Joe4d

Waiting till last minute to find out if match is on or not would drive me nuts, Come up with a list of inclement weather stages, maybe a steel match, and hold the match. Make cancellation announcement several days out if need be, but once that time has passed the match should go rain or shine.

but ur 2" 357 barrel is a 4 " barrel, there's no cylinder on an auto. I'd like to see some chrono results though once you make the conversion, I dont think it would be very efficient but a simple chamber reamer/throat job and spring adjustment should be all you need. Not sure about timing issues though. Timing can be a problem in the short guns.

none of them work well on more than a couple days growth. The Norelco rotating head design gives closest comfortable shave, however skip a day and it'll pull hairs out. The Braune isnt as close a shave and is a little rough but you can skip a few days, I honestly dont see one working for you until after you shave it with a razor then you could hit it daily with either the norelco or braune. The blades last bout 6 months with daily face use.

9X23 gets its advantage over the 9mm by using a higher volume of slower powder in a 5" barrel, load it in a 3.5 ish barrel and you'll have a 9mm thats really loud and kicks more. SO to answer your question, I wouldn't expect anyone with an understanding of internal and external ballistics to make the conversion.

tell ur neighbors to put up the sound barrier, Lot cheaper and easier to check the local laws, if recreation shooting isnt illegal piss on em. I have neighbors like that. They kept expecting me to jump through hoops and wanted me to ask their permission to do something legal on my property, I had my lawyer send them a letter to stop harassing me. You cant deal with people by appeasing them. It will not work. They know you are shooting they will always complain. No matter what steps you do they will still complain. I noticed in your OP, you mentioned you have all ready taken appeasement step, checking with them, and I bet each appeasement step they have just made a new demand. Id spend the money putting a lawyer on retainer.

If its a small club and ur up frequently, who is doing the pasting while you are running back and forth to the safe area changing belts ?

or reload your 300 win mag with the same match grade bullets people are using in 308's and at the same velocity. At lowert pressures your brass will last longer, lots of faster powders. You dont alwasy have to shoot full power loads.

Wasnt talking about the Spartan's safety was talking about the features of the USPSA model that I didnt like.

I'm not real inmpressed with it, I'd be more apt to buy a Spartan, add a few upgrades and have a whole bunch of money left over for ammo, I dont like STI's ambi safty, would rather not have a stainless slide, recoil master, adjustable rear or meta front sight.. I'd buy the Spartan with a fixed rear and fiber optic front add a mag funnel, trigger control kit, Wilson or Ed brown wide safety, maybe some pimp grips and go shoot, I quit paying for looks on a gun as mine tend to end up looking like they have been dragged behind my truck anyways.

mmmmmmm baconnnn,

It doesnt matter, you stated this is your first match, You are gonna be at a disadvantage no matter what you shoot. I had to look up a G19, as I havent heard that number used, its a compact 9mm, Not really the best gun anyways, so I wouldnt get to worried about it. Learn the game, see some other guns and enjoy what you have. Id pick up another mag but thats about it.

Horror stories from who ? Let me guess, gunshop experts that dont even reload ? Take a gander at that long thread. There have been millions and millions of rounds loaded through Dillon tubes with nary an issue,

Cowboy shooters use cornmeal to take up room in the case,dunno what kinda mess it would make, but most cowboy shooters feel like lots of smoke and mess is a good thing. How short of an OAL can you load ? Try a few dummy loads with short OALs and see how they feed. Less case volume may keep your groups together. I see published data of 3.9 grs under a 230 fmj giving 700 fps at 1.260, I'd be surprised if your 1911's wont run at OAL's around 1.180 as long as the bullet ogive allows a crimp that short. Just swagging it I'd be inclined to try 3.5 grs titegroup at 1.180-1.120 oal and see if your groups hold together.

When I first started shooting all I had was a 40 and there was zero data out there for anything but full power loads, I did try TG and 155 bullets and found my groups to open up quite a bit when I got below 140 pf, I know a few older guys with hand problems that shoot Para wide body .45's in IDPA, ESP, they like Clays or WST because of the higher volume to grain, and 200 grain bullets, loaded to about 130pf I have SO'd them and I swear I can see the bullets going down range. The guns dont move either, they kinda go cachunk, ca chunk.

