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Never owning a dillon pre-failsafe bar... I like it. No reason to go back that I see. As long as there's powder in the hopper and the failsafe rod ain't broke, I know there's going to be powder in the case. I can't imagine dillon would put the effort into changing things unless they had customers who had experienced problems w/ the old setup.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" also applies to retrofiting perfectly good current systems, too, imo.
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don't they ignore 5% under and 15% over current class... so wouldn't anything over 75% get ignored??
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The only thing I see possibly really suplimenting dry fire is this:
Flash Focus, Vision Training
http://flashfocus.net/howto.jsp
description:
Product Features
* Boost Your Focus Power - Train with quick, fun activities based on vision-training programs used by top athletes.
* Put eyes to real-world tests - Take a swing at a speeding pitch, outmaneuver incoming linebackers and strike the soccer ball into the goal in fun, sports-based training activities.
* Pick up and play every day - Users complete daily training activities to challenge Hand-Eye Coordination, Peripheral Vision, Dynamic Visual Acuity, Momentary Vision and Eye Movement, then track their results with a calendar and easy-to-understand charts.
* Symbol Order - Three symbols flash on the screen in any of the 12 boxes. One symbol appears at a time for only a split second. The challenge is to remember each symbol and then enter all three symbols in the order in which they appeared
* Box Tap - Furiously tap a series of moving red boxes before they disappear. The more users successfully tap, the higher the score
Seems like a good visual awareness training aid.... Would rather spend $ on ammo than a nintendo DS to try it, though....
Would be cool if there was a PC version for $20...
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My "helpful" hi-tech alarm clock decided to help me, too.
Screwed me up getting to a match on Sunday. Thought I got up w/ a little extra time to spare, then realized I was an hour late. Had been under the weather all week, decided the night before to go ahead and go to the match since shooting always makes me feel better. Well not having time to wake up, rushing [aka speeding] to get there, no coffee... oh, and I got 5 min down the road and realized I forgot directions (only been to that range once before), so turn around and rush back home to grab the directions off the printer.
By the first LAMR I didn't give a damn and wanted to go home. Almost did just that on about my third stage. Waste of ammo. Mikes, no shoots, blundered plans. At least I pulled my head together for a good classifier, though. Oh well.
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Will raffle tickets be available prior to the match for those than cannot attend?
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Let's keep it going folks, still about $400 to get yet!!!
A check for $25 will be in tomorrow's mail.
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If you want, you can consider the current restriction on available supplies of ammo and ammo components as our sacrifice for the war effort. Also, the military is putting that ammo to better use than we will playing our shooting games.
This is the way I like to think about it when I complain I can't get bullets/primers. The people that need them and put it on the line should and do have first priority. Unlike "The Greatest Generation," bullets are all I have to "ration...." not meat, not gas, not rubber, etc.
I also agree the ammo craziness is more related to demand than economy.
I have an article I kept from the AP dated 23 July '07 talking about Lake City putting out 1.4 Billion rounds per year to keep up with current demand. In 2000 it was making 350 million/year. I wonder in a couple years if we might see component and ammo prices drop once the war is over or nearing an end? This article talked about Lake City's planning for the future as demand will eventually drop off when we eventually transition to peace time, and plans to prevent the shortages and "ramp up" time needed to get into full production as happened in the war on terror over the last few years.
Another interesting fact from the article, in 1978 there were 318 plants involved in making ammo, in 1995... less than 100. Apparently now there are around 170.
I certainly agree that ammo prices don't keep me from matches... "political capital" with the wife is the main limiter (aka 'guilt trip' for being gone all day)! Total match day cost (~$80 w/ gas/food/ammo/entrey-fee) makes me skip a lot of smaller matches (mostly means I skip idpa so I can shoot -more- ammo as to get the most fun out of my match dollar as I mentioned above). Ammo cost alone has made me practice better (a good thing) and dryfire a LOT (also a good thing), but doesn't keep me from matches in itself.
