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$224.95, you still need a stock, buffer tube, float tube and pistol grip. So you are looking at something like $500-$600 to put it all together from scratch? I suppose if you have an extra 10/22 and a bunch of AR spare parts laying about it is much better option.

You can also shoot left handed - which is what I do. It is surprising how little time it takes before it becomes more natural than shooting right-handed. Slav

Would this be legal in production and Limited divisions? Both divisions allow "Replacement of minor components". It can be argued that removing a minor component is replacing it with nothing. Is that the case? Otherwise this argument is moot for Production and limited divisions. Slav

My G-35 40-9 conversion barrel works fine - so far no issues either with factory ammo or with my reloads and I have used "glocked" brass without a special resizing die. Slav

Why? I have 3 extras to play with to see if it does anything positive/negative. I also know the risk of doubles etc if its screwed up and have a safe place to discharge it at. Its not a self defense or carry gun.... Rather than giving the standard "because the cool kids don't do it," I'd guess you shouldn't because it can result in very little engagement surface, which can cause doubling or full auto if the foot of the striker slips off the sear when the slide travels forward after firing a shot. In addition, if you shorten it, the striker will be released before it is fully retracted to the rear, resulting in light strikes. And because the pros are managing to get seriously light triggers without touching it. Well I am not a pro, but I have stayed at a holliday in express. The question I have is how do you know that pros are not doing it? You do not have to take off a lot of metal to change the feel of the trigger. I doubt you could visually tell the difference between my trigger bar and a stock one. But I have trimmed the sear. I have also trimmed the leg on the striker that engages the sear. I have trimmed the back end (rounded end) of the trigger bar. I have a few thousand rounds through the gun since the last modiffication - no doubling, no light strikes. Maybe there are other ways to do get to a nice trigger, but I am very happy with mine. Slav

74% here as well. I guess I am a B-class mall ninja. My finely honed ninja senses are telling me that the whole test may not be entirely kosher. Well I am packing up my split-toe boots and heading off to Dallas for some more ninja training. I will be a mall ninja GM yet!

When I started in practical shooting, I was absolutely certain that dry-firing would damage my gun. I have no idea how I came by this belief - I think some guy at a gunstore reacted violently to my dryfiring one of the pistols I was looking at. In any case it seems this is a misconception that I am not alone suffering from. I wonder how it came to be. Slav

That is an IPSC Production rule, not USPSA rule. http://www.uspsa.org/rules/production_list.php Correct, we play by the same rules that the rest of the world uses. (Canada). But not when it comes to hockey. Why does NHL get to play on a different size rink than the rest of the world? Just to mention one difference - as there are others. When US shooters compete abroad, they compete by the international rules - just like Canadian hockey players do under the same circumstances. But practical shooting is an American game much like hockey is Canadian, and for the same reason we should not have to follow "the rest of the world" when it comes to our game. Slav

My minor .40 load is 3.5gr of Titegroup under 180gr bullet gets me 130+PF out of G-35 OEM barrel. So it comes down to the price of bullets, which still adds up mighty quick. Slav

Whatever happened to being honest? I will not shoot my 35 with a 9mm conversion barrel in a match because it is not production legal. But I simply do not see how that rule makes any kind of sense. I have weighed the 9mm conversion barrel and it is exactly .5 OZ over the OEM G-35 barrel. So your G-35 with a conversion barrel is within the 2 oz modiffication limit. Other than the weight - which is within the legal modiffication limit - I do not see what possible competitive advantage this combo gives you. Slav

I am right handed and left eye domminant. I started shooting long guns long before I tried pistol shooting. At that point it seemed natural to shoot the pistol with my left hand as well. Fundamentally it does not change the issue of AR mag placement - instead of conflicting with the pistol, they conflict with pistol mags. I placed two AR mag holders on the back of the belt canted towards my right side. While I never had to use more than one, I like having a spare just in case. I can reach them easilly enough. For reloads, I grab the mag off the belt with my right (weak) hand, bring it up, push the mag relaese with the thumb of my right hand then slap the new mag in. This clearly gives up a bit of time to right hand shooters on standing reloads, but im my admitedly limited 3-gun experience, I have never had to do a standing reload. Slav

Nick, this is what I understand the spirit of the rules to be. But I looked through the blue book, and I can find nothing in there that would prevent someone from putting on more than one layer of tape. Slav Check Appendix D4, Item 22 -- the specifically prohibited modifications and features. Changing the factory profile of grips is on that list --- in plain english. No interpretation needed, no spirit of the rules language.... Thanks Nick, it is right there - bullet point #4 - Any addition or removal of material which changes the factory profile or adds function such as beavertail or thumb rest. Very clear indeed. Slav

