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3-Gun Recession?
elguapo replied to Blockader's topic in Multi-gun Rules / Stage Design / Match Administration
Reasons why I have zero interest in 3 gun A multitude of rule sets + outlaw. If I had no other objections, this one is enough to ever keep me from trying it. Shotgun. I have no practical use for a shotgun tailored to 3 gun. Not gonna run out and buy all the stuff that needs to go with it either Time. USPSA pushes up to my redline of how much waiting vs shooting I do and how long does the match take overall. 3 gun will not be better and will likely be worse. Edit: I just saw a post mentioning 12 - 14 hour match days. LOL forget it. All the stuff one has to take to keep 3 guns running at a match. As time goes on I gravitate to shooting sports that minimize that aspect. Just find nothing appealing about any of this -
Steel matches - balance between challenging and too difficult
elguapo replied to Hoops's topic in Steel Challenge
3 hours of shooting and resetting steel? No thanks. Waaaayyy too long. PS, why would someone get frustrated by having to reload a few times during a stage? Maybe that's an indication that they need to work on that skill. -
More as in how many more/how much more often? To be quite honest I had to go look on youtube. Searched for IPSC production (since that's what I shoot) and lo and behold about 95% of the IPSC stages I saw look pretty much like the ones I see several times a month in USPSA matches. Only main difference I noticed was a slightly more frequent use of swingers/movers/disappearing targets. Overall it looked the same as what I'm used to.
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What makes a stage "technical"?
elguapo replied to anonymouscuban's topic in Stage Comments or Questions
I would stop going to a club that would make stuff like that a regular feature. Luckily where I live we rarely see those kinds of stupid stages and I have several clubs within a reasonable drive. -
Did you know that you can order a small sample pack from Brazos for less than twenty bucks? BTW, Brazos is my new go to bullet place. The prices are insanely good and the bullets shoot as good as anything else.
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Do you have any interest in practical pistol competition?
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Not so. You're looking in the wrong place. Look one section above that one in the 2017 rules (the current one) 8.1.7 Allowable Modifications for All Divisions The following modification rules apply to firearms in all divisions. A. Storage locks may be disabled or removed. B. Magazine disconnects may be disabled or removed. So yes, your pistol with the magazine disconnect disabled/removed is absolutely 100% legal for IDPA (assuming something else that is disallowed hasn't been done to it).
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What makes a stage "technical"?
elguapo replied to anonymouscuban's topic in Stage Comments or Questions
100% agree -
That "extra damage" of larger caliber handgun bullets has been extensively proven to be false by modern studies. Dr. Gary K. Roberts for one, and I'm sure there are others. Power factor is a left over of the bad old days when people extrapolated terminal ballistics on the human body by shooting a pendulum and measuring how far it swung...…..LOL.
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I have medium sized hands (glove size 8 ) with fingers on the short side. The LOK palm swells were too big for me.
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Same here (with a 75BD and a P-09 set up with the decocker). I prefer that both IDPA and USPSA rules require you can start from the half cock notch with decocker CZs instead of having to lower it all the way down manually. I read all over the internet that you can't get as good a trigger with decocker CZs as you can otherwise. Then I go do my own trigger job and find out that the people who say that have never actually done it so they're just repeating what they read or heard elsewhere.
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Look at the side of the slide at the rear serrations. Your pistol has a firing pin block if there's a hole with a roll pin through the slide.
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Seems like you're better off with a Cajunized SP-01. Then you can use it in SSP, ESP, and USPSA Production so long as you keep it SSP legal.
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Anyone paying $120 for Sauconys is shopping wrong. Find all kinds of them on Amazon for less than half that much.
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Removing trigger serrations on a S&W revolver
elguapo replied to Warrior75's topic in General Gunsmithing
I've bobbed and polished MIM hammers ,no problems there. Steel is steel. -
H&K announces VP9 Long Slide Kit!
elguapo replied to mich3210's topic in "Other" & Pistol Comparisons
You mean these guys? -
I wear Excursion TR12s as my match and every day shoe. Super comfy and grippy on indoor ranges. Lots of great shoes for our sport that don't cost an arm and a leg if one breaks away from monkey see monkey do.
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Shooting Better with or without friends on squad
elguapo replied to Sparky's topic in Little things I've Noticed
I pretty much move off from the gaggle and stop pasting/resetting 2 - 3 shooters ahead of me. I've been rehearsing my stage plan the whole time but 2 - 3 away from go time I go into deep visualization. -
What makes a stage "technical"?
elguapo replied to anonymouscuban's topic in Stage Comments or Questions
Come across a texas star yet? Or even better a polish plate rack? You're gonna love those........ -
Maybe I'm weird but I find the OEM captured spring to work the best with 115 gr loads at a 130 PF. Very flat shooter.
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I still don't see takedown levers in the Production appendix section that lists which external parts that can be replaced with aftermarket. So regardless of some e-mail from whomever, I'd bump someone to open for it
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Shooting Better with or without friends on squad
elguapo replied to Sparky's topic in Little things I've Noticed
There are a few people I know that I avoid squadding with. Mostly because they don't have the awareness to know when to leave me alone and when to engage in conversation. -
While you're right about recoil I still favor getting rid of differential scoring and letting the clock drive the behavior.
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Clothes for shooting in the rain: If it's raining I'm sleeping in