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  1. One thing I've noticed with the X5 grip is that it's considerably shorter than the regular P320 in the backstrap area. This is an issue if you have large hands and the bottom of your palm hangs off the bottom of the grip (at least for me).
  2. I'll have to try the beretta ones again. I had the beretta/cz pouches installed for a shadow before but the mags were a really tight fit. Maybe a light sanding will do the trick,
  3. ajblack

    CTS vs Bull Shadow

    The barrel length on the ~CTS 5.2 and the bull shadow is ~4.9 so you're getting some more sight radius on the CTS models
  4. What mag pouches are people running for P320's in production? I just converted my CR speed pouches for the P320 and I'm not impressed with the front-to-back wiggle. I'm specifically looking at the Double Alpha offerings if they provide better retention than the CR speed pouches.
  5. I shot a match once where the 5x5 was included as a stage, and if you wanted your score to get submitted then the match director would submit your score. Otherwise they did not. So if you see that your classification hasn't been updated it might be worthwhile to ask the MD to submit your score.
  6. My local IDPA club allows appendix carry on a per-person basis for level 1 matches. They shoot in the SDP category which is basically a catch-all for people who bring non-compliant gear to local matches. Your local club may allow this or they may not. As a new shooter though I doubt that a match director would allow it.
  7. I loaded up on this the other day. Awesome deal.
  8. I would take this advice seriously. I have a couple Walther P99s that I use occasionally for IDPA in the ccp division. I called Walther for a replacement striker assembly and they didn't even have any in the country. It took two months to get the part. Luckily I had dealt with this in the off season but if it was in the middle of the shooting season it would have been a different story
  9. Glad to hear it. It seems like S+B primers have disappeared from the market and I'm looking for something else cheap for practice ammo
  10. Does anyone have experience running Fiocci small pistol primers in a Dillon 650? I'm seeing some decent deals on them online but I haven't used them before. I'm mostly concerned that the priming system can digest them smoothly.
  11. I keep a small sandwich bag with one of every part I routinely replace and/or check for wear in my shadows. This includes most of the springs in the gun as well as a spare firing pin, fiber rod, and extractor. It's overkill for most matches but my reasoning is that if I'm travelling for a multi day match then I don't have to think of anything else to pack with me. It's already in my range bag. I was actually at a match this past weekend where somebody broke an extractor on their CZ and was asking around for a spare. I wasn't even shooting a CZ that day but I still had my parts with me and had this guy covered. I wouldn't want to replace an extractor at a safe area. But if I'm at a club where I know the club house has tools or if I'm travelling at a multi day match, then I would rather replace the part on my primary gun than finish the match on my backup gun.
  12. You'll probably find that 231 is the closer of the two as compared to Sport Pistol (in terms of burn rate and load data). It's a fair bit dirtier though. I used to use 231 exclusively for 9mm until I switched to Sport Pistol. Nothing wrong with Titegroup either.
  13. Ya everyone is pretty much jumping on the Sport Pistol train for 9 minor so it's sold out quite often. It's a great powder but it's pretty much the same burn rate as win 231 and WST so I would just go with something like that until it comes back.
  14. 99% of the time the SO on the stage didn't have anything to do with the stage design and doesn't have any pride on the line regarding how crappy the stage design is. So asking "Hey, are you going to give me a PE if I shoot this array left to right?" is usually just a good way to avoid a PE. Most SO's aren't trying to dish out PE's so they'd rather clarify as well. Of course there's always a minority that would rather hand out PE's, but that's few and far between.
  15. There will always be stage designers that think they need to prove a point by setting things up like this. Just like some people like set up DQ traps (in all action pistol not just IDPA). The only thing you can really do s identify scenarios like this and ask questions of the SO's. I agree that the sport would be better without these intentional traps but it is part of the discipline.
  16. Different clubs tend to cater to a different type of shooter. My local IDPA clubs typically run matches that are on the challenging side since most of the shooters they get are regulars and generally know what they're doing. There's one club though that gets the monthly shooters and the stages are painfully simple. I worked as an SO for that match once and haven't been back. Not knocking clubs that run like that, just not my cup of tea.
  17. Making sure that the lowest common denominator of shooter has "access" to the targets sounds more like avoiding fast moving targets and really tight cover (which the author mentions specifically). I'm not sure that necessarily means that the author thinks stages should be easier. I personally don't mind shooting these types of features but I do understand where the article is coming from. Having stages where all the shooters are able (physically) to shoot the same points down makes time the deciding factor for match wins, and I understand that this is more engaging to more shooters. If a stage is made challenging by having a super fast moving disappearing target, then basically you will have some people that can hit that target and most people that can't. I don't think this does much to differentiate the shooters since the people who are able to hit the target are shooting for match wins and the people who aren't able to hit the target aren't.
  18. I could be wrong (only been shooting IDPA for a couple years) but it seems like most of changes made such as fault lines, shooting on the move, and not enforcing non-shooting actions have more to do with making IDPA more fair to score. The maximum round count per stage, maximum movement between shooting positions, and other stage design rules seem to be pretty consistent. So i wouldnt say that it's turning into USPSA.
  19. Haha that's funny as hell. In all seriousness though it seems like this article is largely just reiterating rules that exist but aren't always followed. There's a maximum of six required shots per position but that doesn't always happen in level 1 matches that often use borrowed and/or improvised stage design. There's enough rules in the match admin guide about how far away targets can be, how far away headshots can be, how much steel there can be, etc that it should be pretty straightforward for all shooting abilities to get through the match as long as the stages are designed according to the match admin guide.
  20. Match directors should be free to make whatever matches they want within the rule set of IDPA. However, posting the estimating round count on the registration page should also be required in my opinion. I'd be disappointed if I made the time to go out to a match that turned out to be 10 stages / 60 rounds. That may some other shooters cup of tea though, just not mine.
  21. Yes Sport Pistol is made by Alliant
  22. Sport pistol is a great powder for starting out in 9mm reloading. Cheap, clean, good case fill (harder to double charge by accident). The only downside is that everyone else seems to like it as well, and it's becoming hard to find in stock.
  23. I'm the same way except for loading primer tubes. Some day I'll pick up a Vibra-Prime but until then I just load primer tubes in front the TV whenever I think of it. Primer tubes are cheap enough that I just have a ton of them and load more tubes than I need for a single reloading session (usually 1000 rounds per session on a 650).
  24. First you need to decide whether you want a conventional holster or a race holster. CR speed and Double Alpha are the two main options for race holsters but there's more manufacturers for conventional holsters. Bladetech doesn't make holsters for many revolvers but you can check out Comp Tac and Speed Beez. I find that most of these plastic holsters are pretty much the same though so if you already have one that you don't like then that may not be the best option
  25. I would guess that some of the weight comes from the added hardware involved in the optics mount system.
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