Nick, this is what I understand the spirit of the rules to be. But I looked through the blue book, and I can find nothing in there that would prevent someone from putting on more than one layer of tape. Slav

Is that right? I see nothing in the book that would indicate otherwise, aside from having the gun still fit in the box and limiting the area where the tape can be applied to. But it seems an awfull lot like a grip enlargement - while grip reduction is clearly not allowed. Slav

I love those things. I own two. They do a great job and do seem to last forever. Slav

It goes both way however. I have no idea how widespread it is, but I personally know two lawyers who have admitted in a private conversation that they overbill their clients - and not by a little. Hey, if everyone paid on time & respected contracts, wouldn't we need a lot fewer lawyers? Slav

I have put about 600 rounds of precision molly coated bullets through my brand new LWD 9mm conversion barrel for my G-35 in two practice sessions - about 300 rounds each. After each session there was signifficant leading in the barrel - more towards the front of the barrel - less towards the back. About 1/2" following the chamber is pretty clear and it gradually builds up towards the front to the point where lands and groves are nearly blended together in the front of the barrel. I thought that that was not supposed to happen with molly coating - at least that is what is claimed on precision front page. I load 147 grain TC over 3.1 grains of Tightgroup with .155 OAL. Slav

I run a 13lb ISMI spring on an ISMI steel guide rod. Works fine, but I also run wolf lightened striker spring. BTW ISMI springs do wear out - I am on my second in about a year. Slav

I find that as a novice it is helpfull for me to elliminate the draw from this drill. Right now I am doing this modified version of the drill using a 1/3 scale IPSC target at 7yards without a timer. I am focus on seeing the sights move and breaking the next shot as soon as the sights settle back in the A-Zone. I will probably start timing myself in a couple of weeks. I am also doing a draw and shoot one drill - also without a timer at this time. My goal is to eventually combine these two into a full Bill Drill. Slav

I feel that for me the lack of consistency in matches is tied directly to my lack of consistency in training. At times I keep up a very good training regiment and it tends to have a very quick positive impact on my performance. At other times I slack off either due to various time pressures of professional or personal life or just out of sheer laziness. This also has a very quick impact on my performance. I tend to try to shoot the same way as when I am training hard but it just results in lots of dropped points and penalties. My question is this - how normal is this? Not the general idea - I understand that generally if you train you perform well and if you do not train you do not. I am surprised by how rapid the swings are. I am a C shooter. A week or two of consistent dryfire and occasionall live fire practice and I feel that I am shooting at mid B (based on match placement). But only a week of slacking off and I am at mid to low C. Based on some conversations with some of the guys I shoot with I have the impression that they are not practicing consistently either - yet I do not see these swings in their performance. Slav

Not jumping onto a doomsday bandwagon, but you can apply the same logic as above to just about every safety rule that we have. For instance - lots of people get DQed for 180 breaks but have any one of those 180 breaks resulted in "armageddon, the seconf coming of christ...etc,etc". How about moving or reloading with finger on the trigger? How about not loading your gun until LMR command? But just because an unsafe practice does not lead to an unfortunate event, does not in fact make it safe. To put it in other terms - no odds are good odds for playing russian roulette when you have an option not to play at all. There is simply no reason at all to disable any safeties on the Glock. It is not going to move you up in class, it will not win a match for you. I am all for improving the trigger feel. But if you hate it so much that you need modiffications extreme enough to disable safeties, perhaps chosing a different gun is the way to go. So how do you feel about disabling 1911 grip safeties and firing pin safeties? I own a 1911, but I shoot a Glock. I know its internals intimately. I can not comment on what is good or not good for 1911. I'll let others comment on that.

Not jumping onto a doomsday bandwagon, but you can apply the same logic as above to just about every safety rule that we have. For instance - lots of people get DQed for 180 breaks but have any one of those 180 breaks resulted in "armageddon, the seconf coming of christ...etc,etc". How about moving or reloading with finger on the trigger? How about not loading your gun until LMR command? But just because an unsafe practice does not lead to an unfortunate event, does not in fact make it safe. To put it in other terms - no odds are good odds for playing russian roulette when you have an option not to play at all. There is simply no reason at all to disable any safeties on the Glock. It is not going to move you up in class, it will not win a match for you. I am all for improving the trigger feel. But if you hate it so much that you need modiffications extreme enough to disable safeties, perhaps chosing a different gun is the way to go.

Would a watch like this be legal in Production division or would it constitute an external weight that aids in recoil control? Slav

Not yet. But I will be going to Summer Blast this year. Slav

York http://www.yorkiwlaipsc.org/ is about 1:30 from you. Slav