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Been trying to figure out which forum to post this so mod. move it if need be.....
Is it just my inability to find the resource or is there no comprehensive listing of USPSA instructors?
I have the week of May 5-11 off and I'd really like to get some lessons to help blow dense layer of cobwebs off. I've spent a couple hours surfing the net with little luck.
On Sunday the 5th I'll be a bit north of the Winston Salem area of NC but would be willing to travel a few [or more] to get some professional help the following week.
Any ideas?
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The Sidewinder is a stainless steel casting. They come pretty rough from the factory (IIRC, they're actually made/owned by Shooters Connection, now - EGW is reselling them, it appears). It takes a decent amount of work with metal finishing tools to clean them up and make them look smooth and shiny (typical for cast parts, not something unique about this one).
It doesn't need to be chromed - it won't rust.
Yes it does.
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Why do you need to put a finish on it? Isn't it stainless steel?
The one I received didn't look anything like the one on the website. Mine showed lines from casting and had some dark[ish] "finish". Weird.
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New EGW mag well added to my new to me older Caspian and the only mag it came with [140mm] pretty much disappears. Any input on a base pad or add on pad for that issue?
And perhaps saving the forum from a second thread:
Opinions on best 140mm mags for the Caspian. I'm thinking I'll need more then the one mag it came with.
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Clearly my quota of post here will quickly be reached and it will be obvious to everyone why it's best I only work of old, simple farm equipment.
So I got an EGW racker and either my old Sprinfield slide wasn't cut for a Bomar or "fitting is required". The fitting was accomplished despite my best efforts to screw it up which leads to my question.
I'll need to have a finish put on the racker. Right now it's a very tight fit in the slide cut. "About" how tight should the fit be before sending it out? Will a finish make a tight fit not fit after finishing. [my English teacher is rolling in her grave after that sentence]
If you need to know what type of finish, I don't know, pick one for me.
And this is why I'm a professional dog trainer.
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Oh sure, you guys just cut up while I have a National emergency on my hands.
As you would guess, 5-40 isn't available locally. Why would it be, that would be helpful.
SLM, despite you 'wrenching' skills being called into question, I'll send you a PM with my addy. Reimbursing you for a stamp and a screw will certainly be cheaper than the $12 I paid Bolt Depot to ship me a few screws.
For Sale:
20 4-40 socket screws
10 1/4"
10 5/16"
18 NIB
3 Like new condition.
Asking $3500 OBO
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It's a pretty old Cogan Custom gun [round trigger guard Caspian]. I'll measure em but the 4-40's in there seem correct.......
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Yup, the bag the screws came in that fit the threading reads:
Socket flat head, Alloy steel, #4-40 x 5/16"
The two screws that came with the mount fit well and use a 5/64" allen wrench.
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My new to me open gun was missing a couple screws for the c-more mount to frame position. They're 4-40/5/16th but all the ones I've ordered have a to small head height and/or angle allowing the screw to seat to deeply. I filed down the screws so they will work but and an additionally issue is that the allen socked head they use is sooooooo small, it makes me think I can't get em tight enough or they'd round out if they were the least bit frozen and I need to remove them.
So where is the secret wide selection of screws for gunsmiths source I haven't located on my own yet?
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I did this to one of my students at a steel challenge match yesterday. I can't exactly comment on what I said but it got his mind off the shooting and he went 1 for 1 on the next 2 strings.
Girls?
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I always thought a great stage would be a 1 mile run followed by engaging a single target from behind cover. The idea wasn't popular with many other shooters.
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I think this has some applicability in USPSA, at least I'm trying to apply it...
What seems like a long time ago, I was shooting A LOT of skeet. While I was primarily a Sporting Clays shooter, skeet is like eating your vegetables for Sporting - it gives you a lot of the fundamental building blocks you need to get better at the game. My shooting partner was AAA in all 4 gauges, and it was a rare, rare round when Bill dropped a bird. I was still struggling with my first 25 straight. I would always seem to get to station 5 and then drop one. Or I'd clear 5 and then miss high 6 (a cardinal sin, it's just hanging right there!) I'd go clean for the rest of the round, and had logged I don't know how many 24's out of 25.
After several months of this, Bill stopped me on our way to station #5, and he asked "If you knew you were up against a Japanese Zero, would you rather be in a Corsair or a Hellcat?" Both Bill and I were warbird buffs, and had been going to airshows together. But the timing of the question floored me. I stammered for a while, and couldn't figure out how to answer. By the time I stammered out "Corsair, I think", it was my turn to shoot. I cleared #5.
Before #6, he asked me if I'd rather be in a P-47 or a Hawker Tempest in a ground-attack role. Again it spun my head around and I kept working on an answer until I had to shoot. I cleaned #6.
On #7, he asked me a question about early jet fighters, and how I thought they would have stacked up had the war gone on a bit longer. I stopped thinking about hitting low 7 and how the German jets were superior to the early Allied jets. All 4 targets broke on #7.
On station 8, I think it was a question about light bombers. When it was my turn, I stepped into High 8, broke it. We kept talking about light bombers, and then when I stepped onto low 8, Bill had to tell me to load 2 shells. I had no idea I was clean up until then. I broke both targets, and got my first 25 straight.
Afterwards, Bill shared with me that he thought of focus as being like a muscle. As you improve, you have more stamina with it. But what he saw me doing was focusing just as hard watching the targets that everyone else shot as I did on the ones that I shot. He told me that I was exhausting my focus by station #5 or #6, and then making a simple mistake. Even if you're not watching the targets, you're counting score, he said. So by talking to me about something completely unrelated, he got my focus relaxed until it was my turn to shoot, and I knew how to break all of the targets. Bill told me that at major tournaments, he'd do his grocery list, plan the order he'd do his laundry, whatever he could to take his mind off the shooting in between his turns.
