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All good posts, but I am not quite as philosophical about it. Why is it so hard to stay within your capabilities? Because your not supposed to. Let go of fear and replace it with faith. Believe in yourself and your ability to reach higher. No matter how well or poorly you perform, walk away from every match thinking "I can do better". When you stop believing that, you're done. Tls

Sorry you have to go through this Nick. Don't worry about her, there will be other women. God made lots of them. Take care of the kids. They are yours forever.

Dbl post. Sorry, I guess my mind was neglected. I stumbled and fell on the keyboard.

1990's POP music? No wonder I didn't get it. In my opinion Pop/Rock peaked in the 80's and went downhill fast. By the time the 90's got here I retreated to my collection of Eagles and Bob Segar. Tls

No Worries. I had to work also. I got my revenge by doing 1% work and 99% hanging out on the forum.

Well, however you do it DP, keep us informed on the build progress and the shooting results. I am seriously thinking of drinking the kool-aid myself and I am really interested to see how this goes. I haven't bought a new gun in over a year now. It may be time to buy myself a present. P.S. Got my slot for the Limited Nationals today. See you all in Tulsa.

Stop practicing so much. Actually, I am having the same problem. I like the Scott grip and really don't want to change the feel of the gun. There may be several band-aid solutions but the best idea is probably a new grip. Tls

I was #13. Offered and paid for today. I'm in baby!!!!!

I agree with the need to shoot the crap out of the 6 inch and get comfortable with it before making any kind of comparison. I suggest we all get new 6in guns and do the drills to compare notes. Tony

My plan is to keep shooting the 5" I've had for more than a year, and get plenty of baseline data, standard drills I can repeat later. Then after the Nationals, I'll give the 6" a fair shot, and several months to exceed those marks. That way it will be less of a subjective "it feels faster, slower, whatever" and a real "my hf went up x percent with with the 6" gun", or "I can show numbers that my points shooting on the move or on partials are better than the best I ever shot with the five inch gun". You are on the right track about documenting the results rather than relying on subjective "feel" or impressions. However, If you repeat a standard drill over several months, then change guns and continue, you will not be comparing apples to apples. I have tried this and the issue becomes that you get better and better at running the drill, so the sequential testing becomes skewed toward the gun you shoot later. I suggest that you consider side by side testing. Take both guns to the range and do the same drills on the same day, same conditions and keep good records. Over a period of time the aggregate data will point to one gun or the other. This helps take the human element out of it. Tony

That's the saddest post I've ever read. Sorry to hear about the loss of a fine young man.

Say What? Lynn, you've been sniffing the Hoppes No.9 again haven't you? Tls

My wife spreads peanut butter on her pancakes, then adds maple syrup. Now she has all the grandkids doing it. They won't eat pancakes without it. Tony P.S. You can't eat too many pancakes http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...c=50188&hl=

I have run tons of 40 range brass through my Limited gun. The problem is that some of the brass is so swollen that it wont drop through the sleeve at the bottom of the case feeder. I routinely run range brass though a single stage press with a standard RCBS carbide sizer die. It gets sized again and run through a Lee factory crimp die in the 650. That normally takes care of any problems. I don't gauge the finished rounds, but haven't experienced any feeding problems. Tony

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Howard, I believe you. The advantange may be far greater. I just didn't want to go off the deep end making wild unsupported statements. The geometry is a statement of fact. How well it translates into points depends on too many variables to calculate. Like many things, the reality of it may go well beyond the mathmatical expectations. It's hard to justify spending a pile of cash for a new Limited gun when I have a perfectly good SVI in my holster. However, I have never spared any expense if I thought I could gain an advantage. Resistance may be futile. Tony

