AverageJoeShooting

how can you be biased about oem reliability when basically the entire gun is oem as it is lol also...just buy an open gun, you will be thankful for the weight alone. i think the heaviest i could get my m&p was like 40 oz which is single stack weight, my middy open gun weighs 51` oz and my beefsteak open gun is 62 ozs

around an hour. im in north carolina and its an absolute hotbed of shooting. you can usually find a match every thurs through sunday each week of the month and no one closed down last year during the "flu" so i mean we still had matches going. we had people driving from as far as ohio just to shoot locals

This thing is almost as cancerous as the m&p 2.0 I turned into a 9 major gun

Last year i did 70 matches in 10 months so about 7 per month This year I decided I didn't want to shoot that much so I've been doing 2 matches a month since jan

I am a gm and I've always done it to have fun. At the end of the day what should anyone care. It'd about personal growth and personal goals

if im being totally honest i just never cared about competing at that level. combined with the hundreds of dollars in gas/hotel/food etc even if you have a sponser you are still going to have to come off some of the costs. i mean unless you are a pro shooter, then you can get everything paid for, but i have no desire to be a media slave for some company, and i make more money in the real world than chasing the pipe dream of full time shooting. people ask me "dont you care about where you really stand against the pros"? the answer is no not really every time

I just hit gm today. Exactly 18 months. Anyone can make gm if they make it their only focus. My first match was March of 2020. Still to this day I've never shot a level 2 or 3 I'm sure there are plenty of lower classed people who can beat me at matches. I literally made my only focus learning classifiers skills There is a difference between getting the gm tag and performing consistently at a gm level But I guess that's the next part of the game to learn how to compete at that level.

I run a 10 moa and wish I had larger. I'm in open. The best dot I ever used was the 510c. I know it's huge and looks like an 80s tv ontop of your gun, but man using that entire holoring with the dot was amazing.

15 A far shot is 30 yards and most certainly isn't going to be the norm. 15 yards makes it so you can hold the same sight picture with anything between 5 and 30 yards

yes they are. i only shoot 2 matches a month due to primer shortage. you can get everything you need out of dryfire. the actual match puts it all together

i use the double alpha belt its the stiffest

why is it so much louder than say AA7? or 3n38?

And the .356 doesn't have any issues?

Is the barrel .356 or .355?

Damn that's a super flat crisp gun. What's your load? What's the trigger pull weight?

i never had the match fix mentality. i shoot for a social aspect after work beats my ass each week anything after that is just bonus

i dry fired everyday from when i started to about B class. After that I stopped and see no difference in the gains made. Pushing into GM has become more about a mindset than actual skills. By time you hit M you should know how to load a mag or pick up the dot, your grip should be consistent and all the small things you would normally work on in dry fire should already be mechanical for you. Now I mean just making GM is about mental game. Performing consistently at GM level is where continued dry fire practice will help

you should take a video of you shooting them

I have noticed that i need to change the mag springs more frequently, but 20 or 30$ every six months is a small price to pay for no mag issues

probably some of the most beautiful guns ive seen

me too although if im being honest i basically cut all my live fire practice out so i can save more primers. i shoot two matches a month, 1 is practice for me, and the other is where i work on things

just use the lee U die, it will size all the way to the base of the brass

most open shooters spend tons of time trying to make the slide as light as possible so it can move faster. I tried a bunch of dots on one of my open guns slide mounted and 9major broke all of them.

just put the gun down and challenge the offender to a duel if you win they stop smoking if they win they get to keep it up its really the best and only solution to this type of problem frankly i think our country would be better off bringing back duels

only 2k rounds? it would be busted in a month no way id put something with such low reliability in my open guns i spend all my time trying to get them to be 100% reliable