Artemas
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Finally read the FAQs (3/11)
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Visually checked as they move around the shell plate, final check when every thing goes through the hundo case gauge, 70,000+ with no issues. Anything short of a crack or wrong caliber has been good to go for me.
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Working for a small organization, I wear a few hats in my job, by choice mind you. I like doing a bunch of different things and found a good work flow to accomplish my tasks effectively and often well before the end of my shift; and have done so for 3 years . I was promised a decent and much needed raise at the end of the 2023 however some unexpected slow downs curbed that. One of my duties involves preparing the financial reports, so I knew first hand the raise wasn't going to happen and I was ok with it, figuring in a few months things would get back to normal and we would recover. In the mean time I have noticed some of my duties being reduced and now we have 2 new full time hires and an outside consultant. None of which we can afford. Last Friday I asked the Director if there was room in the budget for my raise(since we can apparently hire people), but was told I would have to wait until at least this summer. I got to work this morning and was then told due to a schedule change I have the day off... I guess showing data indicating that we need to rethink our operational model to stay in business wasn't a great idea.
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I went 5 years or so shooting 6-8 matches a month and a ton of time in practice between them. Post covid ammo/gas prices and just general burnout I slowed down a lot. I don't enjoy shooting anymore, but I like going to matches. Now it's maybe 2-3 a month if I even feel like going that weekend. I am still competitive in locals, I still enjoy the game, but if I found something new tomorrow I'd be out.
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That's the NY2 setup, that makes it into a 12lb pull if I remember correctly
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I guess I am on the fence about it. I don't shoot majors that often to begin with and I am starting to feel like I need to take a year off the sport to refresh and reevaluate my interest. I do like having an "official" way to track my progress in the sport via the classifiers (which are not perfect) and locking in what I have achieved so it's there when I am ready again, does have some meaning to me.
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Watching Jim and Shooting USA as a teenager is where I learned about IDPA, USPSA, and much of my early firearm information. If a TV personality has ever affected my life, it was Jim Scoutten. I am truly saddened to hear of his passing.
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unloaded I am at 50 oz with my Shadow 2 with SSi 4.0s with the tungsten inserts, 53oz with a empty mag. I have put a TLR 1 one just for laughs and can get to around 58oz with it. I go back and forth with taking the inserts out, the thing is borderline too heavy for me
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Work culture + ban state I know one guy(medical profession) where his (former) company's HR team dug up a FB picture of him at a rifle class and they fired him on the spot because it "does not represent our family values" Yes our sport is public and it's a risk that some people chose to take, but taking some personal security measures is not a bad thing.
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For those of us who know how, yes. I have ID'ed "anonymous" people from their youtube videos in under 10 minutes, but if you don't know practiscore or have a USPSA membership it's tougher. We have a few people working in sensitive areas who would be at risk of losing their job (and some have) if their name/picture/video were to show up in social media in relation to a firearm.
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IDPA Long form classifier ESP SS, match bump to expert 3 days later (2018) ESP Master (2019) SSP Master (2023) Both are match bumps from the 1 match a year I still shoot USPSA Production Master (2021) First division, started off the rip at A in 2019) Single Stack Master (2022) only shot 1 match and it was a classifier match with all 20 or newer) Limited Master (2023) GSSF Master(2018)
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Leave them on the range and let the club member ship shoot them until there's nothing left. That's what happens to ours.
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Yes It's kinda regional. according to the activity results it's the second most shot division. I just don't know where https://www.reddit.com/r/USPSA/comments/xde0si/breakdown_of_uspsa_activity_in_2022/ I shoot either Limited or Production, but seldom see more than 10 others in a match and even that many is rare.
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This is a weird one, it seems you can do ok with 1 penalty in some divisions I shot it last year in Limited with a line break no-shoot and some deltas: 110 pts 23.39 seconds 4.2753 HF 85.9% Last weekend it was a mike(WHO on the far right array) and some deltas but slightly faster than before 104 pts 20.97 seconds 4.4826HF 90% Ended up making Limited Master by a margin of 0.2% because of this one!
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100% If I lose any of my PPE I am stopping regardless of the RO's call. If I get a reshoot, fine. If not, a bad stage is better than a permanent disfiguring injury/hurting someone else.
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From what I understand most of the issues where solvable with some spring changes and very specific ammo. Somewhere on PF is a very long thread from a SME LEO about problems with issuing the G22s and G23s on a large scale. edit: found the link, page 5 has the post that I was specifically referring to, but the whole thing is interesting if you are into that. https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?13852-40-S-amp-W-and-Glocks