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1 hour ago, PaleoMan said:
Do you find that you need to modify your setup with the different diameters? I've been using Precision Bullets for many years. I think they are 0.356", but I do see that some brands are 0.355" and some 0.356".
I think blues are 355... Everything I load is 356 in 9mm or 358 in 38 short colt. I would think you may need to adjust your taper crimp a bit...
I wouldnt even bother playing around with small quantities,, all the major players are pretty similar and will work fine for action sports. -
have ordered from Bayou multiple times,, they tell you if they are in stock.. If you dont care about color they come quicker,, but I have never had an order take more than a few days to ship or had any issues with them.
I use Bayou and Missouri bullets pretty much exclusivly.. Mo has a couple shapes I cant get in other places. -
I got some Surefire 24 db rubber flange ones with a plug,, cut the plug off one set, they work really well for bird hunting,, muffed just enough but can still basically hear people talk. the other set without plugs are 26db...
I used to always plug or use the foamy's from show up to leave, then would add muffs over them when I shot or when I was RO an open guy.
Things I noticed at my first ICORE match..... didnt need the muffs. -
4 hours ago, xrayfk05 said:
If the RO is 30 feet behind the shooter that would add 0.027 to the shooters time since sound only travels at 1125fps. (depending on..)
Time for the shooter to wear a timer on his belt?
RO's generally arnt that far behind, we also know where the last shot is most likely to be fired and have made it there.. I , and I would bet many others tend to push the timer forward towards the shooter to bring the screen into the field of view and near the gun to kinda verify that it picked up the last shot.
Thats why in USPSA at least,,, you cant scroll back on shots for any type of official information.. -
Thanks,,, yeh no thanks will stick with my CE ProChrono a pen and a notepad...
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does the Garmin work by itself without internet , bluetooth, wifi , phone app etc ?
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58 minutes ago, Cltpewpew said:
I was a fan of sport pistol. Moved to n320 since sport pistol was harder to find and now will be nonexistent.
never used 320 because VV was gawdawful expensive.. like more than double the price of tight group or WST..
Last time I shopped for powder VV was still $40 ish a lb,, while the Hodgdons had gone from 19.99 to 40-50.. ,, guess they were late to getting the word . I probably have enough powder to suit me for life as I dont see me getting much into competition unless I move really close to a range with matches... -
1 hour ago, Cltpewpew said:
Have you shot it? It’s certainly cheaper.
A-2 bought some at an estate sale,, so started using it,, then found it on sale bought some more.. The bought some clean shot for 19 a lb,, which is about the same thing..
Pretty much all I use now,, I am basically loading 38 special practice ammo with my other fast powders to use it up.
But A 2 is about all I use for competition loads in pretty much every thing. 9 minor, 40 major, 45ACP major, 38 special, and 38 short colt. Mostly under coated bullets of some type, including the old school moly coated where it doesnt smoke or get as hot as tightgroup.
I used to use alot of tight group and WST,, but have pretty much just switched to all A2. Unfortunately Hodgdon bought western, aka accurate powders so prices gonna sky rocket if they havent already.. Alliant has announced they arnt gonna sell reloader powder anymore,,, soo no competition. -
19 hours ago, IHAVEGAS said:
Sarge was referring to his matches, "I don’t shoot steel challenge yet" this is the rule.
"4.3.1.7.1 Level I matches are encouraged to paint after each competitor but are not required to do so."
With Texas stars and other falling plate targets some folks prefer not to mess with handling the wet painted steel. A bigger deal than static steel painting.
thats the type of nonsense verbiage that created chaos in IDPA and made a good game suck.
Rules books should have SHALL SHANT WILL WONT DO DONOT CAN CAN NOT.
If your rule book is full of shoulds, mights, encouraged, and other non black white verbs,, said rule book blows.
19 hours ago, Dr. Phil said:The people/clubs who don't / won't / or won't allow painting (see O.P.) are the ones changing things to suit the minority of shooters. That is the crux of this discussion.
