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Actually I have a plethora of CZ’s, for whatever reason I just decided to shoot a striker fired pistol this year. I’ll never part with my CZ’s, just changing scenery.

Until now I have been shooting CZ for years, the Tanfoglio was in my radar but I went cheap this time around. Slowly working on some .40 minor loads and can already tell I’m really going to like this round in minor PF. The larger hole will also be welcomed. I need all the help I can get lol

Just picked up the pistol yesterday, got the Jagger guide rod installed and starting with a 15lb spring. Tomorrow I’ll work on a load using the VV N320 until I can locate some Clays powder.

Only powder I have on had is N320, I’m going to try that first. I have also read a lot of good things about using Clays as well, kind of hard to find at the moment though.

I think I found what I need to keep me in SSP, I ordered a Jagger gen5 guide rod. Should be here this week.

Just an update, I came across Jagger Products and their gen5 steel captured guide rods. Doesn’t list spring options so I emailed them to see if different spring weights was an option somehow.

Good afternoon everyone, I’m sure this will will end badly for me but that’s just par for course with me lol. Thinking about purchasing a G22 gen5 for IDPA SSP. I know I know 9mm is where it’s at, but I just want to try something different this year. I will be loading to minor PF and not sure how to tune the recoil spring on these newer captive style guide rods. I’ve seen bushing adapters that allow the use of a standard guide rod, but don’t think this will be legal in SSP. I also read that the gen5’s use a longer guide rod due to the newer lug design on the marksman barrels. Any suggestions (besides going 9mm lol) on what I need to get and still be SSP legal. Thank you all.

You ain’t the only one patiently waiting lol.

Another suggestion, and you'd be surprised how much girth it can actually add is to try a bicycle tire tube. Cut a small chunk out and stretch it over the entire grip. Sounds silly but it works, even just temporary till you find a more permanent solution. Nice thing is you don't have to make any permanent modifications.

Totally agree, and after adding up what this extra round cost me I’m not feeling so well lol. Anyways, just to follow up I ended up with the Grams follower and 11 coil spring kit FKCL-11 and able to get 20 rounds in each mag. No go on 21, maybe after some break in on the springs but I’m happy at 20. Have yet to verify if 20 is reloadable but I believe it will be. There was a note on the grams packaging that the springs were already “tuned” so I installed as is. Hope to do some live firing this weekend and see what happens. Thank you all for the help and suggestions.

Well said and certainly not the first time I’ve been accused of over thinking something. Thank you

I’ve only competed in 1 match so far and that was last year. Is there a average height the paper targets get set to on regular stages. I see the classifiers use 5’ at the shoulder pretty much standard.

Yeah, I guess my comment about scaling the height was probably not the correct wording lol. What height do you normally use, I picked 5’ because that seems to be the standard for the classifiers. I’m new to both USPSA and dry fire so please be patient with me and the stupid questions.

I just made what i feel is a great investment in some Ben Stoeger books and some of his 1/3 and 1/6 scaled dry fire targets. Reading through his Dryfire reloaded book, I see no mention of target height. I'm all set up in my basement using stands that I made, currently have the shoulders of the 1/3 scaled USPSA targets set at 5 foot just like most of the qualifiers are. This just doesn't look right to me. Is it possible the height is scaled similar to the way the distance is scaled?

Sounds good, I appreciate your help