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Yep, see it now. Didn't see the fault lines and openings to the R and L of the door.

Illegal, too many required shots from the door. Shoot throughs with two left and two right double targets with N/S and the double targets to far left and right shot from the door.

Episode 4 is now on Hulu to watch. The plates looked aligned for Jim to me as well. Andre is pure unadulterated dead weight...

Relax. Tension is the main cause, especially in close, fast senarios. On those quick, close targets is really easy to have a grip like a vise when really trying to go through the array. The harder you grip with your strong hand the more tension you create in that hand. That tension also affects your trigger finger. Proper grip should take care of it. Flyin This. If you get the opportunity, take a class with Ron Avery. He covers this issue very well.

Congrats to Cha-lee (Big Panda) for 1st M in Limited and 4th overall behind Todd Jarrett, Ron Avery, and Blake Miguez. That's some serious company at an Area match for a guy shooting for two years.

Get a SS non-captured rod... As for swapping factory rods and springs back and forth... Just go shoot the piss out of it and stop worrying about this. If you want to, change it out for a new one every year. Seriously, Some of you are putting WAY too much thought into this issue. Every 5000 rounds? I would have had to of changed the OEM every month the first two years I started shooting USPSA at that round count. Instead, I put a 13lb spring in there (sometimes with 3 coils cut off) and shot the gun all year. Swapped all the springs out in the 'the spring', and did it all over again the next year. It's a Glock and an ISMI spring.

Weight each powder charge for all of your chrono ammo with S1000, and don't be suprised if you see no velocity change from .1 gr changes. It's big fluffly flaked powder, and sometimes it tough to get quantative results from just .1 gr's of powder. S1000 doesn't throw nice and neat like N320 and TG from the powder throw. It gave me absolute fits the first time I tried it. You will have to throw 30+ test charges to dial it in, and you will have to test powder throws a lot more often during the reloading sessions in comparison with other powders. I tested a throw every 20-25 rounds when first reloading ammo with S1000. I learned a lot about my powder throw with S1000 doing this and now keep my power reservoir filled within a certain range to keep the throws consistant. I don't like it with 115gr 9mm rounds. It just won't get to 130pf without some pressure concerns. 124s and up will work just fine. I used it for 165-200gr bullets in .40 cal, and 200 and 230 gr bullets in 45 ACP. They all shoot well within my needs. It's great stuff, but not trouble-free. Once you get the powder throw kinks worked out you will like the results. It's by far the best powder I've found with lead and moly bullets. I usually don't recommend it to brand new reloaders though as it can be frustrating for a newbie.

It's really a feel thing. The only way you will tell what works best for you is to buy a couple of springs and try them out. They are cheap and it never hurts to have a few spares lying around. I don't recommend going lighter than 15 lbs on the recoil spring unless you are also going to run a light striker spring as this can sometimes cause the gun to not want to fully lock into battery. The two springs work against each other during trigger pull. The difference between a captured and non-captured for assemby and disassembly is not even a discussion. They both are simple and a non-captured is far from making these processes more difficult. As for changing the recoil springs, the non-captured is 'pull one off and put one on'. The non-captured is just a PITA for this.

Micah, just a few things to think about that I learned when I made my G24 a couple years back. Look into the Lightning Strike Ti safety plunger if you don't round the OEM one out during your trigger jobs, or round out the edges to a smooth curve and get rid of the ridges. It makes all the difference in the initial trigger pre-travel feel. Watch out for front sight snag with the sight extending out the bottom of the DOH. It was horrible with mine as I was using a Dawson .285h FO front sight. With the .205h front it should clear a lot better but it depends on the sight channel's depth and width. If you feel resistance during a draw in the future, that's probably where it came from. That sight has to clear the holster on the way up and a little flex in the draw can be enough to snag it. I couldn't get my G24 to pass the lock-up test with a 13lb recoil spring after I installed a KKM barrel and had to go to a 15 lb spring. I couldn't tell if you swapped barrels or not in the pics. Mine ran just fine with a 15.

+1. I do not understand why that modification would be needed for a Limited gun. +2. Lowering the ejection port isn't needed at all on the G24. I built one years back with a KKM barrel and completely redid the internals with aftermarket parts. The ejector and extractor stayed stock. It ran like a raped ape.

Those that show interest, I educate. Those that show distain, I ignore. Regardless of which, I refuse to feel or show shame in who I am or the rights I have. That doesn't mean I walk around looking for a fight, but if I want to wear a USPSA or firearms related shirt or something like that I wear it. If it upsets someone, then I know who to try to educate or ignore.

Well, Andre hit the target that eluded Seeklander. No, it was the 50 yd tgt, and his spotting was less than stellar. Even if he couldn't see so well, it was like he just stood there and said "I can't see anything". Andre coasts... Seen this done professionally by the best in the military, and Andre is good at it. He won't put himself in a position of risk at all and just wants to slip by. We'll see how it turns out over the next episodes...

+1 I have no doubt the 2011 trigger is easier to be accurate with in comparison to M&P, but you don't have to give into the 'quicker, easier, more seductive' allure to shoot better. You do have to practice just as much and learn along the way to become a better shooter. Good instruction and hard practice... It's been debated here more than once if the 2011 is easier and faster to learn with, and I still believe it is, but it's quantitatively miniscule in comparison to good instruction and 5000 hours of practice.

That's paramount to using facts and logic to do battle against hyterical emotion. An unfair tactic, and sadly, rarely effective. True, but they either don't get it or they get insulted. Both makes them go away, and I get the opportunity to determine if they're just ignorant or just stupid.

I would say it depends on when you plan to start reloading. If you don't plan on reloading at this time, then get the G34. If you plan to start reloading extremely soon, then get the G35. I also recommend people start out in Limited if possible if within their equipment limitations. I will say though, starting out in any division is better than waiting.

I would have shot Andre's target every time so far if I was on the red team. He has unimpressively done nothing or worse in any of the shooting challanges, and socially hasn't brought anything close to leadership or cohesiveness either.

I usually tell them, "owning and shooting firearms doesn't automatically make one lose control of their emotions, intelligence, or sanity. In fact, it does the opposite. You don't shoot, do you."

Pretty light by my last hearing from our CPA gu-ru. I suspect they will come in hot and heavy in the next 45 days.

We shot it at last weekend at HPPS.

If you want an 'unsmooth' stage, one that just disrupts flow, this one is it. Plates were about 12-15 yds out. Spread Out (2).doc

Better specify in the WSB that all shots through the port, or you might get someone shooting from under the table depending on how it looks after set-up.

If you take both outside fault lines and run them to the top back corner of the rear fault line, then run two inside fault lines from the two front areas back to the legs of the rear wall, you open up the opportunity for someone to attempt shooting on the move. As it stands, it's plant and shoot with transitions. You will rpobably have to tweak the center targets a little to prevent shoot-throughs if you do this, but it looks like that can be done easily by either widening the center a little or moving the back wall forward a little.

On Six cubed, I would remove the two outside N/S's. It turns both of those targets as options from the outside of the walls. Now the shooter has to decide when and where to engage them.

Just remove the front fault line and specify in the WSB that the door frame (if there's a bottom part) is a fault line. If there's not bottom door frame, just nail down some fault line in the inside of the door.

Depends, If the previous shooter was shooting a .40 or .45 and you were shooting a .355 and you had a miss on the untapped target and the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars. Then maybe you could get the reshoot. Sorry Alan, but I disagree. You cannot determine if the miss was legitimate or if one .355 round went through one of those .40-.45 caliber holes. Pinman gets a reshoot (and owes me a beer.)