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I’ve always liked this idea, although I’ve never shot a match like this. It seems like it would work really well. Each range would correspond to the block of stages you shoot on a given day, so you don’t have to worry about the delay of getting people from one range to the other in between stages on the same day.

Care to share in case the rest of us need to know later on?

Fairly light door. Normalish recoil spring. I believe I’m running a 13lb spring, if I remember correctly which one I settled on.

Interesting. I did this at a match somewhat recently with my Q5 without causing an issue. Maybe I got lucky.

For what it’s worth, the Alien is hammer fired by normal people’s definitions, but referred to as “striker fired” by the manufacturer. They even call what looks an awful lot like an internal hammer a “striker”.

I don’t think this is the reason, or at least it isn’t what I’d heard before. I’ve read that USPSA and IPSC are allowing it in Production because the manufacturer calls it “striker fired”, and (in USPSA at least) striker fired guns are specifically allowed in Production in addition to DA/SA and DA guns.

So the stock TTI springs will not fit the TTI thin followers, correct? If so, that explains why you have to use the Grams springs with the thin TTI followers to make this work. In that case I won’t waste my time trying it with the TTI springs.

It wasn’t. Someone probably put 6’ on the setup notes either as a minimum to create the correct views or because that’s what they used when they first set it up. For what its worth, the MD actually ended up cutting a wall down from 8’ to 6’ for this one.

Basically the point where I can see a small gap between the breech end of the barrel and the breech face of the slide. I didn’t actually measure the distance though.

You’re thinking of the wrong wall here. The 6’ vs 8’ wall was the one running front to back, so all it does is prevent you from seeing extra targets if you lean way around the other wall.

Regular Q5 here. If I move the slide any amount without manipulating the trigger, the striker stays cocked and I have a live trigger after allowing the slide to return to battery. If I move the slide slightly out of battery and pull the trigger, I can feel/hear the striker release. Regardless of whether I hold or release the trigger, allowing the slide to return to battery doesn’t reset the striker and I have a “dead” trigger. If I move the slide farther out of battery and pull the trigger, I don’t feel/hear the striker release and end up with a cocked gun and “live” trigger.

For all 3 of these, are we starting with the gun “cocked” or pulling the trigger first?

Can you do that? I thought you could stipulate placement of them at the start but once the stage starts the shooter can do whatever they want, but I’m not finding a specific rule that clarifies this.

Here’s the way I look at it. Having worked as a Quality Engineer in manufacturing, every dimension needs to have a tolerance. It’s impossible for any measurement to be perfectly exact - all it takes is for someone to bring out a more precise measuring instrument and at some number of decimal places it will never be perfect. What that tolerance should be can be decided by USPSA/NROI, or they can leave it open to each club (MD/RM) to decide what’s close enough. The best way to do this is probably for NROI to establish general tolerances that apply to every classifier - something like target stand position +/-A, target height +/-B, No shoot and hard cover placement +/-C (or make some of them percentages, but fixed numbers are easier for people to work with). Then, they can also add specific callouts to the setup notes for classifiers where something that would be within the normal tolerance has been determined to affect the shooting challenge, like target position changing what is visible from where. Careful drawing of the diagrams can avoid tolerance stacking issues as well - so if you want a target at 15’ and one at 30’, you mark them accordingly, not one at 15’ and one 15’ from that. It’s really not that complicated, just something that requires a little bit of thought by whoever draws the classifier diagrams and writes the notes, and a little bit of extra effort at setup to verify the measurements.

(my reaction if I was the RO)

I’d like to have at least 2, and preferably 3. I don’t want to be planning to reload to my 23 mag and have it get knocked off my belt, causing me to have to change my plan mid stage.

Maybe I’ll have to order 1 of the TTI followers to try with the stock TTI springs I have. If I get around to it I’ll add the results here.

The shooting area will be marked on the stage diagram, but the WSB itself usually doesn’t need to say anything about what is/isn’t a shooting area, unless it’s unusual or needs to be clarified (such as - “The balance beam is a shooting area” or “The shaky bridge is part of the shooting area but all of its supports are not”).

What happens if you try the thin TTI follower with the stock TTI springs? Has anyone at any point tried modifying (thinning) the stock Walther follower? Currently I’m running the TTI “+5” base pads with the included springs and stock Walther followers and getting 21 reloadable-ish. If I smash the rounds down after loading the magazine as though I’m trying to put in a 22nd round, I can then easily reload to that magazine. If I don’t, then they’re barely relodable. I’d love to get another couple of rounds but don’t like the idea of spending $30 per mag over what I’ve already got into it unless I absolutely have to.

All you have to tell them in the WSB is whether a moving target is disappearing or remains visible at rest. You don’t have to tell them where it’s visible from, just like you don’t have to tell them where every other target is visible from. It’s up to them to figure it out.

I’ve handled them but not shot them, so I can’t add much. If you think the Q5 polymer grip is too short, the SF is similar in length.

Exactly. I’ll very rarely take a completely empty magazine (triple checked first) if I need it to check something (maybe the gun isn’t locking back or something) or if the first stage is something weird like a table pickup or unloaded start and I want to dry fire it a few times. I think I’ve done this exactly once and probably won’t do it again because it just feels weird to have a magazine in the safe area, even empty. Otherwise, it’s just the gun, it’s case, me, my belt, and any needed cleaning supplies or tools.

I’m guessing it’s because some shooters (myself sometimes included) like to take mags off our belts before going into the safe area to avoid any risk of accidentally grabbing a loaded magazine and getting DQ’d. If you have no loaded mags on you, then you can’t have a brain fart and accidentally handle one of them. That said, there’s also people who take them off because they incorrectly think that even having them on their person in the safe area is a DQable offense.

Interesting. If you read through “CHA-LEE’s Tale” over in the Range Diaries section, he talks about how the worse lighting indoors makes it harder to shoot well, and that it affects him more with irons than with optics.

Are you shooting iron sights or a red dot?