90lxracer

It's right around the corner.. lol

Yeah.. I was pretty lucky there.

I won't argue the cart and horse thing AT ALL!!! lol I'll just call it "looking at the big picture" vice, looking at the details.... Makes me feel better about it.. lol That's completely understandable, I know I have tons to work on.. and worse yet.. there's the whole not knowing what I don't know thing.. I mean, with anything.. as you become more adept with something, you realize what your gaps are and can work to fill in those are far asn performance and training. there there's that stage where you haven't the foggiest what you don't know in the first place.. I'd say I'm solidly there.. BUT freely able to admit it. So.. I very well will in all likelihood ask some asinine questions for not knowing any better! lol

80K!!!! Wow.. it just seems so foreign to me.. lol Sounds like a bad hombre of a pistol!

Well put! This is another mind set change for me.. again, moving from, say, the "hobbyist" ranks, towards the competitive side.. holster rash a,d nicks and dings are going to be common.. same with high round count. It's still very new.. so call it normalizing for me.. lol

A couple weeks ago there was a guy selling some 147gr subs that were coated, and I bought a box just to try. I have to say.. those were the flattest or softest shooting rounds I've used so far. I only bought 1 box as I didn't know what to expect, and I'd like to get some more to try.. I'm still very early in the feeling out stage of this, and also figuring out more of the true practical fundamentals of shooting in general. For a while, I'm going to be limited as to what I can try, as it will have to come from something I can just go buy.

I can get on board with this.. It's more of a thought if there was some manner of "gain" to be had is all.. I'm still at a point where I'm transitioning from a recreational shooter.. you know.. the guy who has guns.. is familiar with them.. BUt isn't all that skilled as far as technique and form. Seems as though this hook has sunk kind of deep here, and I'm going hyper-nerd with it.. lol I was also given a couple thousand rds of the 115 ball ammo.. and some heavier stuff to try..and I do like the softer heavy bullet. But I have this other stuff.. and I'm not a reloader at this point. So, if I can make practical use of the stuff I have, seems like it'd be a smart thing to do.

This very well may fall into the whole "You're an idiot" area.. but I don't kow better at this point.. lol Would there be any *benefit* to using a higher powered ammo to really work on recoil/trigger control then move to softer shooting ammo? Say for a 9mm.. shoot a 115 gr at 1100fps round, then go to a 147gr sub round. In my limited testing and asking.. I've found the heavier stuff way more manageable.. but if I develop the same manner of control with the 115, would that put me that much further ahead going back to the heavier bullet?

Your mind's eye is right.. he was at the end of the wall section.. his right shoulder basically touching the wall.. the rest of the stage was to his right. The "correct" options at that point.. move downrange to a break in the wall and move right, Or move straight back, while still facing downrange, and back around the fence section and move to the next array.. He chose to turn to HIS left (muzzle at the ground) and face *us* and walk around the fence keeping it to his left side.

I've been in equipment selection mode.. I'm going to do USPSA stuff too.. so going from nothing that really worked to have competition things have taken a bit.. I plan on hitting up a USPSA match weekend after next, and maybe the steel challenge here locally. I now have a glock 34 that I traded for..it's just "ok" to me.. so I bought a tanfoglio and it is sitting at Jim Bodkin's to get dolled up.. working on reconfigurnig an AR I have, and still determinng which shotgun to get.. still time to get in some dry fire stuff, and gun game manipulation work.. I'm not waiting to jump in.. I'm just "off cycle" right now.. lol

It did startle me a bit! lol I'm sure it wasn't intentinal, and it sure wasn't going to be any manner of competitive advantage for the guy. He was an older gentleman, and mobility wasn't his strong suit, so winning wasn't something on the table regardless. But it shouldn't be an excuse to be unsafe either..

Who makes that safety, and slide stop and grip safety.. Those are amazing!!

Are there "outlaw" rules that can be found? Or is that just something that's going to change from venue to venue? It's it just a rule set that's not 3 gun nation or USPSA?? Forgive my ignorance here.. lol

Looks like it's a case of "it all depends" lol I guess, I can somewhat refine it to a point.. I was thinking in the Limited arena.. But at 40K rds.. that's getting going??? Whew.. I guess that's a bit more reassuring.. even with buying new.. it's take me a good long while to approach that kind of rd count.

