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I had to adjust it to cant in some then adjusted it again to remove doubt, which lead to the more extreme angle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Production holster Ghost -The Thunder. I am about a half inch behind my hip bone, half inch above the belt and had to bend the holster in slightly to get it about 1.75" from my inner belt. Does this look legal? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would expect that the Ghost holsters would work with it.

As long as the Shadow is the same profile as the SP01 that people use as a nightstand gun I would think that people are still going to like/request it. To me, it would make more sense to change the safeties from the ridiculous paddles to the thins or potentially the same as the base SP-01, or just import the SP-01 Shadowline and call it a day. I never understood why the base line shadows weren't produced in higher numbers and imported to so few places. I doubt CZ is going to drop an SP-02 that has the same proportions as the S2 with an FPB. For shooters who still shoot IDPA and USPSA, the Shadow fits both niches pretty well. I was at an Outdoor Superstore that prides itself on keeping over 20,000 guns in stock yesterday and they didn't have any SP-01s of any variety. They did have 3 TS's, 1 CM, and a TSO (in 9mm), but zero SP-01s. I think the SP-01 platform is still a good seller in it's FPB configuration. The only guns they had ample stock of were 75B's in 40 and P07/P09s. They had a few of the compact series apiece (P01, P06, PCR, 75C), 75BSA, and one 40th anniversary 75B. No decocker model anythings. The range I shoot at can only keep the P series guns on the shelves in 40, the P series 9's vanish at a slower rate than the metal framed ones. They also didn't have a 75B in matte stainless, which is what I really wanted to look at. I think for the time being CZ will sell anything they import.

I would suggest the beretta purely for cost reasons for ammo.

