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I know the RO very well. Spanky, you're right... he wouldn't have dinged you if he wasn't sure. Keep up the good attitude, and don't second guess your ability to safely go through a COF at speed. DQ's happen to everyone if they stay in this long enough. I started over 20 years ago, and it happened to me 4 times from 94 to 95 in a short 14 month time span. 2 ad's, 1 180, and I swept my arm opening a window port in the LA state match.
Go right back to Amite, and kick it.
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I got my USPSA life membership when they were $250.00 That was a good deal.
I paid the intstallment plan to NRA of $60.00 down, with 11 quarterly payments of $40.00 for a total of $500.00 starting in 1991. I'd do that if USPSA had that set-up and I was looking to become a life member.
FWIW, ICORE is only $175.00. That's a great deal and I was glad I did it.
Is it just me, or do the rest of you hate a yearly bill coming to the mailbox saying you owe money?
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I didn't dq with it, but I was getting used to my new Shadow in late 2008, doing a little plate rack work when it slipped. The slide came back as the gun discharged and hit me in the sternum...
that hurt. Now I hold the gun out slighty to my strong side, away from my body while doing that part of "make ready..."As another shooter pointed out, just don't be in a hurry and you'll be fine. I haven't worried about it since it happened, just made sure I was smooth and safe.
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This poor dead horse is being beaten with the ball bat of integrity and the golf club of policy intent.
I'm a simple fun shooter that see's a shooter making multiple classifier runs and thinks wow what an ego. And when we go to a major match and they try to duplicate that absolute best run and crash and burn, I think wow that classifier update didn't work. I don't see a problem with a reshoot for an equipment failure because it is a win for the club and not the shooter. True the shooter may get reclassified as a result of a reshoot but can they duplicate at a major match when all the marbles are involved. (Back in the day, marbles was a sport where cheaters would dig out the steelies to break your shooter or they used a marble twice the size of yours to win all the marbles in the pot.) In today's shooting world any one can score a major upset by being a little more consistent than the king of the hill. So in today's world a shooter reshoots a classifier to get a percentage that gets them an upgrade and they become the darling of their local club. So they go to an Area match and discover they are in a pool of gar instead of perch and they get eaten. Or they get lucky and the big gar are not there and they escape victorious. Now they take that sense of being to the Nationals where the gar are minnows for the sharks.
Unless you are a shark don't think that looking like a shark will allow you to survive.
Nice. Very well stated.
I don't re-shoot classifiers...never have. I'm Master in Production and Limited and earned those cards, so I'm always amused at the shooters that show up at big matches who've dug that hole. My guess is it makes them feel good at the locals to see that "M" by their name, but sure hurts when it's big show time.
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I haven't shot IDPA in a long time...
I do USPSA, ICORE and steel.
One point I'd like to make is this: If you don't DQ a new shooter, and just "let it slide, " and on the next stage they have another safety infraction and kill someone, do you really want to be the person that let that happen?
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The two very challenging things about Production are more mag changes (takes skill), and minor scoring (must get A's). I hope it stays just the way it is.
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To keep it easy on Flex, you and I are done, Chad.
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I've been shooting USPSA since 1989. I hope this practice is outlawed in the rules before someone is seriously injured.
Does this mean you have been shooting USPSA since 1989 and in 21 years nobody has been seriously injured by this technique?
Yawn....
I'll take that as a yes. Thanks.
Take it any way you want to. I know a shooter that took a piece of .40 lead to the chest from a high primer/long ejector. He had to go to the ER to have it taken out.
Some of us have been around a little longer than you.
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I've been shooting USPSA since 1989. I hope this practice is outlawed in the rules before someone is seriously injured.
Does this mean you have been shooting USPSA since 1989 and in 21 years nobody has been seriously injured by this technique?
Yawn....
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There are 2 good reasons this should be outlawed:
1. If there is an out of battery discharge, shooters/ros can, have and will be injured no matter what speed you unload the gun in an upright position. The solution is simple. Write a rule that requires the shooter to rotate the ejection port towards the ground, so if it happens, the blast goes down thereby taking the blast away from the ro's/shooters faces.