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Didn't see an option that best applies to me....
a) cutting my 9mm practice ammo from 147 gr like I use in matches to 115 gr.
b ) being "choosier" in my matches.. I limited myself to 2 local matches/month this summer (which meant I shot less idpa... same 90 min drive, less rounds so not worth the gas/lunch/fee expense).
c) slightly cutting my live fire. Ave'd 500 rounds/week a couple years ago between practice/matches. Now I'm averaging about 300 per week. Just means more dryfire... I think it's been better for me anyway.
d) will start reloading for rifle this winter (only loaded pistol till now)... never shot enough .223 to make it worth reloading (~2k or so per year), but now it's VERY worth reloading. Barely shot the long guns at all this summer.
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when I "dimpled" my slide stop to keep the slide from locking back, I made the dimple in a tear-drop shape pointing towards the frame, so that the plunger has a "ramp" when disasembling. No problem pushing it out by hand, though I notice a little more resistance than a stock slide stop.
Hope that helps,
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Hi Chris,
I got my A card in Production after the last Fredericksburg match, also!! Two new As in Maryland!
I think I'm going to take a bit of a break from production to see if I can make a move to A in open by next summer, also.
Congrats,
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ok, my cents after looking at it for a couple days:
10-rounds: I can take it or leave it, I'll come shoot either way. Just a rule for a game. Makes me wonder about Rules on equip like mag pouches, shell holders, etc?
Compensators: You cannot create a popular 3-gun and by banning comps, IMO. Way too many guns coming from the factory w/ a comp (heck, even the A2 on an AR can be considered a comp), and way too many guns out there made during the ban years w/ fixed comps. Not to mention the states with goofy laws. Just make a size rule to rule out things like the big JP if you want.
Why imply 100 yds max? Why not 200? 300? more? The excuse that a lot of clubs don't have the room doesn't hold because a lot of clubs don't have shoot houses budgets for movers, etc. Heck, I've never shot at 600 yds, but that wouldn't keep me from taking my toys out to try as people love to do things they can't normally do, so I don't think you'd be scaring people away by going past 100yds.
Safety rules and gun handling? These provisional rules are very equipment focused rules but no "meat." My local idpa club holds a multi-gun from time to time using idpa targets and scoring, but no RULES for when/how to handle guns when not on the line; too many people new to practical shooting have to play w/ their guns or check out other's equipment (talking guns here!
) when not on the line. I was very happy when I was attending my first uspsa rifle match I could look in the rule book before I went to know how I was expected to handle the rifle.Very much agree with others on using power factor, not caliber.
HWG: Again, a .45acp-only division? common.... 165pf or greater. I won't hold my breath on that change, though.
BTW, all other 3-gun divisions spell out what idpa pistol divisions are legal (SSP, ESR, etc), why not just say CDP here? Or don't CDP rules don't apply for weight, size, etc?
Concealment garment? Hopefully I won't need to go buy a trench coat. If all other idpa rules apply except those in this 3-gun section, that needs to be spelled out.
Mixed max-round-counts per string depending on gun... so is it a true "mutigun" using 1, 2, or 3 guns on the same course and in the same string? If so how do you handle the max round count? or if you're using rifle and shotty for example, you're allowed 18+10=28 round string? Or is it mandatory off-the-clock ULSC during transitions? This needs addressed, imo.
No optics in "LWG?" Bummer for me personally, I just put a dot on my 9mm SBR.
20ga allowed in SSG but not in ESG? If making a comparison to SSP/ESP the same calibers are allowed, so why not allow 20ga in ESG? Same rifle and pistol calibers from SSG are allowed in ESG.
Perhaps allowing more steel in 3-gun than regular pistol for some fun shotty stages using shot on steel?
Those are the things that jumped out at me. Perhaps it'll take off. There are enough clubs alread that run 3-gun idpa-style matches for fun (the idpa club where I shoot has a 3-gun that's pretty much heads-up run-what-ya-brung excuse to blast at targets, and has been growing in popularity).
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not my match gun, but my practice production gun ....
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range bag, bullets, some steel to shoot at, dillon gift cert, and a couple movies.
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Here is the only SS 1911 I have... and it's also the first [only] pistol I built.
It's nothing special parts wise; since it was my first build I didn't want to risk wasting a bunch of expensive parts.
I have about 1k through it now with no malfunctions (except one mag that doesn't like to lock the slide back), and it shoots about 3" at 50yds from sandbags.
Caspian/Caspian/Kart-EZ-fit.
I still want to add an SVI mag well and do a bunch of finish work, but not until I get 5k or so through it and feel it's going to last.... then I'll start working on a .40
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OK.....just curious.......who has ever been warned/accused of an FTDR and how did it make you feel? Has anyone actually ever been penalized with an FTDR and what for?
Been indirectly warned... local match and another competator says some time after I had finished the stage, "heard you round dumped on stage xyz." Huh? Meaning people were not even willing to question it to my face.
Because of that I remember the stage to this day, even though this was a year or two ago. Stage starts w/ gun on table, 6 shots into a target only 2 yds away, go to cover at P2 and 2 ea on two more targets (now to 10 rounds min), then while advancing 2 ea on 3 more targets. A reload trap just as the book says to avoid.
I plan to do a tac load after the first 10 rounds to be topped while advancing, but on the 6-round hose-fest I trigger froze on either shot 3 or 4 and the gun was way pushed down when the shot broke (pure type1 focus at that distance/speed) so I hit a 7th shot. The extra split was propbably <0.15 so worth it for a possible 0.5 -1 penalty, right? This meant I had a SLR before leaving cover vs a RWR. Turns out at 2 yds it didn't matter, I still caught the -0 so I had 7 rounds in there.
As someone else pointed out, the concept of shot calling is lost on many because when I brought the issue up later they kept saying I could have seen all the hits on the target and didn't need that 7th shot... the idea of not even looking for holes in the target was a lost argument.
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Again......how do you prove it was intentional?
I think you jsut nailed the point most people are trying to make.... intention should not be in the book. It's not objective/quantitative. The question should be, "Did xyz happen or did it not?" The question should not be "xyz happened, what was the shooter thinking?" That's the crust of the issue. People compare this issue to other sports all the time... in other sports the questionable calls are things like a ref calling a receiver out of bounds when the player thinks he was in. The ref doesn't notice the receiver out of bounds then try to decide if the receiver "intended" to go out of bounds. The current book really puts the SO/MD/competator in a difficult situation. You said your goal with this thread was to brainstorm a suggestion to HQ to make things better.... You nailed it. Good luck getting anyone to listen.
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To apply round dumping as a penalty.....I would expect to see a huge time savings gained of which I do not see in this instance.
Everyone's (myself incl.) problem w/ the rule is that it's already too subjective.... you can't expect SO's to start judging not only the calls themselves, but their potential impact to the score?!
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Here is a picture of the target where round dumping occurred. The target is 12 feet from the shooter.... kr
Is that the stage at the nationals that got the girl her FTDR?
A stage that required the shooter to either make a RWR or Tac-Load and have an empty magazine with one round left in the chamber?
A stage that headquarters urges the course designer to avoid setting up on pg. 50 of the rule book?
So was the shooter wrong.......or the course designer?
In my opinion.......there are several aspects of the current rulebook that need revision.
Answers:
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No*
No
shooter**
* That was not the end of the stage. Shooter then advanced to another cover position and engaged more targets. If minimum round count was followed, the SLR for a 10+1 capacity gun was after the first shot on the first target from the new cover position following the one pictured above. There was no requirement for TL/RWR. The only way the stage would have required (or "called for" in rule-book language) a TL/RWR is if you were required to engage targets on the move between cover positions where you would have been "trapped" needing to get to cover to initiate the reload and this was not the case. TL/RWR was an option at this position as it is anywhere in a course, but not "called for."
