MikeBurgess

1 first it all depends on how your gun is sprung and how it interacts with your load and your grip and and and. too many variable to say run this PF and it will be perfect for you. 2 Popples make flatter but less soft, your choice, I like soft, some of my friends like flat. 3 there are many many versions of compensators on the market and everyone has their favorite, so this means it really doesn't matter, if it made enough difference to matter we would all run the same comp, but we don't, so pick one you think looks cool and carry on. The current trend is a mid or commander length gun with a very light slide, popple holes, titanium comp and a steel grip, in 9mm or 38 super. you cant go too wrong with this setup

One other thing you may or may not want to think about is resale value. a 9x23 gun (new and cool or not) is going to have a lower resale value, next in line will be a 38 super/super comp the highest will be a 9mm major gun. I see this all the time in the classifieds here and elsewhere. 9mm open guns just have a larger market. a 9x23 is probably going to take about a +/- $700 hit and a 38 is probably closer to $300

You could use time plus scoring and go into the penalties section (just below the add stage button on the stages page) and add set up a penalty for B's, C's and M's then to score a target just add the penalties as needed. You could also use IDPA and just do the math for each target and enter that. Either way you end up with the correct time plus score. I suspect they don't have a actually scoring system set up for GSSF because GSSF uses paper and its own system for every match I have been to.

your current rig looks like a Blade Tech setup. it is likely already about as far from the inside of your belt as the rules allow (max distance from grip to inside of belt is the short side of a credit card) That said we just picked up a Red Hills Tactical with a Springer Precision hanger for my wife's XDM 5.25 and I cant say enough good things about it.

I saw the stage in a video, it looked like you had to go prone and shoot through a "port" about 1' tall and it appeared you could not spread out side to side I am assuming for cover reasons, so if you can't tip your head back very far not being able to shoot in that position is very realistic, I have several shooters locally that have bad necks and have had an ear full about such positions

I put it in a moon clip

Shooting Revo in practice and matches with my Open shooting friends I find myself fighting this constantly. the worse part of this is the pace you (i) experience in my head while shooting is a illusion and normally a horribly inaccurate one.

Wrong, the classification system rewards pushing the limits, and most of the High Hit Factors take that into account (division dependent) most M and A class shooters (not all) got there by pushing hard on classifiers and either getting a good run or tanking hard enough for it not to count against them. at a L2+ match most shooters will not be pushing to 100% because the crash counts against their match and they likely value that score more. if you want to stop the hero or zero system we have make all classifiers count all the time and your class can float up and down,

I saw a post on FB, I think, that said round count is about 470 also for the SS/Revo match they condensed down to a PM, AM,AM schedule for all shooters

I'm guessing this will eat into the 2011 juggernaut in limited pretty hard, for less than the cost of a plastic grip 2011 you get a all steel gun, wow

think of it like this, you tapping (probably harder than you expect) to drive the bullet back into the case is way way way less violent then firing a 44 mag round.

or anyone below about 5th

you left out he's also only 19, but didn't he win the title by being slower and more accurate but still fun to watch.

The real answer is if you want to see that stuff, volunteer and make those stages yourself. I like you have always been drawn to the physicality of what I saw in the "old days" I have been helping run matches for many years now and finally decided to just start doing some of them, so this season I ran 3 stages with Cooper tunnels at level 1,2 and 3 matches and 2 stages with climb over obstacles (shorter than I would like but its a start), what I have found is as long as you give a reasonable option to avoid the athletic part people are pretty happy. A reasonable alternative should be a disadvantage but not so bad that it kills someones match, think a couple seconds longer not 10s of seconds. Also for cooper tunnels specifically try to force the shooters to shoot from very close to it to on both sides to reintroduce the risk of a penalty for knocking a stick off, no fair that only those that go through face the risk of penalties. PS watching the national champ shoot on the move while going through a cooper tunnel is pretty cool

no problem, glad I could help.

I have not got to play with a sig Max myself, but I believe they are a decent deal even at the $1400 level, they have a checkered front strap come with a Dawson Ice magwell and have a Konig hammer and EGW sear and Firing pin, so internally they have the same top of the line parts many custom smiths would use. I have not read anything reviews saying they are poorly fit That said the DW point man is a nice gun.

I would strip and reassemble the firing pin and firing pin block, then pop the slide back on the frame and check the hammer function, if it works without the FPB in then I would reassemble the slide with the firing pin and block and make sure the block is able to move freely then check again. Mike

Probably I Know the regular sig slides are odd shaped not sure about the Max though, it looks like the front of the slide milled above the rails to lighten it so holsters may not be run of the mill. But holsters are pretty cheep. also I just looked one in 40 is listed for 799.98

Gun Broker recently had a couple 40SW 1911 Max Michel models for under $900 the 9 and 45 versions are $1400 so its pretty tempting. that said the 9 and 45 versions are a pretty good deal, pretty much tune sear spring and go to town from what I have read.

Outside of marksmanship and gun handling what about our game IS realistic? PS IDPA is not really any more realistic either.

Recruit as much help as you possibly can, anytime someone volunteers find something they can do. Dont get caught up in your stage designs getting set up exactly like you drew them, if it gets set up different but its legal and safe try rolling with it, when setting your own stage give yourself the freedom to move anything or everything if you think it will make the stage better. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

My $.02 is dot height is a non issue, we are talking 1/8" for most of the plate systems, not enough to change much of anything. look at the upright Cmores and even most of the mini dots on frame mounts (open guns) the bore to dot offset is huge on those and zero matches have been lost due to it.

they do not work with Caspian Hi Cap frames the trigger guard is too small, I tried mine in my friends holster and it was very very loose, I don't remember if it would fall out when locked but it was not even close to being something that was even close enough to working to try and modify it to work.

I should have stated interesting/challenging short and medium courses, as part of a well balanced match.

I don't think your weird at all. My experience is the higher level the shooter and or the longer they have been in the game the more they appreciate short and medium courses.