Yar1180
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Anybody know the torque setting for scope rings for a AR? Particularly Warne rings on a 1" trijicon accupoint. Is 20 inch pounds too much? Should the torque to the base be different than that to the scope?
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Everett hung up his guns and sold his reloaders. He is busy doing real estate apprasial and is heavy into jet ski's now.
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Yar1180,
Where are you from? You played around the same period I did. I am sure we know each other if you were on the curcuit. What is your name and who did you play for?
My name is Ralph and I played with Ironmen, All Americans, and Aftershock among others, mostly Aftershock.
You pretty much nailed it. There was an overall image change in paintball. There was a big push in the late 90's to "bring it out of the woods", and into mainstream. No more camo, no more war. Now we have "markers" and "eliminations".
-Ralph
Ralph my names Ray Wong and I played for Fatal Swoop from 86-98 for the Lively, Great Western, Pan Am, and NPPL curcuits. I knew a ralphie who played for GBD, Shock, All A's. Can't remember his last name. Started with a S.
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Another thing paintball has is gun rentals. A junior high kid tells his friends about paintball and they all go running to their parents. The next weekend they get dropped off at the field and they can rent all their equipment and buy their paintballs at the field.
Something similar would need to happen to really pull in the juniors for USPSA. It would be difficult with the liability. Maybe we could do something like airsoft IPSC as a introduction.
I look at SASS and they are doing a lot of things right. They got a great junior program and they have a much more marketable image.
I'm afriad that USPSA has too many things going against it to be truely mainstream in this country. I'm not even sure if I want it mainstream. I liked paintball more before it got super politically correct.
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I actually came to this sport from paintball. I started paintball in the early 80's and got into it pretty heavily. I played on a sponsored team and competed on the national circuit for a number of years.
Paintball from its inception has always been interested in its public appearance with TV as its goal. This began from it's inception from the NSG days (national survival game). Paintball went through many phases beginning with a pseudo military, survival type image which they identified as a barrier and worked hard to change.
In the late 80's Paintball got "politically correct" and did an overhaul of its image. They did away with red paint because it looked like blood, the camouflage was phased out slowly and replaced by motocross inspired jerseys, and even the term "gun" was replaced by "marker". Paintball sought to separate itself from the "gun" image.
In short the politically correctness of paintball irritated me. I feel paintball as a community should side with the other shooting sports and pool their resources. For USPSA to reach the marketability of paintball I think it would need to sell its soul. Something stupid stuff would need to happen like removing all humanoid shaped targets, changing the way our equipment looked, operated, etc to separate us from the gun stigma.
Looking back at the growth of paintball I don't think it was the TV coverage (actually paintball is very difficult to televise), or the political correctness. The thing that we could learn from paintballs growth is how it focused on the younger players. When I began at 15 I was among the youngest in the sport. Everyone was 30+ because you had to be that age to be able to afford to play. Paintball recognized this would need to change. They created more economically priced equipment; playing fields did things to enable younger players to play (traded labor for field fees and paint). The most important thing was word of mouth. People got out and spread the word, recruited new and younger players. You go to a commercial field now and 90% of the players are under 21. It's all high school and junior high kids. Now that I'm 30 I'm the old guy out there. The age dynamics is what I think is paintballs strength right now. They are going to be strong for a while because of their young base. The advertisers, industry people, and TV media know this. The young people are great about spreading the word about what they are excited about. Something we "older" guys could learn from.
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Damn, now I got to find my credit card.
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Kevin,
Did you pull your striker and clean the channel out? I haven't had doubles, but I've had FTF from the top end getting full of brass shavings before. Seems like I always find a couple big chunks in there every time I clean.
Yep I second that. Ryucasta had a dirty striker channel in his G35 and it went to 3 shot burst mode during a local ipsc match. I thought it was pretty cool, he finished the stage and got all his hits.
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Oh we run steel cahllenge too at all 3 clubs. Norco will start steel challenge in July up to the big steel challenge event, Palm springs and West end run a monthly SC match. Rock pile has 2 SC stage a month along with their regular steel match.
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I design the stages for the Norco SSA steel match. It's not as simple as wanting to to run a match so lets do it. Typically you need the proper insurance too. If you are running a steel match you'll need plenty of steel, a means to drag it around (golf cart, truck, or something to pull a flatbed), place to store steel such as a shed or trailer, and means to repair steel (welding).
I would say if they are letting you use your ipsc guns for the .22 rimfire match just do that. Get involved with that match, help them set up, break down. Suggest that they expand and vary their format.
I would also recommend you try out the various other steel match in So. Cal. Piru is Steel Challenge. So it is pretty much just that one format. In Norco we run a IPSC style run and gun steel match. Lots of poppers, plate racks, falling plates, and static plates. Palm Springs runs a awesome steel match as well.
The steel calender breaks down like this. First, third and fifth sundays there is steel at Norco. Second sunday there is steel at Palm Springs with another match at the rockpile (near Temecula). So you can get a 2 for 1 steel match that day.
