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I have a full ghost "THE THUNDER" rig. I don't mind the ghost hanger for my SP-01. it's more adjustable than the boss, but not as stiff. The holster body is OK, I have a blade tech body too but don't think it's a big enough deal to worry about. I'll probably get a boss eventually just for comparisson sake, but this really doesn't seem like a bad rig. There's kind of a cult following on the boss hanger - especially for production. I have no doubt it's good kit, but it's a very common recommendation "Get the boss, it's the best" and other than the bladetech DOH nobody has tried any of the other holster options. The Thunder has the same hanger as "The One", which seems pretty popular. I got the Thunder because it was less costly, and nobody had one so I made a youtube video on it purely to save money in the short run. After area 6 I'll bite on a boss probably just to see for comparisons sake if nothing else.
As far as the ghost belt is concerned, order that thing off Amazon - they're $40 and they're pretty much the same thing as the DAA, if maybe a little stiffer.
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Sounds like the gunsmith who he got to install it did in fact fit it and was worried he "over fit" it... that's probably the issue
It's reloads he is having issue with, and it's only Feds he uses seated so the slightly are deformed on a 1050.
I think he is using the 13 or 14# PD spring. Zero problems in SA.
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Topic is just as title states. he hasn't done any reduced power plunger spring or anything like that, he's just done springs, ext FP, BOLO, Sear and I think he's still using the delta hammer. On a CZ it's a trigger bar spring adjustment that's needed, but that doesn't appear to be what's needed...
Can you throw some ideas at me? I'll point him at this topic and get him engaged as well as we try to trouble shoot it. He's having an awful time setting off anything in DA.
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33 minutes ago, SCTaylor said:
SP-01 is 41oz with magazine.
Red Dot Adapter Mount - ~0.5oz
Fast Fire 3 - ~1.0oz
140mm Extension - ~1.25oz (from what I found on the interwebs)
Total Estimated weight - ~43.75oz. I'd feel comfortable and not worried.
And a magazine tube is 2.9 oz for 16 rds (sans base pad) and a 18 rd mag tube is 2.7 oz. That brings it over...
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Tagged. I'm curious what your results are.
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Tagged. Carry Optics sounds a lot more interesting to me now.
Stuart, what does a base pad like that come up to? Will SP01 frames make the cut or are we talking about CZ75 still?
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Look at the velocity for the ammo. You want weight in grains times FPS to be close to 130k. If it's defensive or NATO spec and is humming along at 1150 FPS which I expect it is you have some 142k ammo there. JHPs are more accurate usually which is why it is prized and they cut cleaner holes, not really any bigger, just neater and easier to score
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43 minutes ago, IronArcher said:
The golf club will hit the golf ball farther than a sledge hammer will.
The sledge hammer will hit the bowling ball farther than the golf club will.
That's a really fun mental image.
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On 1/18/2017 at 8:30 PM, bsand said:
You guys sold me on HS bullets. Anyone got any 124 gr 9mm recipes? I usually use CFE pistol powder and win or SB primers
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In my gun (Shadow) - I am loading 1.060 with 3.7 grains of Prima V, I've not chrono'd it yet, but with ACMES at 1.055 that load netted a 130 PF from my slow shadow, 131 in my fast one. In my experience TG and Prima V have very comparable burn rates.
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3 minutes ago, Bamboo said:
" Diameter is mostly .356 with some at 3.555."
(I know it is a typo....it would be cool having a 90mm hand cannon, though!
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LOl yeah so .3555 not 3.555
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Update, ordered a case. I've not loaded any yet, but measured and weighed 10 of the 125 RN projectiles.
They are remarkably consistent. The length is most consistent I've seen .580 to .5825. Diameter is mostly .356 with some at 3.555. Weight varies between 124.5 to 126.4 - pretty good for cast. Only 2 of 10 were below 125.
Coating appears consistent. Very very consistent projectiles. Pretty impressive, actually.
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That's pretty rad, what platform is that for?
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Thin Bogies
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The thickness feels about the same. On a 75B I can't reliably reach the mag release with any sort of thicker grips/palmswell but I can do it with the thin aluminum ones and the thin bogies, for sure.
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I wear Nike Alpha Shark football cleats because I'm cheap and didn't shop around for proper trail running shoes. That said, the cleats do fine, even on the runs through cowboy town since they're glorified soft rubber.
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Since I'm pretty cheap I didn't want to spring for the boss purely because everyone had one and I liked my buddy's "The One". So I made a review of it.
