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7 hours ago, Cuz said:
Holy crap, what was your driving radius to find that many matches in a months? I think I’d have to expand my drive time window up past 2 hours to reach that many.
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
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This thing is almost as cancerous as the m&p 2.0 I turned into a 9 major gun
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3 hours ago, fireman1776 said:
How many matches did you get to per month?
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
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4 hours ago, Cuz said:
I’m just doing it to have fun.
says me and just about everyone else that isn’t a GM…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
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8 hours ago, MHicks said:
It's funny. I can't imagine being M or GM shooter while never having the urge to shoot above a level 1 match. On the flipside I'm a B shooter who shoots 3-5 level 2 or above matches a year but I can imagine that some shooters think why would I bother to do that.
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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14 hours ago, PatJones said:
Matches are not training. Find a new range. You may have to drive further than you want to, but if you want to get better at moving and shooting you have to move and shoot in practice.
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
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i use the double alpha belt its the stiffest
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On 8/11/2021 at 4:17 PM, GrumpyOne said:
Loud shot. When I first started loading 38Super, I used Longshot...I think my load was 8.7 with an MG 115 JHP @1.235
why is it so much louder than say AA7? or 3n38?
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Just now, Corrado_kid said:
.355
And the .356 doesn't have any issues?
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16 minutes ago, Corrado_kid said:
Running 9 major
9.2gn AA7 @ 1.165oal 125gn .356 RN blues or9.5gn AA7 @ 1.165oal 125gn .355 JHP Zeros
Is the barrel .356 or .355?
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2 hours ago, Corrado_kid said:
Damn that's a super flat crisp gun. What's your load? What's the trigger pull weight?
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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
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19 hours ago, SGT_Schultz said:
I can't see how shooting matches can be productive practice. In order to practice something you need repetition, otherwise improvement will come very slowly.
I use some local matches as opportunities to try things, but practice is something I do elsewhere.
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
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2 minutes ago, Corrado_kid said:
Thank you
you should take a video of you shooting them
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On 8/9/2021 at 12:08 PM, trsrt8 said:
I run grams spring and follower through all of my MBX mags now and I cut the tab on the follower. This is my first time switching to Grams and some of my mags wouldn't fall out freely on empty so dry fire was fun. Eventually they broke in and no issues, spring have lasted so much longer than the MBX springs.
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
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15 minutes ago, Corrado_kid said:
The right one is the new middy from Don. It arrive Thursday, I shot it Saturday in Battle for the North Coast. It ran flawless the whole match!!!
probably some of the most beautiful guns ive seen
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14 hours ago, rowdyb said:
I currently drive 1 hour each way for this exact setup
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
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just use the lee U die, it will size all the way to the base of the brass
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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.
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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
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2 hours ago, Posvar said:
I have heard they last 2k rounds on an open gun but that seems kind of absurd.
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
My Open build, and road bumps along the way
in Open Pistols
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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