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9 police is just a tad shorter hence the 9x18. 380 is bad but this is sneakier
there are a lot of old old shooters at the indoor club I shoot at. I regularly get WWII ‘43 surplus 9mm and DOMINION 9mm (it sounds different that’s how I find it)
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Like who even knew it existed? And went by different names?
9 Police
9 Ultra
i am getting better at seeing it through but still.
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Turns out Europe outsourced guncotton production to China and suddenly the Chinese cut them off.
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ezra650 nailed it. The US has increased supply of 155mm artillery shells as it turns out the military itself owns the production facility. That powder has to come from somewhere. And one major supplier was in the Donbass region, now recently under Russian control. As a side note, the equipment at this facility looks older than the workers, and that is saying something!
in Finland, home of VV, they just further escalated just yesterday.
I don’t see prices going anywhere but up as the raw materials are in ever increasing demand
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In my case with low loads, heavy bullet (2.9, 165gr) of N320 in a revolver it is a lot dirtier than an equivalent load of W231
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5 hours ago, Sarge said:
My guess is it has to do with gun restrictions in almost every country but the USA. Probably more difficult to have hi cap guns?
It's the cheapest to start out with and feed as well. And for a few hundred the easy ability to go dot when the eye's start to go. A lot of open shooters here are older guys who had no choice prior to Production Optics or Carry Optics as you call it. So open has shrank somewhat but it's still the most competitive so open isn't going anywhere.
Standard (limited) and classic are going the way of revo.
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While I didn't shoot my open 2011 at the PSA last year at the Blue Ridge/Mountain shoots I was able to get most of our supercomp back. The RO's don't mind and a few actively helped find brass. 38 short colt might be a bit harder as it looks like 9mm but its going to be directly underneath not 5' to 15' to the right. Supercomp flies!
I've never found resetting anywhere to be an issue with small squads and shooting 2 guns per squad As for the PSA I'm betting you can still get Thursday, Friday and for SURE Sunday squads. I'm wondering if I can bug Jeff to shoot 2 guns on 1 squad Sunday afternoon.....
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11 minutes ago, Dr. Phil said:
Droppers are cool. The reset takes awhile if very many. PSA has a whole stage (30ish) with some really quick times! A guy in our squad in 2011 I believe, did it in 11 odd seconds with a stock auto! 10 rounds per mag! Yeesh.
For a stop plate when we do man-on-man (a personal fave!) I made a double popper, turned in just a bit. The bottom popper wins!
There is a one on one shootout?
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A lot of the knock down steel are hinged like a plate rack. Shooting 38 supercomp knocks them down (and sometimes off completely…lol). And I’m downloading to ~155pf.
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Crimp more than you think you need. Here is one of mine
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Open unlimited is soooo much fun! Plus shooting 2 guns per squad meant I crossed the border with 6 guns. Dave is doing the Blue Ridge the week prior to the IRC with a 2day steel match IRC “warmup” on Tuesday/Wed. The Blue Mountain is a week prior too but that’s too much driving or finding something to do for 5 days in between.
Haywizzle - sporty!!! I don’t shoot PCC much but I find you need to push/be aware of speed more than Revo for instance. I was just happy mine ran ok, I changed mag springs prior to the match. The ones MBX supplied originally didn’t work/ unreliable. -
Thursday, Friday and Sunday afternoon. We make a trip out of it. I save PCC for Sunday, it’s so much fun not having to reload or count. We start with revo Thursday, Friday open.
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4gr of 231? Yikes. I have some steel rounds at 3.5gr with a 165gr and they are too hot. I’m having extraction issues which is not something I ever come across in my 929 with lower PF loads.
At the PSA there are the 10” gongs which can be problematic if hit lower. Otherwise count, count count. The inline plates especially “suck” you into going fast until the “click….o”. Best to maintain a sold cadence and count.
I for one wish they allowed 8 shot revo in irons without the 6 shot only restriction. But what can you do?
The Blue Ridge match is a lot more flexible but I did like the team shooting at Ontelaunee 2 weeks prior. We are hooked on the knockdown steel. It just requires an 8 hour drive from here.
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I would add W231 to this list. Easy to find.
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Are you wet tumbling?
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I went straight for the trifocal lens replacement at 47. At reading distance and beyond i have perfect vision. Night vision took an immediate hit and close up I use glasses though I was just starting to need them (i wore contacts for years).
the only issue is the dot can be a little fuzzy as the nature of the trifocals is 13 rings on the lens itself. So the brighter the light the more starburst/halo you see (13 rings and spires). Nighttime drives can look like Christmas displays though I’ve gotten used to it to some degree.
I have found the old sliderides to be the closest to a perfectly clean dot. The smaller newer dots are starbursty. The new Romeo 3 dot went from ok to boom (big red blob) within 1 click. So I’m old school with sliderides on my 2011, 929 and PCC.
Funny enough all the top older shooters up here who got these lenses all shoot dots and not irons. Odd. Apart from the fact I still need to patch my non dominant eye, I can now shoot my ISR even better than before.
And keep in mind getting lasik changes the shape of your eye so wanting to get these lenses in the future after lasix isn’t a guaranteed result which is what my wife found out the hard way. They just might not tell you.
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I never re-tightened my extractor rod years ago (I keep my revo far too clean). So I tighten every time I make ready. It’s now just a thing I do.
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I don’t see those being very good for reloads.
My wife’s open revo’s are all magnaported and they are lead scrapers. She probably wouldn’t do it again if given the chance
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Are broken firing pins that much of an issue? I think I only ever broke one (in dryfire thankfully)
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On 11/28/2023 at 9:19 PM, outerlimits said:
pro tip-brass juice...
Oddly they don’t claim anything about lubricity but I haven’t used lube in years and friends i process for say the same thing. Maybe because they sell a minty lube and don’t want to cut into sales? I loves my brass juice.
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While mine have a indent like that, it don't see lead.
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Some more data (if anyone cares)
I did 2 outlaw falling steel matches with both ISR and OSR.
Times were 161 OSR, 209 SR and 144 OSR and 185SR
The first scores were more of a spread due to having a canopy overhead and dark fall clouds with rain. Shooting irons wasn't fun and I should have just shot one of my other dots guns as I was shooting over a few days.
The US border guard didn't bat an eye when I declared we had 6 guns in the truck.
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2 hours ago, Joe4d said:
discussion is about USPSA not ICORE,,, Basically a C zone hit in USPSA only adds 1/10th of a second to your score,, in Icore a B ( basically like a C USPSA) adds a second.. And often a hit on a target about like the A zone head, actually is a negative 1 second... Like night and day between the two games
your 5 seconds quicker in Icore,, would only equate to about half a second in USPSA.. Not to mention Icore stages tend to have less movement and reloads than a USPSA stage.
Not saying a dot isnt any advantage,, saying its not a statistically significant advantage.. Compared to other things going on.
USPSA revolver is a reloading contest.. Not a shooting contest.
Only problem with allowing dots will be peoples perceptions.Given we only have 8 shots and are shooting minor I beg to differ. Yes you cam go a little faster but at the top it’s usually who gets more Alpha’s wins the match.
and my point was I’ve done my own head to head comparison with both guns. Yes it was icore. I doubt anyone has or can in USPSA
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I've shot several ICORE matches in '23 with both irons and dot. Average was 5 seconds quicker with a dot. And the more steel there is, the more the advantage goes to the red dot.
Faster ways to check brass?
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I spread them out on a towel to dry. Running your fingers through you'll hear the cracked and super comp. Lately I've been catching 380's and 9 police (super sneaky) but that's visual only.