SGT_Schultz
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3 hours ago, Winston_Smith said:
Getting a gun I enjoy shooting is more important than worrying about whether it will fit into someone's rulebook. I was more curious than anything to know if the E conversion would disqualify it from IDPA.
Then get the whole E package and shoot in the Specialty Division of IDPA
See section 8.2.10 of their rulebook
Come to think of it, at least locally, IDPA match directors and range officers don't have a clue about what makes a pistol fit or not fit in any of the IDPA divisions. I suspect that's the norm so just go pay your money and shoot. Money talks and if you don't care about competition and only care about fun, then it won't matter what kind of pistol you use.
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4 hours ago, SuperKing said:
This seems like a CZC or CGW done up SP-01 but at a higher price? And I feel like a SP-01 Shadow would be a better value anyways...
I agree that a basic SP-01 with a CZC or CGW internals and some elbow grease is a better value. The grips they come with are junk anyway. I know because I have a pair. They should just have put on thin LOK Bogies and called it a day.
I disagree that any Shadow would be. I refuse to use a pistol without a firing pin block. There's an RO in New York who would be alive today if the pistol that killed him when it hit the ground and fired would have had one.
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3 hours ago, SouperMan said:
Some folks like the “security” of a firing pin block.
There's at least one life I know it would have saved. The safety layer a FPB provides is not "theoretical".
The slight reduction in reset length that can be achieved in a CZ without it is inconsequential to anyone who knows how to shoot.
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2 hours ago, Nathanb said:
Not cut for an optic is a huge miss at this point.
They never will be from CZ UB.
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On 10/31/2021 at 1:53 PM, lfine said:
I know it's not as popular as it used to be, and I won't really be using this until a shoulder heals, but which Beretta 92 do people prefer? Between the newer Beretta ones and the Langdon, etc. there are a few. Thanks for any help.
Wonder no more: https://www.beretta.com/en-us/92x-performance/
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9 hours ago, gdc2506 said:
is there anything competitive that they could be used in?
Cowboy dress-up?
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Why wouldn't it be?
Where is this place and what's its name and contact info?
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12 hours ago, Chillywig said:
Maybe where we don't shoot fixed time classifiers often, even after the rule book came out there were still some discussions about the rules. And since it is written under scoring "scoring: fixed time" we should know shots are limited - even though it doesn't say it?
The WSB doesn't need to state that shots are limited in a fixed time CoF. The rulebook already does.
I'm at a loss as to what is unclear.
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8 hours ago, IHAVEGAS said:
I think CGW told me that the slight interference was expected and typical.
In my industry words have specific meanings. Interference fits cannot be assembled by hand. I don't care how others define it.
If you don't need a press or a hammer or heat/cold, you don't have an interference fit.
I'm going to move on from this now.
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2 hours ago, IHAVEGAS said:
If the sight bottom was a solid piece of metal you would be on track.
Which sight is made that way so I avoid it?
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2 hours ago, slavex said:
@IHAVEGAS yeah I can see the Tanfo ones doing that, being so much shorter and such.
That said, talking to guys who make springs for industrial equipment, I get weird looks from them when I tell them gun springs wear out, especially mag springs. Universally they tell me that gun springs must be junk. Even a high use gun, say 250k live fire and similar dry fire, shouldn't see a spring even come close to wearing out. Goes for mag springs and recoil too. Yet, we all know they do wear out and die.
I'm gonna bet that the majority of OEM firearm springs are plain carbon steel (AISI 107X series). Most high quality/aftermarket springs are music wire, and for heavier loads/higher temps chrome-silicon or Cr-Si-vanadium steels.
I don't know why magazine springs take such large sets, must be s#!tty wire they're made of. I bought some ETS brand 22 round Glock mags once and the springs lost so much temper that they were useless after about a month of moderate use.
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3 hours ago, IHAVEGAS said:
Cajun gun works was a slight interference fit on my CZ compact, impressive actually, I do not know if that is typical.
If you can take in and out by hand it's not an interference fit, even if you have to wiggle it in and out. Even a small amount (.0001 - .0002") of interference will need either a temperature differential or some mechanical force to get things together.
What you have is still a slip fit, thought it might be very close. So close that the slightest misalignment will not let the parts go together.
Did you send them your optic? Other than dumb luck, that's the only way to get the pocket and/or the posts machined that close.
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2 hours ago, 1911vm said:
Its going on SP01. The fire4effect mills specifically for the sight. Its just more $ than I expected. Probably be the most solid fit i guess.
I'd talk to CZ Custom about their plate system. Direct milling is NOT superior from a durability standpoint compared to a good plate system and it's inferior in flexibility and "future proofing".
Direct milling HAS to leave a small gap between the front and rear of the optic and the slide cut. Otherwise there is no way to install and remove the sight, despite what anyone might have led you to believe.
I'm just relying on 26 years of manufacturing engineering experience......
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3 hours ago, Winston_Smith said:
SGT Schultz, I think your response in another thread answers the question. The "E" conversion puts a custom barrel bushing on the gun; since that's not on the "inclusive list" under the ESP rules, I'm assuming that's illegal. Kind of silly when you think about it.
