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GREAT news! I talked to Chris Keen and he's coming to my house for a day of instruction. Plus he's going to shoot a local with me here in Indiana. I did something similar last summer, but it was in Ohio at a local there.
This year we will get to spend a day going over stuff at my house and then shoot a local the next day. Chris agreed to take on an additional shooter and Repete Briggs will also be here to train.
I am going to get trained by a GM and also have a Master Open shooter pushing me. Sounds like a crucible of a good time.
My range is small, about 3 people max. I'm going to talk to Chris and see if he'd be interested in other weekends with different students. If its something he'd consider doing I'll let people know. Right now I'm just stoked he's coming and his prices are great. Who knows, maybe my house could be a central training area for Indiana shooters looking for QUALITY Uspsa training with Chris as the GM instructor.
I'll let people know. It's a 3 hour drive one way for Chris. That might prove to be an obstacle with gas prices.
Sounds like a great experience, Chris.
I would be interested this summer or fall if it works out....
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Shot the new 34 in production at Angola.
Gun problems hurt big.
Shot 91% of the points. Not bad, but given the gun problems my attention wasn't always where it should have been.
Some observations:
- I no longer get slide bite. Seems the grip I figured out that gets me the best trigger pull also does a good job keeping me off the slide.
- I didn't notice my WH grip slipping at all. I'm still thinking stippling is in order, but I did just fine w/o it. What I need to figure out is if I wasn't slipping because I was using more pressure, or because I was fighting the recoil less....
Lack of practice showed. I was just getting used to the gun when I shipped it back to the factory, and having no practice time prior to the match showed, especially with the reloads.
Going to be sending the gun back to the factory again. May be shooting SS for the classifier next month.
Shot 11A, 1C on el prez, but sloooow in 7.16. Botched the reload, and I think first shot should have been .5s faster.
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Got my 34 back from glock today...
I don't think they did anything to it other than clean and replaced my std slide stop w. a new extended one.
It still seems to just dribble brass/rounds.
First match of '12 is this weekend; still debating if I run this gun or play in SS. Thinking I'll go ahead and chance the 34 so I can really see if it's running any better before calling them next week. But running the slide by hand, the rounds are still landing just in front of my right foot.
I'm bummed. I was all pumped to get back into dryfiring and now I just can't seem to give a sh...
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100 A's, 4 B's, 34 C's and 1 D. I had no penalties!!!!!
AtABoy!
94%! Keep it up!
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Got out on the range today with the new AR and the vortex viper scope. Put about 250 rounds through it without any hiccups (though it does seem to bleeding some gas out the front of the gas block).
Mainly shot groups with a bunch of different ammo. Was a little disappointed. My 55gr hand loads (bulk hornaday 55s) were consistently 1.5". I picked up a box of hornaday match 75gr ammo at gander. I got the best group with it at just a shade over an inch. Had some Olympic 556 that just grouped awful.
I felt a bit awkward behind the gun. This is my first optic (other than dabbling with a red dot). I felt like I couldnt get a consistent cheek weld, and like I couldn't settle into a npa... I was constantly struggling to hold the gun on target. I started on the bench but then went prone using my range bag as a rest, and my groups then got a little more consistent. To make matters worse, I was really struggling with my glasses fogging up. The scope is AMAZINGLY clear..... But that doesn't matter when your glasses are fogged over.
Maybe I just had my expectations set to high for my first time out. I was hoping to see some 3/4" groups...
I did try some speed shooting at 15-20 yards. This gun is INCREDIBLY fast and barely moves in recoil. I was hoping to determine if I would need to tune my comp, but I'm still on the fence. Sometimes it seemed i could use some help keeping it from pulling right, and other times it seemed to not move at ALL from the target. I'm thinking just like a handgun I need to learn some timing and make sure my platform is consistent before I fire up the drill press....
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There's a lesson for everyone in those scores. I went back and double checked, except for my first stage, I slaughtered him on time. Almost a full ten seconds over the match.
Hope you don't mind.... I quoted you here:
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But, a heavier/slower bullet definitely changes the timing of the whole system. With less energy involved, the whole process accelerates less quickly. But it still happens very, very quickly. It might give us a bit more time to see it happen, but I kind of doubt it's that significant a change in time - maybe, but...???
Great work, Dave.
What you state above is why I always say I like heavier bullets. Not because they are "flatter" or "kick less," but I feel I can call my shots better with them.... it seems as if the initial lifting of the front sight out of the notch happens just a bit slower. (with the added benefit of doing a better job knocking down steel.)
I think it's all related. lower initial slide accelleration resulting in lower slide speed, less impact at the end of travel, and less force torqueing the muzzle up...
