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There are several styles of base pads available now. Springer Precision, Obsidian Arms, and Taylor Freelance all make different styles of plus zero extensions for the P320 today. Springer Precision and Taylor Freelance also have 140mm mag extensions good for about 23 rounds in 9mm if you use the right springs.
600ish... I am a die hard Glock guy, but the 320 is nice. It has a better trigger then the glock (even a tricked out trigger). The only issue is their aren't a lot of parts for it yet, and it is still just left over P250 slides. But when Taran comes out with a base plate I may switch over.What's a P320 selling for? I own to much glock stuff to ever switch. It's the only pistol that I own, I hate having a gunsmith. And I'm poor.
Thank you, I will look into those.
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The baseball team, 10 of them earned over $2000 in 2 days, and we charge $175 for a 2 day 10 stage match. Did not affect match expenses in anyway except an extra set of mouths to feed. I told the coach, if they don't work, they won't get tips. If they bust their butts, they will do well.
I had to agree with Mark, they worked their butts off and they did a good job... and always appreciate Kids showing a little initiative to raise funds.
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What's a P320 selling for? I own to much glock stuff to ever switch. It's the only pistol that I own, I hate having a gunsmith. And I'm poor.
600ish... I am a die hard Glock guy, but the 320 is nice. It has a better trigger then the glock (even a tricked out trigger). The only issue is their aren't a lot of parts for it yet, and it is still just left over P250 slides. But when Taran comes out with a base plate I may switch over.
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I want a patch on the back that says, "Effin' Gamer!"
But honestly, if you were to make one from scratch...
Heavy material, so it'll stay open when you clear it and not get tangled up in your gun/hand/ponytail.
Vents....EVERYWHERE! I'd do the entire back in mesh. It hits over 100 degrees down here and we need all the airflow we can get.
Don't go overboard with all the cargo style pockets. I've used my vest for over a year and I still have yet to put a single item in any of the pockets.
Make sure you give ample room in the armpit area. Don't want anything chafing or rubbing there.
Wide material on the shoulder area. This will help spread the load of the vest.
Mine has adjustable straps in the waist area, but again, they've never been used or adjusted.
I had this one my armadillo vest right above the mesh bach at the Carolina Cup last year.
Nicely Played Sir... Nicely Played
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I don't.....at least not any more.
After reading this forum, this is becoming my position.
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Conical and bulls are only effective against cardboard targets, not against threats
That is absolutely the dumbest thing I have heard. I am assuming you're joking.
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SIG Ultra, is awesome 9mm... It has a much cleaner trigger then STI and the R.O.
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let's use my scores at the recent Wolds as an example. My final score was 282.56. Let's say 283 for the match. I was 88 points down, or 44 seconds in penalties. So my raw time for the match was 239. So 15% of my final score was from errors.
Using the new scoring my final score would have been 327. So now 27% of my score is from errors. That is what I think makes it a poor decision, upping the percentage of your score that comes from errors. Once someone has shot enough to figure this out they will start to weigh and balance speed and accuracy more in their mind. And this will slow a majority of people down.
Will it change overall results? Not at the top but surely in the middle. And for quite a few people a slower game is less interesting.
If you want to push accuracy turn a mike into a 5 sec penalty and leave the rest alone.
These types of things really force the issue of training, real life, defense, rule books, games and so on that haunt the identity of the membership and the organization. In my opinion only and not that of anyone I represent.
I agree completely
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I would love a carbine class added to the open class... However, it is straight cheating
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I am RH-RE dominant. Keep both eyes open. Vision is 20/20 after Lasik. Occasionally, I will get a double image of my front sight. This typically occurs on longer targets. I also notice it during dryfire if I get right up against a white wall. I can correct it by briefly closing my left eye. Is there any downside to a piece translucent Scotch tape or a little Chap-stick on my left lens?
Convergance-Divergance...I will say that it might be from the Lasik, or actually before it. Your eyes are tied to your brain(obviously). However, before the surgery your brain tries to compensate for the weakness. Then you get surgery and now you brain doesn't but it will still try. I will say vision therapy is underrated.
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My thought is the gun may not be sprung right for you. As the slide returns to battery it may be pushing the nose down and that is when you might be taking your second shot. A lighter recoil spring will help with this if your gun can run it reliably.
If you are definitely getting two distinct sight pictures for your pairs then it would be an issue of trigger control.
I appreciate this... I get caught up in driving the gun with parts it came with, but I am going to play with this
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Check out the following thread on Iron Sights......
http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=142607&hl=
Good read...
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Not as much fun if he just tells us the answers.
agreed
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Congratulations, you completely missed the point of Rowdy's and my post.
If you have followed Rowdy's shooting rise, you note he has sought out consistent great preformances rather than hero and then zero.
