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I'm going to chime in again about lunch. You young studs who don't need a lunch can go and do pushups or whatever to keep your juices flowing if you want. But us old farts need a break. It's not going to hurt you if you do take a break, but not having a break can and will hurt many others (as RadarTech said).

About as embarrassing as not knowing that steel challenge is not only a pistol match. Sorry--couldn't resist.

Peltor tactical 300 for me. All I shoot is pcc.

Do you plan on a separate load for the pcc? If not I'd just use whatever is the shortest you need. More than likely you will need to run what you need for your mags. I have a TF Goliath and they say no longer than 1.125. I use 1.120 for my oal.

It seems most of you have shot several majors. I just shot my first L2 this year, so my perspective may be different. I'll start with price. For me (and I'm a cheapo guy) $150 is approaching too much unless it's something a LOT bigger and better than the local matches I can shoot. I can shoot ten matches for that $150 with usually 6 stages each. Of course I shoot for the fun and against myself, so that's to be considered too. I think cold water is an absolute must for ANY match, local on up. That's just common sense to me. And a safety issue. Being an old fart, if it's 10 stages or so some kind of a small lunch is really nice. Not only for the nourishment, but just to sit down for a rest. I have no opinion about plaques since I'm not likely to win one anyway. I like random drawings, and don't care about the cash winnings. Again, not likely to win. If there's a shirt, as mentioned above, something nice I could wear to somewhere besides another shooting event. But that's related to entry price, I understand.

I'm sure it did.

This age old argument of whether it's worth it to reload because of cost misses the point entirely. It's not the fact that it saves money per round, it's the fact that it disguises how much we spend on ammo. For us if we reload and keep a stockpile we just grab some each time we go shoot. When we only buy (supplies) occasionally in bulk it doesn't SEEM like we're spending money every time we shoot. And most importantly if the CFO of the household says something about the credit card bill, we can say, "But Honey that jug of powder will last me for months". ETA-supplies

Was this comstock or virginia count? If comstock I think rm was correct. Just to throw a wrench into the works, what if he had done the reload then engaged the paper targets and THEN picked up that last popper?

Good point. And as a PCC shooter who never worries about reloads I can verify that there are often several choices on how to shoot a stage. Picking the best is fun though.

Couple of things. Like Beef says back and legs start talking to us older farts. Also, sometimes I just want to walk with the ro as he calls out scores so I can see how I did on certain targets, not be scratching around amongst a pile of brass trying to find one round that looks like several others lying there too. And if I can't loose 6 rounds, I'm in the wrong sport.

I too was concerned about the cleaning of the Sig. Since I hate cleaning a gun that was a big part of why I want with JP.

So you like the JP over the MPX?

I'd say no on the SR primers. That would be the opposite way one would want to go IMO. I don't know how you got that much gunk in the FP channel. Sounds like just a fluke to me. I'd clean it and try again. I'd bet you will have no more problems.

How to eliminate all the question marks about creeping/false start----just let everyone aim at their first target. If the gun goes off before buzzer=DQ. We wouldn't have to worry about practicing draws then also. Two birds with one rule.

To me the thing about classifiers is, are they a valid test of uspsa shooting. IMO, some are some aren't. The ones where you can just stand there and shoot are relatively easy even for old farts like me. And now that I have a JP instead of the Colt pcc I did have, even reloads are SO much quicker and easier. If a person does mostly those that don't require much movement they can go up a fair amount in classification. But does that really test the movement and stage planning and execution of most uspsa stages? It seems to me--not. Of course, I don't have a better system. That's just my observation.

I didn't plan to respond to anything because I don't want an argument, but, respectfully, there's a difference between pointing a gun at something and letting your hand cross in front of it lying on a table/barrel.

Well, I'm going to stick my neck out and state my opinion. And it's probably contrary to a lot of the people here. I think we make WAY too much of this "sweeping" thing. I believe we don't use a lot of common sense when we get so paranoid about sweeping with an empty gun not even being touched. It's an inanimate object. It can't see a hand in front of it and decide to shoot. As for it being accessible, that means nothing IMO. We trust someone to stand beside us and load the gun and start shooting, so why can't we trust that he will not pick up the object and do something with it. What I don't know since it's unloaded anyway. I fully expect I'll be lambasted by some here, and tarred and feathered if they could. There'll be all sorts of reasons why I should never be allowed at a shoot again, but that's just my opinion.

I can ALWAYS use a Snickers bar! Several in fact.

There, their, they're. Three different meanings.

And a low recoil, no dot bounce PCC. Seems to be a never ending struggle to get the perfect combination of buffer, springs,quarters,weights,bolts, barrels, bullets,powders, and who knows what all else. For me, I'd just be happy to not have major brain farts during a stage. Just an observation--carry on!

I guess you're talking about unloaded. But unless it's some type of gun that the hammer obscures vision of the sights, why would you even need to pull the hammer back just to get a sight picture? And for that matter, I read this a long time ago and thought it was funny and somewhat true, "Has it been so long since you looked at your sights that you forgot what they looked like?"

The TF ones worked fine with my Colt mags. Sorry you have had bad luck.

Thanks for the report. I know you waited a long time to get both guns. I was deciding what to buy at the time you ordered them. I've had my JP for a few months now and am really happy with it. I did put a Smoke Composites CF handguard on mine and it helped the overall balance for me, less front heavy. Happy shooting for you!

At least there's no fishing vests. I do have a shooting shirt with our local facegroup groups name on it "Gun Dudes" But it is kinda funny how most sports seem to evolve into similar fashions.

OK, just wondering why. But remember, things that make a difference to top level shooters usually don't mean that much to average guys like me. That 1/100th of a sec. doesn't mean much when we waste 5 seconds cause we move slow or forget our plan half way through.