J_Allen

Memory stages just require more walk through before the match starts. Burn in the required positions and you should be set. So they just penalize the shooters that don’t show up as early - not exactly a practical skill. Now before anyone thinks I’m just complaining (because that is essentially what my last two posts have been), if done correctly I have no problem with either physical stages or memory stages - just seems like it is easier to fall into gimmicky territory when trying to implement those two categories.

I think the example of options - running vs taking the longer shot - is not reality. Take bay 1 of Area 3, it’s like 75 yards long and they used to set up the stage to allow just that option. But NOBODY chose to run, the default was pretty much just take the longer shots. Didn’t matter if it was irons or dot divisions either. So you either force everyone to run long between required positions or you don’t. In a sport where tenths (I won’t say hundreths!) of seconds can make a difference in scoring, a forced run of many seconds doesn’t seem to be warranted. Just my opinion.

I thought Leupold was lifetime guarantee. One of the reasons I have them.

https://shootingsportsinnovations.com/1911-bite-grips/

Yes, I have experienced the same phenomenon. I don’t have a 1911, but if I got one would try out the “bite” grips from SSI. Disclaimer: I have not used these, but they look like they might open up the hand a little more in the front to disperse pressure (despite having a similar shape in the back).

I do load a lot longer than that (38 sc), and it makes 172 PF. Dial back the powder and plug the holes seems like a win-win on the noise front.

Yep, already double plug with good ear pro. Using 9.8 grains of 3n38 under 124 gr JHP. Has three popple holes. It’s still crazy loud. Didn’t know I could plug the popples - will definitely look into that.

Just a question I have been thinking about recently. Open is my favorite division so far, but also the only dot division I have participated in. I have an Atlas Chaos V1 in 38 super comp, which is super fun to shoot, but the noise is off the charts. Just too much for me and I don’t want to have permanent hearing damage. Curious what others would do in this situation - rebarrel open gun in 9mm major WITHOUT popple holes, or sell and use that money to switch to either CO or LO.

I just wanted to thank the mods for bringing this thread back. Not everyone has social media, and this site does have value in civil discussion of current events.

I think it’s a great idea to get actual data on the timer. Thanks!

I’m starting to understand a little better, and probably didn’t explain myself perfectly before. I do aim at the A zone, but my personal acceptable sight picture sometimes has the dot making a linear streak, and not a single dot in the center of the target. If I wanted to raise my A:C ratio from 3:1 to 4:1 or higher I certainly could, but the time cost to make the dot settle would hurt me more than it would be worth.

So if my math is correct, assuming no D’s, Mikes, or penalties, the following ratios of A:C should get you the following percentage of points: Major: 7:1 - 97.5% 6:1 - 97.1% 5:1 - 96.7% 4:1 - 96% 3:1 - 95% 2:1 - 93.3% 1:1 - 90% Minor: 7:1 - 95% 6:1 - 94.3% 5:1 - 93.3% 4:1 - 92% 3:1 - 90% 2:1 - 86.7% 1:1 - 80% If the above analysis is correct, then let’s assume a competition is shooting Revolver minor (which is mostly everybody in Revolver). The person shooting at a 3:1 ratio would have to be over 2% faster overall to beat someone shooting at a 4:1 ratio. That difference decreases at the top, where in a hypothetical National Championship level competition shooting between 6:1 and 7:1 of the points, the winner is being decided be a 0.7% speed difference. This makes sense to me as smaller amounts of time make bigger differences at the top level (as it becomes much more difficult to trim time anywhere). Also, the lower your A:C ratio, the more likely that D’s, Mikes, and penalties will come into the equation as well, which now pushes down your point denominator even more, exacerbating the differences between competitors.

Again, as an example, my A/C ratio at Open Nationals was about 3:1, and Practiscore Competitor app shows me at 92% of points for the match. This is major scoring of course. So with minor scoring, in order to get 92% of points I would need a ratio closer to 4:1. I’m thinking now that my difficulty in comprehending what I need to do is less the Revolver transition, and more the major to minor scoring transition.

How do you define what an acceptable sight picture might be (in terms of points at the end of a match)? For example, for me in open, an acceptable sight picture would be the A/C zones, shoot as fast as I can in that area, and then move on. This is probably not the way, since I should have been picking out specific points on the targets, but I’m thinking that’s what I probably did. I only cared about D’s or Mikes, and if I got none, my ratio of A to C didn’t bother me at all because I went as fast as I could on the stage. But now in Revo, the equation changes. Now is an acceptable sight picture the A zone only, and I want no more that a 4:1 ratio (for example) at the end of the match? I realize D’s and Mikes are now extraordinarily bad, and not something I can outrun. But I don’t want to slow down too much. The optic to iron sight transition is slow enough, but add in long double action trigger pulls, and now changing definitions of acceptable sight picture, and it feels like it becomes a much more static game. This is all based on my skill level of course, I’m not trying to project that everyone does this.

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