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IMHO lightened striker is a must with a lightened striker spring. That is what I have in my competition Glocks and they go bang every time without the need for Federal primers.

I bought this gun new back in 2005. I had put maybe 200-300 rounds through it back then and its been sitting in the safe ever since. Recently I got this crazy idea that I should shoot a revolver in competition. So a couple of weeks ago I started to dry fire it semi regularly and fired another 100 rounds through it. Last night in the middle of dry firing the gun started behaving erratically. Sometimes pulling the trigger would cock the hammer as normal and sometimes it would only rotate the cylinder. I took it apart and found that a tiny spring that is a part of the hammer assembly broke. Looking at the diagram I believe it is called a sear spring. Is this a common occurrence with this model?

First thing I thought of when I first saw this video.

Sometimes you can read/watch/hear great advice and instruction but it simply does not sink in. I am going on four years of practical shooting and only really "got it" a couple of months ago. I was doing a decent amount of dry firing - at times daily at times not so much. At times I was doing live fire practice regularly and at times not. There was a definite slow improvement but I was never able to reach consistency. Shooting a clean stage seemed more a matter of luck than intent. But about six or eight months ago I kinda lost focus on shooting. My practice time went to pretty much nothing. So after a rather prolonged period of not even unlocking my gun safe I came to one of our practice matches. Knowing that I was out of practice I resolved that I would just slow it down and not focus on time at all. So when the buzzer went off I fairly calmly and deliberately drew, saw a sight picture, pulled the trigger, saw a sight picture, pulled the trigger and so on. When I needed to move, I moved when I needed to reload I reloaded. Speed was never a thought and I felt like I was going pretty slow. I got good hits and was pretty happy. I then saw another shooter on the stage and he was really moving. Everything he did was fast. "Wow, I wonder what his time is." I thought to myself. When his time was called it was within a few tenth's of a second of mine (I don't remember if it was higher or lower). It is funny how this complex sport for me ended up breaking into one simple rule - When you see an acceptable sight picture, pull the trigger. I now focus on speed in practice only. In matches I simply shoot and let the speed take care of itself.

Come to think of it the OP does not mention changing the primer feed tube from the large to the small one either.

During my son's last hockey practice the coach had them push a tire around the ice with a stick, play tug of war with the stick, run through an obstacle course that included hopping over a low barrier and diving to slide under a higher barrier and a whole bunch of other things that you will never see in a hockey game. Yet they were definitely practicing to play hockey.

I do not shoot IDPA often. When I do I usually shoot something other than what I shoot in USPSA just for some variety. This year it will probably be a 4" 686.

Possibly because some people have an unreasonable aversion to getting shot while playing a game.

I think this thread can be pretty much summed up as - "It is not the game, it is the people in the game." It seems that wherever there are good people to welcome the new shooters into the game, you will get participation and retention of new shooters regardless of which alphabet soup you are shooting.

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+1000 for cardboard. I bought that dryfire kit. It felt nothing like my trigger and broke in a couple of weeks of use.

I don't know....Captain Chris has judo-chop. And Chuck Norris may have been ruined by all of that martial arts crap.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!!! ORDER NOW AND YOU GET A SET OF WALL CLIMBING NINJA SHOES ABSOLUTELY FREE. That's right these are the exact replicas of shoes worn by the last ninja who offed the last samurai right after he taught Captain Chris everything he knew.

I think the sidebar on the right is pure comedy gold.

Show me the way captain Chris!

I feel that I need to change my answer. After spending about a full season of doing video I now feel that the best camera for competition is none. I have recently not been in the mood to take videos and have noticed a significant drop in mental errors and an overall improvement in performance. I think this has to do with spending the last few moments just prior to shooting focusing on how I am going to shoot the stage and not on getting the camera on my head and turning it on. On the flip side I have not seen anything on the first person video that I did not notice during the match so as a training aid it has not been of help. I think being filmed from the side gives you more when it comes to that side of it. Your mileage may vary.

I really do not know what has come over me. Maybe it is lack of sleep or perhaps too much stress at work. Lately I've been fixated on this insane idea. I've been trying ignore it, but it will not go away. I've tried all the indisputable logical arguments that expose the true insanity of this urge. But nothing has worked. So almost against my will I took my 686 revolver out of the safe and started dry firing it. How do I get off this path that leads to madness!

It becomes even harder when you have a ski rack up on your roof rack. If I am at home I bring out one of those folding contractor benches and get up on it with a long handled broom. Still I only manage to get most of of it off.

Wish the site would post some technical specs on these and some user videos.

Maybe at higher levels it makes more of a difference. At B class I can switch from one to the other with about 10 minutes of dry fire.

I have purchased three firearms via gunbroker and lots of parts and accessories. In fact I am about to head out to pick one up from the FFL. All of transactions were very smooth. Two of them where with sellers who had a lot of positive feedback. One was with a first time seller, but the price was so good that I had to take a chance. I sweated that one until I got a call from my FFL telling me the gun was in his hands. So far all of my experiences have been positive.

Why would that be a problem? Mag capacity is covered in the rules. Clothing is a matter of comfort. It could be colder in the morning and warm up later. I may want to remove a sweater, gloves or change into shorts from long pants. What difference does it make? I do not believe the rules prohibit any of it.

+1 on using the middle finger to work the mag release. Some lefties use the trigger finger. I would try both and see what works for you better. With a little practice the technique becomes extremely natural. I own several firearms with reversible mag releases. I keep them all in the "righty" configuration which IMHO should be called "lefty" configuration. I disagree about the extended mag release button. For me they leave a bloody blister on the inside of my middle finger. I have swapped the mag releases on both of my G-35s to a standard one and actually feel that it is more comfortable to work with.

Love Maiden. They were my first rock concert as well. Madison Square Garden in 1986. Saw them in 2008 at the PNC Arts Center in NJ. It is a mostly outdoor venue and just as they were setting up a massive thunderstorm rolled in. I do not think anyone cared. It was a great show. Lightning storm just added to the pyrotechnics.