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Cha-Lee was hyping these a little while back and I believe he had a code then. Ill see if I can find it and maybe it still works. In the mean time maybe he will chime in.

It definitely takes a little tuning to get it right but when its right its one of my favorite things on the bench. Saves a surprising amount of time.

So I always shot with just good muffs. I usually shoot pretty accurate and felt I saw my sights most of the time. At area 8 this year I had a set of custom plugs made at lunch time. I waited an hour or so and ran over and picked them up. I decided to try them under my muffs. I shot the stage and couldn't believe what I had saw. Not trying to sound dramatic but damn. The first array of targets was close and I was actually seeing the holes punch in the target. Insane. Made a huge difference for me. Get good ear protection. The custom plugs and muffs is overkill but its great when your shooting. I never realized I blinked to hard and it definitely helped my splits a lot.

People get sticker shock. I get that. But honestly there is usually a reason the stuff we use is so expensive. Something like a DAA pouch requires a lot of R&D to create. It seems simple but it's not. Then once you have a design you have to manufacture it. After that you have to hope you can sell it to get your money back. USPSA is big but not that big. They have to recoup all that cost to offer us a great product. The smaller the market the bigger the expense becomes per sale. What gets me is the Chicoms stealing all this work and then selling a sub par product that takes away from the already small market that is this sport. They do it all the time and I do everything I can to avoid it.

Read that like 3 times and still struggling to translate.

Honestly I have yet to meet someone that regretted or even had second thoughts about a PT steel grip let alone the EVO. I get that its a lot of money but man is it nice.

Supposedly the eye is more sensitive to green so in theory it should be easier to track. That said I think its all preference. I personally run red but am toying with the idea of giving the green a try. It does seem to be a little brighter. Just not sure how the contrast would be on a target.

Mag springs don't wear from being loaded. Its the cycling that wears them(loading and unloading). Staying compressed for a few days wont ruin a magazine spring. Springs will take a initial set and that initial set is important as it "remembers" it but after that its cycle count is what matters not leaving them compressed for a few days.

USPSA is a game. I could understand maybe a thigh rig but appendix IWB sounds a little crazy. The tacticool factor is just about equal or worse for the IWB rig. At least the thigh rig guys are using or hopefully using a duty rig.

If your getting shavings that look like copper its probably not enough bell. I have loaded with not enough bell and it shaves the bullet. Usually more of a problem with coated than plated or jacketed. If you are getting small flakes that almost look like gold flakes in your loaded ammo bin or on the shell plate and elsewhere thats probably too much bell. Your crimp die is probably shaving brass off the case as it crimps the case. Ive had the gold flake style problem regardless of bullet type.

I can't believe the moderators allow links and basically advertising of counterfeit products to be spread on these forums. Your not allowed to say a bad word about a company here but you can advertise their counterfeit products. I'm struggling to wrap my head around that one.

They sponsor a lot of the big matches and often include a discount code for people who shoot them in the swag bag.

One of the regular guys I shoot with shoots open in 38sc. He opened his mags up so they pointed right at the chamber. Didn't seem like he listened to any of the published rules as far as feed lip dimensions. His mags seem to run perfect but that said you can almost pull the round out of the top of the mag because the dimensions are so loose. They work but it would make me nervous.

Does it not bother anybody here that these are complete rip offs of a great product and a company that heavily sponsors this sport? That actually really surprises me here at enos. The mods moderate the hell out of this site but they let links and reviews to most likely patent infringement stuff fly??? Just wow.

The dvc open guns are known for cracking at my club. Not just the comps either. One guy is on his third one in a season and a half.

Kind of sounds like pitting to me. I have shot every kind of ammo there is out of my glocks with even higher round counts and never noticed a grainy look.

I don't run one and never had it be an issue. That said the only time I have found the need for it is on a seated start. I didn't even realize this was a problem until it was brought to my attention. My system is draw the gun when the buzzer goes off. That doesn't work well on seated starts. The double alpha system works by lifting the gun a very little bit and then it clears the holster. When you stand up from a sitting position its very easy to bump the muzzle with you leg and release the gun from the holster. That happens and you are DQd. That is the only time I find the brace is worth it. I have been running a double alpha holster for almost 2 years and only once have I wished I had the brace. I chose to start the stage with the holster locked. At the end of the day I would say I don't really think its necissary. Its so rare that its necissary and the double alpha holster is so easy to unlock on the draw that it really isn't worth it.

I'm just saying plan accordingly. Its not like this is a common problem in the sport. If its happens it happens, somebody beat the system. Don't let your walls touch the fault lines and its problem solved.

Its probably been about two years. On 2/22/16 I ordered 4 complete magazines and 3/3/16 1 mag and 3/26/16 1 more mag. Guys at my club had them months before me so its been close to several years. The two mags I ordered in march are different tube designs. So in a month they were shipping different style tubes. Doesn't inspire confidence in my eyes. I had confidence for a while but its faded recently.

I would say at least 2 and probably a little longer. Ill try to look back at my shooters connection orders to see when I first ordered them.

This is it right here. Probably one of the biggest sticklers in this sport for stage design has this as his "signature"..... "Shooting is freestyle. Stage design is not!" If a shooter picks apart your stage and plays the game then good for them. Its freestyle. Learn from it. They beat you at the game.

I have to strongly disagree with this. MBX magazines are in no way the number one solution to a feeding problem in a 2011. Step 2 through 6 are more important than MBX mags. My MBX mags were the first generation and they immediately had problems. Infrequent as they were I chalked it up to the ammo. I then looked deeper into my ammo specs and case gauged everything through a gauge which was tighter than my gun. I even bought the dawson kit and checked every spec there was to check. Still had problems. New springs... still problems. This was over about 2 years of messing around. I then switched my whole mag set up to SVI tubes with grams springs and followers and the thing runs like a top again. Some are lucky and they run flawless or at least think they do to the point that they just think its a dirty gun or a bad round. To me the fact that they keep changing the design of the tube and followers is enough for me to believe that it isn't perfect. I was a MBX fan boy but have converted and will never look back. Bottom line, dig deep and you will find they aren't the reference standard everyone wants you to think they are.

Yea def the 4mm pad. They have good products but you cant trust what they tell you as far as the gauges go. Had a buddy get bumped to open with a taran pad on his glock mag that was "guaranteed" to fit the gauge. I think you get an extra round with the 4mm but it makes the gauge a bit sketchy. Heres another photo of the front of them side by side. Not that it matters.

The thickest part so the back and the two sides. They were identical.

I honestly haven't tried the 4mm pad in a gauge yet. Adam told me they are hit or miss when I had him build and tune my mags.