Exactly. If you haven't bought it and are set on IDPA, just tell CGW that you want the package minus the bushing. I doubt the lack of it will make a meaningful difference in sports where the acceptable target area is an 8" circle or a nearly 6X11 rectangle.
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9 minutes ago, Jim Watson said:
If you already have the gun, shoot and enjoy.
I wouldn't waste my money going to anything higher than a club match relying on IDPA's completely arbitrary and confusing rule-making and enforcement. Gentlemen's Agreement? Who can take seriously a sport that relies on something like that?
9 minutes ago, Jim Watson said:If you don't, you should at least consider foregoing the bushing conversion so you will comply with the 2017 written rules
This is what I would do in this case. And go shoot USPSA.
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48 minutes ago, 1911vm said:
My consern was that with the plate system all that holds the optic are the screws. But if I understood correctly what you are saying there a pins that are part of the plate that engage in to the optic and the screws basically keep the optic down. Am I understanding this correctly?
Depends on whose plate system you're talking about. Some rely only on the screws to take all the forces (compression and shear), others rely on a mechanical interconnection between the plate and the slide. That mechanical connection might be studs and holes or it might be shoulders and recesses.
CZ's OEM systems use shoulders and recesses to transfer shear loads between the plate and slide. There are two different patterns, one for the P-10 series and one for the Shadow 2.
P-10. The cross shaped shoulders on the slide cutout engage cutouts of the same shape on the bottom of the optic plate and the filler plate. Yes, there's a tiny bit of clearance between the two (not tolerance, that's a completely different thing) but it's immaterial to durability of the joint (my experience over 15000 rounds) The two pockets are clearance for the optic's screws that thread into the adapter plate.
Shadow 2. Couldn't find a similar picture but you can see a different system of shoulders and recesses at the joint between the plate and the slide. Both the Shadow 2 and P-10 plate systems have studs that engage holes on the bottom of the optic to do the same force transfer.
This is an example of a poorly designed plate to slide interface. This is a Glock MOS slide. There's a raised shoulder that runs front to back but none that runs side to side. The majority of the shearing forces (likely all of them) are taken up by the screws that hold the plate down to the slide. There's a small feature at the front right but I'm not sure if that serves any purpose other than preventing the plates to be mounted backwards.
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4 minutes ago, -JCN- said:
There are certain dot wash out scenarios depending on your light sensor auto-adjust like if you were hiding in a dark room and the target was in a bright hallway where good ol irons would be helpful.
I haven't found one yet and I've gamed them at all times of day and seasons of the year in my home. Not just in light from dark with indoor illumination, but even dark to light looking out into bright sunlight.
I only use Trijicon RMRs for serious use because of how stellar their auto brightness feature is. All bets are off if you're using other brands. I can understand that reluctance from someone using holosun products. I have one as a cheap emergency backup and its brightness auto-adjust is completely useless.
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38 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
Is a dot faster in every situation?
No. But it is faster in most and is never slower if you know what you're doing.
If you suffer from presbyopia (and everyone eventually does), it removes that handicap.
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On 10/28/2021 at 12:10 PM, motosapiens said:
So it sounds like it's your belief that a dot is faster to aim at all times and under all conditions? I appreciate your opinion on this topic.
Why do you like to put words in people's mouths so much?
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9 hours ago, IHAVEGAS said:As I understand it the move to open for a production gun is based upon the ready condition not being as specified in section 8.1.2 . If that is the basis of the move I don't see anything in the rules that would mean a limited gun is not subject to the same criteria when not in one of the described ready conditions. EDIT; Since it specifically states (production gun special conditions 1) the move to open in 1 case - but says nothing along those lines in the other - I think you are correct.
I can't send a limited shooter who starts with a selective action pistol at half cock to open because there is no rule that I can cite that allows me to do that.
You can't construe a rule out of similar circumstances in a different division.
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2 minutes ago, xrayfk05 said:
You don't need a pair of expensive Mepablus for that do you?
I think you would have to ask the surgeon that
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13 hours ago, xrayfk05 said:
How would it work anyway since the microphone will amplify all sound below the max. volume treshold.
They can be turned off, you know.........
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6 hours ago, GeneBray said:If you holster a loaded firearm and the firearm is not in the ready condition for the division, it is a DQ.
Incorrect. Starting a SA pistol with the hammer down when it's supposed to be cocked isn't a DQ. Neither is starting any handgun with an empty chamber when it's supposed to be loaded. Neither is starting a selective action pistol cocked and locked in divisions where it's supposed to start hammer down. Neither is starting a selective action pistol with the hammer at half cock.
If I'm wrong, please help me learn by citing the appropriate sections from the USPSA rulebook.
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50 minutes ago, Jim Watson said:
Lund's statements about SSP are unfortunate. Is he going to reject my Plastic M&P for its grip tape and aftermarket FO sight? Fine under rules but not S&W catalog items.
IDPA doesn't have an official list of rule clarifications and what some guy said on social media doesn't overrule the official rulebook
So who cares what he said?
9 mm flattest shooting round ?
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Differences in trajectory are irrelevant in practical shooting.