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135 grain truncated cone blue bullets. And you can see the power factors on the photo. I’m running 142ish power factor. We developed this load to make minor for production and Carry optics as well as 3gun and my pcc. It runs great. Shoots extremely soft. So contrary to the last couple posts. It’s 135 grain bullets. Not 135 power factor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t know why you guys are shooting below minor. It doesn’t matter if I’m shooting steel challenge, USPSA, carbine matches, or just practicing. I shoot the same Ammo. To keep my zero the same and keep recoil impulse and the recoil behavior consistent throughout all disciplines of shooting. And it shoots extremely soft. I’ve shot about 40,000 rounds of this particular load. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ive been thinking about building a range for some time. And i think Id do it after retirement. But ive been thinking about a lot of ideas to do it. Not that i think it would be financially viable. With lead reclamation, noise ordinance, the amount of BS and physical exertion one must put into it, time is money, so i dont know if it would ever be worth it. But I am considering it. Ive shot a lot of matches over the years and at a lot of different places. But Ive been to a lot of ranges where i thought a lot of things were lacking. For example a Crappy safe area (just throw a table out and a s#!tty sign) or bathrooms not plumbed in. Or even Talledega CMP complex where they spent 20 million on the damn place and the only bathroom for the action pistol bays is a 10 minute walk across the bridge. During shooting its just not very convenient. If money were absolutely no object what features would you want at a range?

No one? Its a big cancer charity match. It helps pay for summer camps for kids with cancer! its a good cause. If anyone can shoot it ya should!

Yep. You need to shorten the OAL up. I think the MBX and Goliath extensions actually state that you have to run shorter OAL to prevent dragging. The only problem I ever had with my pcc was this issue. I bumped the OAL down to 1.10” and have since ran about 35,000 rounds through it with only a few raised primer failure to ignite issues. But that was my fault. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Us too...if you screw up you can hear the whole squad snickering behind you haha! We are all in good fun tho...We do help new shooters a ton, loan equipment etc. Ive even shot the first stage at a match, thought it was too hard to coach a new shooter and worry about shooting my own match so i bowed out and coached him the rest of the match. I ask new shooters if they want constructive criticism...if they do I'll offer advice. I have yet to hear someone say no. But also with new shooters i offer 1 or 2 things to work on and thats it. I dont barrage them with the 20 things they could work on. Its sensory overload and they'll fail to work on any one thing you suggested.

definitely looks like one of the oldschool mk2 frag grenades/pineapple grenade

How many rounds did you have on it? And have you heard of anyone else killing there 510C? Just curious because I'm thinkin about running one on my next open gun.

oh is he asking how much larger the 10 MOA dot is than the 8MOA dot at 100? hahahah! i mean yes...yes sir. You are correct. exactly 2 more inches at 100 yards. I could always use an extra 2 inches that's for sure haha! My bad my dude. haha

Sorry dude but that's incorrect. A 10 MOA dot at 100 would cover 10 inches MOA is an angular measurement that increases over distance. So think of it like a funnel. Where the pointy bit is at your muzzle and the mouth of the funnel down range. 2 Moa dot at 100 would cover 2 inches 3 Moa dot 3 inches at 100 and so on. So for like the Eotech for example (and Sig Romeo 4 and 5, and the holosun 510c) it has a 65 MOA donut. Why that's important for a combat optic is the average sized human being is about 65 inches from head to toe. So you can kind of use it to range targets. So if the circle superimposed over a guy, and he fits in there from foot to head, hes about 100 yards away. But we are never shooting to 100 yards with a pistol. Even an open gun with a frame mounted dot. You really only need to be concerned 20 yards and in. So the larger dot can be argued that its easier to acquire at speed and such. And who knows. It might be. So your 10 MOA dot would cover 2.5 inches at 25 yards 5 inches at 50 yards 7.5 at 75 yards 10 at 100 yards

