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I agree. I finally got to run mine at a steel challenge match. Coming from janky open glocks, it's a beautiful gun.

I drilled my RIA 1911 for the Cheely SRO mount, 5 hole pattern using my Harbor Freight mini mill. I have DROs rigged up, so it was super easy. As long as you have your mill, vice, and whatnot set up right, it is just fine for it from what I can tell. But then again, I'm a total hack, so take my experience for what it's worth.

I'm in the same boat. I plan to pick one up, but I've bought pretty heavily into the RMR pattern mount, and really don't want to deal with another. Though based on wait times and all, I may just order the DPP one if the RMR isn't out by October.

I have seen classifiers relatively consistently state "Box A", "Box B", etc. But I rarely, if ever have seen the shooting area actually "defined" in a major match's briefing. It simply says something to the effect of, "engage targets as they become visible from within the shooting are". Language like that still can confuse people that are doing their best to not be reasonable.

My money is on 7.62x25 tokarev

Essentially what waktasz says. Do it more.

I've found this concern curious, as I've not had much trouble with my Glock handling it, though to be fair I'm maybe a bit over 10k rounds only. So I'd hope that an aluminum frame gun would be fine. I don't plan on doing popples, milling a ton of weight off the slide, or going crazy extreme with springs or whatever. So I'd imagine it would last.

So I've been shooting an open Glock for a number of years, and I figure I should get away from it. Since I apparently like to make questionable choices, it seemed to me that after playing with the Platypus customization thing, it may end up pretty close to ticking the open boxes. Make it up with the threaded barrel, magwell, lightened trigger. Then realistically, drill/tap the frame for the optic mount and screw on a compensator. I've not dealt with the 1911/2011 platform much, what other bits would need to be tweaked? Or is this as much a fool's endeavor as an open Glock?

Probably not helpful, but I found that happening with a G17 open build of mine as well. My only possible guess was that the gun was more violent and something was bouncing? But I just took it out since I shouldn't be shooting to empty anyhow.

Sure have checked it out. The state does a "points series" to get people to frequent some of the other clubs. I've got mine in on that for the past number of years and have been able to get a handful of metro folks up here to shoot throughout a season. So I've been attempting to grow that way, but I've since focused more on converting and retaining more local folks. I have found that the demographics of this area are more "I train for tha streets" IDPA folks, so I try use IDPA as a gateway for USPSA. It's been working relatively well. I think there are 5-6 clubs/matches that shoot down there with much more frequency, so those folks have a lot more options, much closer to make it not worth driving 2+ hours. It just is what it is living up in nowhere. Or maybe I do need to get good and put on better matches.

This is always such an odd topic to read about. I'm the MD at a club in Northern MN. There is a pretty big USPSA culture down in the metro area, but up where I am we're the only club, and besides the "points series" match that I host in our state, I don't think I've had more than 20 shooters at a single match in the past 5 years. I'm typically more concerned about breaking even on materials than I am on running out of space.

I don't think it would hurt anything. If you're shooting both in CO, then it will show as duplicate scores, and I am pretty sure it keeps the highest one. If you are concerned, could always do the shield in Open.

"IPSC Shot Timer" is the one I have.

Not that I'm much good at training, but I like to use a shot timer app on my phone when dry firing. I figure it's fine for par times and whatnot. I put in ear buds and don't have to bother anyone with the noise.

It is recognized. It's called winning.