Dr_Z

yet nothing in IDPA Rule book specifically address the action of "pulling the trigger" after LAMR before the beep. Sounds like it depends on the context of the action. 1. pulling trigger while violating muzzle safety rule = DQ 2. pulling trigger while acquiring sight picture on targets = PE in the above scenarios, the action of pulling trigger has no relevance to the consequences, pulling trigger or not, the consequences are the same given the contexts. 3. pulling trigger to lower the hammer on a DA/SA gun with DA start = no penalty, totally allowed 4. pulling trigger while safely pointing the gun at the ground (the specific action in question) = ?

Yeah most of RO who I asked referred to this piece of rule. Not the finger cal, I see no grounds for DQ. Unless repeated offense despite warning, i.e. unsportsmanlike conduct

I assume that decocking a DA gun before start by pulling the trigger is exempted from trigger infringement ? I recall that I have never been given a PE or finger warning for doing that.

Thats too bad. I mean if its a misuse of rule, at lease I know I would be safe next time I do this. otherwise, how do I decock my da gun without a decocker.

Question. One of my friend told me that someone got DQed in this club match for pulling trigger (assuming testing DA trigger pull?) after the "load and make ready" command. Assuming that dude did not violate any muzzle safety rule, what else in the rule book could result in DQ in this case? Or its a misjudgment ?

4.21 is the average of 10 charges Since my scale only has .1 gr resolution and I understand that there is some measurable variations between charges. Therefore I always use 10 charge average.

Recently I started doing powder metering check before every loading session. I am currently using Alliant Sport Pistol. I have a dedicated case to measure power charge, its already sized, primed, and expended. I use the same case every time for metering check. I will dump the first two charges and collect the next 10 charges for averaged per drop quantity. My target is 4.21 gr. I found that I often need to adjust the powder bar nut to "re-zero" the charge quantity depending on how much it has been operated since the last adjustment, as if the metering drifts overtime. The difference can be up to 0.05 gr. I also found some correlation between the level of powder reserve and charge quantity. As the reserve gets lower, the charge gradually increases. The difference can be +0.02 gr between full reserve and half reserve. Anyone else share the same observation? any ways to improve the drop consistency?

I have one el prez classifier on record at 87%. I shot it left to right both time. I am right-handed but feel more comfortable transitioning from left to right. During my dry and live practice, I found little meaningful difference shooting in either order.

DA/SA CZ Rami. Hammer down, thumb on the hammer when holstering, almost no chance for AD. DA allows me to really assess the target, abort if necessary. Can be as fast as SA when threat is imminent. The downside is that that user needs to be good with that DA pull to be effective.

This, my friend, is what I believe the REAL reason production and other low cap divisions are suffering greatly reduced participation. Bad / low-effort stage designs that only consider high cap divisions. Forced standing reload, forced reloads within in 1/2 steps, 11 round target arrays (with in close distances) with steels. These kinda of stages are getting increasingly common as large capacity divisions became more popular. This, sucks the fun out of the game for low cap divisions for potential newcomers. Everthing is high-risk, with minimum or no rewards. Few new shooters would dare to take up that kinda of challenge while they have the option to do one or no reload the entire stage and finish the stage without drama. e.g., no need to separate visible target arrays thus less likely to forget targets, less reloading, less dropped mag, no shooting empty and conduct embarrassing standing reload) I started with and still really like production. I am planning on going back to it once (if ever) I attain GM class in Limited. However, the division as of now is definitely not a new shooter friendly division as some would think, considering the capacity limitation as well as the suck in stage design trend. Its now a Hard-Core division. Lastly, regarding your comment about low cap participation in and out of restricted states. I think the trend in stage design actually could have made some impact on your perception. Within restricted states, people are expected to shoot low cap in all divisions, hence the stages are designed with low cap flow in mind. In other states, its not the case. Here in Michigan, its less and less likely to see well thought stage designs that offer fair challenge and non-BS options to low cap, iron sight shooters. I believe it would be similar in other non-restricted states. Based on this, your experience with low cap shooting might not apply to shooters in all states, at least not at a local match level.

Clearly we have very different views regarding this topic. UnFortunately neither of us have a say in the final decision. For me, I'll wait to see what the org has for us in the end and roll with it if I find it attractive. Good talk.

You need to look into the origin and intent. CO is an extention of the production division. CO does not allow major because production doesn't allow major. Simple as that. People move from limited or open to CO is NOT an effect of people hating major. There are no causal relation between them. People do not hate major pf, they don't love it either. It's available as an choice, some take it some don't, majority will given the chance.

My bad typo, I meant major changes for a few divisions

I think you misinterpreted what you see there. CO is popular because of low cost,equipment availability, large capacity and the user-friendliness of a reddot. Nothing to do with major or minor. If CO allows major, I can almost guarantee you the majority will be shooting major in CO just for that perceived competitive advantage.