that what she said was irrational and wrong and would like to take it back. The good news is that over time the women in our lives tend to think more about how they feel before they say something (at least the good ones do). I had a lot of experience with emotional responses early in our marriage (we are at 21 years now). My wife has learned that just because she feels it doesn't mean she isn't wrong and may need to check her feelings against what is right. It comes, but it is a lot of work and you need to be careful when dealing with these emotional issues because it is VERY real to them and they believe what they feel is right even if it has no place in the real world. If you haven't figured it out yet; men and women are very different in how we think. We check our emotions against reality and toss them out fairly quickly. Not so much with our better halves.

My thread back from the dead. As an update to this thread, I have learned to relax in classifiers. I don't bomb them any longer and my scores generally put me around the same place I finish the rest of the match. I am currently classed as a "C" and my mental game is under control. There was some good advice in this thread and I am thankful to those that helped me with some advice on getting my mental game in order.

OK, so I teach a marriage class at our church and without assuming any faith on your part I can say this. There is no way either of you can come home and give your all to one another without having ways to get your batteries recharged. A good marriage is a lot of work and takes a lot of self sacrificial love to work. If you don't each have some of your own same sex friends and some stuff you do apart from one another you will likely struggle to be able to give each other 100%. You won't be able to shoot a match every weekend, but you need to keep doing what you love or you will grow to resent her which will lead to failure. I am 48, have a 12 and 13 year old and shoot an average of 1.5 matches a month. I take my 13 year old son with me and he competes as well. About once a year my wife and daughter will join us at a match for moral support. My wife has plenty of time with her friends without me.

I hear you on all of the extra parts. I have seen parts lost and have lost some bits myself during matches. Impossible to find that missing screw in 50 yards of dirt. On another note, can anyone tell me why when I hit the "Quote" button in someone's post their message doesn't copy above mine?

rowdyb, I see the RLNs are a bit less expensive the the DAA Racers, but how much space are you saving with those? It looks like the attachment is taking the full width of a bullets forward pouch? Actually, looking at the photo that might be because they are showing a single stack mag in their photo.

From what I have read the Ghost 360s are junk which is probably why you are moving on.

I am getting ready to shoot my CZ SP-01 in Production this month. I am really struggling with how far back my mag pouches end up due to some shoulder issues. Who makes mag pouches with a bullets out (90 degree rotation) for the CZ 75 platform? Anyone with similar issues make this change? If so, now much does the rotated mag pouches move everything forward?

Yup. Club I shoot at here in CA caps the match at 90 shooters because they were running out of daylight without the cap. No one outside of CA believes me when I say we get 10-12 L10 shooters each match. The article in last month's magazine about possibly getting rid of L10 about gave me a heart attack. It is the only division I have shot over the last two years.

SP01 is best decocked using the finger roll method. As demonstrated in the video below.

There are some classifiers that require some single hand shooting. In general, other match stages don't specify any hand requirements. I believe the stage has to be under a certain round count for the designer to do so. I doubt the wobble has a lot to do with weight. Good news is that with this type of shooting you rarely point at one target for more than a second (unless you are missing steel) so the wobble factor of normal target shooting does not usually come into effect. If you have issues spend some time holding a small weight like you would a pistol when shooting for a few minutes each day and you can fix that issue.

Or go ahead and buy a new pistol. It never hurts to add another toy to the collection.

USPSA competitions are the one place my almost 13 year old son feels completely accepted and encouraged. Everyone is on his side and wants to help him improve. He doesn't get this at school, church or out in the general public. It makes his shooting companions seem like family. I love the people I shoot with and I am grateful for what they do for my son. Unconditional acceptance and care. Amazing folks for sure.

Because it is where I was born. Seriously, I would have left, but this is where family is. Weather is great, jobs are great and there is tons of stuff to do. Political situation sucks.

None of the CZ "P" series pistols are on the roster. The SP01 is on the roster in 9mm and is what I recently purchased for Production shooting in USPSA. It is sitting at Cajun Gun Works right now waiting for them to have time to work on it. The SP01 can be tough to find, but if you are interested in this model let me know as there is a gentleman in So Cal that will ship one to your local shop and is doing some work to take the non-CA compliant pistols work in CA (blocks the mags down to 10 rounds since the model number on the gun is the same for CA and the rest of the country). My son shoots an XD .40 Tactical and honestly, if I didn't already have the gun he would be shooting something else. The plastic guns are tough to make shoot as nice as a full metal frame pistol. Even with a tungsten guide rod it just isn't the same. If you already have something though, like others have said, just start competing now as it is too much fun to wait around for the perfect setup and you will learn quickly and likely change your mind on what you want as you hang out with other shooters.

My son develops a push every now and then. I watch him closely when we practice. I'll load his mag and put some dummy rounds in. If he dips the muzzle on the dummy round I send him off for 5 minutes of dry fire practice. He always comes back with the problem gone. I'd say get some dry fire in and watch that front site for movement.

One more arguement for buy .45 mags and tuning them; using .40 in a .45 10 round mag allows you to fit an extra round. While you won't be loading that extra round the space makes for much softer mag inserts. It's as though you are downloading a 10 round mag and helps reduce the potential of a botched mag change.

Yes, the Tripp 10mm mags work well, but the .45 Wilson will also work if you pinch the mag lips a bit.

I had a .40 STI Trojan that I run in L10 (would need to pull the magwell to run in SS). I had to send it back to STI after I first bought it since it would not feed at all. They quickly installed a new barrel and sent it back to me. Worked like a champ after that. I have since had a bull barrel fit to it. I can switch between bushing and bull in a minute if I want to shoot SS. I am using Wilson 10 round .45 mags. I have tuned the mag lips to retain the .40 reliably and the mags work perfectly with .40 and still function for .45 as well (which I can use in my STI Trojan .45 if I choose). While I would love to be running a double stack like the Edge; California makes purchasing such a pistol virtually useless unless I am willing to break the law.

But it is possible to get slow by going to fast... Slow and intentional builds the base for speed. As soon as I screw up a reload in dry fire I slow everything down to where I know I can do it perfectly and work to rebuild muscle memory at a slower speed. Execute the reloads perfectly at a slower speed and then gradually build back up again until I screw up again.

Wouldn't a stage where a target can only be engaged beyond the 180 be an illegal stage and tossed out? I think the term "180 trap" is well defined as a "180 temptation". A target placed in such a way that a shooter would be presented with a target from a shooting position beyond the 180. Sometimes all it takes is turning the target a bit to eliminate the 180 trap or a strategic barrel placed. Cha-Lee is referring to an illegal stage as a 180 trap.

Shot my first match using the Peltors with Gel cups. Holy cows! What a difference in comfort level. Only issue is that they seal so well they can get your ears pretty warm so I had to do more of the sliding them up on my head in between shooters than I would normally do.

Since no one has stated the obvious, if you lube the outside of the mag it would likely make for some very unreliable mag changes as you struggle for grip. Once you transfer that lube to your hands everything else you do during a stage will also get a bit worse. Have to eject a defective round with oily fingers? I have never seen anyone lube a mag inside or out. In my twenty plus years of shooting I have never lubed a mag. In my mere two years of competition shooting I have never lubed a mag and have never experienced an issue that a lubed mag would have solved.