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Thanks! As you said, it's a bit restrictive to keep the movement only lateral but there aren't a lot of other options w/o greatly slowing down the match.

Ha! I shoot minor for 3-gun and Steel Challenge and bump it up to major for USPSA. And I have really been sucking it up trying to shoot open sights and a striker fired gun all for the first time. I'm really hoping moving back to the 1911 style platform helps quite a bit. I don't really want to jump in to the Unlimited/Open group in 3-gun!

Right, hitting the targets does help You see mr Hombre, that is where I find it ridiculous to have a 50 post minimum before I can post on the classifieds. There's tons of posts on every friggen topic I can think of. I can read all I want... but apparently I need to make up posts to be considered an active member... so, I've started asking questions on things I'm thinking about so they'll consider me active. I don't know what else to do!

Ha! mksm2016

Cool, thanks guys! I do have a little W231 laying around but I'm thinking of looking at some of the "newer" powders. It's only been 20 years since I looked at powders ;-)

Just getting 3-gun going at my club. We basically have a rifle range 100 yards wide, 200 yards deep with a narrow cut back to 300 on the left and a berm along the right side and short berms mixed in that space at 25, 50, 75, 100 & 150. I attached an overhead view from Google Earth in case it helps to get a visual. Wondering if anyone tries to run multiple stages on a range like this that could offer advice on how to make best use of the space. So far I'm keeping my stages mostly horizontal and setting 2 at a time and swapping out for 2 more afternoon stages.

I'm switching back to a 1911 style gun AND I was using up some old Bullseye powder so I'm going to work up a new load for the new gun. Just wondering what folks run for a good minor load with their 40 using 180 grn bullets. Any advice on spring weight with your favorite load? Thanks!

Thanks! I have a XDM in .40 that I'm trying to sell to switch back to the 1911/2011 format; just in the process of buying someone's Para Pro Custom 16.40 off the Classifieds as of yesterday so we'll see how that goes. Pistol used to be my strong suit but has not going well with the striker fired gun Back when I competed seriously my open gun was a 1911 45 acp built out of Norinco. The 38 Super was becoming all the rage but before I could invest in something different I tore up the tendons in my arms and basically walked away from shooting. My 3-gun setup was all done on the cheap to see how serious I wanted to get before spending a lot of money so I'm running an 1100 shotgun, the XDM for the moment & an AR-15 that I traded a guy for my old competition revolver that is built on an Anderson Lower and has a mixed bag of parts. Shoots well enough though. When I want to feel like I can still shoot pretty quick I like to pull out the 22/45 for steel challenge :-)

I don't try to get real serious about any one shooting sport these days but I quickly realized last weekend, as I'm slowly easing back in to the more tactical shooting sports, I don't have a good method for breaking down a stage. This came up last weekend at a 3-gun event. I have to say for those of you out there that willingly share advice at the match, I was extremely grateful for the shooter last weekend that heard me apparently say to myself out-loud, "I have no idea where to go here", and proceeded to explain their strategy for the stage. Any tips on what to do with stages that seem to have endless ways to approach them? This comes up most frequently in 3-gun and USPSA for me.

What he said! I came back to shooting sports after a long hiatus and now just do whatever comes up and have fun instead of being frustrated for not having my "A game". To each their own!

Just getting my feet wet with posts since there appears to be a restriction on posting to the Classifieds forum w/o having posted a bunch everywhere else. I shoot steel challenge, bowling pins, uspsa, 3-gun, ruger-rimfire and bullseye matches in the area whenever I can. I just worked the 3-gun midwest regional in Forest Lake, MN last weekend and will be hosting 3-gun matches locally this year as well but love all action shooting sports.

Just ordered from Action Targets. $78 & change for 100 targets that have the white backs is a pretty good deal in my book!