2. When a shooter does the flip and catch, it takes their attention from where it belongs...the gun. That's unsafe. There are plenty of vids on youtube that prove that fact.
This IS a safety issue that doesn't affect anyone's scores. If, and when someone is injured, or worse, the lawsuit will read... "Knew, or should've known..."
We know. Let's fix it.
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I've been shooting USPSA since 1989. I hope this practice is outlawed in the rules before someone is seriously injured. The liabilty far outwieghs the benefit of allowing this to continue.
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188....
WOW!
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Congrats. Lee!
Cliff C.
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3.2 of Clay's universal gets 132 and change out of a G-17.....very accurate.
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I got it from Angus.Not familiar with any odd feelings or noise with a steel rod. All mine functioned the same as the delrin rod, just didn't get chewed up.
Who manufactured the steel rod??
That's the one my friend had. Very skinny with a bevel that was supposed to follow the curve of the barrel. That end had a little "tip" on it. That end of the guide rod would rotate out of position causing the gun to lock up. Took the gun apart and removed it, dropped the plastic one back in and it cleared up.
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I saw the back of a rod lock a Shadow up in a match. Dropped the plastic rod back and the shooter hasn't had more problems.
I run the plastic rod in mine also.
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...a feeding nightmare for sure.
Beat me to it!
The one on the right is like the bullets I used for pins in the early 90's.
I it DPS steel and DTR USPSA this past weekend...where were you?
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Nice to see all the different makes and models up there. I really like Production class.
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Like Pat said, the Leck's were a big part of the Mississippi Classic in the 90's. Cheryl was a sweet, warm person who gave much back to the sport she loved.
RIP, Cheryl.
Cliff Cargill
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My feet are wrecked, but I can't stop smiling! Great match. Like Boz said we got lucky and landed on a squad of really cool folks. The weather was actually pretty good to us. We had a little precip at times but other than a light sprinkle I don't think any of us ever had to actually shoot in the rain.
There were several stages that really intrigued me by how many solutions they presented. I love it when a walk-through looks like ants milling around at a picnic because there's so many different ways to shoot that stage.
Targets were sprayed with lacquer or something that made tham laugh at the rain, and the pasters loved sticking to that stuff. John (or somebody) please tell us what it was and how you applied it. It was wonderful not to have to shoot bagged or droopy-headed targets.
I made some new friends and got to put faces to a good many screen names here. That's an awesome weekend get-away!
I am not sure about what kind of lacquer that was used, but I will check with Matt Moorer, Mr. Fixit for the match. He came up with that idea back during the 2004 MS (monsoon) Classic. We have since always kept a couple of hundred targets stashed upstairs just in case. He brought out his compressor and sprayer and just sprayed the stuff on.
Works good doesn't it?
Matt Moorer= "MattGyver"
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It killed the match I was going to in Gonzales, LA.
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Hey Cliff - I thought your Shadow looked really dirty when you showed it to me last month - you do have to clean it once in awhile!
Shooting N320, I don't find any major problems with dirt. However, the design leaves a lot of the action work exposed so it's easy to see the dirt that accumulates. I find the top of the breech face (where it meets the slide) creates a trap for hard residue, and I have to remove my extractor and clean that area every few thousand rounds or risk extraction problems. There are areas around the trigger and trigger bar that get fairly gunked up, but it doesn't bother anything if it's kept well lubricated.
Hey buddy..
. I don't clean mine until having to go to the ER for stitches from burnt carbon hitting me in the face. You mean we're NOT supposed to do that? -
Major?In 38 SC?
I'm glad we don't have to do that in ICORE.
that hurt. 
. I don't clean mine until having to go to the ER for stitches from burnt carbon hitting me in the face. You mean we're NOT supposed to do that?
Please help. my Shadow thumb safety won't engage.
in CZ
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When I purchased my Shadow from the Custom Shop, the safeties on both sides wouldn't function at all. I sent back it to Angus and they made the repair.