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MikeBurgess

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  1. I left out 1 group, because I don't have a good name for it, they come to one or two matches and find out that, even though they thought they were good at shooting it turns out they actually suck like the rest of us, and their ego cant handle that reality and disappear never to be seen again.
  2. So I went back and looked at results from the summer of 2015 and while I didnt do a hard count it looks like we have about 75% of the shooters still shooting our matches or matches in our area on at least a semi regular basis, several of the ones that no longer shoot locally have moved and another group has "retired" out of 90 or so shooters at the match I checked I would not be surprised to see 70 at a match when we finally get to have one
  3. Locally we have shooters that seem to fall into 3 groups Group 1 , I'll call "Lifestyle shooters", they are in it for the long haul, they have figured out there place in the game and shoot for fun, most try to do their best but they are not hyper focused on success, shooting is not their hobby its their lifestyle, most of their weekends and vacations involve shooting activities, I see very little turnover in this group. Group 2, I'll call "Hobbyists" they shoot their local match, rarely travel, to them a match is just a thing to do. They may be motivated by getting better at shooting in general or matches are the only time they shoot. this group tends to turn over pretty fast, some keep at it shooting a few matches a year forever some migrate to Group 1 a few even get motivated and move to group 3. Group 3, I'll call "Competitors" they are there to win, they have performance goals and expectations, they work hard to to meet their goals, and it shows, this group also has a lot of turnover, some burn out, some reach their goal and search for a new one somewhere else, some realize their goals are harder to reach than they thought and become discouraged, a few migrate to Group 1
  4. I think this is where the classification system breaks down in the popular divisions. A friend of mine who made GM in open and shoots at the nationals Super Squad level has very few classifiers that have counted since he made GM, when making GM was the goal he drilled classifier skills to death, and shot many classifiers hero or zero, after he worked match skills and shot classifiers like they were just a stage. I made it in Revo so it mostly doesn't count, when I was getting close I started working more on what I needed to do on the specific classifiers I expected to shoot to get the scores I needed, and pushed for those scores to make it happen, there were many matches where the only stage I cared about was the classifier, and there was a decent amount of, I wont call it "hero or zero" lets call it "hero or 79% runs so it either helped the average or didn't count. unfortunately the way the system works, shooting a 85 means you need to shoot two 100s to average it out, so to make it over the line the real match skill of don't blow any stages is counter productive.
  5. none of that explains HOW, I get that all are components of the trigger system. I just can not engineer a way where the trigger through the disconnector pressing on the bottom of the sear to slide the tip of the sear off the hammer hook can tell how the rotational force is applied to the hammer? I ask because this is not the first time I have seen this mentioned and because it doesn't make intuitive sense and I would like to understand it better.
  6. could you explain to me how the strut could make the trigger pull less crisp? Its only job is to connect the spring to the hammer, about the only thing I can conceive flex in the strut doing during the firing cycle would be to possibly increase hammer speed if its flex relaxes at a higher speed than the main spring can keep up with, and this seems like a positive?
  7. We use rubber regrind sheets, the stuff we use I got from work as rem, but it is not to hard to come by, the stuff we use is 1/4" thick, its pretty heavy and it holds up pretty well. the first match I used it on I got to the stage about 60 shooters into the match and was at first disappointed, it looked like the bullets must have been missing it because I didn't see a bunch of holes in it, then I picked it up and saw the hole that the bullets were digging under it and figured out they were going through just not making much in the way of holes. I will say this stuff is heavy and after a few years of using them every other month or so some are pretty ragged, I have them cut down a bit now and just lay out however many I need to cover the expected impact zones.
  8. a lot depends on the bullet weight, type, OAL and gun you are using. I mention the gun because my wife's 627 is quite a bit slower than mine so when I load for her gun at 130pf I'm 140+ Using Clay dot (same as new Canadian Clays) I run in the low 3s with 147-160 grain coated bullets loaded to about 1.2 and mid 3s with coated 125s loaded to about 1.15 with the very small case capacity and fast powder start low and work up in your gun.
  9. I don think so, Im pretty sure I have heard most of the top trainers say some form of, push yourself in practice but shoot matches at your current skill level.