So for larger dots i think minute movements are less obvious. So shooting a smaller dot its like you've got f*#kin epilepsy sometimes. With that being said i try not to hold my dot to a higher standard than irons. Although they are a lot more precise...you have to accept the wobble zone. And i do actually run a 2.5 MOA with a Romeo 3 which is working great for me so far. As far as issues finding the dot. This method is well, a little unorthodox and some people might hate on it. But if you come into position and you cant find the dot. Just rip a round off...usually the dot will come onto the glass naturally from the recoil of the gun. And then from there you can adjust what you need to. Its called shooting onto the target. Although i don't need to do this really anymore, when i first started shooting open, sometimes i would have trouble finding the dot. And i would have to do this. Especially coming into positions hard, or at extremely awkward body positions. Another thing is to do the around the clock drill from Mike Seeklander. Throw a target on the wall, and then just go around the clock, drawing and stepping to each time on the clock. So the 1 o clock position...then the 2 then the 3 and so on. All while aiming at the same target. You are forced to get into super awkward positions and cross body draws. Youll at least get used to finding the dot during this sort of situations. And dry fires dry fires. I do about 30-1.5 hours a day depending on what ive got going on. And have been shooting open since march. And feel comfortable finding the dot now. I haven't lost it for sometime now. So try those are look at those options. Good luck!

yo nerd. I see youre at 1st batt. Legit. I like to see all the batt boys shooting competitions. Hit me up via PM and i can walk you onto some good stuff or run some ideas past you. I don't think youd go wrong with a Limcat. But like me it took me a long time to decide. I shot limited for a long time. And shot a lot of PCC. And i was kicking around the idea of shooting open for a long time. When dudes like you or me are talking about dropping that kind of coin on an open gun, its a lot. So it better be good. And it better run reliably. I went with Atlas for a few reasons. But as far as versatility, Id look hard at the phenix trinity honcho. I have a 2 friends with them and have heard really good feedback. But youre really not gonna go wrong with an atlas. an akai. a lim. And if i sold my left testicle id consider an SV. I may have gone with the phenix trinity honcho if they were available at the time. I think i received my atlas back in January or something? and then a month later the phenix trinitys dropped and started shippin.

ooo good question. I honestly have absolutely no issue giving out load data. If you PM me directly we can exchange numbers and i can text you photos of all my chrono logs. Because I have the Caldwell that blue tooths to my phone. So every shot fired it records MV, the PowerFactor, and Deviation which is really important to me. I'll usually shoot a 10 round string for testing, for every load. And save all of it on my Caldwell app. But Ive tested WAC Vita 3n38 and n350 actually Silhouette and a few others I cant remember. Once I started messing with a few different powders i honestly couldn't tell so much of a difference between them that I'd pick one over the other for performance gains. And although i have no issue spending money on firearms or firearm related stuff (especially competitively) I just didn't see the justification of spending that much for Vita. If its twice as expensive it should give me twice the performance. I think what it comes down to once you start messing with 9major powders is getting used to that load and the gun and how the gun tracks or how the dot behaves with that ammo. I did find that the gun was bouncing a little bit during recoil, and put a 7 pound spring in it. Seemed to have solved the problem. But I'm running silhouette. 7.7 grains. With a OAL of 1.165 and 124 gr precision delta JHPs.

Interesting. I think that shows a lack of understanding of how classifications work. Maybe he thought was magically going to buy his way to the top. But I went to open because I understood its extremely competitive. And I wanted to see how I stacked up. And its fast. I wanted to work on improving processing speed etc. As far as the choice with atlas I went with atlas for a couple personal reasons. I grew up in Vermont and I wanted to support a local business. They run very reliably. And the PT Evo grip. I think cheely and some others are just too slick. Especially down here in the south (im a yankee just stuck here now) it is super aggressive. And it stays planted in your hand no matter how sweaty you are or how humid it is. I keep a very very detailed round count on mine. Every time I shoot a practice session or a match I log it in an excel spreadsheet. Mine is sitting at 3596 rounds. Ive only had 2 malfunctions. And that was due to me not cleaning mags that I dropped in the dirt. The gun like half chambered 2 rounds on the same stage following dropping em in the dirt. And as far as how tight the gun is, ive only done it for testing purposes. But Ive shot a practice session, and then two matches Saturday and Sunday. And at about 800 rounds it started cycling a bit sluggishly. You could probably run it longer but I got scared and cleaned it haha

the lighting is a lot better in this pic. Looks awesome. even though new open guns are the best, youll always get another one eventually haha! Reminds me of that meme.

