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Agreed. Beretta Optima and Optima HP chokes are very good.

What's a Cabelas?

Help me understand your point here...........…. Good shooting is defined relative to the reason why one is shooting. USPSA and other practical shooting sports have their basis on using firearms for defensive (or offensive) purposes. When good shooting is defined as neutralizing threats as quickly as possible, then shooting said targets with an acceptable level of accuracy as quickly as possible IS good shooting. If your definition of good shooting equals scoring tens at 50 yards, then this might not be the right sport for you. Because in the sport this forum is focused on, such extreme accuracy is poor shooting.

Just get a BOSS hanger. I bought an Invictus a few years ago for a Production rig and soon replaced it with a BOSS. The Invictus sat collecting dust until now that I put together a revo belt and needed another hanger. Even then I had to jury rig a thigh pad from some scrap Delrin rod to give the Invictus some level of lateral stability close to what the BOSS has.

If we're going to be practical, there is more than enough evidence that shot placement and penetration are everything in handgun bullet lethality and bullet diameter (initial or expanded) has little to do with it. IMO the scoring split between major and minor power factor is a relic from the days when handgun bullet lethality was not understood and needs to go away.

For $35 (less than the cost of many mags) you'd be a fool not to have one even if you never go to a match that would check your mag lengths.

My experience as well. I might mention it once or twice to someone who seems genuinely interested, and include an offer to help with gear and advice, then I drop the subject. They have to take the next step.

Based on my observations over 20 years of competitive pistol and rifle shooting, not very much.

Agreed. Using the location of the slide rails to figure out bore axis is dumb. The only way to compare bore line height is to measure the bore line from a pistol feature that fixes your hand position (like the beavertail). I've stopped trying to correct people on this, it's just futile. Just like most other gun-related myths on the internet.

Everglades 158 gr RNFP plated bullets 5.2 gr of Hodgdon CFE Pistol R-P cases Federal small pistol primers Medium roll crimp at the cannelure, 1.400 - 1.405" OAL 131 power factor Zero copper in both a 627-5 and a 64-5 Yesterday I put 300 of those through my 627 and only near the very end did I have just one clip that didn't drop all the way down.

Practical pistol competition is a very good way to find flaws in your fundamentals of marksmanship. Flaws that almost never show up on the static range shooting at black circles. So I don't think USPSA degraded your skills or made you develop a problem of shooting left. I think your problem was there from the start and practical shooting just found it for you.

No one who is successful to any degree in this sport is sloppy, undisciplined, or lazy in their shooting. Help me understand your statement. Sloppy, undisciplined, and lazy compared to what?

I'm talking about basic handgun marksmanship. Not anything specific to a particular discipline.

It's a balancing act. You have to have some basic bedrock skills which can only be learned with deliberate, aimed fire. So I disagree with you about having a raw beginner go pedal to the metal right out of the gate. IMO it's a waste of ammo and it's demoralizing when the new shooter sees a target with maybe two holes out of ten shots. HOWEVER, once the fundamentals are relatively well established it's time to put the hammer down and push into the learning zone. People who never shoot faster than a pace they're comfortable with never get faster. So I agree with you that staying with the "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" BS and hoping for speed to come is a fool's errand.

Good that you found a source of support. Otherwise it would have been an expensive coat rack once it went down. The gold standard in affordable single barrel trap guns is Browning's BT-99. A used one is almost always a good buy for a first time trap shooter. Hell, a used Remington 870 Wingmaster with a custom stock and Gracoil is probably an even more cost effective (and effective) starter singles/handicap gun.

That's exactly what everyone means when they say "manually decock" You two are arguing the same thing.

People who focus on other people's classifications and on who is sandbagging are rarely, if ever, focusing on improving their own performance.

No reason to avoid dial calipers, even cheap ones. Being .001" to .003" off is not big deal when reloading pistol cartridges with sane loads. Hell, it ain't that big a deal to be off that much even when reloading rifle cartridges for precision use.

You're looking at a gift horse in the mouth?

Go to Dawson Precision's website. It has a whole section on how to figure out the answer you need.

While you're checking, check the rulebook. There's your answer.

IPSC allows aftermarket trigger assemblies. Assemblies being the operative word that means "a group of interconnected parts that together perform a function".

They are decocker guns not selective DA/SA pistols

No the rules are clear to anyone with more than a rudimentary command of English. Even people like me, for whom English is a second language, have no problem understanding pistol start condition rules.

No you can't. Name them, if you please.