perttime
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But you don't know if they actually were longer than that to begin with?
Can your reloading press push the shoulder back like that?
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I don't have a 6.5 Grendel. But I also don't understand your original post. Can you rephrase and elaborate, so that it is easier to understand what happened?
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What happens if you shoot just two shots on one target?
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I don't know how everybody else does a weak hand reload but here's what I do with Comp 3 speedloaders:
- open the cylinder. The trigger finger might push the cylinder but the weak hand makes sure it opens fully. Strong hand thumb rises to vertical, to be out of the way.
- turn the barrel up and push the ejector sharply with the weak hand
- bring both hands to belly level, barrel points down
- weak hand grabs a speedloader between thumb and fingers, with the rounds on the pinky side
- insert rounds at belly level and drop the speedloader
- close cylinder with weak hand thumb while the gun goes up.
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That magwell does look big. Surely the widest thing on the pistol. How wide is it? The magwell in dansedgli's post looks way smaller, and has a bevel towards the front, reducing the space it takes in the Box.
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Just in case:
IPSC Standard Division Special conditions:
14. A handgun in its ready condition (see Section 8.1), but unloaded and with an empty magazine inserted or empty
cylinder closed, must fit wholly within the confines of a box which has internal dimensions of 225 mm x 150
mm x 45 mm (tolerance of +1 mm, -0 mm). Note that all magazines must comply.
15. The handgun is placed inside the box (and ultimately removed) by the competitor with the slide parallel to the
longest side of the box. Rear adjustable sights may be slightly depressed but the slide must be fully forward, and
all other features of the handgun, (e.g. collapsible and/or folding sights, slide rackers, thumb rests, grips etc.),
must be fully extended or deployed when the gun is seated inside the box. Additionally, telescoping magazines
and/or magazines with compressible base pads are expressly prohibited.(Appendix D2 of http://legacy.ipsc.org/pdf/RulesHandgun.pdf )
An update to the Rules is coming soon but there shouldn't be anything that affects Standard.
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At our club range, we have: table and fault lines so that you are facing a side berm, near the back of the berth, when you go to the Safety table. Some colored markers to show where your gun is supposed to be pointed. For Matches, we additionally put up targets with a letter S spray painted on them. There might or might not be a Safety table at every stage.
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Another idea.... I occasionally encounter (pistol or revolver) cases that stick to the powder die, so the upstroke takes a lot of force. Then the indexing will be --- energetic --- when the case lets go of the die.
Is the jumpy indexing happening every time, or sometimes? If only sometimes, do you feel or hear something different?
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I'm told the new IPSC Category (70+) is called Grand Senior.
The 2023 Rule Book is expected to be published ASAP.
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I'm not too far from becoming IPSC Super Senior. I don't really feel that "senior"
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I don't have an RL1100 but the shellplate is certainly not supposed to be so jumpy that it spills powder from a rifle case - unless the case is absolutely full to the brim. Now, you might have powder inside the mechanism, which is not good.
Some adjustment could be off. How does the primer mechanism interact with the press? On a different press, adjustments on the primer system used to cause me jumpy indexing.
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Just thinking aloud....
You are going for low PF. You can get that with fast powders but then you have little gas and it's pressure may be less by the time it gets to the comp. Using slow powders, you might get more gas but pressure will be low to begin with.
What about... going for shorter barrel and slide, and popple holes, in addition to a comp?
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Depending on pistol, it can be possible to chamber it long enough that you can load the rounds longer. Would that help?
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You must mean VihtaVuori 3N37
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13 hours ago, whan said:
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As a whole, I would say it would make sense to bump production to 15 rounds, keep LO as its current provisional ruleset, make CO more like IPSC Production Options Light (weight limit, 15 rounds), and then just roll all locap into Limited 10, with 10 round minor/8 round major.
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Just a FYI, not that it matters: IPSC Production Optics Light is no more. Or ceases to exist as soon as IPSC publishes the latest version of the Rules.
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I suppose N320 can be dirty if pressures are pretty low in your application. Then it is not the right powder for what you want to do with it.
For Minor PF with 158 or 160 grain bullets in 38 Special, N320 might be on the slow side. N310 would be better. N310 can be a bit touchy: it is fast enough that very small changes in charge weights make big differences in pressure.
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43 minutes ago, dapribek said:
Hi Sarge,
Sorry, don’t understand your question.
OP means steel challenge?
David
I believe the question is: "What do you mean by SC?"
We are guessing that you mean Steel Challenge, and not Sim City or South Carolina.
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4 minutes ago, matteekay said:
There's two of us?!?
He usually shoots on a different continent, though.
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Sounds about right, judging by what the Vihtavuori website suggests for other bullets. Every revolver will be a bit different, of course.
A shorter COAL should be a little easier for fast revolver reloads. I like to see how deep I can seat a particular bullet and adjust the powder to get the power I like.
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Yesterday, I was surprised to see a guy at the club range with a 4" Rhino in .357 - and he let me fire a few rounds through it. He said that he shot IDPA with it, and occasionally IPSC. Using "L Frame" speedloaders.
I quite liked it.
- First impression: grip angle is very slack. Even more thumb and index finger forward than with a Glock. I don't find that good or bad: just something you'd have to get used to. The owner warned me to curl my thumbs down. It might be even easier, than with S&W or Ruger, to get a thumb too near the cylinder gap.
- Sights looked sharp. This one had a colored dot on front sight and two different colored dots on the rear sight.
- Double action trigger was quite nice: smooth, not heavy, and the pull felt relatively short.
- The gun didn't jump much but the rounds were Minor PF .38s.
Easy to shoot once I got my wrists angled so that sights were aligning. I was easily hitting the plates that we had up at around 20 meters.
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19 hours ago, Joe4d said:
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In reality, I think matches shoulda been done by committee with various people running the matches all year.
...That is what my club is doing. There's a bunch of more experienced ROs taking turns as MD, RM, Stats Officer.
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IPSC has "15 rounds in magazines at start signal", for Production Division.
I quite enjoy IPSC Classic (similar to USPSA Single Stack). Then I'm competing against other Classic shooters - - - and happy when there's people from higher cap divisions behind me in Combined results.
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Laugo Alien
But they ain't cheap.
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I like the concept, and competent 1911 gunsmiths can certainly do it. Fitting the barrel to the gun must be done right. Personally, I'd let somebody who already knows that stuff do it.
I recall there are some (semi?) custom companies that put small comps on carry 1911s
2023 rules update
in IDPA Rules
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So, same as IPSC and USPSA rule: the heel (back side) of the pistol butt must reach above the top of the belt.