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perttime

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  1. A gun with, single stack frame, Commander length slide, compensator, and red dot would be cool - whether it gives a competitive advantage or not.
  2. 23 if there's a barrier. 26 if there's only a fault line keeping the competitor at that distance.
  3. Give it a try. You have some practice now. You might surprise yourself with the rule book. It is online, so you can read it anywhere.
  4. USPSA goes for Long stages most of the time anyway. So, they all take a relatively long time to shoot and reset. In IPSC, a ratio that favors Short and Medium stages is mandatory. If you do include shorter stages, with the long ones, it makes sense to put the more complicated props, swingers and movers in the shorter stages. So the difference in how long it takes to process a squad isn't too much.
  5. Retreating is now a common stage feature. When you have that, it is not a good idea for the RO to be VERY close to the competitor. Often, the Freestyle principle allows the competitor to go left or right, and the RO doesn't know which. Sometimes collision avoidance is more important than getting all the shots.
  6. In IPSC, people often keep the Long stages easy to run, and put swingers and other more labor intensive things in Short and Medium courses. That can be a big help in getting smooth Match Flow: no bottle necks where lots of squads pile up.
  7. Yes - But. If you are trying to get every little bit of accuracy, you get the ideal brass too, whatever the cost. For my current needs, brass picked from the range is quite adequate.
  8. And then some gamer went and hung a scope on a pistol! And built a race gun out of a double stack S&W!
  9. You'll certainly get relatively clean brass from an indoor range. Here, 9mm is plentiful and you can pick all you want from OUTDOOR ranges - or take them from the bucket where people discard their unwanted brass.
  10. I'd go for rigid fault lines, at least where it is possible that competitors might be tempted to cross or push the line. Ports made out of no-shoots can be a bit of a pain. Just tight no-shoots left and right? One thing that I came across recently is a plate with a larger no-shoot plate behind it.
  11. I enjoy center fire too much to give it up - as long as there's no pressing reasons. If pressing reasons do appear, I want to continue with rimfire ... or airguns, for that matter.
  12. Is there any difference if you keep your thumb on the safety lever?
  13. I recall somebody complaining about emails from the site in Chinese. I haven't noticed anything yet. Can you post a link to a thread where this happens? What device are you using to browse the site?
  14. Is there any difference in strikes between the different moonclips?
  15. In a recent thread, somebody had light strikes on a different revolver model, depending on which brass and which moon clips were used.
  16. As somebody mentioned, that can cause trouble if there's another stage very near. Like, we just had a match where we used a clay range for some stages. There were three stages between the same berms.
  17. I've recently RO'd a couple of stages where the competitior would move back fast. There's no sense in going so close you risk being run into, or run past. Another thing that has happened is getting a spent case straight into the timer when going close to get the last shot. Couldn't be 100% on which one was the last shot, so the competitor had to reshoot.
  18. Is any part of your hand on, or near, the release when you shoot? Some photos make the button on the Pantera look pretty big.
  19. Welcome! What are you shooting, or going to shoot? I have a Dillon SDB of pretty similar vintage and recently broke a part of the powder system. I'd forgotten that such things fall under Dillon's warranty. Service by email was quick and the new parts were shipped promptly from Dillon.
  20. Last time I shot full power loads was an overcast day with a fine drizzle. Not the best thing after a break in shooting.
  21. I'll probably keep an eye on what others do during walkthrough. I usually shoot in a low cap Division, though, so sometimes I need to pick different options to avoid standing reloads. Once I'm on the line, I do what I can, to get the hits.
  22. Whatever powder you use, look at published data first. I start from powder manufacturers' tables. I believe H-110 is much like Vihtavuori N110 which is more accessible to me: good for the highest velocities and biggest fireballs at the muzzle and cylinder gap. I believe I've got a flinch a couple of times from shooting full power factory loads. I don't think the recoil was bad but the fireball out of a 4" barrel disturbed me.
  23. Yep. 1911 subforum https://forums.brianenos.com/forum/3-1911-style-pistols/ and post pics.
  24. Good to hear. Works well with the correct moonclips.
  25. My .45 doesn't feel like there's all that much tension when the slide is forward. When I remove or install the slide, I can easily control the spring and guide rod with one hand. Maybe it is the double spring, or something else that the New Detonics people did differently? It is a bull barrel government size .45 and there's no hole through the guide rod.
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