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Cool man, good shooting.
Looks like they put on some good matches.
I might have to tag along a couple times this summer [and borrow your shotgun
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Vortex Viper HS 1-4x24 is on its way from Brownells, as is an SPR-E from LaRue.
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IF they are cut up fine enough and cooked in something like chili and not a bunch of them I can deal with them.
I agree... if I can't taste them, I can deal with them too!
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yuck.
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HO MAN!! That's a whole food group. You can even make spam taste good with s skillet full of onions.
My wife always comments that they add flavor to things... to which I reply, "yea, icky nasty onion flavor."
She gets mad when I pick onions out of things.
I really hate the surpise when you bite into something not knowing they're there. gives shivers. One such event is what prompted this hate...
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yuck.
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It's absolutely preference, which is why there are so many successful options out there.
To me, a 2-stage is much like a single-action semi-auto trigger. Some pretravel, a crisp break, some overtravel, and reset it. I never set my pistols up to eliminate all extra movement. I like some pre-travel and over-travel so that I just pull through the break of the shot as part of the overall movement. And reset never matters to me because if I'm really shooting fast, I come way forward and practically (if not litterally) off the trigger anyway. I think some of this is because I had many years w/ DA/SA guns before ever shooting single action pistol or getting in to rifle.
And 2-stage triggers are not slower, so dont believe that nonsense. And they're great for accuracy, since when you hit the 2nd stage, you only have an extra pound or two w/ a crisp break to break the shot.
The 3G trigger seems like a smooth/short glock trigger to me, which isn't anything anyone seeks in a pistol, so I don't get why it's the hot ticket in ARs. Basically, a 2-stage trigger w/o the second stage. But they're wildly popular, so they're worth trying out.
Try several and see what you like...
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Why did the Gen 4's have to be specifically approved? I don't see other gen's discussed. So now, for example, it says "17 9mm (25 oz.), 17 Gen4 9mm (25 oz.)". Why weren't the gen 4s legal until they were added to the list? Was there a similar issue when the gen 3s were added?
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IIRC, it was done by Oglesby & Oglesby, out of Springfield, IL. I believe that they're only doing SAA work now.
I remember that it was an innovative design and was simply BEAUTIFUL.
I would think that if you found a copy of American Handgunner from the late-80's/early-90s, it would be featured in their advertisements.
From the American Pistolsmith's Guild website:
Oglesby & Oglesby Gunmakers Inc.
744 West Andrews Rd
Springfield, IL 62707
217-487-7100
217-487-7980 FAX
thought that name sounded familiar... a quick google confirmed I remembered it from the History Channel show Sharp Shooters.
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just went to vtacs website cause I hadn't heard about the 15" version... and it's showing them all except the 7 and 9" as discontinued? (well it says the battlerail "FDE" are discontinued, what's FDE?)
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Flat Dark Earth. AKA tan.
ah. ok. was thinking about trying a longer one. guess i still can, it just wont match my shoes or purse! haha
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just went to vtacs website cause I hadn't heard about the 15" version... and it's showing them all except the 7 and 9" as discontinued? (well it says the battlerail "FDE" are discontinued, what's FDE?)
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between working too many late nights, and knowing my gun is going back to glock, I've not been getting any practice in. knowing i wont have my pistol for several weeks to practice with, and probably wont be able to shoot my first match w it, is killing what motivation and momentum I was starting to build.
predicting a shi++y season.
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If you dont want to put lines on a target, just stick a paster in the top 1/3 of the A-zone to get your attention drawn a little higher. Most of the targets we shoot at, unless we are the lucky #1 shooter on the day, all have pasters on them.
a paster is good, and can help you learn an aiming point, but you need to be able to call your hits, and the only way you really learn what the 'imaginary' (can't see it past a couple yards) A-zone boundary looks like is to trace the border, or use one of the other techniques described here. imo. I personally like tracing because I can make it as obvious or un-obvious as I want, and the target stays all one color and doesnt change what you are looking at on match day. These other techniques, imo, change the target too much... and we need to learn to call the shots based on our sight picture in relation to the big brown shape alone.
lots of good stuff here:
http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9655&st=0
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spent a couple hours with a fellow local production shooter today.
Long story short, we swapped several parts around, making a bunch of measurements as we went, each time thinking surely we had figured it out... But no luck. In the end, we had swapped everything around, one at a time, and the gun finally worked when I had his 17 slide (with my extractor and barrel) on my frame. With the slide being the only variable, it ejected much better.
The only problem we can see on the slide is the right rail isn't straight. With a straight edge on the underside of the rail, we see about 8 thou runout. The left rail (and both rails on his slide) are essentially true. So it's as if the slide is slightly warped. Is it enough to matter and be the root cause? Who knows. But this gun is going back to glock.
