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5 minutes ago, robchavous said:
If you're gonna do prizes I think the only fair way is straight order of finish for the division. Have a prize table for each division and populate them based on participation. You can recognize class "wins" with a plaque/trophy.
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I like that
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2 hours ago, Tokarev said:
Lee always comes up with clever ideas but then poops the bed by using pot metal and plastic. Will this press be any different? I hope so.
As long as the material choice is appropriate for the application, I don't have a problem with plastic and "pot metal".
A significant portion of my car is made of plastic or castings. Yet it's been rode hard and put away wet for 227,000 miles and still going strong.
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27 minutes ago, Tokarev said:
It has a case feeder option so it should go pretty quick even though it is only single stage. As I envision this, a guy would size/deprime in one batch. Then take that brass and run it through stainless steel media or whatever your preferred method is for cleaning brass and removing case lube. While that's going on the press would be configured to swage. Then the brass would all be run through a second time for primer pockets. Not as fast as a Dillon 1100/1050 but probably as fast as the Hornady progressive swage kit.
I use Hornady Ti-N pistol dies and have never used case lube. I do wet tumble my brass before sizing, so there's never any galling or scratching. I also don't need to swage primer pockets. I toss any military brass I come across.
My process would be: wash, bake dry, size/deprime/bell mouth in this thing, prime, and load. Definitely a huge time saver.
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I like it. I think I just found my Christmas present.
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4 hours ago, teros135 said:
Not a contradiction at all. The second statement clarifies the parameters of the first, so we'll be clear what constitutes the "shooting area".
It's one of the most poorly written definitions I've ever seen.
The inside of the shooting box cannot be the outer edge of the fault lines since fault lines and shooting boxes are listed separately in the same sentence. That means they are two distinct objects and fault lines have dimensions (volume).
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1 hour ago, Dutchman195 said:
But then the people that put in the work to shoot at a M or GM level arent rewarded with anything?
Well, this isn't a job. So expecting financial rewards from an amateur sport is probably a setup for disappointment.
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32 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
getting motivated by winning prizes (rather than by the quality of the event and the competition, and the sheer love of getting better) is the best way to suck the fun out of a sport, so I've resisted even thinking about it in shooting. For the money I spend on travel to a match, I could actually buy a much nicer prize for myself (and sometimes I do).
Truth
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4 hours ago, RadarTech said:
So here is a different thought on this subject...
I have heard of some this have a belief that level 2 and higher needs to be extremely tough... think hard mudder ...
If someone says that a level 2 or level 3 match needs to be so demanding and tough that you have to be an A or above just to shoot it well, would you consider it?
Or do you think it will be attended enough to even break even financially?
Or do you this is just overboard?
Or is it a good idea ?
Tougher than your monthly club match? For sure.
Tough mudder? If I wanted one of those I would go run one of those.
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It's a chickens**t call that wouldn't even need to be made if someone had spent 5 minutes with a shovel, pick, or hoe.
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1 hour ago, tdp88 said:
I'd go with the 115 for factory ammo. The factory 124 tends to be really hot.
Agreed
Many 124 gr factory loads are pushing 1150 - 1200 fps
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23 hours ago, HRider said:
I would love to see IPSC rifle come to the states, maybe we could get more than 5 or 6 people interested in shooting iron sights again.
Most people would shoot open rifle. I would.
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19 hours ago, kellyn said:
PRS attracts shooters who find Highpower/Smallbore too boring and 3 gun too stupid.
I'm for a bit of tactical bird shooting to test the shotgun to its fullest extent. I however completely agree that shotgun stages have gotten completely stupid which has turned me off from some 3 gun matches.
True on who's attracted to PRS
If I wanted to shoot flying targets I'd grab my 686 and go back to sporting clays. If I needed to shoot something in a practical setting I'd grab a rifle for several reasons.
2 gun (rifle and pistol), have done and would do again. Add a shotgun to it and I'm a no show.
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10 hours ago, L3324temp said:
Any time I spent more than $20 to shoot a match I felt ripped off. Many of my local non USPSA matches are $10 so even when I pay $20 for a sanctioned match I feel a little taken advantage of.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkSeriously?
Considering what you get for $20, I just don't see how your outrage can be taken seriously.
Go price any registered sporting clays match or a PRS long range rifle match...…………….
Anyway, here's my must-have list
- Interesting problems to solve in each stage
- No circus/carnival prop targets
- Fair officiating
- Shade in each bay
- Plenty of cold water
- A well planned match with no built-in bottlenecks. I know problems happen despite the best planning, so don't make it worse by having an obvious choke point designed into your flow.
- Two days max to shoot the match
Things I'd rather my money didn't go towards
- Prizes
- Shirts/coffee cups/swag
- Parties/social events/extraneous non-shooting stuff
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Sand down all four sides until it drops
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21 hours ago, GOF said:
I have never been to Frontsight. But I did spend three miserable days at Gunsight on an "industry group" outing. On the very first morning the head instructor, Charlie McNeese, stood up in front of the assembled class and loudly proclaimed " We're not here to teach you how to win medals and trophies in competition! We're here to teach you how to win gunfights. Forget all that competition crap."
As the days progressed I was berated constantly for using the Power Isocoles stance that had gotten me to IDPA MA Class, and told I "must use the far superior Weaver stance",
even though my targets were the best of the 12 guns on the line (and there were only two instructors per that group... McNeese stayed back behind the line and yelled, leaving the other line instructor to deal with the 12 shooters on the firing line.... commercial operation, keep personnel costs low!) My experience as an instructor (military & LE) tells me that's a bad ratio.
