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DavidSeavey

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  1. well that's very possibly part of it. i find my brain working a bit more shooting aerials with a red dot gun, i sort of picture a circular 'radar' on the fly calculation of vectors and lead, at least when i am actively assessing my shooting. especially thrown clays where you've gotta track it compared to tossed ones like a toaster does vertically. maybe you simply need to shoot more aerial shots in general for experience. try find a trap range that isn't run by a bunch of total fudds (good luck) and will let you shoot a mag fed optic shotgun at their range. highly recommend sporting clays too, lots to learn and really fun, but same fudd problems.
  2. my rig is a comptac holster on a henning t1000 hanger, which is awesome and the adjustability is fantastic. the holster is fine but i added a cam-lever so it can be locked up pretty tight and very loose with a flip. currently have 4 daa xip pouches with single stack inserts and 2 magnets on the front, but shooting major i'll be adding another pair of pouches
  3. i already had a 9mm TSO. my czechmate broke its slide so i tossed a dovetail mount in the TSO and LO i went. i like it a lot and it runs great. haven't handled a TS2 to compare ergos but mechanically it's not really different. sure it's taller than a milling fit but it's way lower than an open gun already so i'm not gonna mess with it unless it proves unreliable.
  4. sounds like you might be going dot focused without realizing. tape up the front of the optic and see what you see with close aerials.
  5. i say shoot what you like to shoot. i'm shooting my springfield 1911 in 45 right now and i'm really enjoying single stack division, though often alone in my division. BUT 45 does cost more, you NEED to have reliable 8 round mags especially for 45 as there's no extra room and you'll need a bunch of them, ideally with class legal slightly extended basepads to seat reliably as you'll be reloading all the time. i have 10 sorted mags and feel like that's barely half what i'd really like to have since 2/3 of them are already on the belt, meaning you need a bunch of new pouches too. but you could always get 10 rounders and shoot Limited 10 with it. i do enjoy the SS game, planning and execution of it. but a modern pistol with a red dot and 23+1 is lots of fun in either CO or LO and it's an easy button in many ways
  6. I"m not a 2011 expert by an stretch but in my reading it seems other than mag rib style the most common place i read about gen1 and gen 2 are with STI plastic grips vs what i assume are the staccato grips being gen 2
  7. the mbx czechmate mags i ran just before my slide broke were awesome, both 140s and 170s. i'm going to a 2011 now and have mbx for that but can't yet speak to them, hope theyre as good as my cz versions have been.
  8. i like the older strike industries Hex safeties which works with both my ecl triggers just fine
  9. i have a magpul bipod on a qd mount with a small rail on the handguard and there's nothing wrong with it. it has pretty good movement built in for smaller transitions or uneven surfaces like a boulder, but it's not as fast as a harris to deploy ( i.e. the guys with paracord mounted to the legs) and requires buttons and a pull to adjust out the legs vs harris is a sprung button that snaps fully out at once. it's light and sturdy. if i were shooting more majors i'd likely try a harris out just to see but it's been good enough. i'ts more important to know whatever one works. mine has the mount where i added a larue tactical pic qd to it. i like the mbx pmag base pads for rifle, they add a handful length dependent, and they can be configured without tools plus have wings and you can build crazy contraptions like 3 mags wide for probably 6" of width if you felt the need. expensive though. i have both blue force and vtac and keep going back to the vtac but they're both good. i highly recommend getting non rotating qd sockets for your rifle or you could find yourself with a surprisingly spun up sling when you go looking to adjust on the clock.
  10. Hmm. I'd be pretty dissapointed if i showed up to those stages in a local match, it's all standing still!
  11. while still time plus, UML rules generally use the fastest shooter's time = stage points, so if someone burns it down it's worth less overall. but perhaps that applies too much weight to the longer stages instead?
  12. matches like vortex are what i tell the uspsa only friends about when they say 3gun is dumb. gotta try a proper major 3g match. go big or go home!