Hero and then zero is easy. Consistent great performances is much harder.
Consistency is another term for loser... You have to push yourself to your limits, or how will you truly know what your limits are. Especially in local matches, or why compete. Take up Bulls Eye shooting if you want consistency.
I like to push myself very hard in training. The range is what I like to call my laboratory. That is where I can experiment and fail/learn. So I do agree with your second sentence and it is something I see in people at a certain plateau in there shooting. They are only willing to do something to where they can guarantee a -0 hit. If that's all you do, that's all you'll probably get. (while acknowledging that speed can not be forced. speed is gained in repetition, consistency, confidence and efficiency) I do not practice or train in my comfort zone.
Your third sentence speaks to matches. Competition. And your first sentence about consistency and losing. There is a continuum my skill level lives on at any given day from ok to awesome. If score is being kept I absolutely do not shoot my 100% nor do I push my limits in competition. I prefer to shoot at whatever is 95% of my best at matches on average. So yeah, I'd be unhappy running 90, but I'd love to be at 95% all the time in a match! (Per racknrider above)
From locals to regionals to state wide to nationals to worlds I've looked at the data of the people I beat or who beat me. The winner of the division or even down at the class level almost always falls into one of two categories. 1:They beat everyone, every stage. This does happen but not as often as number two. 2. They finish second or third every stage. They are not first, 12th, first, 8th, 1st, 14th, third. The type of consistent performance to finish at 2nd or 3rd each and every time to come out the overall winner does not happen when you are going all out, pushing yourself, shooting each stage at 100%. It just doesn't.
There might be some language confusion by what each of us mean by saying "go all out", "try my hardest", "go as fast as I can", or "give it 100%." These might mean very different things to me than you and in different circumstances.There is a level of subtlety to my actions, visions, planning and performance of all of this that is hidden in these kinds of statements.
And now to maybe clarify my statement that kinda brought all this out. (btw, i am more than happy to pm about any of this as well) I make an effort not to shoot near scoring lines, I don't want someone to make that judgement call. At the walk through I do not move my foot 1/4" at a time asking, "is this in cover, is this in cover, is this still in cover?" I shoot where I know I am in cover. Are my splits and transitions fast? Yes. But a human being isn't judging me on those actions. Any action or procedure I do in a stage I make a conscious effort to do it such that no one can make an issue about it. Being on that thin end is not the place to be all the time. You get doubles called as mikes. You get cover calls. You get procedurals. You don't help yourself. Don't choose actions such that another can judge them is what I meant, as you probably won't be happy with the judging. And in IDPA you get judged by another person on where your bullet holes are, where your feet and lower body are and how you navigate the stage.
You help yourself by having a good, coherent stage plan you can completely visualize before you shoot. You help yourself by having the fundamentals perfected. You help yourself by developing the skill to shoot things quickly at distance. To shoot an array activator-static-static-mover. You help by how you get in and out of positions. And to do these at your 90-95%, over and over again.
The best definition for good competition shooting I ever heard, was from Bill Go and he described it to me as." Good shooting is executing the fundamentals, perfectly, every time, at speed and under conditions not of your choosing."
I know I wrote quite a bit here and to more than one poster's statements. If you have a question or want me to just flesh out some of these statements please ask, I gladly will in pm or publicly.
I stand by my statement... But If I understand what you were trying to capture in all that (I have some attention deficits).I believe in the shooter solution approach. That states you shoot as fast as you can accurately engage that. It is 100% effort all the time, that is different from the speed I may engage the targets. Keep in mind that doesn't mean reckless.
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Congratulations, you completely missed the point of Rowdy's and my post.
If you have followed Rowdy's shooting rise, you note he has sought out consistent great preformances rather than hero and then zero.
Hero and then zero is easy. Consistent great performances is much harder.
Consistency is another term for loser... You have to push yourself to your limits, or how will you truly know what your limits are. Especially in local matches, or why compete. Take up Bulls Eye shooting if you want consistency.
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Out shoot them... take it as challenge. If it gets out of hand; take them behind the berm or to the parking lot and make sure you don't lose. Though if you kick their ass... they will usually make a bigger ass of themselves (I'm calling the police...wah...wah). If you simply out shoot them they simply look dumb.
However, trash talking amongst friends is all good.
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Are these locked breech vs blowback? If so , I would assume the are softer shooting than 9mm AR platform. Anyone shot these side by side with 9 Ar?
It is Sig's version of MP-5, with an AR style operating system. It is cleaner system then an AR platform, but recoil is the same. They are a blast to shoot. They do have an issue with wearing under the charging handle, and sig does not have a (Good) solution to fix it yet. Honestly it is a small cosmetic issue.