From what I have observed it is pretty linear between a minimum and maximum. Go lower and your charge density gets too low and you end up inconsistent, on the upper end you get pressure spikes and again inconsitencies, If you take your TG load and load really light, then work up .2 grs at a time, and graph it you'll see what I mean, you end up with a zig zaggy line, going to a sloped fairly even raise then the line kinda plateaus off for a bit. I have found TG to be not to good at low charge density, Something that takes up alot of space might give better results, Clays for instance,

Have you ever even shot a SIG? Most of your argument is so awful it's not even wrong. You apply characteristics to a gun that are better served applied specific to a shooter. There are not many pistols that are Production legal and that can come close to the out of the box accuracy of the SIG X5 Allround. Name for me another gun that can do 2" at 50 yards - out of the box. The list is short. Some of the Tanfoglio and Sphinx models perhaps. About the only other thing in your post that is even capable of having a truth value is that they are very reliable. Which they are. Oh, and they're not cheap... wrong again. CZ's are great guns, and you will be well served with either. I own two SIG P226's, and a CZ75 pre-B is on my short list of next pistols to buy (and perhaps use in competition, depending on how I like it). You must be right, thats why Sigs dominate production,,, umm not. The SIG X series is pretty well reguarded as a jammamatic due to a poor extractor design, Accurate yes, reliable no, and they do nothing a M&P cant do at a third the price. I have shot the standard sigs and taught several classes with sig shooters, like I said, bad ergonomics for speed shooters. They are reliable enough and accurate enough for a decent shooter to do well in Production but that same shooter would do better with a better tool for the job. Sigs winning government contracts awarded by bean counters, for an all metal gun they are beating out the competition on price. Thats the reason Sigs arnt very common in USPSA,

The Austrians had a gun that fired 52 caliber ball at Napoleans troops , evidently it worked becasue he ordered enemy soldiers captured with the gun executed. It held 20 rounds and made 975 fps, It did however require 2000 yes two thousand pumps to charge the air cylinder.

I may have found a loophole in the stage I plan to exploit, I might have to verify with the RO if it is ok or I might have to warn the RO if I am going in a different direction than he may expect. If this is the case I am not gonna ask before it's my turn to shoot. But I dont see a need for the "any questions" question. If I have one I'll ask. I kinda wonder about the , Are you ready? question, especially since their is no requirement for the shooter to answer. Maybe we could go from make ready. to Standby after an appropriate amount of time.

bout two hours north around Petersburg VA, there's the museum of the civil war soldier, Your wife a fan of the movie "Cold Mountain"? the actual hole in the ground from the opening battle is still there at Petersburg National battlefield, around here they call it the crater, Five Forks battle field where the civil war basically ended is a little west.

American Eagle 165's and WWB 165's recoil alot less and they will make power factor in a 5 inch gun.

Sigs are mass produced blasters designed to win government contracts by being very reliable, accurate enough for the contract specs(which aint much) and cheap. Natural pointing, low bore axis, natural location for controls, speed of shot recovery are irrelevant to government contracts but very important to action pistol type sports. The Sig is a poor design in those areas, the CZ much better.

Not quite, the cylinder doesnt count in revolver measurement.

You'll have to wait and see, My 6 inch eagle has a reverse plug but it uses a longer than standard rod and plug, Your not gonna want the tungston, You're gonna be wanting to make the front end lighter not heavier.

In a nutshell it is two different formulas for scoring speed and accuracy, USPSA formula gives more weight to speed, IDPA gives more weight to accuracy, USPSA also factors in power of the round, IDPA doesnt have different power rounds shooting against eachother.

A .40 single stack makes a good game gun because it can do what a 9mm can do in games designed around the 9mm like IDPA ESP, It can also be loaded major and do what a .45 can do in USPSA, Since you already have a 9 and 45 you like shooting Id just stick with those.