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Having worn a suit like that and had to carry a bunch of tools, I can appreciate the need for the wagon. At least they painted it and put "State Patrol" to make it official. I would have just wheeled my stuff down in a red Radio Flyer.

The best one was "Are you talking to me?" Do more, PLEASE!

Does anyone have any theories as to why Limited and Limited 10 cannot be the same classification? I've not shot a lot of classifiers, but all I have shot have either been 6 or 8 rounds, mandatory reload, and 6 or 8 more rounds. The magazine capacity would seem to be irrelevant. The only time I could see it making a difference is when there are poppers, and then only if you REALLY had trouble hitting the steel.

Limited 10. 10.28 seconds. 59 points with 20 penalties. I think the penalties were no shoots, but I don't really remember (it was December). All that adds up to a hit factor of 3.7938, which earned me a classifier percentage of 32.9191. This is the worst Limited 10 classifier I've had. I shot it again several months later in Limited and had a failure to feed glitch with earned me a similar percentage.

Coolest thing going. Thanks. Although I think waiting for the classifications to update on USPSA is half the fun!

Belay my last. I just actually put the sight in and the instructions say (when all else fails, read the instructions) to the opposite of what I said. Drive it out right to left, drive the new one in left to right (these rights and lefts are as you are looking down the barrel). And it does just drive out like a normal dovetail.

Para frames with no grips and skateboard tape are great. Just be careful if you have an ambi safety. I had my left side safety pop off in a match this past weekend. I had to get a new one overnighted in time for Area 6 this weekend.

I just got a Dawson Fiber Optic front for my p16 today and it came with a little tool to drive the old one out and put the the new one in. I was told to only drive it one direction..in other words if you drive the old one out from left to right, put the new one in from left to right. They said doing it the other way somehow weakens the metal on a molecular level. Probably could only theoretically cause problems.

I had to convert my Colt from 80 to 70 when I added a bomar rear sight. The milling of the slide made it to where the hole for the firing pin safety came right out the top of teh slide. At 1st, I didn't change the receiver of the gun at all, but I found that the lever that depresses the plunger in the slide was getting caught in the hole where the plunger was. I had to grind it away.

Go to the paint section of Walmart and get a gallon can of odorless mineral spirits for about $6. Then go to the garden section and get one of those garden sprayer/squirt bottles for about a buck. That works great. You don't get quite the velocity of gunscrubber, but it is WAY cheaper. You'll still need to hit it with a tooth brush a bit, but if you spray it, brush it, and spray it again, it will be clean as a whistle. Use plenty of slide glide and oil afterwards, cause it takes it all off.

Had the sear disconnector finger on the leaf spring break once and it did just what you described...except it wouldn't fire again until I replaced it.

What would you expect on a stage that starts sitting on a toilet?

Something else to think about, you wrote about your handling of the gun initially as you were backing out of the doorway. I obviously haven't seen the course so I can't say for sure, but do you think you could have engaged those targets without stepping completely into the doorway? If you could have been back a little farther so even your outstretched gun was not through the doorway? That would not only save your from having to worry about what the gun is doing as you are backing out, but will save you the time it took to step in and then back out. As you are doing your walk through before shooting a stage, think about the fact that any barrel, doorway, or shooting port you stick your gun into, you then have to pull back out again. Just a suggestion.

Smooth seas don't make a good sailor. I'm new to competitive shooting and even newer to ROing. It seems like most shooters I've encountered are really easy going, and are forgiving of most mistakes. I've dealt with some type A personality jerks is some other sports.