Well... after the weekend I had a 66 roll off and not a 60 so with the DB roll I'm now a 74.2093% B class shooter. I will probably go shoot the classifier at the indoor match next week to see if I can do it by the end of the year. Further reflecting on the match, it looks like I need to bump my A6 aspirations to A class. Which will be immense. I got beaten by an A class guy last week at the match pretty handily (I was 85%). I went back and looked at the scores, that was a pretty rotten match for me. On zero stages did I have a stage where I was reasonably pleased with how it went. Stage 2 - it was 40 degrees, we showed up late, mags were not loaded. I stayed indoors loading mags and getting a new shooter up to speed. I got purely the 5 minute walk through. The stage wasn't difficult I started on, but I went first. This has me thinking: I need to load my magazines the night before the match. I also need to be earlier to the match. Because we were picking up another guy rather than our usual duo on the ride to the match. My buddy woke up late and was running behind. Lesson learned: Load mags the night before text buddy to confirm he's awake. On the actual COF, I dropped probably 3 more charlies than was reasonable for a 5 yard hose fest that this stage was. I had poor discipline on a target and had 2 charlies within about a paster width from each other about a paster from the A perf. First reload didn't go well on this stage, but I can't really expect that to improve. Stage 1 - Miked steel 4x. mini poppers at 10 yards I just didn't give them the respect that they deserved, because I kept trying to shift out of position too soon I probably wasted 4-5 seconds shifting out then shifting back in on those makeups. hit steel, don't shoot at steel. Stage 5 - Pucker Factor - i was rattled due to my mikeapalooza on stage 1 steel so I went WAY TOO SLOW. On the reshoot I stepped up to the line pretty cold after screwing with some other dudes gun that was having issues and drilled a 79% with a C/D on the 20 yard target. My mindset on the reshoots is important. I was afraid of making bad hits and didn't have the right frame of mind. Even though it's Virginia count I have to try for alphas rapidly, if I am going to drop hits just call them. lead with the eyes. That needs to be EVERY stage. Stage 4 - Eye of the Tiger - Shot 4A's, 2 B's and a Mike in 3.06 seconds. If that mike had connected with a B I would have crushed the HHF for the stage. Reshoot was 2A's 4B's in 3.10s. If one of those B's found an A instead that'd have been a GM score. Ok this is one stage I can't really be upset with my performance. That one went well, I just threw my first shot high and to the left. Stage 3 - This went OK. I had a couple close charlies that maybe should have been A's, but I'm not even upset about that. I had a high hard primer that took 3 strikes to go. Cost me at least a second. So remember that update to my process? That's also going to include better QC on my "match" ammo. All in all, I had 1 stage that I shot reasonably well, despite a mike on the match. But it was a huge boost to my self image just having hammered the reshoots reinforcing my self image. Re-thinking my stage plans Stage 2 - If i had it to do over again, I would have advanced down the corridor on the left wall to give myself a wide angle on the targets sooner, rather than hugging the right wall like i did. As I leave the position push hard toward the right wall then same thing at the array on the left. Push back toward the left wall hard with a reload and gun up fast on the target on the right. Step while twisting to clear the barricade and take the target on the left, then take the two low partial head boxes. I always do this on head boxes, but I needed to shoot all alphas up to this point then hopefully only dropped bravos on the head boxes. I dropped my splits to .5's-.6's and got all 4 A's. I probably should have rolled with .3's and been OK with BB or AB on each. Stage 1 - My stage plan went OK. I didn't execute it well, but I think the plan was OK. I went left, shot in on paper, paper, mini popper(MP), MP, reload go to the back right shooting box and shoot in on paper, paper, MP, reload while advancing to the third position. There is a mid low port in front of me with 2 open targets at 5 yards then on my right another port with 2 open targets at 5 yards. I will call the targets T1-T4 left to right T1 and T2 in the first port, 3&4 at the right port. I wanted to shoot while advancing on T1 and shoot in on T2, then shoot while retreating on T3 and T4 before doing a reload on the 180 degree transition to take the mirrored array on the left. Looking at the video I don't think this was as quick as devoting more attention to moving into position and shooting in on T1, shoot T2 & T3 while planted, shoot 1 shot on T4 flat, and begin moving backward out on T4 on the second shot. I think my splits would have been quicker. Then same thing on the next position, but I think i rant that last position OK. Stage 5 - Pucker Factor. Can't shoot with fear. Shoot with hope and observe what your sights are doing. Stage 4 - Eye of the Tiger. If the mike would have connected, 100%. I shot it with the appropriate amount of aggression, just either my trigger press or discipline slipped. As the reshoot was basically an identical time, I did this one right. Stage 3 - There's nothing I would have changed about how I shot this other than all ammo going off on the first strike. Looking at video and how much time I watched the hammer fall on the same round if it had gone on the first strike I would have won the stage, as it is my buddy won it with less than second faster raw time with two more points and I spent at least a second watching the hammer hit the firing pin. So it goes. We can fix this issue. So how is my training going forward going to change? Probably isn't. Going to keep drilling ASP, grip, and trigger control. going to keep drilling reloads. Might put more of a focus getting into and out of positions in dry fire. I'm going to do some dry fire practice purely on poppers. That continues to be an issue for me. In Live fire I'm going to start drilling on some partial targets and just wailing on them as rapidly as possible, being OK with dropping hits into hard cover just being AWARE when I'm doing it and making it up. All in all I'm encouraged, my practice is paying off. My big failures for the match were with my prep for it. I concede my head being out of it somewhat being mother hen to a first time shooter, but in January I'm just going to have to stay frosty. I can control all of those things, I'm going to continue to grind it out in the dryfire dojo. I shot my first M class time, which lines up with my Bassham Affirmation, so I'm riding high right now in practice. Onward and upward.

I like the practice gun / match gun scheme. I shoot CZ's and it totally takes the fear of broken TRS/ slide stop off the table.

I would get a fowty if you are intent on limited, but again, I'd shoot your current blaster for 3 months before buying ANY gear. your initial opinions will season and likely change. I defected from IDPA back in may. 6 months in I am enjoying production due to the vibrant competition in the clubs I shoot at, but as a mater of principal I'd probably enjoy shooting limited with a 40 more. I'm so heavily invested in my production rig I can't see making a change, but in 2018 I'm building a limited rig. I would pick a division in which you have meaningful competition. Down here Production is biggest, followed by Limited, then far distant open. If you can find a gun you like in whatever the popular division is then you are ready to rock.

So I've been thinking a lot about how it felt to do those reshoots. On Pucker factor my thought process going into the stage when it counted for the match was "get those alphas and no mikes" and so my body did. When i found out how bad that was, I figured out what high hit factor was and my instruction to myself was "Get as many alphas as you can as quickly as you can". The end result was 4 alphas, 3 charlies and a close delta (pretty sure it was my double action. I indexed poorly on the target and my grip hadn't settled out as I started my trigger press. ) I wasn't super jazzed, but it didn't feel fast, it felt like i was seeing exactly what I needed to see, raw time was like 3.66s vs the 5.74 or whatever it was the first time. On my reshoot for Eye of the Tiger, it was the same feeling "shoot the head boxes as rapidly as you can, try to get alphas. The results were 2A's 4B's in 3.10 and a master score. I didn't actively aim the gun, I observed with my eyes where I'd like to hit and timed the shots based on what I was seeing. That seems like a nuanced difference from aiming the gun with a hard sight or whatever, but the feeling is incredibly different. I think my visualization is slightly wrong how I'm doing it... regardless, I need to be able to tap into this on field courses. I guess that's the name of the game. I do think practicing enough to the point you know you can do any of it is important to finally let go with the conscious mind and just focus on what you're seeing. I'm going to continue to think about this more.

