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9 minutes ago, HCH said:
Oh I don’t know anything about casting or how to cast or alloys or molds or sizing or powder coating.
Seems like it
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13 minutes ago, Braxton1 said:
This is the first thumb-rest gun that I've seen set up for a Lefty, so I have a question: Have you had any issues with Failures to Eject? Since presumably there's now some mileage on the gun, I'd wonder if the back side of the rest has brass marks on it.
It looks like the rest would impinge a bit on the Ejection Port. I am aware that the brass ejects from the Port when the slide is retracted and that you could time the ejection a little late in the cycle by using a shorter Ejector. However, if the slide started moving forward before the brass had fully-cleared the port, I could see where the brass could be rammed into the rest.
You could trim the front of the rest so it doesn't interfere as much
I'm not a lefty, but just a thought
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1 minute ago, BoyGlock said:
This. Reliability is king in red dots. Nobody wants to lose a dot in the middle of a stage run. That is if one is serious enough.
100%
you basically need two things at a match. for your gun to go boom every time you pull the trigger and for your dot to last the entire match.
without either of those you might as well just give the stage or match up.
this is especially true in open.
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52 minutes ago, Bakerjd said:
My small sample size of RTS2 has been a great dot for my girlfriend on her p320. 2.5 years so far and no issues. She shoots about 80% of the matches I do but a lot less practice. Probably around 5k rounds a year I'd think. Hard to say though as I've never really kept track. Shoot I don't really keep track past 1k on any of my guns.
i have the 6, 8 and 10 moa rts2 dots and ive been using them on open and CO guns the past two years.
even if you get the version 5 it will start to flicker. it will turn off randomly. I had one where the solder on the mobo came lose so the connection wasnt being made
i have 3 of those dots and id say between all three of them ive sent them all back to cmore about 2 or 3 times each.
if you wanna talk dots from cmore i think the railway was (and possible still is) one of the best dots on the market. those things never failed, never had problems, never lost zero, and you could change the diodes out to whatever size dot you want, and the glass was super clear and easy to look through
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13 hours ago, HCH said:
If I only shoot one club match a month and keep live practice to a minimum I should have plenty.
It also helps that I can find 115 grain FMJ 9mm in stock pretty regularly.
start casting lead bullets. lead is much cheaper and for every pound you can cast about 60 bullets.
you can make an afternoon of it and cast 1 or 2 hundred lbs of bullets in an afternoon
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1 hour ago, Bakerjd said:
I just got a romeo 3 max... it's very nice. Not 100% sure I like it over the RTS2 or alpha 3 though. But to be honest I've not had enough time to really know what I like yet. So far most of my shooting has been done with the alpha 3 on my p320.
I have all of those dots. the clear winner is the FTP
the sigs just break after a while
the rts2s flicker and do all sorts of weird stuff and i dont like the lens shape vs the tombstone of the FTP
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if i turn the dot down i started losing the dot
i just turn it on full blast and cover the front.
accomplishes the same end goal
now im sure theres something to be said about more practice or something like that with a lower dot....but im pretty sure ive made clear that i basically do no practice at all and show up to all matches and just shoot like i dont give a s#!t...because i dont
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17 hours ago, Nathanb said:
I’ve got the sro cover from stone ridge gun works. I think i shoot better with the dot covered tbh
I covered my dot and liked it so much I never uncovered it.
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6 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
that makes sense, i've heard most of the top national shooters espouse the same strategy, lol.
Lol hey man it saves primers and powder.
Besides I have no real goals of becoming a top national shooter anyway.
For me it's all level 1s and maybe 2 level 2s next year
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On 11/24/2021 at 5:22 PM, motosapiens said:
we cut way back on our live-fire practice starting about august 2020 when we realized we might not have enough primers to get through 2021. However I got significantly better with less live-fire (100 rds or less per session, 3 times/month), and had my best nationals result ever in the spring. I just tried to concentrate my live fire on recoil control, and gripping the gun so the sights dropped back to exactly the right spot and did everything else in dry-fire. Also started doing more dryfire in between live fire runs at the range. Also started paying more attention to how realistic my dryfire is, in terms of grip and vision. Even if I have to pay 8-10 cents per primer for a bit, I'm still spending significantly less on ammo.
Just don't practice. Ez gains
I think I stopped dryfiring when I hit A class.
The matches I shoot each month are my practice
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10 minutes ago, waktasz said:
I have 11,000 left and I will retire from the sport before I pay $80 per thousand plus shipping and hazmat so...it was nice knowing you all, I'm gonna go ride bikes
100% agree
I have lots of other hobbies including restoring boats
I can keep myself busy and occupied without shooting.
I accomplished my gm goal so i guess from here on out it doesnt really matter if i shoot or not
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5 hours ago, Balakay said:
any insight as to whether Atlas is going to make any 155mm mags? My average size hands reload them better than 140s or 170s.