In trolling the classifieds here I see pistols with what *I* would consider crazy high round counts.. However, I really don't have some accurate gauge as to what is approaching the end fo service life for a competition barrel, or any barrel for that matter. What is starting to get into the threshold of "too much" and you're just buying something that would need to be rebarreled? Is it just a matter of buying a barrel and sticking it in.. or is there some manner of gunsmith fitting to get it just right?? Would that time and cost involved involved be worth it over just buying new? Yes, I know it's case dependant.. but in speaking in generalities here..

I honestly don't know what rule set was used.. I was a casual ocsever here, so I had no dog in the fight, so I didn't care one way or another. There were some "grumblings" for the rest of the squad as it happened.. but we didn't stick around to find out what the final call was on the situation. Plus.. I don't know the difference between outlaw and whatever else ther eis out there... The question is merely more of a getting an understand of what is or isn't normal or what have you..

The muzzle was pointed at the ground.. not downrange.. That's wha tI was thinking as well.. I think the shooter just got caught up in the "fog of war" with it BUT the RO didn't stop him either.. I wasn't in the match and niether was my buddy.. so we just commented to ourselves and moved to a watching a different squad.

I"m still in the process of taking both USPSA and Multi-Gun match operation in..Having not yet shot in a match. So my question falls into the what I "think" should have happened here.. I went to observe a multi-gun match, and there was a competitor who in my view should have been DQ'd for a 180 violation, but to my knowledge wasn't.. The scenario: Facing downrange, the first array is separated by a wall from the rest of the COF.. The shooter finished the array, and instead of either running forward to the hole in the fence, and moving to the 2nd array, OR backing out to maneuver around the fences (this is a from left to right movement) The shooter spins left, turing a 360 to keep the fence to his left side. muzzle WAS facing down.. so there was at least that.. but he was not stopped, and allowed to finish the stage. After watching that.. My buddy and I just left that area and watched another squad.. I don't know if the shooter was DQ'd after or what.. But I guess my question, or thought is; shouldn't he ahve been stopped and DQ'd right there?

As stupid as this may sound.. all of this ends up being an economy of scale. In a way.. I'm not really proud to say.. coming from, and still seriously involved in drag racing.. the pistol stuff is *inexpensive* by comparison.. my one glaring case.. I had spend 35K getting an engine done.. At the time it was a VERY trick piece.. only to have it expire on the dyno, destroying it, having never made a pass.. Before it died.. lol

This is quite the eye opener. Well said Cha-Lee.

Well.. I pulled the "pulled the trigger" ( sorry for the lame pun) in a completely different direction.. I decided to shoot limited.. which will most closely fall into the type of pistol I can use in 3 gun, and bought the witness elite limited yesterday. I would think the same rules apply for the work on it.. for the most part considering it's SA only. I still went with a 9mm for ammo reasons.. but again.. all the reasons to go with the regular over the xtreme with this gun held true. Also, seemed like I can get this gun running well for far less than say an STI for the same division.

If you look at my other thread about going to observe.. I've done the same thing.. lol maybe worse..

Maybe the understatement of the year for me.. lol

So to revisit this.. yes.. I've pretty much gone off the deep end I've been binge reading, researching blah blah blah.. At times I can be "Ready, Fire, Aim" with stuff.. and this may be it .. Hell.. this isn't more than a month old.. lol Things I have bought.. 1: A race rig from the Stoeger pro shop.. I saw it first hand at the match and it was one of those things that "just have sense" . So DAA belt, 5 ghost pouches, and bladetech holster and the BOSS DOH. 2: A CE range bag.. since I really didn't have a proper one 3: I traded away a vp9 that I wasn't going to use for a G34 that had warren tactical sights and 7 mags (my first glock) 4: 2 extra a glock mags (of the 7, 4 were the goofy long ones) Then after shooting the glock.. and deciding I really didn't like it.. here's where things went sideways.. lol 5: I called Ben's pro shop again and bought a Tanfoglio Witness Elite Limited in 9mm, with 4 extra mags and holster.. I really liked the CZ's and how they handled.. and since I've settled on limited, with a transition to 3 gun with a buddy.. this "seemed" like a good move.. So.. I guess I've gone full retard.. Rounds fired in competition to date = 0

I do have some big paws... it's look weird if I didn't I'm 6'4" .. lol I am gear nerding out a bit here.. I get it.. Help me out here a bit, and for fear of sounding like an idiot, but what's a bolo? About all I'd be wanting, and I would imagine I could find it here or at youtube university would be what I'm polishing. I'm a gearhead at heart.. building an engine is more in my wheelhouse so to speak. But looking forward to getting into the internals of a gun like this..