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Thin Bogies
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I asked the same question. He shot me this photo
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1/15/17 - Post Match Update
Overall - things went pretty well. The only things that stood out as errors were hunting for targets on the memory stage and miking steel. Other than that, it's the ubiquitous "Do everything a little bit better". I was 85ish percent of the match winner, which is the high M I normally chase. On the field courses I generally did a little better but he pulled away from me on the standards a bit and the memory stage. Weather was a pleasant mid 60's (unusual for a GA January - but I'll take it). On to the stages. Overall the shooting went well, I saw my sights while firing, made up a mike, and a charlie that I had called a delta.
Stage 5 - Roger lost his Sole. Start hands on marks, you could go left and take 3 of 4 targets in the first array then catch the last target on the way by the window on the right - I opted to just post up in the window since you had to go that way anyway. Next position was a couple steps ahead through another window. Reload to the end of the porch where there were 3 you had to shoot from that position, move across to the last position, and take the target stack. The plans were all pretty much this with some people for doing a bit onthe move. I wouldn't change the plan, executed it well enough.
Stage 6 - First position 4 paper, advance to the front left corner to 2 paper and 5 steel, 2 steps to the right last position 2 paper and 3 steel. I was going to do more steel in the first position but my friendly nemesis (the M whom I chase) suggested that was aggressive. Good thing I listened to him because I had 3 make ups on steel. I'm shooting AT steel not aiming for the center of the popper. I have to be more disciplined on that. I was 17 seconds and change, probably should have been mid to high 15's if i went clean on I was clean on the steel. I definitely need to get this under control for match performance.
Stage 1 - Fins Everywhere - Standards stage, stand and deliver form the box - First string, engage each target once, reload, engage each target once strong hand only. Second string - engage each target once, reload, engage each target support hand only. 3 mikes, I saw 2 of the mikes as they happened, I missed the 3rd. Not a lot to do about it on a Virginia count stage. I've been putting a premium on marksmanship - I need to continue this and drill fundamentals.
Stage 2 - Snake Charmer - so I didn't come up with the plan for this stage. I need to do a better job breaking up the stage, the plan I ran was a good one - increased the likelihood for alphas though I don't think it was any faster than what I was coming up with. I did some shooting on the move with this and it went really well, 4 alphas. Look at that in the video, totally burned down the partial in the top of the stack like a boss. The delta I dropped was a close delta. Pleased how quickly I sunk down into position. Reloads sitll need to be a bit faster.
Stage 3 - Barrels of Hope - Memory stage. I came up with the plan on this that worked, and it went well because the guy who won the stage, my friendly nemesis, ran a slight modification on it. He fired form the middle position first while I opted to run it left to right for simplicty sake because that's how I was programing it. I overran the middle position and did a bit of target hunting. It wasn't as bad as the last memory stage I shot. It actually was OK. Hits were decent, didn't see my delta so need to work on that some more.
Stage 4 - Quad Standards 2. If you're a match director please don't flex the fact you have 50 yard bays by running this classifier. This is no fun. If I were a match director doing this, I wouldn't have done Quad Standards 2 and the other standards stage which test basically all the same skills. If I did it, it would have been a speed trap stage with maybe 2 mandatory reloads. These stages take FOREVER to shoot and the thread of enjoyment for the day rapidly evaporates as you walk up and down a 40 yard bay. Some guys tried to get all 8 shots in each string and scoring their targets sounded like this - "1 charlie......5 mikes. 1 delta..... 5 mikes. 1 charlie, 1 delta. 4 mikes. 2 delta, 4 mikes". it was ridiculous. So I shot a 45% on that classifier, my friendly nemesis shot a 55%
So this month in practice will be devoted to further drilling fundamentals. I want to spend my live fire doing 4 aces at 25 yards at least once. Continue to do the dots at 21 feet. I probably need to be shooting accelerator a lot, thinking about it. The new ghost holster went fine. That's a good value position for the hanger and the holster. The Ghost Belt is confirmed to be stiffer than the DAA Pro belt, so that's a good value.
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Thin Bogies
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On the 75B I cannot reach the mag release without seriously messing up my grip with the palmswell bogies. Since I actually carry this guy as well from time to time I wanted a thinner set. I might just put these on my match guns as well I like them so much. Super aggressive, feel great in in hand. Great fit. Very happy.
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The pull weight of DA is going to be a combination of the main spring you're using and how good a polish job you did on the gun. The single action will be affected by which hammer you've got in there and to a much lesser extent which mainspring and trigger return spring you have in there. The break would be identical to any shadow if you're using all the same(ish) parts. The swing forward to reset the firing pin block should be all that's different.
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1/12/17 Pre match training recap.
So last match was 12/17, next match is 1/14 so approximately 4 weeks since the last match. I now have a proper USPSA rig in every sense of the word. It's all Ghost gear, actually.
