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I get smoke with my 180 coated 40 heads. Pretty normal. Lead and coated lead is always gonna smoke more than plated heads. I wouldn't worry about it.

That would be awesome

Never but one of these days I'm gonna practice a bit then shoot it at a classifier match so I can have it on my card. They are fun but I just never shoot them competitively.

Put the barrel in a freezer. Know a guy that had a 9 major case head separation and when the barell cooled off it came out easy. The freezer would prob shrink things up just enough. I know this prob won't be of any use at a match but at home it might.

Thanks looks like I'll hang on to it for a while longer.

This is definitely a good place for the competition questions. Tons of knowledge here. Welcome!

Before I switched to Limited I shot production for almost 2 years with a glock and was almost exclusively shooting glocks non competition for 5 years or so before that. Everyone talks about trigger reset with glocks and I didn't know how accustomed to it I had become. When I shot paper at my local range for accuracy I would practice reset on every shot. Never thought it came in to play in matches... until I switched to limited and a 1911 platform. My first match shooting the 1911 I experienced trigger freeze twice. When it happened I thought I had engaged the safety, it cost me seconds. Second match it happened once. After that I haven't had a problem but that truly showed me that if you practice trigger reset as a fundamental when you practice at your local range it will show through when your shooting at speed at a match. Honestly since I started shooting USPSA I haven't spent as much time shooting fundamentals and this thread kind of reminded me of that.

Hey Taylor is right! Enjoy the AC and you'll be back before you know it. Heres to a speedy recovery.

Hmm. I have an 08 tacoma with 95k on it. Its been paid off for a few years now and I have only sunk 3k at the most into it since I paid it off. Most of that was expected stuff, tires, brakes etc. I really want a new truck and I know that it prob makes sense to keep it and reading this is just driving that idea home. My only concern is that I travel. Not far but several 300 mile or so trips a year. Enough that I don't want to have to worry about my truck breaking down. Should I keep it or trade it in or sell it while it still has some value? What do you all think?

Welcome to the forum guys. Theres a lot of guys here with a lot of info to share. Enjoy!

Folks, this isn't about walls or barrels. Thousands of matches every year run with all kinds of equipment (especially barrels) and don't have incidents. It's about us, about training, rules, and accountability. Focusing on walls and barrels is like the "anti's" focusing on guns - let's take the guns away from everyone, don't spend energy trying to figure out why the crimes are happening and change the national mindset from "let it all hang out, do what you want" to "let's work on social change to prevent this from happening". This is why some of us focus as we do on the rules. It's dismaying to hear how often the rules (especially the safety rules) are relaxed at "local" matches, so it's easier, or because we don't have enough qualified range officers, or because we don't want to upset the newbies (who come to their first match without a clue what's going on and never read about the sport). THIS is what happens, and it's not acceptable. I'm curious whether the "CRO" in this instance was always the last person to come back from downrange, having checked for people downrange (especially on this stage, with its vision barriers). If "yes", why didn't the others follow his example and do the same? If "no", please train everyone up to a level where they'll do the right thing, even when it's inconvenient. I'm also curious what the club is doing after this incident, hopefully not just making a bunch of snow fence walls and getting rid of barrels. I mean, what procedures are they changing to make sure that the humans involved are being actively aware of safety and of where everybody is? I agree but at the end of the day there will always be human error. No matter how careful people are. Its unfortunate but unless you have designated RO's for every stage at every match I can't see how you can avoid it,and even then who knows. The lesson was learned in the incident I mentioned and everyone involved will adjust accordingly but there will always be the person that hasn't seen or heard of an instance like it.

Can't say I've had that problem. Definitely weird. I would let CCI know just so they are aware.

Could the connector be working its way out of the trigger housing and re seating when you remove it and re insert. That would cause more friction on the trigger bar causing the stiff pull. You may have accidentally opened up the connector opening in the housing when you removed the old one. Just an idea. Those connectors are so polished I can't believe it's a lube issue but maybe.

My two cats begging for dinner hahahaha.

Open guns can be brutal when your ROing with ears let alone shooting with no ears. That must have been awful.

I have a pretty good ballpark estimate. I like to keep track for spring replacements as well as just overall count. I try not to sell guns so I don't usually have to worry about someone wanting an exact count.

Glock 43. Good to get trigger time with the carry piece.

Welcome to the forums!

.3 to .4 in a pistol charge would be way more than I'd be willing to accept. My hornandy drop is for the most part spot on after the powder is settled in the hopper. The Dillon measure must just not like CFE. And yea i would say your correct in saying that it's closer with rifle loads of you maintain the same plus or minus variation as it would be a smaller percentage of the powder drop. Do you empty your powder drop when you are done for the day. Mine can take 20 to 30 drops to settle in. I like to leave mine full.

The sickness is real, very very real.

Check out this thread seems to be addressing the same thing. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234770

Raw points vs match points maybe has something to do with it. Don't know practiscore really well but thats the only thing I can think of?

Yea that's a no go. You could get a blade tech or something similar cheap enough and still use the same gun.

If you go to watch make sure you bring a gun and some ammo. Its pretty rare that I see someone that came to watch that doesn't quickly wish they brought something to shoot. Have fun and welcome!