elguapo

11/9/2019 18A, 10.57 s, 8.5147 HF, 69.1145% production

I'm not new to IDPA. I don't back down when an IDPA SO makes up a rule or gives me a penalty for something legal.

I've done exactly that and the "RO" gave me a PE. I and the rest of the squad showed him in the rulebook where he was wrong. The exact situation was that a swinger was to be shot from P1, which was uprange of P2. The barrel that hid the swinger mechanism was right inside P2's fault line to your left and well away from the 180. The swinger was the last target to be engaged from P1. I watched several before me and noticed that if you were quick enough you could get to P2, engage everything you needed to engage, take a step or two back from the fault line, and snap another two at the swinger before it slowed enough to leave you little to nothing exposed. When my turn came up I engaged the P1 visible targets, hit the popper activator, and double tapped the swinger not caring if I hit it or not. Rushed to P2, ran that array, took two steps back and blasted two down 0s into the swinger which was still moving enough for me to see the center.

Probably posts a lot on pistol-forum and lightfighter

No one has ever explained convincingly how tossing divisions would make USPSA better. The advent of PS makes the "administrative burden" argument moot. The other argument that those displaced by the loss of their chosen division would move to something more popular thereby "improving competition" is wishful thinking with no evidence to back it up, and completely disregards the motivations that make people choose those unpopular divisions.

LOL...……..I think not.

That was my line of thinking when I started four years ago. CO wasn't on my radar back then and I didn't even consider starting in Limited. I had a production gun, a holster, 3 - 4 mags, and two mag pouches (from IDPA SSP) so I bought 3 - 4 more mags and two more cheap, clip on mag pouches and boom I can go shoot Production. Later on once I figured out I like USPSA more I bought the big belt with all the stuff on it. I have found that the typical advice of not having as many reloads in a stage to make shooting simpler applies only to those who do no dry fire work at home. That isn't me. Maybe I'm crazy but Production makes stage planning easier for me as it reduces the number of stage plan possibilities that you have to consider when you have to reload every four (or at most five) targets.

Nothing. Just the typical defeatist attitude that the national election will lead to a ton of gun control.

It's a clay shooting vest. SMH

So wrong and yet so right

Sergeant Heatherington is a credit to the United States Army. Sea lawyers need not apply (if you served in the Navy you understand).

We're not shooting precision bullseyes here. If it goes bang, flies out the end of the gun, and hits roughly where you aim, it's good enough. BTW, I much prefer 115 grain 9 mm ammo over everything else. And I've used everything else.

I went the other way, to revolver.

8.2.1.2 G, H, and J are all vague enough that you can slide internal lightening cuts (that don't show from the outside) through at least one of them. One can claim that lightening the slide achieves less muzzle flip and is part of accurizing.

I'm not sure you understand how that works. I'll just leave it at that.

Not to my knowledge. We do have other, very small organizations that do two gun or carbine matches. I've been to one match run to these rules and it was a lot of fun: https://actionrifle.us/

Why would it be? I actually smash defective reloads with a hammer so they can't be accidentally used before tossing them.

Serious question...………..how does this affect you? Or asked a different way, why does this concern or bother you so much? What other people do with their property is of absolutely zero concern to me, unless it's actually creating harm or interference with what I do. Even thinking about something as trivial as someone else's 15 cent cartridge is a distraction I neither want nor need during a match.

Your concern is unreasonable. The gun was fixed, so now what are you worrying about?

Living in Delaware your closest two options are Richwood Gun and Game Club, 30 miles nortwest of you and Pickaway County Sportsmens Club, just east of Circleville on US 22.

Living in Delaware your closest two options are Richwood Gun and Game Club, 30 miles nortwest of you and Pickaway County Sportsmens Club, just east of Circleville on US 22.

You brought up reloading as something that discourages newer shooters. You said if you're reloading then you're behind, made worse by larger stages where a new shooter would have to do multiple reloads. Which led to my question about equipment divisions and competing like with like. The comparison to USPSA was for my benefit since I haven't shot any steel matches be they SCSA or outlaw. So evidently reloading does not put someone at a disadvantage unless they're paying attention to shooters in divisions other than his own? That's not a problem with the stage or the match. Anyhow, I don't particularly care if a stage is long or short. Or if I can get through it without reloading or needing to do 3 - 4 reloads. I do care if a match drags on for more than 3 - 4 hours. So if I had to sit through six hours of resetting steel to shoot a few minutes, guaranteed I won't be back.

I would send them back for a refund. They are not only not as advertised, but they're unusable.

OP wanted to know why it isn't growing. So I said my piece as someone who's thought about it and decided to not even start.

I shoot Production and Revolver in USPSA. I compete within my divisions. I don't pay attention to the other divisions. Is that not the case in Steel Challenge?