I got a spare 155 in classifieds if you need one
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1 hour ago, belus said:
I have brass powder and primers for a couple years, but only have a year or so of bullets.
I'll wait for primers to drop back to $40/k ish before I buy any more.
we will never see 40/k again. those days are long over and enough people have bought them at 85/90/k that the market has now seen that that price is sustainable
its the same reason movies cost 25 cents in the 50s and now its like 40$ for two people. still the same product but they continued to raise the price and people continued to pay. Thus the new market price is now higher and will never go back down. same with taxes. same with cars. every industry really. once the industry realizes that people are still willing to pay at a certain price point theres no logical reason that they wouldnt raise the price because it means more money in their pockets. since everything now a days is dictated by the bottom line theres no company that wont get as much as possible from their product
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1 hour ago, RJH said:
Agreed. I am only paying 75-80 a thousand now. But I only buy when I can get them for a reasonable price. I like to shoot but I ain't going broke to do it. Add in an injury that's kept me from shooting for a month, and will probably keep me shooting for another month, and the fact that I'm not going to practice anyway and I just don't have to have primers anymore LOL
Plus hazmat and shipping
So 120 per k
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the sad thing is that these higher prices are now the new prices and they wont drop again. expect to be paying 120$ per k forever. for primers. i cast my own bullets and lead is currently cheap but AA 7 is pushing up in cost. dies, toolheads, powder throws, everything is out of stock and pushing up in cost when it is available.
I have lots of hobbies, and ive given serious thought to just shooting until i cant anymore and then just pursuing a different hobby.
Ive already accomplished my goals in this sport so at this point it wouldnt really be hard for me to just do something else
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I have enough for two matches a month for the next 8 months
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1 hour ago, Jeremyc_1999 said:
Cha lee, Boomstick, and Average joe, thanks for the response. Average Joe, are you just planning on using 170mm in leu of the 155mm magazines and using 140mm mags for mandatory reload stages?
I was planning on just using 3 170mm Atlas mags.
1 in the gun to start and 1 reload and then a spare in case anything ever gets f*#ked up. which i don't expect will ever happen with these mags because they are 100% quality, still good to have a third tho
I dont use 140mm mags in open at all
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18 minutes ago, Jeremyc_1999 said:
I'm switching from limited to open for 2022 season and will need all new magazines. I've always used MBX in the past. Would you recommend these over MBX? I still may end up getting some MBX 155mm mags for most stages, but these would save me some $ over going all MBX.
i shoot open and id 100% recommend the atlas mags over the mbx
the feed lips are harder on the atlas so they feed perfectly and you dont have to mess with the feed lips every 5 matches
i do have a few 155 mbx mags for sale over in classified though if you decide to go that route
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ive been using the lynx belt since it got released and its amazing. hands down the best belt on the market.
ive had no failures at all, the belt is nice and easy to roll up and store and best of all theres no flex at all in the system
tbh i dont know why everyone isnt using this one. theres no disadvantages.
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Got the chance to shoot a great small match Finished 8th overall and had a great time Happy to report the new atlas mags work perfectly Ill be selling all my mbx mags and switching to all atlas going forward
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1 hour ago, CalTeacher said:
I’ve seen plenty of 29 and 30 round stages. In fact, we built some just recently.
I agree about having a place to reload…in fact I find myself using my 155 and 140s more often to start since I don’t mind those getting dropped and banged up.
While my STI gen 2 mags and MBX have been as reliable as mags can be, I’d be curious to test these out and see how well they hold up. I’d totally buy if they were as reliable as people say.
im actually selling all my mbx mags and just switching to these. the feed lips are harder and more firm than the mbx and it makes them feed perfectly
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On 10/2/2021 at 8:03 AM, CalTeacher said:
So I guess I’ll ask the obvious question. If capacity is less than other reliable brands, what’s the draw of a 28rd big stick?
The fact that they feed and function perfectly. I've never seen exactly a 29 or 30 round stage. Most times they are just gonna make it a 32 round stage which means you will have to reload anyway
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On 9/18/2021 at 12:12 PM, attakmint said:
Atlas just released their 170mm magazines. Comes with Grams guts, they say it's 28 rounds in 9mm. $120
Anybody try out their magazines? Worth it over MBX or the usual tuned STI/Grams combo?
did a review of their 170mm
I just shot it in a match today and it's the best mag I've ever used.. literally not one malfunction the entire match
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training red dot with the front covered?
in Open Pistols
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I mean crutch or not we both made gm in 18 months
If you learn to shoot with the dot covered, then it's not any more or less of a crutch. You simply learn to shoot that way.
It's the same as people who shoot with one finger covering the trigger guard.