**I'm staying away from the whole "was it the right call" debate on this post, just trying to make my point that the stage was fine, imo.
I [strongly!] agree with you opinion, but this was not a case of bad stage design or a "trap." Some people loaded to 10+1 feel there is an advantage in this case to reload before going to the next position so for them this creates the temptation to dump (I do not agree w/ there is an 'advantage' btw). Risk v Reward and risk won for that particular shooter (again, just going by the documented ftdr, not debating the call itself).
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do we now need to start practicing shooting the 2inch side of 2X4's at ten yards as a practice drill?
You mean to imply there was a shooting challenge at the National Championship?
As I said earlier, the match was full of little subtle "gotchas," and this stage was one of those that may not make the match for you, but if you didn't put some thought into it and/or tried to rush vs accuracy, it could sure hurt you. A stage mixing high speed close targets w/ high-accuracy targets and a transition to prone is a great shooting test, imo. Mix in some possible "risk vs reward" decisions [depending on division and mag capacity] and you have a great championship-level stage despite appearing so simple at a glance. just reinforces my opinion that Ted and crew put on an excellent match.
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Is there a documented instance of OOB firing occuring? How would one tell the difference between OOB and an overcharge?
Just curious. Never even considered the possibility on an AR before.
I have No idea on either question! I can "imagine" a round going off out of battery if the primer was way high [edited to add: or the round is way fubar'd as Joe mentioned] and the bolt itself sets it off....
'oob' can be an issue on pistol-cal ARs... if it doesn't chamber all the way, the FP CAN poke through the breech face. I've seen photos where people claim that's what happened on 9mm guns...
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I have often wondered if a very soft small pistol primer might be fired oob in an AR... Is the light strike caused by chambering a round created in or out of battery? Somewhere in between? Hmmm...
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re-read my post (#5). The FP cannot stick through the breech face until the bolt has cammed significantly into the barrel extension (in battery, lugs engaging). Try it... disasemble your AR leaving the bolt/carrier group together. push fwd on the FP. The FP will not stick out until you have pushed the bolt significantly into the carrier.
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What did people think of the Newbold targets? My squad had trouble with them in regards to bullets going right through them without them falling over.
I had to take a 2nd shot on 2 of the 5 present in the match... I called good hits on both and they were all pretty close. Maybe I missed, maybe the rounds went right through.... who knows. I'd rather not see them for that reason. Especially on Stage 2 where they just simulated the -0 on a regular target... painted hard-cover on all but the -0 would have had the same scoring effect.
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I'm far from an AR expert (but I have built a few) and I'm going from memory here, but it seems an in-spec FP can't stick out of the breech face until the bolt has entered the barrel extension and cammed enough for the bolt-carrier to go forward enough for the FP to stick out. So mechanically it can only be fired in battery, even w/ a slam fire.
This doesn't mean rounds can never go off out-of-battery...
I'm guessing 'oob' most likely happens as a result of 1) high primer, 2) debree of some sort getting between the bolt/primer, or 3) an out of spec or broken FP.
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) when not on the line. I was very happy when I was attending my first uspsa rifle match I could look in the rule book before I went to know how I was expected to handle the rifle.
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Ok....
9mm AR-15 built from parts. SBR'd w/ a 5" barrel. AAC "Phantom" 9mm silencer.
Oh So Much Fun.
Here is the same silencer on a 92G Elite 1A w/ a Jarvis Barrel.
Also very fun. Just need to get some taller sights, but w/ both eyes open it's still easy to hit pretty accurately.
(thinking a laser/light for the rail might be fun)
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edited to add: with 147gr Zero jhp's at 900 fps, it's SO quiet. I've heard louder paintball guns. And with the AR it's easy to hit out to 100 yds w/ no effort even standing.