big_wannabe

my take exactly. when I saw it was going to be rocks, I was grumbling *mblflfking sijtid*, once cliff was up there chucking them I was on the edge of my seat "go go go!" LOL. Am enjoying the show and it's a nice edge to have Cliff's take here.

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ditto this. my 18 yo neice had a couple of stovepipes when I took her out one time. so I told her to stop limp wristing. problem solved. I like the trigger A LOT more than my Gen 3 23.

I'm going to have to experiment with this. I too used this as a starting point. i'm going to start from scratch. just this weekend was working on improving my weak hand contact with frame/grip and pushing elbows out and up to make a more neutral shooting/recoil frame.

I would disagree with the bolded. Proper use of the equipment is up to the competitor, if the gun had been "holstered" it wouldn't have fallen. If that happened to me I'd consider it my responsibility and expect to be DQd. I've never shot the nationals and I'm a nobody in this sport but that's my opinion.

THANK YOU!! that's the best "how to call your shot" video I've ever seen.

yep. no longer. I wish I knew what happened. Greg Wodack is the Manager over there and a GM. I can't imagine he got tired of having regular matches at his home range but who knows? what a shame.

Oh man those were the good old days around here. But I didn't know that then. I just decided to get back into practical shooting after taking some time off to save money and it seems to have just DRIED UP around here. I searched around and this was the most recent thread I could find. There used to be monthly IPSC AND IDPA matches at shooter's paradise AND the NRA Range PLUS a monthly 3 gun in St. Charles run by Sterling. Not to mention Cowboy Action, too. It used to be there were WAY too many things to do, and now ... they're all gone. Does anyone know of any regular matches that are within a 50 minute drive of Arlington? I know York has really nice matches but that's a pretty serious hike for me. Maybe I just need to move somewhere that doesn't suck?

Is anyone here aware of any empirical data that supports the supposition that the mechanics required to "flip" rounds in the air increases the risk of detonation? If not, maybe that explains why there's no rule against it. I've never seen an RO complain about it.

We've already established that "flipping" doesn't increase the risk of detonation and that there is nothing one can do to decrease that risk. The ROs already know that every time a gun is unloaded it might detonate so what exactly are the "flippers" going to warn them about?

We've already established that, slow open or fast open, the risk of detonation is exactly the same. There is no way to reduce that risk. You have to unload regardless of whether you try to catch the round, therefore catching the round has absolutely nothing to do with increasing or decreasing the risk of detonation. Moreover, if the shooter chooses to place his hand near the ejection port at that moment, he's doing nothing more then potentially shielding others from the shrapnel from the explosion. If he racks from the back and doesn't sweep himself or anyone else he's adding zero risk to the situation but since the round could detonate simply by falling on the ground he's actually REDUCING the risk of detonation if he also manages to catch it before it does. Thanks for helping me wend my way through the logic of all this. I will now try to hone my round-catching skills while unloading in a consistently risk mitigating way as a method of overall risk reduction. Eye protection at all times, of course.