Then they got into reloads. The only acceptable reload was the Tactical Reload (grab new mag, bring to gun, eject old mag into hand holding the new mag, insert new mag while juggling both, and then pocket old mag). The only problem was the "industry group" guns we were shooting did not have drop-free magazines. That didn't faze McNeese.... he insisted that we make the Gunsight reloading doctrine work with guns that it was obviously not suited for... no alternatives presented.
I choose to say Screw It (I wasn't paying for the trip) and use my shooting stance... and when a mid-magazine reload was called for I stripped the mag out, shoved it in a pocket, and slammed in a new one. McNeese immediately awarded me the keys to his dog house, and yelled at me constantly. But, I didn't care. This was 2013... and they were trying to cram 1970s doctrine down my throat.
You'd have to shove a pistol against my head to make me go back to Gunsight... although, in fairness, they did serve a decent lunch.
You should have invited that McNeese guy to a shootoff
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115 gr 9 mm is dirt cheap, makes PF by plenty at 1150 fps, and shoots very flat for me with the OEM recoil spring in a P-09. I'm almost to the point of not reloading 9 for now and saving primers for 38 spcl and other stuff.
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On 10/26/2019 at 8:11 PM, 920webb said:
I always bring in of mags to a match al ready preloaded before the match so that I don't have worry about reloading magazines .
Also this way I have some to spare .
Not only do I do that, but I stick them in the magazine pouches. When I put my belt on the only thing left to do is head to the safe area and stick the pistol in the holster.
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2 hours ago, Igloodude said:
This may be a dumb question (so, I'll ask it
) but in a circumstance where accuracy is that much more important, is cocking the hammer an option? I have a 625 with a very smooth double-action pull and a crisp featherweight single-action pull, and I have enough thumb to get the hammer down fairly quickly if needed. That said, I'm a D-level shooter that just shot my 625 in a bunch of classifiers last weekend for the first time.
You need to pull that hammer out, bob the spur, and grind off the single action notch. Now the crutches are gone and there's only one choice: master the double action pull.
I do that to all my revolvers.
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Depending on how far I've driven, I have turned back and gone home.
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4 hours ago, Racinready300ex said:
At a level 4 I ran out of ammo on the last target and only shot once. I received a PE, and a FP on top of my -5 for that.
Bro, after that I would never, ever, shoot an IDPA match nor renew membership.
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On 11/9/2019 at 1:07 AM, jaysrgu said:
pretty odvious why i want to do this,if you have no experience with it why would u comment ? did u know cerakote has a very high lubricity? 10% less then teflon,did u know that its thickness is around 1 thou,x2 sides is 2 thou,no i didnt think so
Cerakote has "lubricity"? LOL, sure it does.....
If you came here for feedback, you're going to get some that agrees with you and some that doesn't. That's just how it works. It's not for you to dictate what kind of answers you get.
For the record I agree with him and I think it's a dumb idea, but knock yourself out.
I've been shooting CZs for years and have never had a single speck of rust on any of the 15 or so magazines I have laying around. And I don't treat them with kid gloves either.
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12 hours ago, 45 Raven said:
IDPA is not perfect. As far as I know, no shooting sport meets that definition. It's pretty true (in my experience) that no two matches are the same. And if they were, there are a lot of shooters who would tire of the sport fairly quickly. I have only been shooting IDPA matches for nine years, but I have never witnessed a match (including Level 1 local matches) where the rules were "made up as they go along". Never.
IDPA isn't perfect, and no other sport is. That is true. But IDPA's path to improvement has been hamstrung by its apparent insistence to not learn from other, similar shooting sports. It seems at times that IDPA's leadership goes out of its way to be contrarian. I give you the massive resistance to adopting faultlines, and the eventual half-hearted adoption as prime example, and its continued insistence in telling shooters how to solve the problem as supporting evidence.
Joe's comment about "no two rulings or matches ever being the same" might seem odd if you take it literally. I understand what he means. It means there's still a wide variety of SO competence in the understanding and application of the rulebook as well as stage designs that leave zero room for shooter discretion in how to solve the problem. It's real. I've seen it.
Fact of the matter is, shooters do tire of IDPA's forced lack of free thought in stage designs and execution. And shooters most definitely tire of inconsistent rulings and sometimes outright refusal to recognize new rules just because an SO doesn't like them or doesn't think they meet "intent" whatever that means. That's why my shooting schedule is full of USPSA matches and I shoot IDPA only as an occasional diversion when I want to break out a six shooter.
IDPA has potential to be great. But three things hold it back.
- Its refusal to change its target engagement rules to allow for a more freestyle approach while driving the use of "cover" using target placement and fault lines
- SO competency. Just seems weak compared to what I see locally in USPSA
- The lack of an official ruling listing. Meaning maintained by IDPA's chief SO (or whatever their equivalent is) and published on IDPA's own website. Not on facebook or some forum.
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31 minutes ago, HCH said:
I’m still trying to figure out why we’re debating whether or not someone picks up a round off the ground.
The whole thread is insane
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When I shot sporting clays I'd always pay for 15 or 20 targets if the tournament offered a warmup stand. Then I started wondering if it really did help so I stopped and still kept climbing the classification ladder.
So I wouldn't waste ammo on a warmup stage in USPSA. Most I'll do is two or three draws at the safe table and some minor stretching and that's not always. Often I get out of the car, put my s#!t on, and then hang around till it's time to shoot.
Trigger drops hammer from half cock. Is this “illegal”??
in USPSA/IPSC Rules
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Illegal?
You mean against USPSA rules? I doubt it.
We do have a USPSA rulebook on line. I know it's a lot of work, but you can always read it and see what it says.