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I live in a rowhouse so my dry fire area is small. I go to my range and dry fire all the large movement drills multiple times, then load up and shoot the drill once, to confirm the dry fire.

I filed mine down by hand with a cheap metal file from HD

I have to change the angle when I am switching from 9mm to 40cal - and even in 9mm, between 147RN vs 124 JHP. But the adjustments are small. It's mostly the shims that I have to adjust because I never bother writing down and labeling them for which ones get used for which projectiles, so I have to tune it a bit after each change.

After Schuemann went dark, really it was just KKM that you could get barrels from for a couple years. Yes, you could order one from Infinity but they are made to order and a little more expensive. I had a Schuemann in one gun, and when the slide cracked the only barrels that were available were the threaded ones that KKM had just released in 2019. That's great that someone has picked up the name and is going to do something with it. Having only one company be the source of pretty much all competition gun barrels was probably not good for the industry, we need a couple good manufacturers out there making barrels in case someone goes dark like Schuemann did

Yes, especially after the de facto removal of the weight restrictions has everyone running out to buy brass grips, cram tungsten in every nook and cranny they can find, and buy silly *thumb rest [generic]* slide stops. It _used_ to be a joke that you'd say just to see if you could get a rise out of folks... "Poor man's open", "welfare open", "cripple optics", etc etc but now the division has become what we joked about. Do I care? No, because I don't have a better solution. It's not like putting anyone who wants to run a dot for their non-racegun pistol into Open minor was going to get people to keep coming back. They'd shoot a match, pull up their results, see how they got crushed by going in the division that the most dedicated shooters compete in, see how tiny their percentage is compared to the guy who probably won the whole match, and say "yeah that was fun I'd love to drive 3 hours each way, stand around for 8 hours, and shoot for 200 seconds, all over again next weekend" People talk about how "oh, everyone's so entitled these days, everyone wants a participation trophy, back in my day when there were no divisions and we run what we brung, and men were real men" and completely miss the fact that selection bias has eliminated anyone who went to a match, got their ass kicked, said "to hell with this, I can go do something else with my time that is more enjoyable." Those people left and never came back. We all have a fixed amount of free time, and we aren't going to spend it in something that we don't enjoy. Having more divisions means that people are competing with other competitors who are running similar sets of equipment. That means, they'll see that the only thing that separates them from the person winning their division is just time and effort to improve themselves. That's a lot easier pill to swallow when you come back from your first match ever, compared to "I suck, why am I even doing this, the dudes winning this are running around with $10,000 worth of equipment, why am I even bothering with this stupid sport"

Yes i'm sure with a voting member base with thousands of dollars of raceguns invested in major scoring will vote for your platform. I too would put a quarter into a machine that kicks me in the groin.

My father had the Dillon RF100 - gen 1. We sent it back to get the potentiometer upgrade. Still takes a lot of adjusting to get it to work just right. Dad never uses it. I went with the DAA Primer pro. No adjusting, just works.

At least when they're in limited division, it's just major vs. minor scoring. Putting them into a division where they're competing directly against equipment with optics while they're still shooting irons is is the same as when someone in Production messes up their belt and gets put into Open. They'll get crushed.

Due to the pandemic hosing half the year, my goals for this year are to just continue to dry fire regularly, and continue to steadily improve, and go to matches. This is going to be a building year. Next year, I plan on dedicating more time and setting real goals.

I change mine once a season, I treat them as a consumable part. You can probably change them less often but it's worth it to me to never worry about it.

Yes 170s are what I practice with, and what I dry fire with. This is mostly because the 140mm magazines for Caspians are garbage and aren't reliable. The 170mm's I've had for years and run perfectly every time. I probably lose some time on stand-and-shoot classifiers if I load them full, but the key there is to not fill them up and make them heavier than they need to be. With 170's you also get a lot more magazine to work with, you just have to practice getting it to the magwell since your hand will not make contact with the magwell (due to the length), so it's a bit different operation, maybe you still lose some time but in a real match it doesn't matter.

