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I racked one out right over my head yesterday. Very embarrassing; almost packed up and went home. In my defense, I was shooting my backup gun, which I haven't run in a while and it is a bit stiffer.

I put one in the magwell at OR state championship this year and ended up forgetting and jamming it in with a mag during Make Ready

This has probably been covered elsewhere on the forum, but can anyone give me a quick overview of the pros/cons of the different coating types? Particularly interested in DLC/PVD/Hard Chrome.

No clear marks. Brass on its own does not snag, tried adding some case lube and it didn't really make it any better. I actually found a second one I had lying around (originally ran a RCBS seating die and then a second one to just crimp, but swapped the seating die for the Hornady one), so I'll try swapping them and see if the problem goes away.

I used a polishing bit on a dremel and it did seem to help some but did not totally remove the problem.

Didn’t realize you could setup the FCD to crimp and not do the swage portion. They are pretty cheap so if I can’t sort out the RCBS one then I’ll give it a try.

Are there any concerns with using the Lee Factory Crimp Die with 9 Major? My RCBS crimp die that I had been using for the last two years has started giving me issues, it's snagging on the down stroke with the new Montana Gold bullets I am using. I can back it out a bit and the issue goes away, but then some of my rounds don't plunk. I saw that the Lee FCD is fairly cheap so I could just swap to that rather than trouble shoot the RCBS one.

For me the Henning’s have the best contour but it’s tough to beat the Lok Bogies for texture.

This is also partially the reason why 90-degree C-more mounts exist, right?

Not everyone who shoots USPSA speaks English as their native language, so having a common set of phrases that should be uniform at every range is important to make the sport more accessible. It’s more relevant to IPSC where you have many different countries under one banner, but the point is to have one common, simple set of phrases that everyone can know. The difference between “if clear, hammer down, and holster” and “slide, hammer, trigger” may seem minor to you, but it is not minor if you are not fluent in English.

That reminds me, does anyone know how they calibrated the HHFs for Revo/SS/PCC since these stages were from Factory Gun/Race Gun Nationals?

Does the spring have any impact on the trigger reset? Maybe they found it gives a better trigger with that spring in there. Or they just decided it's easier to make the different trigger bar and not have to do additional milling inside the frame.

The Hennings are great and look really good but they aren't nearly as aggressive as the Lok Bogies. Also if you ever have to shoot in the cold, the difference between cold aluminum vs polymer is pretty substantial. I'm gradually shifting over the to Loks as I sell my Hennings.

What @rowdybsaid. The time standard for Open on the 20 series are spicy, so maximizing down time is crucial. An extra half second can drop you almost 10%. Had a chance to shoot 20-03 and 20-02 today as well. I think 20-03 is the hardest to score high on because you need to 1-for-1 the steel very quickly to make it work. I took a little too long, 5.95s with all As but it knocked me down to 88.5%. 20-02 went better, 4.94s with 3 Cs, 96.5%

I hope the CM2 actually has some substantial changes.

What's that based on and how much more popular are they?

^What they said. Train on smaller/challenging targets in dry fire that force you to fix the shooting aspects you are bad at so the targets you'll see on classifiers seem easier/closer. It's rarely worth it to train for a specific classifier unless you know you have a specific classifier with some rarely-used skill (like reloading off of a table). The shooting aspects of classifiers all boil down to the fundamentals (grip, index, transitions, reloads, etc.), as do the movement components of those that include it (having the gun on target as you enter the position, moving smoothly to keep stable sight picture, blending positions).

Anyone know if these are still going to use the TSO/TS mags? Seems weird that they are launching it without any .40 models.

For those that have shot these, how do you feel about the HHF calibration? Looks like they did the top ten average from Nationals again, which I recall lead a lot of people to think the 19 series ones were "soft"

I have these in my TSO and both CMs. Just checked and on the TSO with factory rear sight it is not possible to hit the hammer by dropping it on a flat floor. The furthest protrusion fits below the plane between the beaver tail and rear sight. On the Czechmate it is possible since there is no rear sight, but angle range it needs to fall on is substantially narrower than with a spurred hammer.

I don't really think the TSO/CM platform should carry the same concern here. Sure, it technically has the same vulnerability of no firing block, but by the very nature of it being SAO there are almost no circumstances when someone would intentionally put the hammer down onto a loaded chamber. In a match scenario the only time I can imagine it possible happening is if a competitor has a light strike and then drops the gun. The issue is plausible with a Shadow when the hammer is down on the start as required by USPSA. That being said, I just checked my SP-01 and even with the trigger pulled to disengage the FP block the hammer (w/ 11.5# spring) is fully resting against the rear of the slide and there is zero forward play, so it if it lands squarely on the hammer with the hammer forward much of the energy will be transferred into the slide, rather than just the FP. Maybe a combo of a super heavy FP spring plus super light hammer spring would allow the FP/FP spring to push back with enough force to have some gap between the hammer and slide when hammer is down. The easy fix would be for USPSA to change the requirements for DA/SA guns to be safety on or hammer down to half-cock. Ideally someone should do some testing and figure out if this is a real and repeatable issue with Shadows. At this point we don't even know exactly what happened in this incident.

Here's my 20-01 run: 6.66 seconds clean, 98.5% in Open.

I used the website both times; don't have the phone app. I can try it out on my end if you want, just let me know the division/HF

What's not working for you? We shot 20-01 yesterday and the calculator worked for me on my phone at the match and on my computer now.

Looks like 20-01 Looks like this was not shot at Open/Lim nationals. Wonder how they came up with the HHFs for those. Is consensus that shooting the center three off the draw is optimal or did anyone shoot it fast going to one side first?