  10. I also learned a similar lesson at last years Nationals, shooting and walking stages with the top guys was a eye opener, their mind set seemed to be not how do I win this stage but how do I avid costly mistakes. Shooting low cap I was surprised how many times an extra reload was planned because it lowered the risk, and that's were the match is won.
  11. I would contact the shooter directly, show them the refund policy they signed up for and see what they have to say for themselves. If they are unable to convince you they were not being a D#%& then I would put them on your personal and any other MDs you knows lists and "accidentally" withdraw them from any match they sign for, if they are particularly rude I may "accidentally" withdraw them a only a day or two before said match and have a replacement shooter standing by for the spot.
  12. Lots depends on what the targets at the point you are leaving and arriving at look like. Where will you be facing for your last shot? How hard is your last shot? Where do you need to face for your first shot? How hard is your first shot? The biggest time in short movement is leaving and shooting sooner, so look at what you need to do at each location and let that drive how you leave and arrive, whatever you do in the middle means almost nothing.
  13. I completely understand learning by doing, but the OP seems to be looking for a "drop in" solution to his parts need fitted problem, thus my comment. Working on 19/2011s means you will be fitting parts, fitting parts means you are risking messing them up, if your not comfortable with that fact then send it to a professional. Personally I am a dyed in the wool do-it it your selfer, so I accept the risk every time I pick up a file or stone, luckily I have yet to get a part beyond repair but I know I will at some point.
  14. if you don't feel comfortable working on the grip safety then you should probably find a smith to have do the work for you.
  15. likely the trigger bow is not moving far enough forward to allow the grip safety to rest and the arm is sitting on top of the bow, you will likely need to do some fitting on the grip safety to get things working properly again,
  16. that sounds like a reasonable schedule, and what 90% of the shooters will do. It is normally possible to arrive extra early on match day and register then, but its hard to get much stage walking in that way.
  17. I should rephrase Shooting 180 or 200 grain bullets at 170-175 power factor from a G20 is soft compared to most guns, more of a push than a snap and it is especially soft compared to small frame GLOCKs (22, 23, 35) Having shot both 40 and 10mm at the same bullets at the same PF I cant tell the difference
  18. I would probably use stakes and some sort of raised banner or rope to make a defined shooting area well outside of where a shooter could gain an advantage by going, there would be no fault lines as such, more they would be low "walls" that could be shot over and the shooter would just have to be on the correct side. The big thing to keep in mind would be to proof the stage several times with several people looking at everything, with wide open shooting areas the biggest issue can be shoot throughs from places you assumed nobody would ever go. (like I can run to the far side of this target and shoot back towards that other target even if there is absolutely no reason to go there) my mantra is, give shooters choices and they will take them. this includes bad choices
  19. 40 out of a G20 is very soft shooting.
  20. I would think that it could be done in 1 day if you wanted, but a lot of shooters find a 10 stage 1 day match is a long day without having to pack up and drive a half hour. I would probably schedule 1.5 to 2hr for lunch and see how the schedule worked from there, once you let a herd of shooters out or RO control it tends to be hard to get them wrangled back in quickly. If you schedule 1hr to pack up drive 30 min unpack and be at a stage over half will be late, a substantial portion of those will be very late because they will stop for food and gas
  21. In my case it was equal parts Ruger is supporting the sports I play and I already have several smiths so something different seemed fun.
  22. I understand what you are saying, but I also think that there are parts of the draw where the biggest fundamental is speed, as mentioned above there is nothing wrong with the mechanics you are using other than speed.
  23. So the big thing I see is you are moving very slowly through the whole draw sequence, large portions of the draw need to be completed as quickly as you can physically do it. Thinking of it like this helped me speed up. snap to your grip (fast as possible) get a good grip (whatever it takes) rip the gun up hard (fast as possible) decelerate and clean up sights (whatever it takes)
  24. ^^^^^ This guy knows a thing or two about shooting a revo. side note federal primers load just fine, I have crushed many in sidways over the years on my LNL or 1050 like any other prime you could get it to go off but you still need to work at it, They do make a LARGE difference in how light you can run your triggers so they are worth it.
  25. Custom Ink has many options for the kind of shirts you want, and their service has been great for me in the past
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