I too have been considering the advantage of a 6" gun. Just for grins I decided to do some calculations to quantify the advantage of the longer sight radius. Obviously, with a perfect sight picture both 5" and 6" guns will shoot to the same point of impact. I grant that barrel length will affect velocity thus changing point of impact, but I am referring to line of sight only. My calculations are based on what happens when both guns have a horizontal sight mis-alignment. I used a sight picture that was off by half the width of the front sight. What happens is that "sweet spots" appear at various distances (using metric target). For example, at around 10 yds downrange there is a zone about 4 feet deep where a "C" hit becomes an "A". Any closer and both shots are Alphas, further away and both shots are Charlies. At roughly 25 yds downrange there is a sweet spot about 10 feet deep where Deltas become Charlies. At roughly 35 yds downrange there is a sweet spot about 15 feet deep where Mikes become Deltas. The depth and distance of these zones varies based on the amount of sight misalignment. It appears that as the sight picture gets worse the sweet spots get smaller and closer. Okay, so just what does that mean in terms of points? That parts just guess work. Depends on how many shots land in those sweet spots and of those, how many are borderline shots. In a match with a 300 round count, there are 1500 points available Turn just one Mike into a Delta and pick up 12 points. It shouldn't be a stretch to think I could pick up at least 30 or 40 points in a major match. That's the equivalent point total for a speed shoot stage added to the score. Pretty nice bonus. Let's see ...... where did I put Benny's number? Tls

When I am king, my first decree will be that all major matches have a squad for "Southpaws Only." Then we can add the right handed stage designer to the squad and trample him to death. T

My Open gun load. Zero 125 JHP - Out of Stock Vihtavuori N105 - Out of Stock Rem 38 Super +P Brass - Out of Stock Win Small Rifle Primers - Available (at the moment) Granted, there are substitutes available for the components listed above. However the substitutes I am forced to use may be less than ideal. When the load changes, the shooting characteristics of the gun change. I think its detrimental to improvement to constantly have to adjust to different ammo. With a little work and a lot of patience I will find ways to feed my open gun. I'd just rather spend my time practicing instead of working up new loads. Note to component manufacturers: If you force me to look elsewhere for your products, don't expect me to line up to buy them when you get around to making them available. Tls

I don't know much about the "Top Shooters" that are lefties but shooting in Area 6, I have seen some pretty good ones. As a left hand / left eye dominant shooter I can't imagine trying to shoot right handed as some of the pros do. Shooting left-handed isn't that much different other than the stage setups can be a little awkward sometimes. The biggest advantage is that you can hit the mag release with your trigger finger on reloads. That always felt more natural to me and you're sure to have your finger out of the trigger guard that way. The toughest thing is trying to do the walk throughs. It's kind of like driving backwards down the interstate and gets about the same reaction. Tls

I guess I'm no expert but when I look at the pictures, your wrist is bent at a pretty severe angle to the forearm. That seems like a very unnatural grip. Try rotating your hand counterclockwise a bit. This should allow your thumb to ride just as high but will pull the thumb toward the back of the gun and straight the wrist a bit. Try it and see how it feels. I would try to get an expert like Manny or Angus to take a look at your grip. Something about it just doesn't look quite right to me. T

If I was going to buy another Limited gun right now it would be a toss up between a Millenium Custom gun and Benny's 6". I took a good long look at some Millenium guns at the Georgia Match and they definately have some very cool blasters for sale. The 6" gun really appeals to me because of the longer sight radius. If I didn't already have a 5" gun, it would be Millenium. Since I already have an Svi I think I would try the 6 incher just to see what I could do with it. T

Somewhere in the past I seem to remember some discussion that Nickel cases are harder and put more wear and tear on sizing dies. I don't know if there is any truth to this theory. If you have tungsten carbide dies that is not a concern anyway. I do know that some open shooters claim that it ejects from the chamber more smoothly causing less dot movement. One thing for sure. It's easier to spot your brass on the ground after a match. Tony

Happy Birthday Julie. Hope you have a great day. Tony

You don't say which caliber, but since this is the 45 forum I will assume 45 ACP. I have done side by side testing with Clays, Titegroup and N320. Accuracy in my gun was best with Titegroup with Clays a very close second. I have read a lot of criticism about Titegroup running hot but it didn't seem to be bad enough to discourage me from using it. It does have a tendency to smoke with lead bullets, not an issue if you use hollowpoints or totally enclosed jacketed. I liked Clays, it was relatively soft shooting and flat. My only concern was that it didn't seem to work the action of the gun too well. The slide cycle was long and lazy and I found that I was uncomfortable with it. It felt like I was waiting on the gun when doing splits. I probably could have solved this by playing about with the springs. At the end of the testing I bought 8 pounds of Titegroup. That about sums up my feelings about it. T