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23 hours ago, Hoops said:
Our location does not host a Steel Challenge match. Usual drive to one is hour fifteen minutes. We do have Outlaw Steel matches. Single shooters box similar to SCSA. Over the past couple of years we have seen a shift to more targets per stage (5 bays). Poppers, plate racks, stars and knockoffs. Up to 40 targets in a bay. 3 hour matches for 5 bays. Who doesn't like to mow down a sea of steel...right? But over the last 6 months we have had a steady decline in participation......especially newer, younger shooters. Discussing this amoung ourselves, we believe that we have made the matches too difficult and losing single stack, revolver and out of the box stock pistol shooters who get frustrated with several reloads per stage etc. The question is where is the balance between challenging but fun enough to encourage new shooters to want to come back?
(We are discussing an official Steel Challenge match but nothing firm yet).
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.
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9 hours ago, happygunner77 said:
IPSC style means more moving, partial targets.
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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On 11/3/2019 at 10:50 AM, anonymouscuban said:
I shot my first memory stage last month. There were multiple ways to shoot this and none of them were truly superior over the other. You can shoot while moving and it really took some thinking to make sure you didn't forget to engage targets. Many did. I did. I was doing well, then my mag didn't seat correctly. Threw me off mentally and I ended up with a failure to engage one target. UGH. Loads of fun though.
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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.
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I don't carry any spare parts or tools to do anything more than minor adjustment/tightening of external screws. If a gun goes down in a local match, I just pack it up and go home as I don't drive more than an hour to a local match.
If it's an important match, I take a back up gun.
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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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7 hours ago, Tokarev said:
This probably means the pistol pictured above is not legal in IDPA unless I add the mag disconnect back in. Then I'd have to source the factory BHP mags with the mousetrap spring.
Thanks, Bill...
"Disconnecting or disabling of any safety device including (but not limited to): manual safeties, grip safeties, firing
pin, striker, and hammer blocking safeties, 1911 series 80 firing pin safeties, 1911 Swartz safeties. 1911 series 80
frames may be used with series 70 slides or vice versa. Revolver actions may not be modified so that the
hammer can fall when the cylinder is open."
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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On 11/3/2019 at 2:02 PM, shred said:
IMO those kinds of memory stages are weak-- not very fun nor technical. There's nothing to them but show up early enough to find the shooting spots or get the plan from someone and that's it. They suck at majors (esp IPSC majors when you can't pre-walk) when your squad starts on it and by halfway through day 2, everyone else knows the best plan.
There's little shooting challenge, just remembering what to shoot when. That gets old after you've seen it half a dozen times.... (FWIW I feel the same about any other stage designs where the designers goal is to screw shooters up, because funny, but lots of people seem to like them. )
100% agree
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16 hours ago, DeweyH said:
As Shred stated in an earlier post, Major isn't scored higher because of difficulty of shooting major, but because of the extra damage it does to a target. This would be a target in the real world.
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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On 11/2/2019 at 6:12 PM, 1911vm said:
Now i am confused which one Lok Palm Swell and Armanov SpidErgo. It looks like LOK has a bit bigger Palm swell . does any one have both? i searched for a compare between the two. and found nothing. almost considering just staying with the factory ones LOL they just look like s$%t LOL
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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On 10/30/2019 at 1:44 PM, CGoodwin said:
I shoot a SP-01 Tactical in SSP. The advantage is the ability to start in the "half cocked" position resulting in a slightly shorter and lighter pull. Plus I have always shot DA/SA decocker pistols and never put in the time on manual safety guns.
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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I've bobbed and polished MIM hammers ,no problems there. Steel is steel.
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On 2/1/2019 at 11:59 PM, threat said:
Oh look. It's not even out yet and it doesn't have a switchable optic cut like a Q5 or P320 X5.
HK wut are you doin.You mean these guys?
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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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57 minutes ago, nikdanja said:
I’m weird. Even when I’m not up, I usually don’t talk to my buddies. After I shoot the stage I’ll yuk it up but until then, I’m zone into our.
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.
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2 hours ago, anonymouscuban said:
I get heartburn soon as I see a bunch of steel. My club just started adding swingers so that's been interesting. Not sure how I feel about them yet.
Come across a texas star yet? Or even better a polish plate rack?
You're gonna love those........
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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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On 8/20/2019 at 12:45 PM, dennisw1mac said:
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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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.
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42 minutes ago, tanks said:
There is a difference in felt recoil between major and minor though, hence the scoring difference.
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
3-Gun Recession?
in Multi-gun Rules / Stage Design / Match Administration
Posted · Edited by elguapo
Reasons why I have zero interest in 3 gun
Just find nothing appealing about any of this