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This clarified a lot of concepts for me.
DNH
Great Video
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I agree
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The honest answer in all of this, should be based on what you want it to do. The longer the barrel muzzle velocity increases. generally this means better accuracy. The longer the gas system, will also reduce felt recoil, and wear and tear on the gun. Shorter gas system will cause the gun to operate hotter, which in competition shortens barrel life.
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Really? Slip up and say something FTDR worthy? Chances are that if he knew what he was doing was basically an FTDR do you honestly think he would "slip up" and say something FTDR worthy? At the end of the day its still a game he didn't do anything unsafe and the advantage gained was probably still minimal; but not the right thing to do if it was purpose.
Really. You have to weigh the options here. 1. Can you prove and enunciate clearly that he gained a competitive advantage? 2. Is the time taken to delay the match and stick it to the offending shooter worthy of the infraction? 3. Are you going to be supported on the higher level and is it worthy of their time spent?
You would be surprised at how smart and how stupid cheaters can be. For example a young man from NC made GM in open at 2009 VA/MD SECTIONAL(USPSA) because his uncle cheated on his behalf and pasted a target downrange before it could be scored. 95% of TJ because he got a reshoot on a stage that he had a clearly visible (to the spectators) hard cover miss on.
With electronic hearing protection you can usually pick up fools planning loudly, but sometimes you get lucky with an arrogant shooter saying, "Who cares it was worth it," after a stage.
The rules for giving the FTDR leave two big problems however:
It should not be assessed for
inadvertent shooter errors, or in cases where it is obvious that the shooter gained no competitive advantage
by their actions. In these cases, the shooter should be assessed a PE rather than an FTDR.<----Shooter says, "Eww shoot sorry, did not mean to do that." And then walks away after burning down the stage ➕ three seconds.
All FTDRs must be approved by the MD.<---Now I have to stop my stage to go plead my case to give this jackwagon a penalty and leave the other twenty shooters in the squad sun tanning?
Try this on for size if it is too much to let go: "I am sorry to inform you that you have been disqualified for violation of the shooter's code of conduct, rule 3.19.7. Please refer any questions to the CSO and MD and have a safe day." I have the authority to do that on the spot and it doesn't take me away from the stage. He willfully broke the rule so I have grounds to DQ. It shifts the burden of time and legwork to the shooter completely as he is now trying to get back into the match and I am free to run my stage. If it bounces back from them, it will likely end up a FTDR, but you have made the offending shooter do the legwork and thoroughly offset any competitive advantage gained.
Seriously this is problem with IDPA. We have rule monkeys, that rather then promote the sport, are more concerned with kicking people out of a match for what? Because he thought outside the box. You give shooter his left and right limits and let him figure out how to negotiate the course of fire.
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Trying to equate any gun game to the real world is an exercise in futility. It is absolutely not training. It is a little bit of testing of certain skills and that is it. Oh, and it's fun.
Do both, tactics and force on force style things aaandd the gun games. But don't confuse one as the other.
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I couldn't disagree with you more on the training aspect. Every time you squeeze the trigger you are learning. If you are learning you are training. Gun games have had a huge impact on the tactical world. I will say that just because you shoot IDPA doesn't make you a tactical wizard
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To the OP, I hope you're not LE. If all your focus and practice is on programming/remembering how to move fast and shoot faster, it could get you and your department in hot water some day. If you're not LE, the same focus could have the same effect if you actually carry in daily life.
If all you want to do is be the best and fastest USPSA competitor on the planet, go for it, but you should probably leave your gun at home unless you're shooting a match.
What does that mean? Using IDPA as the context, trying to apply your statement; lets for a second look at what you are implying to the real world. The world where targets shoot back. In most shooting situations whether LE or a carry situations, you are in a total reactive situation, immediately put on the defensive. In short you are losing, especially if you brought only a pistol to a gunfight. There are no "shooter ready" and "standby" calls to get your head right. You have lost surprise and initiative. That being said you have to counter your deficits with speed and violence. Meaning you have to move fast and shoot faster, than your opponent. That is the real world.
Understanding IDPA is still a shooting game, with a clock. Where the two worlds intersect is how the scorecards tally in the end.The fastest shooter with the best hits wins.
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How the heck do you get so high a grip on the gun? I can't even see the beavertail on the first video and the slide is right on the top of your hand!
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I have fairly wide hands and do my best to bury the beaver tail deep into the web of my hand. The higher up on the gun your hands are the less mechanical leverage it has against you.
Those are some big mits
Max M.
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Granted, I would find a range that rents them first. I will say even go to the store you can feel the difference in the triggers. I was a huge skeptic until I shot it. I am waiting for SIG to release it in the legion line.
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