persona non grata

I think everyone has hit on the positive aspects of why they would come back to a match. Now let me focus on at least two negative aspects that will make me never, ever return to a match. If I even suspect something fishey went on with the scores (i.e. pencil whipping, i.e. cheating) in the stats shack, I won't be back. If there is one hint something fishey went down with any of the prize distributions, I won't be back. Those two are absolutes in my book. I do not reward unethical behavior by paying that club my match fee ever again.

good point Larry! Although I have seen a few newbs posting in the classifieds with less than 50 posts. In the other thread, I wrote how I wouldn't want to be squadded with the guy. If I had to be squadded with him, I would watch him like a hawk. Just what other lapses in integrity would he demonstrate on the range given the chance?

Boats wrote: Would buying a Savage rifle with their quick barrel nut changing system be any quicker/cheaper? Yeah, stop laughing, I know it is a Savage and their cheap and their bores aren't that perfect and a little lapping helps with that. Just curious if having a Savage is advantageous in that regards.

oops... never mind mods/admin. not only is this guy dumb enough to brag on the internet amongst a lot of other shooters about how he cheated one of the main supporters of our sport, but he posted it twice. weird.

hey, mods/admin, if you all are going to clean up threads like this, please, just close down the thread. Then sticky it at the top of this subsection with the title of "Don't cheat Dillon!"

Basically, the 550 $%#$'s where it eats. @JThompson, while you are working on a fix for the 550 primer slide mechanism, could you upgrade a primer slide so it would be sturdy enough to swage primer pockets? No, not necessarily at the same time as it seats primers. There's just got to be faster or more efficient ways to swage primer pockets than that Dillon swage tool. Less on the press time = bad. More on the press time = good. Especially if you have a casefeeder.

Now, just imagine if he is willing to sacrifice his integrity for a few cheap small parts from Dillon, imagine what this guy is like on the range or at matches. If I was squadded with you, I would be watching you like a hawk. Actually, if I had it my way, I wouldn't squad with you. Period. Dot. End of story.

An real quick wake up call to these gunstores hogging all the amo is to send them a nasty-grham letting them know that you won't ever be buying any guns from them in the futre. If you happen to have any transfers that need to be done, you will go through a basement/garage/kitchen table FFL instead. the icing on the cake is to tell them you're going to tell all your shooting friends what they have been doing.

I thought there was some technique called radio frequency ablation that shrunk down discs. Maybe it's too late when the disc has already burst/herniated. For RFA, I think they stick a small wire through the skin into the disk or what is left of it and then zap it with RF. It seemed less invasive than getting all carved up.

Where's Oak Park?

So it's a an 8 shot 627 for ICORE and steel, and then a .45 ACP chambered 625 for IDPA and USPSA? Gotchya, now.

Do all these 627's come with 5 inch barrels? Do they make a 627 with a 4 inch barrel that would make the weight limit for IDPA? You can only load 6 in IDPA according to its rulebook.

So let me get this straight, the wheel gun guys are planning to shoot an 8 shot revolver "chambered" for .38 Super (not Super Comp), but actually shoot 9mm Para rounds captured in moon clips and only zipping out at minor PF. So if I have that right, in USPSA competitions, they can load up all 8, but only shoot 6 in the revolver division. So that means after a run through a stage there's going to be lots of moonclips with 2 live rounds and 6 empties still stuck in them. If you really intended to shoot all 8 rounds, you could shoot production. Is that right? If in production, does that mean all the moonclip holders have to be behind your weak side hip? In a way, I am thinking this is similar to minor PF'ed guns vs. major PF'ed guns in the single stack division. If I have it right, if you shoot a 9mm 1911 in single stack, you can start out at 10+1. But if you shoot a .40 or .45 1911 at major PF, then you are stuck with just 8+1. maybe I am making the wrong analogy here maybe I have that bass ackwards now.

could somebody explain to me the logic behind getting a wheelgun chambered in .38 Super? I guess if you are shooting moon clips, you will be getting all that brass back after you complete the stage. But still, that stuff is expensive.

at least on the winchester ones where the carboard sleeves are perforated, you can tear off the front or back cover and then stick it in the slot in the front of your akrobins on on your dillon. that way it keeps either excess brass from falling out of the front of the brass bin or loaded rounds from bouncing out of the loaded round bin when a fresh comes off the press. the actual plastic part... no idea....

I will never, ever fly on a commercial airliner with my guns checked in as baggage. I have driven 15 hours one way for a nat's level event.

wouldn't any generic IDPA scoresheet work?

Anything by Zak Smith is good!

NO!

That is match points, not actual points shot... He shot more points than TGO if you look at each one's points shot on each stage. and justa to piggyback on what Matt said, if you're wantin to investigate it furether look at HF's. I will give you a hint, the #3 guy had higher hit factors than the #2 guy, but i guessin stage points is where its at.

Do .22LR bullets activate the stop plate at the big shoot in Piru?

A drill press, the correct sized drill bit, a tap, and some set screws around the "lip" of the toolhead and you can eliminate the up and down play.

Supposedly the 6.8 SPC is or was derived from the .30 Remington case, which is or was like the .30-30 lever action round, but without the rim. According to this link: http://www.dillonhelp.com/rl550benglish/ca...s_ref_chart.htm The Dillon 550 press will take shellplate "R" with locator button #2. I am looking around the Dillon Help website but I just can't find the 650 shellplate conversion chart.

Wasn't the Single Stack Nat's going on this weekend? You could have shot that and cured your withdrawl symptoms.

Looking at combined scores for USPSA local matches is not a good idea. EZWinScore will spit out hiccups when handing out stage pounts across divisions. I wish there was a way in EZWinscore to just rank order people by their hit factors or their total hit factors for a match.