12/17/16 So the match was overcast and cloudy, but there was a match. Hooray! First match with a proper inner outer belt and going bullets out. Shame on me for not grabbing the right ammo, I grabbed practice ammo and had high primer. That's no good. All in all, I had a pretty mediocre match. Finished at 85% in Production in the #2 slot to an A. If I had a decent match I probably could have hung with him, but he had a decent one, and I didn't. Stage breakdown goes. Stage 2 - And I just put my stuff down on the Bay "We're going by alphabetic order - David, you're first.". Aww shucks. It's 45 degrees, I've not walked any of the stage. So I got a legit 5 minute walk through and didn't get a good burn on the stage. My accuracy was pretty sloppy for a bunch of 5 yard targets. I missed my reload so I was standing for a bit. 2 of 15 in Prd. not too bad I guess. Stage 1 - And my discipline is trash. I mike steel like it's my job! They were mini poppers at 10 yards. Otherwise it went OK. Good points, all easy shots, pretty hoser friendly. Good one to hang yourself on, like I did on steel. Stage 5 - Pucker Factor. Shot it in bullseye mode, super slow. C class classifier. Nah we'll re-shoot that one. Stage 4 - Eye of the Tiger. Brilliant turn and draw... except I hung up the double action before I settled into my index. Alpha Mike. On a 6 shot stage. For those following at home, my points are a maximum of 30. A No Shoot is worth -10 points. That's catastrophically bad. Yeah, we'll re-shoot this one. Play for pride! Stage 3 - Annnnd I had a high primer. Everything went well otherwise. All 3 charlies were very close, less than a paster width, from the perf. - Pucker Factor - Reshoot - 76.6%, first try. (A Class) - Eye of the Tiger - Reshoot 88% - First Try. (M Class) So that should bump me to A class. Nuts, now the B class purse from Area 6 is off the table, the dude who stomped me today is an A. Going to have to get after it hard between now and A6...

12/16/16 So looks like ol’ Ma Nature is going to hold out and not rain out my last chance at a proper December match tomorrow. So I’m grateful for that. Dryfire has been going well. Work has just been crushing me this last quarter but still I’m probably pretty close to my goal of 5 days a week for 25 minutes average. I’ve basically adopted the stance of “Dryfire every day unless there’s a compelling reason you cannot”. Mostly that’s been going into work early, but once it was a wretched hangover. So it goes. 2 weeks ago I switched to bullets out pouches on an inner/outer belt and I’m happy to report my reloads are INSTANTLY better than my high and tight bladetechs revolution universal single mag pouches. In live fire I saw my times come down from about 1.4 shot to shot at 5 yards, to 1.2 average with some 1.1’s mixed in. When you start to taste success it really does motivate you to get after it. I will break 1 second reloads by my January match. Or I’ll get a lot of blood blisters trying. You can see my thoughts on my bullets out pouches here: I hate it when it’s the arrow and not the indian, but I can say with confidence that the bullets out pouches allow my lanky arms to get on magazines more comfortably and faster. 10/10 would recommend. My draw to a 5 – 7 yard target is consistently sub second, only going over when I miss my grip. Live fire has been going well, I’ve made it out once a week totally satisfying my goal for shooting. Mostly been shooting dots. I’ve been mostly shooting the dots at 5 yards going 5 per and getting pretty close to cleaning them. I’ve moved them out to 7 yards and starting again at 2 shots per 5 seconds. There’s a whole new respect for trigger and sights moving that 2” dot out to 7 yards. It’ll be a couple weeks probably before I can kick it up to 3 per and clean the 2 per consistently. I read “Get to Work” by Steve Anderson and it really fleshed out a lot of the concepts he alludes to on the podcast, so this will be the first match since applying his grip tweak, and I’m confident it’s going to go well for me. In other news I appealed my thrown out classifier (78%) so they’re counting that and I’m up to 67% and change. This weekends match will cause two more 60%’s to roll off (probably). I’d have to shoot an average of 82% on both of the classifiers to go up to A. Depending on the classifiers they pick it might be doable. More realistically I’ll need to roll off my 66% on the next one. It’s funny, it behooves me to just let the classification happen, but something about having a % over what a “passing” grade is is too alluring to not chase. I’m not going to let them write off high ones going forward, if I’m to be an A, then I’ll be an A. Though the $500 of the area 6 B class production purse is mighty tempting but that’d be legit sandbagging! Who knows, maybe I am just a high B. Lots of time between now and Area 6.

