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On 5/23/2017 at 8:22 PM, zombywoof said:
Here are mine on the drying rack.
Nice looking bullets, but I'm talking GREEN!! Like super bright lime green.
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6 hours ago, thepunishur said:
Your movement is very "gingerly". It's pretty common starting out, as you are trying to be conscious of safety. It's something I am just getting over as well. Work on exploading out of positions during dryfire practice. Keep your center of gravity low, and your steps short and choppy. Think of a wide receiver running a route in press coverage. Full strides make it harder to stop or change direction.
Thats Ts a very good point. I'm 6'2 and legs are long. I'm used to taking huge strides and covering ground quick. I see these guys running these stages and they are all like you say. Short and choppy.
Ill have to work on some of that.
Thx
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5 hours ago, thepunishur said:
Looks like you need some kind of drop offset bracket to fix the bending on the draw
Lol. It actually showed up the morning of that match. I just wasn't gonna bust it out brand new for the match and fight it all day. I've dry fired it some now and shot another match. I'm starting to get used to the new gun position.
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10 hours ago, GrumpyOne said:
Weighed before completing the round or after? Weighing completed rounds doesn't work...too much variation in brass weight
Definatly before.
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I will also say that it was dumb to take the mismatched leftover stuff to the match.
I had three mags that were already loaded with that stuff and I just thought "ah it will be ok. They need shot".
Yeah as as soon as that stage was over I emptied them all and shoot all factory stuff the rest of the day.
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2 hours ago, GrumpyOne said:
How did you check every single one of your reloads and decide that they were good?
As I was weighing loads for my ladder tests I was having some crazy throws so I decided to just weigh and trickle every single one.
Then after I settled on a charge I carefully visually inspected each powder drop before I seated a bullet and I also weighed about ever 10th one. I had 10-15 that literally had 1gr or less. It was pretty easy to see.
What i I think happened is I also had some round in that mismatched lot that were from the loading session befor the problem. I'm guessing that the problem started during that session and I didn't know it therefore I had one of those REALLY light loads in that lot.
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So I officially got my first reshoot this weekend and it was on the classifier of all things!!
Name of the stage was Six I believe. Pretty basic. Target on left two poppers in the middle target on the right. Start up range in surrender.
I shot the right target first then the two poppers then the left. First shot on the left side was fine but the second shot made my heart stop! I was sure it was a squib. My first ever! And the RO was yelling for me to stop which I had deffinatly already done.
But the odd thing was, I knew it wasn't a squib because I clearly could see two holes in the target!!
Ended up it was just a VERY light load. The slide never even moved, but the round did exit the barrel and hit the target.
I was using mostly factory ammo that match but I had a handful of reloads that were left over so I was using them up. I had also been having some problems with my powder measurer a while back but I though I had checked EVERY SINGLE ONE of those stupid rounds. Guess I missed one!
So then came the question of a reshoot. Should I get one? If it had truly been a squib, then no. Tough luck. But it wasn't and the RO stopped me anyway.
Conclusion was yes. That even though I finished all the targets the RO stopped me befor the "if finished" command. I could have decided to check my targets and make up any shots if he hadn't of stopped me. (Which I did have a Mike!!!!).
We also decided that he 100% made the right call to stop me although I was already stopping anyway.
So i took a minute to compose myself and reshot the 5 second stage! Cleaned up that silly Mike and shaved a full second off my time!
Sometimes it works in your favor, but like I said, we all felt he did the right thing. Safety first!
caleb.
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Match is in the books!!
While you all where a big help, NOT ONE DRIP OF RAIN!!!
It poured red all the way there. 2 miles out it stopped and never rained a drop the rest of the day!!
Had a good match too. I even got my first ever reshoot
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So it's a nice steady rain right now and I'm on my way to a uspsa match!!
Any tips for a first time rain shooter?
i cleaned and oiled the glock nice and heavy this morning. Stopped by the range on my way and confirmed zero.
I also had an anti fog cleaning wipe so I hit my red dot and my glasses before I left.
Extra clothes and shoes
imbrella
waterproof jacket
This is should be loads of fun!
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16 minutes ago, benchmstr said:
there is a fella on youtube whos channel is called smashwerx...his advice, and rehab videos have saved my lifting and shooting careers...
this is just one video...but he has 100's of them..
the bench
UGH! Trevor is KILLER!! Your gonna be sore!! But you will get better afterwards.
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Just now, Hi-Power Jack said:
Do Green Bullets work better on zombies ?
Absolutely 100% with out a doubt yes
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So I know this is silly, but I'm really not diggin my lipstick red acme bullets. They shoot fine, I just don't like the color, and life is too short!
I REALLY want some zombie green ones!
I was gonna order some from lucky 13 but I see they have gone out of business.
so the only other place I see that has them is eggleston bullets and they are a little high price wise.
Does anyone know know if anybody else that does this color?
I guess I'm just scared to buy from someone and then them go out of business shortly leaving me up in the air again.
My other option is to go blue and be done with it. That's my next favorite color option and we all know where to find that color!!
Thanks
Picky Caleb.
