SGT_Schultz

So, what exactly is the point behind your question?

Also relevant is whether your pistol has a decocker or not. If it does have a decocker, you are required to use it to lower the hammer at make ready.

It's also the slowest for me to shoot because of how much it grabs your visual focus. 100% opposite of what I want.

No, they won't help. You'll be equally as slow. The dot has exposed that your draw was poor and that you were relying on the sights and not your index to get the gun on target. @BJB has shown you the way ETA I no longer bother with co-witnessed sights even on my carry guns.

Yes, but even absent that I would have ruled no violation just using what I know about how a reflex sight works and what the tape does.

It's not a different sight. You can tape over it and remove it at will. You don't need RM's permission to do any of it. You haven't changed the sight on the gun, you haven't changed the gun, you haven't even changed how the sight works.

All those "disadvantages" are either irrelevant if you know how to use a reflex sight, irrelevant if you concealed carry, or irrelevant no matter what. And yes, I've had my RMR full of lint from the undershirt I always wear and I've had my SRO with water all over the lens at a match. Never had have a problem making first round hits as quickly as my s#!t skills allow.

Normally no, I don't use my carry gun for carry optics, either in IDPA or USPSA. It doesn't matter to me for several reasons. Number one, these are sports. Both of them. Neither is training nor practice for self defense. Number two, the practical marksmanship skills that one does gain transfer to any pistol one later picks up. At least in my own experience. Number three, my carry pistol is the mid sized version (CZ P-07) of my CO competition pistol (CZ P-09). And the competition pistol, while still modified, is a lot closer to stock than most.

I told you before, IDPA has a Specialty division for just such occasion.

Why not allow all modifications? Because not all modifications are equal in their effect or expense. Why does carry optics bug you so much? You do realize that certain optics and the way they're mounted are absolutely appropriate for concealed carry, right? And that many handguns today come ready to accept such optics from the factory. And that many (myself included) do effectively conceal carry compact and mid sized handguns with silde mounted optics?

Why would it not make sense if the purpose was to allow a not-unlimited range of modifications? I realize there are only indoor USPSA matches convenient to you, but USPSA is a lot more flexible about what you can do to a pistol and remain within the rules of at least one of our equipment divisions. On top of that, if your intent is simply to have fun, I think you'll enjoy yourself more when you're free to solve the shooting problem with very, very few constraints outside of safety (USPSA) instead of having to solve it in a very prescribed way (IDPA)

I would imagine there are legal issues at play

Is this IDPA logic? LOL Carry on

The bushing is not on the inclusive list of approved modifications. That's why.

When handloaded properly it is, assuming you can grip a pistol.

Ah I missed that in all the back and forth. You're of course right.

No one knows that the pistol that killed an RO was so modified.

Well you can't expect improperly installed parts to last as long as they should.

Totally agree except on the FP retaining pin. They don't break from normal use. They break from monster amounts of dry fire without some cushion like a snap cap in the chamber or something soft over the back of the firing pin.

Those are really good points. And amazing that they can be so tone deaf when they have knowledgeable competitors in their shooting team. As I mentioned to someone else on a similar question about a weird S&W 686 model, it seems that some of these "competition" pistols are invented by people who have no clue about the intended market.

No idea....I think many "competition" firearms are marketing gimmicks thought of by someone who clearly didn't do any homework to figure out what is acceptable and useful in specific shooting sports.

Yep, Production works exactly the same as IDPA when it comes to ammo management with one exception: you can reload and leave full, partially loaded, or empty magazines on the ground regardless of whether your pistol ran dry or not.

Carrying a magazine with ammo in it in a back pocket in P/CO/SS was never a bump to Open because it was in a place that didn't violate the old rules for ammo location. Neither was carrying an empty magazine in a front pocket during the COF. Carrying a mag with ammo in it in a front pocket in those three divisions was a bump to open but as has been said, it's no more.

Focus on the gun and ammo. It's the winning ticket.

The gun matters a hell of a lot less than what the Dunning-Kruger crowd thinks it does.