blackss06

I would bring your own paint and go paint your targets before you shoot and make everyone wait for you if you want to force the issue. A shooter should be able to request paint before they shoot for sure. That being said, 100% do not think it should be specified in the rules to be required. I shoot at a number of clubs that can’t keep up with paint enough to allow for painting between squads, much less any number of shooters on one squad.

Well that's about the silliest thing I've heard an RO say since some genius thought you couldn't shoot a rimfire gun with a gun in a holster. According to the rules: "Failure to move after shooting a maximum of three strings from a single shooting box will result in a reshoot for each string fired until the competitor moves to the other shooting box." So were they just going to let the competitor shoot 200 strings from one box because they didn't want to coach them to move? WTF.

The only reason to flag rifles is because they can be transported to or from the shooting box flagged. If we got rid of the ability to do that and made everyone case and in case their rifle at the line then we could get rid of the whole slew of nonsense and added time. There is absolutely zero reason to flag any pistol.

Problem with running it cocked and locked is that a lot of people are running the slim safeties that aren’t really made to be used specifically because they start DA and never use the safety. When I got a Shadow 2, every video I saw mentioned to practice dropping the hammer safely because you start DA every every time. It’s not a very big risk if you’ve practiced it regularly. But yea if they have safeties they can actually use then limited or open is perfectly viable.

I was just wondering that the other day too!

I bought one off here a few years back for the same reason. Think I shot a single match with it and it’s been sitting in the safe ever since.

Super subjective. Some people swear by the lightest gun they can get. I personally shot CO with a p320 axg with brass grips. It was balanced well but not so light that it didn’t feel stable for me. I run brass grips on my 22 pistol and still feel like it’s too light. Eventually that will be a 6” gun with brass grips. I shot 929s only in revolver but now am looking at other options to cut some weight down to make it about the same as my CO gun. Just a lil nose heavy after not running them for a year. When I am itching for a change again I may well shoot stock Glocks just for the fun of it. Either way, it’s the Indian not the arrow. Pick a platform and practice. I personally won’t run DA/SA in steel challenge because that got annoying real quick with my S2. Other than that it was a fine SC gun.

If you’re on an efficient squad it saves minimal time. People spend a lot of time fiddlef*ing with gear so unless they’re literally shooting the same equipment and have 10 magazines already out and prepped, it’s just as fast to have the next shooter step into the box and stage their crap while everyone is painting and be ready to unzip their bag or unholster their gun at the “make ready”. I never (hardly ever, sometimes with insane weather) shoot like that because that’s not how we shoot matches that matter. So assuming the whole squad isn’t disabled or slower than the DMV in Zootopia, you can save even more time by making sure people on your squad knows who is going when and making sure they’re ready when they’re up and you’re painting as soon as the range is clear.

Very rarely on my squads do I have anyone shooting one gun. We all shoot double guns and never back to back. It runs fine.

I shoot CO/OPN, Prod/LTD, OSR/OPN, ISR/LTD all the time. Sometimes I just want the extra reps on the gun. I personally never change equipment though, usually too busy on my squads for any of that.

Same as it always has been. Thank god. That was the dumbest made up rule I ever heard.

Yes, regularly. First come. First serve.

Every level 1 I shoot is first come first serve and the vast majority of the regular shooters shoot 2 guns.

@MWP, any timeline on next batch of barrels? I still want one, maybe 2 as soon as I can get one!

This is awesome data, thanks for posting!