On the ground I have observed more of it changing to suit the majority... or a handful then the rest remain silent,,
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32 minutes ago, shred said:
Yeah, it went from the original Cooper "all guns compete together so we'll find out which the best is" to "run what you brung... and if what you brung doesn't fit, we'll make a division for it"
LOL, pretty much,, Probably in all sports though.. I got involved in Endurance Horse racing.. Endurance by rule was 50 plus miles...
People cried because their horse couldnt do 50 miles.,,, so they created a 25 mile division,,, oh and guess what ? people cried they and/ or horse couldnt do 25,, so now their is a 15 mile division..
There were also originally 2 winners,, the horse that crossed the line first, was winner... Another winner was "best condition" BC was awarded to horse based on how it looked at the end, its pulse rate,,, etc judged by vets usually.. Part of the formula was rider and tack weight.. Heavier rider got more points...
Soooo guess what.. all the skinny people cried because generally a heavyweight rider that finished in say top 5,, won BC...
Sooo now some rides have high vet score.. Same judged score on the horse, but leaves out rider weight.
Seems there is no end to people that will spend more time and effort crying about the ruleset, than they will simply training harder, or getting better suited equipment ( or horses),, or simply facing facts they arnt competitive and just enjoy the day. -
17 minutes ago, shred said:
This is the core issue I think. The Mikes did their thing out in Piru year after year since the 1980s, a number of clubs bought steel and started doing the same at the local level. A couple decades later USPSA comes along and says "we own SC now, you have to pay us money and do it our way". People get upset about that when they've been doing it their own way for a very long time prior.
no one is making them pay USPSA money or do it their way, I also imagine most of their shooters wont care.. They also wont care if it is done IAW the SCSA rules..
The problem comes in when a match is advertised as "XYZ" and thats not what is presented. If you arnt following said rule book, you are being dishonest in your match publicity, and especially if scores or classifications are being submitted to some kinda national org. -
12 hours ago, shred said:
It's more than just that. Nobody bought STI Edges in .40 and then decided to go shoot matches with them-- they went and got one after they got into USPSA.
good point,, I shot my first IPSC match with a SS 9mm I had built for IDPA. I then went home and ordered a Para Ord 16/40. Shot snot out of that gun.. Ironically in a 10 round state... then moved to an STI Eagle 6"..
SO now I guess instead of getting into USPSA then going out and buying a gun to fit, people want to change the rules to fit the gun they have.... hummm -
you ran a ladder but didnt pay any attention to what the info was telling you.. I woulda never fired those 7.2 rounds..
Look at your Standard deviation,, all was good on that 6.8 load,, 8.3 SD
but then it went way more open on the 7.0.. deviation doubled with not much increase in average.
THAT was your stop sign. On that day with those components, and length, 7.0 was probably it..
Ida gone home and loaded a box of 6.9 and chrono'd a handful at several different sessions to verify a good consistent 170, called it good. -
16 hours ago, Farmer said:
Pretty soon it’ll be, “naw we don’t need to paint”. Then it’ll be “Ehhh, the targets are close enough to where they should be”. Then will be, ahh that’s close enough on your time. And last will be the “How come nobody wants to come out and shoot? Bunch of losers…. They don’t appreciate all my hard work.
you left out.,, "It's just a level 1"
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1 hour ago, ysrracer said:
Published load data doesn't mean squat. It's a starting place that's all.
You HAVE GOT TO CHRONO YOUR OWN LOADS IN YOUR OWN GUN.
Seems like old frank did chrono his loads.. But used an F1,, the fold up shooting chrony,,, which I never had much faith in... and the match used the new Garmin. I think something is screwey though..
I cant see 4.5 grs of cleanshot under a 124 not making minor from a 4.5 barrel..
Never had much issue with temperature swings... Although thats probably because if it is freezing cold or sweltering hot, I am not shooting OR testing loads. -
I would think at that point the primer would be visibly deformed.. I mean bottomed is bottomed.
Do you have a hand held primer tool ?
Prime some brass with that and you should be able to feel when the primer bottoms out,, then compare.
I load on a 550,, and there is a pretty definitive stop you can feel when every thing is adjusted.. Maybe too much going on with the 750 to feel it.