Its just money. Cant take it with you when ya die. Id rather have some fun now while my dick is still functional.

sweet thanks for the reply on that! I was pretty curious if size of the mount caused ejection issues. Thanks!

Out of the guys using the 510c how many are running green or red? And why? Just curious...

Ohhhhh got ya ok. Thanks! I was starting to get nervous about my decision to run one lol!

So for the Tevo mount if you want to leave the lugs on you have to mill them out? Why not just take them off? Although i have some buddies who are machinists, i dont think i want to be messing about with that sort of stuff...i just mount it and start shooting. Why did you choose to leave them on and go through the milling process?

did you change anything on your ejection? or did you slap it on there and run it no issues?

Its like Step Brothers, the scene when he has the NODs on his face, "its not even that noticeable." haha

I dont care what anyone elses capabilities are. Sure i am competitive. But if i start worrying about others, that can become a distraction. I just shoot my match and i shoot as fast as i can see my sights when i need to. Plus time is super subjective. You may look at a competitor and see him lay down a super fast stage. And now youve put undue pressure on yourself. Normally youd shoot that same stage without worrying about it and lay down a similar time. But now that youve looked at someone elses fast stage (because it looked fast) you try to push yourself beyond your capabilities and make mistakes. I see a lot of guys at majors sitting on their phones looking for updates on practiscore to see what their competition is doing. Or how fast they shot certain stages. I think thats too damn much. When i get to the range, my phone goes in my bag and doesnt come out until Ive finished up for the day. I dont care what anyone else is doin. I just shoot my match. No matter what. Even if i tank a stage for some reason.

Ok so the interesting thing is with PCC shooting minor you are still capable of shooting super high hit factors. Why is this? Because you can shoot more accurately, more quickly. You should be able to rip on it pretty accurately. Not to say treat it like 3 gun, and just put two in the brown, because as soon as you start throwing too many charlies you're gonna be down match points. I would look at the most obvious problem you've got first. Which is the time. Without seeing you shoot a stage i cant say for sure. But most often its the time spent between shooting positions thats a stage killer. And this, I think this comes down to confidence in your stage plan. If you're not confident then you're not going to move with speed and confidence into and out of your shooting positions. You need to be more aggressive. I practice active visualization a lot and make sure i know my stage plan and visualize it as many times as i can before my turn on a stage. Even if i dont think i need to keep visualizing it, i do. Up until the time before i shoot. So i can explode into and out of positions as aggressively as possible. And if i know my stage plan really well, i can just worry about the shooting part. I would practice coming into position, getting the rifle shouldered as you come into position and then engage targets. And then quickly breaking the gun off your shoulder and coming into another position. A drill you could do is a variation of Ben Stoegers Skipping Rope drill. Where you just have a stick or rope on the ground. Have the rifle shouldered and pointing at a target, break it off shoulder and explosively move over the stick while simultaneously shouldering it again and re aim at the target. Itll help you get used to it. Sometimes i go over the shoulder with the stock, and sometimes i suck it in under my arm pit (like if its super tight and there is a wall right in front of me). As for the moving efficiently part that goes without saying. If you feel comfortable shooting on the move on some portions then do it. You need to. But that depends on the distance and size of target and your capabilities as a shooter. I use a Romeo 4 with the 65 MOA circle. Its a great optic for this sort of stuff. Because all my eye and brain needs to say is basically it looks symmetrical on target and there's equal light on either side of the circle reticle. The 510C holosun is a good optic as well. Im sure some dudes here would like to see some video of some stages. If you can video yourself and then someone else thats significantly faster doing the same stage i can cut it so its on the same screen and you can watch them run the stage, and then you running the stage simultaneously so you can really really see where youre losing time.

So I had shot a few open guns. And then shot a honcho at the pro am in Atlanta last year. And I had never handled a pt evo grip until then. But the second I picked it up my decision was made. And that’s why I went with atlas. Shooting down in the south during the summer can be brutal. Other guns were just way too slick. Sliding around. But the evo just stays planted. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk