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This is correct. After testing both, we found that the Dillon die actually sizes a 9mm case down closer to the base than a u-die. It's a little contrary to popular belief and expectations given the large chamfer at the mouth of the Dillon die. What the u-die does better than the Dillon is size the mount to a smaller diameter. I like both aspects, so I size all my cases with both dies.

Doesn't matter. You could shoot left handed using your right eye without it actually being a detriment to your performance. I know shooters do cross eye/hand very successfully. I'm slightly left eye dominant, but shoot right handed with my right eye. As far as misalignment in your arms. Of course. How you rotate your arms and break your elbows (or not) determines how you get the gun to your proper index. IMO, to shoot USPSA (i.e. dynamically) well you should learn to not rely on having your torso, arms, or body positioned in any particular way (this also goes for your feet and stance). Learn how to put the gun in front of your shooting eye and aligned with the target from ALL positions, both comfortable and awkward and you will be developing the skill required to shoot well.

This is very similar to my experience.

4th Saturday is the classic target match and 1st is metric targets. $20 I don't really pay attention to when we finish. 3'ish maybe. It'll probably be hot. You can check out plenty videos on YouTube. Always a good match, still use solid walls.

1st or 4th Sat? Lime Rd, Moore, SC Check it from 9-10am. Normally start shooting before 10:30. 6 stages with 4 field courses, 1 classifier, and one speed shoot/short course. Under 200 rounds. SPSA on practiscore and registration opens Sunday morning week of the match.

It's your grip. It's the most common cause of your problems. Specifically the location of the sear spring. This occurs when grips sag in the rear, pull away in the rear, or tolerances stack up and allow the sear spring to locate too low.

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Good.

This division already exists. It's called open. Set up your gun how you wish, come shoot.

Yes, this is all the in context of 7 pound and below spring setups.

If they have the same in battery load it's not really helping the gun unlock. As soon as the preload is overcome and the slide begins to move the gun is out of battery.

When you start cutting already light springs the variable rate behavior becomes a liability.

To run light springs your gun must be very well tuned. Getting the gun back into battery requires work and the lighter a spring is the less work it can do. The idea is to remove anything the spring needs to overcome that is not directly required to get the slide returned and the gun back in battery. Extra drag or friction on the disconnector, between the frame and slide, along the barrel, against the hammer, etc. is unnecessary work. Rounds should strip easily out of the magazine and glide directly into the chamber and any hitch in this process is unnecessary work. The gun should go smoothly into battery without any excessive tightness in the lockup or else that's unnecessary work. Running a heavy spring will power through problems like those listed above. Running a light spring will expose those problems. Also, if you're going to run light springs ditch the variable nonsense. The most difficult part of getting into battery is the last cam up of the barrel on the slide stop where the spring is near its least compressed length. All a variable spring does is take away a bit of spring load that'll help the gun lock up.

Compress the spring onto the guide rod using the reverse plug. If the reverse plug contacts the head of the guide rod you're good, but if the coil binds before the plug travels to the guide rod the spring is too long. That's all that you *must* do. After that, trim it for performance change. See post above. Technically, springs don't have a "weight". Spring dynamics are defined by free length, rate, and block height. The weights from the manufacturers are just arbitrary measurements (or numbers) to relatively compare what they make. So yes, absolutely, you change the characteristics of the spring when you cut it, that's why we do it.

Stroked system doesn't have anything to do with coil binding. The coil compressed length just needs to fit inside the reverse plug. Buffs, stroking, etc. are irrelevant to that. So yes, some guns, like IMM's with IMM length reverse plugs need coils trimmed to not coil bind. A government plug normally has plenty room to not require trimming. Cutting coils stiffens the spring but reduces the total spring load both in battery and through slide travel. Makes the spring effectively softer improving the impulse and tracking.

I've been in this situation. If the score sheet is signed and approved by the competitor and RO it's final. You can be ordered to reshoot in some cases, but incorrect time or points are not one of them. However, a signed score can be corrected if both the competitor and RO agree. It may also be corrected via arbitration ruling. Rule 9.7.4. In the case of erroneous time the only corrective action is a reshoot. So basically you must get competitor and RO to agree to correct the score via reshoot, or take it to arbitration. In this case, as a competitor, I will check video if available or at least see if the time passes the smell test. If I know it to be correct I will not agree to a reshoot. If I know the time is wrong, I will both agree to and seek out a reshoot. That's pretty much how it's going to work out.

Yes.

I have no idea then.

Government slide cut down or commander slide? Depends on what reverse plug you run if it'll hold spring compressed enough to get to the take down notch with no spring load on the slide.

I found it easiest to track arrays. What I mean is your stage plan includes planning to knock down all or only 10 steel in each array then reload to the next array. I stage plan how much steel is in each array and mentally hold on to misses to know when to leave and load. I found it insanely frustrating trying to count to 10 and continually ran the gun empty. Once you get this down you can start planning some standing reloads to run the stage clearing plan.

That's where we disagree. The dot makes an open gun. The fluff such as trigger, weight, grip, porting, comps, etc. are nice and do help in small increments, but they aren't remotely the big hitter that the dot is.

Yes, it does.

Teaches me that BJ shot like a boss this year. I understand what you're saying. You want to shift the paradigm in open and solve the problem from an entire new direction based on the perceived advantages of a CO platform. A CO gun is not radically different from an open gun. It has the key component, which is the dot. That is, imo, at least 80% of the advantage of the open gun platform. Open guns have been built small, large, heavy, light, on plastic platforms, on 2011 platforms, etc. etc. People have tried stuff in the past, this is nothing new, and I'm saying the advantages you perceive from reading into the results of steel challenge don't actually exist. Carry optics didn't win Steel Challenge, BJ did. There's a difference. Check out KC's scores, using your own logic I'm pretty sure he would strongly reject your premise. I'm not saying there's no more improvements to be made to the open gun, but I am saying they won't come from analyzing the CO platform. Everything about the CO platform has been tried in open. I say think farther out of the box, don't look in the nearby box.

Not a dethrone, just how it shook out this year. Being as CO learned everything from open and is basically Open Lite I don't see what analyzing the CO platform is worth. If it's better, people will bring it into Open, it's totally legal. Most dedicated open steel guns are already smaller, lighter, and shooting minor so they are not USPSA open guns and already follow your logic. Not enough people truly care about this game anymore to truly push the steel gun envelope. It's no different than a good shooter shooting a good match and winning ProAm with a limited gun. It's happened. Does that mean that platform is better?