I tried to impulse buy 75B Matte Stainless while hungover on sunday. Everyone is out!

B_Rad This stuff is pretty good man. I recommend it highly. Load data is basically interchangeable with titegroup.

Resident B class hack happy to chime in. You clearly have spent some time shooting, you'll be a B in no time, and beyond I'm sure. You look like you have a solid foundation. Cannot tell anything about your stage plans based on the narrow field of the camera. First video - Leisurely transitions and splits - the movement looked pretty strong. Was kind of a non sequitur to move that aggressively then shoot so leisurely. Build the grip and start to get the gun up as you start to decelerate and don't stand all the way up when you enter a position, stay low. Second video - Gun isn't up when entering the second position (couldn't see you enter the third) - you over aim for sure in the second array (.5 or slower splits) on what appeared to be open targets at 10Y +/-. Your transitions were leisurely as you indicated. Third video - weird body positioning entering the first position since you're going to have to leave and go off to the left. It's like you posted up in weaver then had to cross yourself to leave position. See max michels videos on the trailing foot on setting up. Second position your feet are settled before your support hand is on the gun. Same thing at 3rd position. Wide transition very leisurely - snap your sternum at the target. Avoid those in target groupings if you can. Last position you enter then raise up and bring the gun up as well. I cannot tell based on them holding the phone vertically, but if there were any opportunities for you to shoot in or shoot out of position, I'm guessing there were at least a few potential positions where this could have helped you into/out of position. If you can pick a close target in an array to have the gun on as you settle into the box and be firing as soon as both feet are in the box but feet aren't yet settled. Match director appears to really spread out the COF - none of the 2 step reloads for you it seems. You're mostly doing "tank turn" type tansitions, think about transitioning by popping your sternum to line up with the next target and have your hips/legs more engaged in the process than just moving your arms. This really helps on wide transitions, especially if you pull the gun in close to the body then press it out as you're settling onto target. You're standing up in each position you come into, it's faster to stay low, because you're having to go ahead and transfer the weight down to compress your legs as you exit, just stay down there. This appeared to be a big issue on stage 5, each position coupled with not having the gun up probably cost you a quarter to a half a second. it's clear you've got some proficiency with gun handling, you're out of the holster in a hurry and reload looked good. It seems like you're hitting what you're aiming at or near enough. If you're shooting minor you need to get alphas quickly. if that means moving and shooting or not moving so be it, you need alphas in minor, however you shoot alphas the fastest is what you do. Don't bog down on what is the theoretical best way to do anything. Have a good grip on what you're capable of and know how that translates you into doing more running and less aiming or more aiming and less running - do what you can execute the best quickest.

I have a 09 and a 14 - the 9 has less relief under the beavertail, and the checkering on the front strap is different. I think they updated the mold at some point. The new frame is nicer for sure.

Trigger bow spring fixed it. The legs were level. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not afraid to tear into it, I didn't have the correct screw driver to break the staking on the screw holding the mag catch spring so I farmed it out Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Will take a look, had the gunsmith replace my mag catch spring and he probably didn't seat the trigger bow spring correctly (not a CZ guy) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My practice gun seems to be dropping the hammer a little early in DA. It's not every time but there is a different feel to it. Is that seat or hammer causing that? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stuart, how do you like it shooting?

GAfiringline.com is the store. Can't recall the price I think it was 1689 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

my LGS has a 9mm if you want one... not sure why you would but that option is available to you.

No stainless chiefly because of color Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

yeah I have, half my guns are ream, the other 2 I'm considering reaming. A buddy loads ammo commercially so I will probably keep one stock just so he can test ammo for chambering.

Thanks for that Acme comparisson, I was hoping for something that I could load a little bit longer that would feed a little easier in my CZ's. I load the acmes so short that they hit on the feed ramp pretty hard, sometimes when hand cycling the slide will pause before going into battery. I had a couple unloaded starts at my last match and i was nervous that it'd stall going into battery.