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Welcome from you neighbor across the river in IL.
Im actually thinking about shooting a uspsa match at the benchrest club up by you in a month or so.
Glad to have you around.
Got any chrono data on titegroup and 124 gr bullets?
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So this was by far the best stage of the day for me at an all steel match. I shot it pretty well for me but I know there are still plenty of holes that need work. I would love everyone's advice.
Stage is called baseball (for obvious reasons)
i started at the tombstone rack because it was broken and if not hit correctly you had to stop the run and reset. I already did that once and wasn't doing it again. One foot must always be on a base and the little bonus target way out yonder must be shot from home plate either at the beginning or the end. Luckily I got it at the beginning so I didn't have to go back to home.
Biggest things i see are being up and ready to shoot when entering a position and slamming the mag change on the first step. I think I was too worried about getting a foot on the base when entering first base and it really slowed me down.
What do you all think?
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Just now, superdude said:
Where/how/why were they failing? Part of the plunk test is to determine the cause of failure. Did you do that?
Nope. Enlighten me.
Im just assuming the OAL is a little long on them.
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21 minutes ago, RickT said:
1 out of 300 is too many, but we need (much) more information. What caliber/handgun, what bullets, OAL, press, dies. What was your process for arriving at the particular die setup?
9mm
glock 19
acme 124 coated and gateway bullet 115
1.075 on the acme 1.10 on the gateway
Lyman tmag turret
hornady dies
followed directions on crimp die. Was my first time ever doing one.
Honestly the gateway I just went by the loading manual for 115gr bullet. Like I said, I knew nothing about a plunk test.
The acme me I was learning to plunk test and also getting switched over from the 115's.
Out of my 15 8 of them are 115 and 7 are the acme 124.
I was also honestly say that I'm being picky. Some of them just barely failed the plunk test. Some maybe wouldn't spin. But there were 3-4 that were an obvious failure.
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So I plunk/spin tested around 300 rounds tonight.
Had a total of 15 failures.
Just St wondering how many failures some of you see when doing this test?
I will also qualify it by saying that over half of these were loaded before I even knew what a plunk test was!!! So obviously I'm new to pistol reloading.
Caleb
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3 hours ago, Schutzenmeister said:
Also ... If it falls for any other reason while waiting (e.g., wind) REF and reshoot.
Funny you say that.
My first uspsa match I was the last shooter on the last stage. I shot a large popper and it didn't fall! I was gonna pick it up on the last port and just call it good, but on my way to that port it went ahead and fell in a gust of wind.
Got done and everyone was like UHHHHHH, well you hit it and it didn't fall, but then the wind made it fall..... whatever. Last stage last shooter. Lets all go get lunch.
Thinking on it now, I should have taken a reshoot, I would have gotten to shoot the stage again for free and had that much more fun!!!! Lol.
Thanks for the help guys. I just read some of the rules again and I'll ask questions day of the match too
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2 hours ago, WiII said:
If you don't care about how you place at the match, just run your CO gear in open.
This is what I've decided to do. Just gonna go have fun
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1 minute ago, waktasz said:
Turn in your NROI credentials, if you have them.
No credentials here.
Think you misunderstood me. It was not my first match as RO, it was my FIRST MATCH EVER! Lol.
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Can someone explain this too me? What is to be done if steel is hit and doesn't fall? What can I ask for?
Although not USPSA, I'm shooting an all steel match this weekend that follows uspsa rules. I just wanna be clear on what is right and wrong.
Caleb
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4 minutes ago, Schutzenmeister said:
True ... But I did lay into a new shooter at a match once. Gun on the table start. His turn, he just walks up to the table, takes his gun out and puts it on the table. No one had said ANYTHING to him, much less MR. There were at least 3 people DIRECTLY in front of him, in plain sight, pasting targets. I chewed him up one side, down the other, and sent him home. I would have thought a Federal LEO would have better sense! Live and learn.
It was two years before I saw him again. Sorry to sound harsh, but if someone is THAT brain dead, I don't WANT him on my range!
Had a new guy do that at my very first match. He laid it on the barrel while we were pasting never even thinking. We all turned around to head back and we were looking down a barrel......
yeah he didn't get ran out but he got a pretty firm warning that had it been anything other than a local match he would be going home.
Was a good learning experience for me too.
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So I'm shooting a steel only match this weekend.
10 stages 300 possible points, 25 targets worth 1 point and 1 bonus target each worth 5 point.
Im trying to decide which division to run. I normally would run CO but they aren't having that class. So my options are to just run open (I'm not gonna win anyway so it doesn't matter) or I could remove my dot and run production which for this match is 15 round per mag limit, which works cuz my mags are 15
What would you do? I kinda want the practice with my dot, but I'm just not sure which way to go.
And like I said, third match ever, I'm not trying to win, I'm trying to have fun.
Caleb
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4 minutes ago, Broski said:
My used SDB got delivered to my buddy's house today. I should pick it up after work tomorrow.
Very smart man here. Delivered it to a buddies house!!
Zombie green bullets?
in 9mm/38 Caliber
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Yes sir. Think I'm gonna try those