I ended up being steered largely by deals. I settled out on the Ghost belt, which is great and only like $40 on amazon. For mag pouches I got the Ghost 360 (the pouch body functions great, the belt attachment breaks the contact with the inner belt a little much for my liking.) . For a holster I ended up testing out the Ghost The Thunder (formerly the Stinger) holster. There isn’t a lot of reviews on the internet, but looking at my buddy’s Ghost – The One, I was impressed and it’s similar with the exception of the actual bit retaining the gun. I’ll get to a review on it after I spend more time with it. It’s not as rigid as a Boss, but it may be rigid enough to be passable. I’ll say I’ve never reached down and not had the grip where I was expecting to find it in dryfire. All of that to say I’ve basically shaved my head and drank the Kool Aid for USPSA at this point. Onwards and upwards to practice summary.
Holiday season is rough. This one especially with the work calendar being nigh obscene. On top of that we had an ice storm here recently further putting the kybosh on free time for practice due to the whole family being home. That said, I’m supposed to average 17.8x minutes a day in dryfire (based on 5x a week at 25 minutes), I hit 17.7x – so we were basically there. I ended up taking one week off live fire due largely to work. I ended up breaking a TRS after just a month in the gun, but I suspect I grabbed one of my old OEM spare ones that was in my bag purely as a stop gap if I were to have it go down at a match before I had a match gun / practice gun set up. I replaced it with another mystery spring in my bag, which I *hope* was a CZC TRS that was never installed before. I probably aught to label them.
In practice this month I spent a lot of time focusing on Trigger Control. A lot of double action dry fire with a single handed white wall drill. I found that the biggest predictor of no or very little front sight wobble in SHO dry fire was the feeling of rigidity in my wrist just behind where my thumb meets my wrist. If that’s solid there is no or little enough to not matter at practical distances sight wobble. Obviously with 2 hands the same holds true but Mr. Lefty gets to crush the stew out of the gun into Mr. Righty.
I also spent time working on static reloads for classifiers. I got to be pretty quick, right at about a second shot to shot (M/GM time), but not cold and not consistently enough for my liking. I’m still fumbling too much on finding the magwell for about the first 20 or so reps, but after that it becomes more rare for me to miss. I’m going to rule out it being a mental prep thing. When I practice in dry fire I’ve been awak for less than 20 or so minutes so it could very well be a mental acuity thing, my performance does get better once I’m caffeinated.
Other than that I’ve been focusing on not “cheating” in dryfire and seeing where the front sight is when I “fire” the shots. I’m seeing when my index is bad or when my trigger control is flagrantly bad if my wrists are not locked out. That’s all going well. Hitting the “next level” on speed is going to require quicker hand speed, from the holster, to the mag pouch and back up and driving the gun between targets. Next month I’ll work on wide- ish transitions.
I did come up with a dryfire array I really like. I generally use 1/3rd scale USPSA targets (metric and classic). I’ve got some 1/6 ones printed as well. So I’ll do arrays of entering a shooting box straight on a 1/3rd, transition close to a 1/6, then about a 60-70 degree transition over to another 1/3rd target 10 or so feet away. It’s great on position entry, transition, and dialing in the correct speed/sight discipline for the target difficulty.
For this weekend I want to shoot to the best of my ability (obviously) and hit at least a 66% on the classifier, then I’ll be A class. Forecast is set for a high of 68 and starting the day at 51. Good day for shooting, albeit unseasonably warm.
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Keep with it man. It's all experience. Just for some perspective- on closer range stuff the fast guys aren't doing a front sight focus, more often than not they are looking at where they want to hit on the target, transitioning the gun to that point, while staying focused on the target they look through their rear sight and confirm the blur of a front sight and fiber optic inside the notch and pull the trigger. Alignment is probably less important than the view through the rear sight and how it is indexed on the target. Try some sight misalignment drills then do some from the holster work and try and observe how little sights you can get away with with clean hits.
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Is that a ghost belt? How is the stiffness compared to other brands (if you have tried or experience with)?
My buddy said it's "maybe a little stiffer than his DAA". I wouldn't know as it's my first
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Dialed it back some and works better. I tried putting it forward right on my hip bone but that didnt' work with my draw mechanics. I think I have the inward cant within an acceptable margin of being legal at this point.
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Curious about these, anyone have one?
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first ever holster...?
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I just scoped out your offering. I'll probably go that way after area 6.
For someone who's just getting into the sport, isn't sure they have the gun they want to shoot in the long term or that they even want to shoot production for the long run, then I can recommend the Ghost The Thunder. Once you've made up your mind that Production is for you and you know which platform you'll be shredding with - RHT or Boss.