JimmyBob

Yes, some of us don't even bother doing that much. You won't notice the value of trying to game the finer details of a sport until you're reasonably well ingrained into it. Just go shoot with whatever you have, when you're good enough to game an edge you'll already have a good idea how. Shooting an open gun of any type will probably be the steeper learning curve.

A quick search isn't pulling up much visually on this, anyone have a link to pictures that can help ID whether someone has the old or new version?

The Ghost belt is good quality, the inner belt was actually thinner and softer than I expected, but this might work well for your situation. It holds up fine for me when velcrod in, using all belt loops of course. Belts are pretty cheap and can be easily pawned off if you don't like one. Get whichever one's on sale. No idea about your mag pouch thickness, I have ghost pouches on a ghost belt, so of course it fits right. There's good sense in being consistent with your brand if you're worried about compatibility and not picky on the belt details.

Another thing, you also need to change out the ported barrel on the Performance Center COREs for a non-ported one. Porting and compensators are still a no-go, although the factory slide cuts are fine.

Not something to be worried about. When you rack the slide the barrel also moves backwards a little, as it drops a smidge to clear the slide to pass over it. This will make the comp appear to move with the slide for the first 1/8th of an inch or so. As for the fit, it's a threaded on mass produced Carver comp on an unknown but probably also mass produced drop in unfitted barrel in a factory slide. A perfect no-gap seam between comp and slide is expecting too much.

Already known to be not true and examples exist on this forum. High overall has prize connotations.

They should just make PCC shooters pick their rifles up off the ground at the beginning of the stage. The extra 3-120 seconds to bend over that far will keep the rifles from being a cheesy way to win overall time.

Oh come on, if some genius spells his business name as "Prazision", you know he has a mechanical engineering background. Probably has lots of computer simulations showing the improved material strength from his homemade crap.

Depends significantly on the gun, for something as unpopular as a vaquero, going to be pretty bad. Plenty of guns sell for nearly new prices when used at physical stores. That's not going to be one of them. A well priced competitive store should give you the same amount, things like guns & bulk ammo are priced so close to everyone else that they're not going to expect to turn much profit, but you'll still lose some. Take cash, in case the store inventory you're considering isn't well priced and competitive (accessories and other low end garbage junk priced at MSRP). Don't take it into the store to sell. I've made fortunes on walk-ins wanting to sell their guns. See if a local store will consign it instead of buying outright if you have some time to work with, we used to do that for a 15% commission, although lots of gun shops won't take consignments. But if you do have some time to work with and don't need cash fast (considering the store credit idea), sell online. That local place might get 200 folks daily if it's a heck of store, only 3 of which might even consider buying a Vaquero at a brick n mortar store price. Online you can reach tens of thousands easily; craigslist, backpage, armslist, arfcom, facebook, here, etc.

Must be pretty early in their history. Cheesy off color comp, mismatched and poor slide finish, electropenciled text with uneven spacing and a painful to look at off-center grip logo. STI sure has a thing for ugly rollmarks...

Cheesy garbage, the sights are painful to even look at in profile. And they want 3 grand for one? Yeah, ok.

22 would be ideal, plenty of matches to go to, cheap high volume shooting, etc. Pick any mainstream American 22 auto, but don't cheap out on a base model. Get a good quality one that he'll appreciate when he wants to soup it up and can hang on to forever. (Heavy barrel, stainless finish, factory match sights). One with a manual safety if you like teaching good habits. If you get a cheapie toy-like lightweight one (Ruger sr22, walther p22, thin barrel other something), it won't get him used to the size and heft of a real pistol. Then get him a good 9mm when he turns about 12/13 if he still likes shooting by then.

The Remington R1 now comes in 40 as well. Standard bushing type barrel.

I don't see an exception in the rules that takes rarity of the item into account. It's a violation, fair's fair. Next time if he doesn't have enough posts he should send a private message with a sale offer instead of trying to maximize exposure by posting it publicly without the necessary post count.

How about the obvious for the rest of us? Someone asks a question about whether two pieces of gear work together and someone else answers him with a no, but why are you using them together since this is a competitive shooting forum and competitive shooting doesn't usually use them. Then out of nowhere you come in like an angry hobo cussing at someone for having an opinion that's different than yours, but happens the be the opinion of the far majority of dot shooters in the sport, trying to pretend like you have some vast experience with LE/Mil backgrounds and yet you sound like an uneducated buffoon that's just trying to pick a fight.

This is the dumbest shit I've heard today. You're a ridiculous sounding mall ninja colt, just quit while you're way behind.

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Be careful with your ordering, your link URL says "m-p-22" and the European import M&P22 doesn't use the same sights as the real M&P line.

The necessary low quality internet mall ninja retort. No justification, no intellect, some opinionated comment that adds nothing of value to the discussion, just trying to shit on someone else's gear.

BS, there's nothing "crap" about the RIA 1911s, and for 350 bucks the correct term is "phenomenal". It's not like they're using pot metal slides that shatter or something ridiculous. Now it may be cheap to see a RIA upper on a CK frame but it's still a whole better than crap.

Wtf. If you really think so then I'll sell you as many as you can afford at that price. So he wants 7-800. Not the worst sale asking price ever but definitely not worth going for. I'd be a buyer of that slap together parts bag for anything under 400, maybe 500 if I had any inclination that it wasn't just a collection of parts. You can get a complete Philippino 1911 for 350 brand new, I've bought them for as little as 220 used. New ck frame is 200, new grip is 100; so why spend way more than the parts are worth on a hideous looking mystery build? If you want a novice-built franken2011 you can assemble it all by yourself for less. How is it being advertised?

No, conversation declined.

That's not what he did and he's well aware there's no rule violation here. He went beyond the rules and added his own personal stipulation to the competition because he thought the shooter might violate a rule in the future.

You're just wrong and overstepped your place, the nazi term is useful here. The 3 feet rule is an approved exception to the 180 rule, and you assumed that that the shooter might sweep you. We don't need ROs trying to preemptively predict how a shooters run is going to go and assume that he's going to DQ before he actually does when he's well aware of how close he might be to the written limit while still kosher.

Go fast at everything except buying gear; get everything cheap and used, seriously. If you stick with it, you'll upgrade your gear, if you don't you'll be glad you didn't spend a small fortune.