I tried Rocksett and I couldn't get it to hold for more than 10 rounds, after multiple application attempts. Gave up and used loctite 272

I just run 170s. Keeps things simple

With 3GN's implosion, I think USPSA was well positioned to pick up some participants from the fallout Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk

Well said! Totally agree Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk

Sort of riffing on what Mcfoto and RJH have said - maybe it's time for USPSA to kill off revolver division and turn it over to ICORE? There may not really be enough people shooting revolver to have two different organizations doing it, and maybe turning over revolver to ICORE will consolidate all the competitors into one organization that can do a better job? Although, it's not like Revolver division in USPSA takes very much to keep around. I guess just don't put on a nationals for it unless there's enough interest (which there isn't).

I went and looked at revolver nationals, and of the 30 or so competitors (!!!!!) there were _two_ that declared major. Oof.

My point is: just looking at S&W's website, the majority of revolvers they make are _not_ 8 shot revolvers. The revolvers that people are likely to own/buy is something like a 6 shot revolver, maybe around $800 msrp. So, that's a 6 shot 357 revolver. Same with Ruger - the six shot revolvers they offer start at around 800 MSRP. 8 Shot revolvers that are sold by Smith and Ruger are competition models, and demand competition prices. $1500. Let's be honest, was the first gun any of us bought, a gun made exclusively for competition? I doubt it. Most of us bought something reasonably priced, went and shot a USPSA match in limited minor, because we didn't own enough mags yet, then when we committed to the sport we bought more gear - which might have been only buying a couple more mags so we could shoot production, where pretty much any handgun you buy these days is viable and won't hold you back. It's just not the same situation in revolver. If someone bought a 6 shot revolver because they wanted a wheel gat, and then took it to a USPSA match, they're going to take one look at what is required to even be _viable_ without buying a whole new revolver and say "this sucks" - because even if they go nuts and buy the rig and cut their gun for moonclips, they're pouring money into a 6 shot revolver that will NEVER be viable. They have to go out, buy a $1600 revolver to fix their "mistake" of buying a common 6 shot revolver. So yeah they're going to go to a gun shop and buy a Glock 17/19/Sig/M&P and shoot production and never look back at revolver.

The other thing that bothers me is that only 6 shot revolvers can be major PF, which means nobody in their right mind is ever going to run a six shot revolver, since stage designers have a habit of doing 4 target arrays - and sometimes they'll even do 4 targets from one position, with one or two optional targets that you can shoot from multiple positions. At least with single stack major, you can *choose* to do a standing reload if it makes sense - instead of being forced. Think of a 32 round field course - 4 positions with 8 shots in each position, and no multiple presentations - that's a standing reload at each position. Isn't the point of major PF that you can be a little loose with your accuracy for the sake of speed? Yeah no. Revolver makes no sense in USPSA the way most stages are designed. So, since nobody in their right mind would take a 6 shot revolver to a USPSA match, how many revolvers does that leave that are viable? Since most revolvers that people have are 6 (or even 5) - that easily could be 90% of the revolvers that exist. So yeah, revolver is dead.

Short answer: Don't bother Long answer: If they are using red loctite you could probably get the comp off the barrel, but there's no documentation on what thread pattern they use for the threads on the barrel - and there are a couple different thread pitches that folks use, also it could be a cone comp, etc etc etc. A real pain. They could also be using something like a green or another compound that may not even be able to be removed, or not be worth the effort to remove. Long long long answer: Wait until you crack a slide or have a shot out barrel at around the 30k round mark, and then when you build a new top end you can pick a different comp

Para. Heavier gun and has higher capacity magazines (mbx w/ comp follower get 20-21rd, versus 19 for xdm mags with +4 basepad)

Looks like it's based off the Para frame, so your choices are limited when it comes to magazines (MBX basically) - and unlike the SPS Vista it can't take 2011 parts (new grip for example, although it will require some fitting). I'd avoid, as someone who owns caspian frames - your part selection and magazine selection is not as good as a 2011 design. Consider the SPS Vista instead

yeah but they would have to get a new firing pin stop and fit it, since the old one is fit for an aftec. So, it'd end up being probably the same cost as just getting a replacement aftec

What kind of issues? Failures to feed? Optics Nationals in Utah was very very dusty and I tried very hard to keep my ammo protected from the elements and clean magazines after every stage, and I also kept my gun covered to keep dust from infiltrating it.

I had one open gun that had a single sided safety and I replaced it with ambis to match my other gun. Typically from the draw you want to disengage the safety before your gun is on target, but I sacrifice some speed in weak hand by waiting until I've passed the gun to my weak hand to disengage the safety, just in case something goes horribly wrong.