So my question is, do you all try to "turn off" until you're in the box? Once you've made a plan on your walkthrough, are you able to think of something else until you shoot, or are you focused on each shooter, measuring their plan against yours? I'm not good at it yet in USPSA, but it's something I work on.
I often wonder what people thought after that, when Bill and I would be talking about anything other than guns or shooting when we were at major tournaments. I recall one heated discussion about mulching vs. bagging mowers that got us through one in particular.
Somewhat coincidentally, I'm getting back into USPS after a 20+ year break but have been shooting sporting clay competition for the last number of years. My routine at SC/FITASC was to come up with my plan for the stand or peg then wander away and listen to my ipod and visualize a bit being as exacting as possible.......how does the ground feel beneath my feet in the stand, how big and slow the targets look, how smooth the gun moves, etc., etc. The last thing I would ever do was watch everyone shoot or discuss my plan/choke/etc. with others. When I was on deck I'd might watch a pair or two BUT ONLY if the person shooting had excellent technique and was very likely to be breaking the targets as I planned to [order/break points].
As you know, conscious thought is the deal breaker when we should be running a zombie program subconsciously. That's the approach I'll be bringing to my UPSA shooting. I'm pretty excited to get back shooting USPAS because my 'mental game' is about 1000 times better then it use to be and I'm interested to see how it works.
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All great info...
I have ginormous hands and will likely add this Trik trigger.
Opinions on a racker to fit the Bomar cut?
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Hmmm...
Remove iron sights, install rear slideracker, install scope, install mag well... done.
Might also call jim anglin for a big stick mag.
Changing safeties can be a challenge, as those are specific to the caspian highcap frame. Normal safties can be made to work but it takes some modification.
That sounds like a good plan to me. If you just have to spend more then get the slide down to fighting weight, and consider updating the comp and replacing the barrel. But I think it will be fine without those. Spend the money on bullets, then go shoot them.
That's pretty much what I'd come up with, shooting a lot being first on the list while adding a racker/mag well. I'd come across the Higher Capacity web site looking for big sticks, any preference for those by Sailor vs Higher Capacity?
It'll be interesting to see what it shoots like as far as recoil with the old 2 port comp. I gotta run Atlanta Arms [major] ammo for a while until I get back up to speed reloading as I sold my 550 when I stopped shooting USPSA.
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Forgot to post the pic...........my_mind_is_gone.
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So, the darn thing isn't even in my hands yet but I purchased this from a fellow forum member. Just getting back in the game after a 20+ year break, the gun is super similar to what I use to shoot [minus the C-more of course]. [.38 super]
My plan is to shoot the heck out of it for a while and see what it's like and how I'm doing but I can't help wonder about some upgrades to it.
A bigger mag well is on the way but beyond that, do all y'all have any suggestions to help me spend money upgrading it and advance the recovery of our economy?
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EGW has the other stuff you mentioned. The magwells are good for old or new Caspians, and are nice. However, if you are running the old style mags I found that they sit pretty deep in this mag well so you need to add a bumper or something to make the reloads a little easier.
http://www.egwguns.com/mag-wells/caspian-hi-cap-mag-well/
http://www.egwguns.com/slide-rackers/heinie-slide-racker/
http://www.egwguns.com/slide-rackers/reversible-slide-racker/
Thanks guys, I think I'm back in action.
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Honestly, I just spent the last month+ here researching/searching BE.com for most of the information I was looking for but...
.....I just lost all my bookmarks in a ctr@ptastic hard drive crash on my old lap top.
I'd found a source for 38s major ammo but I can't remember the search terms that produced the find. Can anyone help me out? I just need some ammo for a new to me open gun I bought from a forum member till I get back up to speed reloading.
I also lost my bookmarks for:
Bomar cut slide racker.
Mag well for old [round trigger guard] Caspian.
Thanks for any/all help.
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65+ miles on the bike today.....usually between 14-20 hours a week riding depending on what part of the training program I'm on.
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You're correct. Focusing on outcome doesn't help with the process, correct process LEADS to desired outcome! When you get the desired outcome DON'T try to repeat the outcome. Focus instead on repeating the PROCESS which lead to the outcome.
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I don't think we can avoid those negative images or 'voice' that enters our conscious but as soon as they do we need to consciously focus on positive images/voices rather than say to our selves "don't". Our brain doesn't understand "don't" as it relates to visualizing what we don't want to.
Example: Don't think of a pink elephant.
See?
Any narrative that help you focus on a positive outcome [like you proposed] will help IMO.
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Your brain is programed to deal with it the old way. What your brain will be doing is reprogramming its self to the new position, it's constantly reprogramming its self and changing its internal wiring when encountering new information. I coach that helps me in a different sport has me working to do many things more symmetrically just to better keep my body in balance. Watch people walk around a bit and you'll notice how asymmetrical their movement is......the older they are the more asymmetrical they are.
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Post W/O replacement of depleted muscle glycogen is beneficial. 3+ for chocolate milk as it contains the 4 to 1 ratio of carbs/protein you should be looking for looking for as carbs absorb better in the presence of protein. Lot of good recovery products out there, careful it doesn't turn into a picnic though.
EGW mag well and Caspian mags
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Thanks guy, I have a plan now.
FWIW: Gary at Caspian believes they'll have some big sticks available before long....the mag tubes are expected in 2-3 weeks.