  13. what rear sight is that? my 6" white rhino has the fiber optic crap and i dont shoot it enough to have bothered yet but i much prefer your rear sight.
  14. i'm glad i got to shoot at triple c before it got closed down, vortex was fun. up here in NH there's very little of it now. it's what i used to prioritize for matches, be it in NH RI, MA or ME. RI recently passed horrid laws, MA looks to be trying to as well but there weren't many to start, and the M# one doesn't do it anymore. there's one practically up in canada in VT but that's a real long drive for me, and the NH matches are either gone or half the schedule has converted to 2gun action challenge type. maybe i'm just getting old as i used to make fun of the guys complaining about the volume of gear.... but it IS a LOT! i use one small range bag for uspsa even lvl3 matches. plus i haven't seen the ability to replace my shotgun ammo with any certainty since covid insanity started.
  15. only pmag problem i've experienced was at a match where i didnt bring any standard 30rd mags and borrowed a couple gen m2 mags from a friend as the stage was low crawling under tunnel sticks and monopoding at small targets with gun clearing between positions. my 3g rifle has always liked gen m3s fine but it really didnt like the untested mags and wouldnt feed properly at the top of full mags. never found out why as i don't care to invest any time in them as m3 run fine so that's what i buy.
  16. i use one for my 929 and i'm liking it a lot, but i haven't really tried any post type to compare. i just thought the same thing 'that's cool!' and ordered it. it should work with any other moon gun you buy too. only thing i will say is that it's not exactly speedy to load, so i made a pair of double stacked posts for an empty start type stage where all ammo has to come off a table or barrel. just toss 2 pair over the posts and go. i end up putting a single moon on each anyway just in case and one of them becomes my make ready moon.
  17. sounds like he described a scandium frame 929 probably with a shorter barrel for swing weight. i hope he's still got it!
  18. the only time my cm ever had that type of issue was when i used the slide stop and attempted to reload, usually it was with a big stick. as said above it's over-insertion and if it's bad enough you can damage the ejector. after it happened twice in a major 3gun match i switched to the pin only so that all reloads are seating against a closed slide. never had that issue since. the cz frame is not blended to the magwell, i've done that on both tso and cm and it's very much worth doing. i used files very carefully and then sandpaper and dremel. go slow and refit the magwell frequently.
  19. i have a major and minor powder measure for 9 but you could also just get a second powder bar and swap them out leaving the knobs untouched. all my measures have these so it's super easy to pour out and change powders or swap https://www.amazon.com/Armanov-Disconnect-Dillon-Powder-mesure/dp/B07F2NG6J5
  20. I think you're going to want to try different powders under 115s if what you want is a flatter shooting gun. i started my cm with hs6 and felt it was more voilent than many others. i'm using shooters world major pistol now, AA#7 is said to be basically the same powder too. ive heard some can get enough 3n38 for major i think but maybe not with a 115. you also have to still grip the gun, that'll help more than anything i think if youre already in the proper category of open 9 major powders, even on the faster end. and you could have your slide and barrel cut for poppel holes if to flatten it out more, gonna take more powder for PF and hit your hand a little harder.
  21. that was a big reason why i switched to an SRO, i was so sick of my nervous knob-check tick! the last straw was a 3gun match where my pistol was dumped and got bagged for me as i went long range, 2 stages later when i needed my pistol again i had to point shoot the stage. didn't go well. my DPP and SRO both get turned on at safe table in morning, off at safe table bagging at the end.
  22. i just ran a bunch of 160gr .356" blue bullets over 2.9gr titegroup @ 1.185" for avg of 816.6 fps, 130pf in my 929.
  23. if i could permanently weld my optic mount to the frame i would. i've had screws loosen up twice at matches (once on a 35 yard standars stage of course...) the second time actually sheared a screw head off under my thumb rest. after the second time i drilled out the non-blind holes up a size and added a 4th mounting hole and it's been fine since.
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