I would suggest you take a weekend to check out those matches. At Norco we run a IPSC match every saturday as well. You could come down one weekend and have a ipsc on sat, steel on sunday shooting orgy. Let me know I'm active at both matches and will introduce you to the guys.
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When I was in college and living in a Fraternity house we would regularly have vagrants sneaking in and stealing our beer cans. We could make several hundred dollars a month just from recycled cans and bottles. All of it would be sorted in trash cans which makes it an easy target.
On morning my roommate ran in screaming and hollering. Everyone ran outside because we thought there might be a fight or something. We saw him run down the street and turn a corner so we all gave chase. Upon rounding the corner we saw he was chasing several homeless people making their getaway pushing shopping carts full of recyclables. We stropped in our tracks and got a good laugh. He never caught them by the way.
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I got the Dawsons with the fiber front and rears. They are great. If you get the bomars you will want to get them sunken. That means you have to send off your slide to get cut, re-finished, then the rear sight installed. You local gunsmith may be able to do this, or send it to CGR or Tom Novak. The sunken bomars do sit lower on the gun so the index is the same as the stock sights, or heinnes. The dawsons are pretty tall in comparision. If you go with the dawsons you have to be more selective with holsters. You'll need a taller sight channel for the front sight. For example the Uncle Mikes is a little too short and needs to be modified with a rat tail file.
The dawsons are still the best drop in sights for the Glock in my opinion.
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Don't do much IDPA, but if rules allow you could clip off the nose of the stock recoil spring assembly. Then insert a ISMI #15 recoil spring. You glock recoil assembly will now be "uncaptured". I know it works as I have experimented with this im my G35.
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My 10/22 for our local steel matches. Only thing stock on it is the receiver. This thing is too much fun. Twenty five round mags taped together jungle mag style, red dot sight, and the rifle has zero felt recoil. It's like shooting a BB gun, and it drops those falling plates just fine.
Oh the ammo is super inexpensive too! I design the stages for our local steel match. I'm going to start designing some 3 gun (pistol, 22 rifle, shotgun) stages. I've been toying a biatholon type stage complete with plate rack and running penalties for misses. Mike have to wait for the winter so I don't stroke out some of the competitiors.
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In Southern California we have several great steel matches. Run and gun ipsc/uspsa style but with reactive steel plates. I was just wondering I you guy had such matches locally in your area.
If I do move out of California one day my new home would have to have snow for snowboarding, and a good local steel match.
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For the price of a complete upper you might as well get another gun. You can get Glock 22 police trade ins for around $400.
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Also check the point on your striker. I had a few light strikes once and found it was the tip of my striker had broke. Glock replaced the striker of course.
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I just finished my morning dry fire session and I think I found something. I remember reading the part in your book about the eyes closed thing. It got me thinking. How fast could I draw if I didn't need to see anything, how fast would I be if I didn't even need to get a grip on the gun. So I set the par time way down and did some draws with no gun and sight picture. Without trying .6 was very doable. Ok so I squared up to the target in such a manner that I naturally indexed to a lower A hit (still working on drills 1 and 2 btw). Did some more eyes closed no gun draws, all were under .6 and upon opening my eyes the index seemed to be right on. Ok so without changing stance or anything I tried it with the gun. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right but I got quite a few under .6. Some I saw, some I saw afterward (it's like my vision blurred for a split second when the timer went off, but it cleared and the front sight was on the lower A zone), some I messed up horribly. Before this the best I was getting was .8 with a lot of bad draws. It's hard to tell without actually breaking a shot in live fire. I think my mind now knows that If I can index to that spot without seeing it under x time, doing it while seeing it must be possible.
I'm going to experiment some more. This match I'm going to square up on the first target in such a manner that I can index it with eyes closed. Then just let everything rip.
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Thanks guys.
The full breath, release half, hold till beep, then breath normally seems to be working for the dry fire. It just when I get caught doing a inhale on the random beep does it throw me off. It weird not being able to time myself off the RO's cadence.
I got two matches this weekend and I'm going to pay more attention to my breathing now that I know what to look for. See what I do normally in the past, and try what I've been practincing in dryfire.
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Who makes a lightweight 18", 1x8, threaded barrel. I checked all the usual suspects including JP. Well to be honest I checked their web sites and have not called any of them.
I found a guy to make me a custom barrel, but I'm curious if I overlooked anyone else?
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I got your dry fire book and have just started using it. I noticed something about my breathing. How should I breath on the draw. When I breath normally the random beep of the timer catches me off guard sometimes. Like if I'm drawing in a breath and the timer goes off I feel more stressed. I never noticed it in a match because I think I subconciously time my breathing off the RO's commands, and hold my breath just prior to the draw.
After some minor experimenting while dryfiring I'm starting timer, full breath, half exhale, and hold breath until timer beeps. I'm wondering if anyone has any insight to this breathing stuff.
Funny the stuff you notice in practice that you never notice in a match.
Polishing Glock Mags
in Glock
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After you get it sanded hit it with some plexus. It's a glass/plastic cleaner that makes the mags super slick and doesn't attract dirt. You can find it at paintball stores, and motorcross stores.
I use it to clean my mags inside and out, the followers, and inside the mag well.