With revolvers I was always more concerned with high primers dragging than over seating.
FYI,,, I tune my revolvers with Wolf primers. I have no use for a gun that doesnt go bang when I pull the trigger. -
On 2/12/2024 at 1:52 PM, Tampa-XD45 said:
Purchased a Blade-Tech holster and trimmed it on a bandsaw.
basically what I had to do with the plastic speed beeze, for the open 627 and 617,, despite the ficticious claims from speedbeeze that the holsters would fit with most optics... Not even close..
I picked a dropped front safariland marked K frame holster from a gunshow holster box, but the bottom wont take the full lug of the 617.. I may end up with a 686 SSR or a 66 in the near future that it might work for. -
yeh its like noone makes decent competition revolver holsters any more. Just the plastic comptac/ speedbeeze.. I have about a 10 year old bladetech kydex for my 5" 686 pro,,, Seems much better quality than these speedbeeze I have.. Id like to find some old school leather like a Ted blocker, bianchi style holster,, but wasnt able to find any..
I do have a pretty nice police duty style basket weave rig for the 686 its a thumbreak style holster with moon clip and speed loader holders,, for some unexplained reason though it seems the belt shrunk about 4 or 5 inches..
I took about a 10 year break and alot of the vendors I dealt with in the past are all gone... Kinda depressing. -
1 hour ago, gargoil66 said:
JD:
I have seen some U Tube videos of JM shooting what appeared to be a 327 at a major SC match. Had the dual ports and looked very much like one. I think they were popular for a short period of time before the drawbacks of the light weight frame became too much a PITA.
They certainly will hold up with any load you want to use but the question may be more if the shooter can hold up under the recoil without getting fatigued and making mistakes.
GG
the 327 TRRB is 35 oz,, as heavy or more heavy than alot of production guns,,
I cant see recoil being that much of an issue. I wanted one and ended up with a pro series 686 steel gun that was close to same weight.. as the 327's were made of unubtanium at the time.
I did end up with a 3" 7 shot 386 I really like for trail riding.
Have a hankering for a new revolver,, would like to find the thunder ranch 325 or a 4.25 66... and shoot limited 6 or classic.. -
youd think the weight would be nice for 120 pf,, but I dont recall ever seeing a 325, or 327 at any type of action or steel challenge match..
Do they not hold up even with sub minor ammo ? -
Yeh pick a brass either super or super comp.. Most are pretty similar, you may have extractor tuning issues.. But seems most brass these days is basically super comp.. rim is slightly different. I used to shoot alot of fiochi 38 super factory loads..
For past 20 - 30 years 38 super barrels are same bore as 9mm.. You probably wont run into anymore that are the original .356.
SO most folks are using 355 jacketed. You will have a bit more options with powder with 38 vs 9mm. -
Gonna assume Major PF here
you can buy alot of brass for what a new top end costs.. Gun will also need special 9mm ammo, so its not like you can have mass interchangeable ammo.
The only advantage to 9mm major is cheap to free brass. Mark your brass you will probably get half of it back at a match and all back during practice.
38 super you get a larger case better suited to the 2011 platform, which usually translates to less finicky magazines, more powder choices.. on and on..
I mean if you are building from scratch a builder should be able to get it to work fine with 9mm. But if I had a 38 gun sitting there ? I'd just but a bunch of brass.
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10 hours ago, Farmer said:
Well…….good luck to you.
yep,, really not sure what the op is after.
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1 hour ago, Chutist said:
I'm seeing $399 for the "street price" at Shooters Connection? That would look to be a non-starter vs $369 street for the Holosun 507 COMP.
Unless there's some extra feature I'm missing?
DPP pattern seems to go against the almost industry standard RMR.
wasnt long ago everyone was saying the DPP was the industry standard... DIdnt US Army go DPP footprint ?
Blue bullets/Bayou Bullets?
in 9mm/38 Caliber
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yeh I dont want stuff auto shipping to me.. My interests change off an on over the years.. Seems someone always has a sale or something going on.