Note that I had no malfunctions today. But watching where the brass landed it was pretty obvious when the gun was working right and when it wasn't. When it wasn't the brass was mostly under my feet; it barely kicked out at all.
I just hope that glock doesn't say it's within acceptable limits and they can't reproduce any failures; or if they do something significant like replace the slide I hope the gun comes back as accurate as it is now.
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I was interested in this scope, but felt there was no real center aiming point and the crosshairs too small at 1x. I was afraid there would be too much searching for the aiming point on close to 100 yd highspeed shooting (all going off reticle pictures, never saw one in person). I think I would have gotten one if they would have cut out the center of the crosshair and put in a 1-2 moa dot.
This I agree with and have stated as such elsewhere. I much prefer a dot (like an Aimpoint) for 1X close/fast stuff out to 100y than an Eotech-type halo. Some of the new offerings hitting the market have this type of setup (dot down at 1X, FFP reticule as you dial up),
Eotech never bothered me, because there is that bright 1moa dot in the middle. The halo just helps me find the dot if I have the brighness turned down (to avoid the "bloom"). But the SWFA doesn't have a dot... just the halo. and some vague crosshair. But I agree, lots of new options coming out soon... I'm debating about holding off again... irons are fun, too!
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I've got a couple DVDs with that problem.... the real downside is it's the kid's movies, and they don't understand why you're not starting the show they want. Hard to distract them for 8 previews.
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Friday I got another ~400 through the G34. Cold and Snowy.
W/ the standard slide lock/release/whatever, I had no more problems w/ the slide locking back when it shouldn't. I think the standard release is big enough anyway, I had no problems hitting it such as when doing a slide-lock reload.
The dryfire to adjust my grip is paying off and getting rutted in. I didn't bleed all over the slide or the extended mag release this time. Some slight rubbing on the mag release w/ the left palm, but I think once I stipple the gun so I can hold on to it and keep the LH from sliding forward that will go away.
Accuracy is quite good on this gun, but I need bettter sights to do better. These stuipd adjustable sights are not even on top, they're raised where the white comes up, and sometimes I see extra light bars in the gaps around the adjustable piece. Hard to get a consistent picture. Best 10-shot group at 10 yds was measured at 5/8" wide by 1-1/8" high. I'm sure I can improve that vertical stringing. Once I'm confident in the gun's ability to run, I'll pony up the $ for better sights.
Also, once I get it running I'll stipple the gun. My timing drills sucked. By 10 rounds in I would have to adjust my grip (that it was ~30 degrees and snowing didn't help).
I set a new personal best for a reload, 1.16 shot to shot. Consistently in the 1.3-1.4 range. this gun reloads considerably easier than the beretta. Did have a couple of bobbles though, so need more ironing.
Turn and draws need work. In dryfire I can do them under 1s no problem, I couldn't get them under 1.4 live.
next time I'll remember to take targets All I had to use was 25ft NRA slowfire targets. d'oh.
started off with the dot drill. too focussed on speed. I sucked it up. And I kept forgetting what I was supposed to be doing, kept doing too few or too many strings, kept forgetting to start the timer, etc. Just got frustrated and said screw it. Too much thinking needed for that drill and I didn't want to think anymore after a long hard week at work.
Over the weekend I took the Level 1 RO course.
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There are two things that are possible issues. The first and most likely is the ejector. Glock has made a new ejector for there 9mm guns. It has solved most of the problems. The other is the extractor. Glock has changed them and they can be finicky. If you call Glock they will get you the new parts or have you send in the gun for the upgrades. You may also find it necessary to beef your loads up some to help.
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I'll give glock a call, and a local shooter has offered some spare parts to swap to help troubleshoot.
I don't think it's the loads needing beefed up. They are 133-134pf w/ 147s. surely that's enough?
it's an ejector or extractor issue for sure. I can put a dummy round in my beretta and bounce it off the ceiling when I rack the slide. I can't get it go go an inch or two higher than the gun w/ the glock...
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Just an update:
Got my 34 back from glock ...
I don't think they did anything to it other than clean and replaced my std slide stop w. a new extended one.
It still seems to just dribble brass/rounds.
I shot a local match with it exactly how it came back from glock (except I didn't have a spare standard slide stop, so I ground off the extended portion.
results can be seen here:
(majority of the match was shot using Win White Box value pack).
If you look at the whole match video, you can see how erratically the cases eject. Some go straight forward, some straight back, some to the left!
entire match vid here:
So it's back in glock's hands... hopefully they actually do something this time. I was very strong in my expectations for what comes back to me this time.
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