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Sounds good. I just don't have a 22 pistol I'd bother with for action shooting.

So there's one stage in it that is multi-gun, which means it's now a multi gun match and you can't jsut shoot carbine or pistol? I jsut want to get out and shoot my rifle.

Sometimes you can't tell by looking at it. Other times, it looks cheap, is cheap, but it's still worth it because frankly everything easily accessible (i.e. you don't have to mail order it at insane prices, or be lucky enough to have a specialty tool source available nearby) is cheap crap too. At least in those cases, HF stuff is priced fairly.

I'm not doing anything other than summarizing the issues that existed with this when I punched out of dealing with that kind of stuff. Pretty much everyone regards it as drag racing with guns, and nobody was interested in telling people what they could run, just trying to break things up enough to make paying out simpler. Pretty much the only realistic motivation to wanting to police people's gear would be if sponsor participation was on the line. At best, if they mirror USPSA, there might be a LEO grouping that would permit duty gear. The reality is if you REALLY care, join SCSA, and contact the people running it as a member to put in your $0.02. Until you join, you are just some dude who happens to show up. Which is also a part of the drive for classification. They want people to join so they can go about the business of being more organized. I've been more involved than I would like in running largish steel and USPSA matches. The USPSA matches have more logistics to hammer away at to being able to shoot, but steel challenge is a huge PITA wrangling the large mass of unaffiliated people, people trying to game your payouts, people of known if any skill, etc. USPSA is a lot of work, but once the first shot is fired, it is all downhill form there. Steel is herding cats and can go pear shaped on you until the last payout check is written, sometimes even after that.

What was being discussed was basically a bunch of divisions. Open, open revolver, limited, limited revolver, cowboy (single action revolver reproductions), compact (anything with a barrel 3.5" or less), rimfire open and rimfire limited. Nobody was talking about limiting gear. There was lots of argument about how to develop classes though. If you pick some core steel challenge stages, declare say the top five times as 100%, you then get some big gaps. The reality with uspsa is that the REALLY good guys are getting over 100% on the classifiers, and the 100% level is based off GMs shooting a novel stage they haven't practiced for. None of the core SC stages are novel to anyone, and the top times are the result of top guy practicing the snot out of those specific scenarios. So then the arguing begins about where 100% is. Thus no classification to date.

A small amount of gas leak is not uncommon. You'll get a small area that looks similar to break pad dust building up on a car. Kind of reddish brown. If you have streaky carbon build ups in fornt of or behind the gas block on the barrel you are leaking a lot of gas. If you are getting the reddish brown dust build up on the bottom of the block and not just the top, you have a moderate amount of leak. If the gun runs, I wouldn't worry too much, although I would tyr to get it out and test it in cold weather this winter. It might not run then without all the gas it can get.

It was an awesome day for shooting. Everything went smoothly.

But does it matter what it is sold as?

The radar map has several nice big storms heading for us. Yay.

Go to Classifiercalc.com or cmcalc.com. Pick your division and the classifier number, and put in your hit factor for that classifier. It will give you back your percentage vs. the high hit factor as calculated by uspsa. That will let you know what percent you'll be logging. Your class will be the average of your first four, or your best six of your last 8 that count. The percents on our site are only in reference to our match. Since vlad didn't post combined, you got 36% of the person who won your division. Uspsa just cares about your hit factor on each stage.

Pro gun and likes to shoot. Both Spielberg and James Cameron are anti and have a couple very serious collections.

The scores are posted

Done and posted

Having been one of the guys behind the big annual world class steel match, having a classification system would have made life easier. Heck, scoring and Lewis system was such a PITA that we had someone write scoring software that scsa was licensing from us. Prior to uspsa buying up the steel challenge and making nice with everyone, there was a real effort to form a competing organization. One of the main things they were going to do was create well defined divisions and classifications. Lots of folks put in a lot of time, energy, and money trying to fix the mess steel challenge had become. What they were trying to get done wasn't to make things harder.

For rifle yes, either. For pistol, the dillons I have used have absolutely sucked. It was like they picked the nearest sized drill bit and said screw it. My .40 one I picked up because I was having ammo issues with a particular barrel passed literally everything. Got a Wilson, it was tight and short, and wouldn't gauge loaded ammo unless it was WELL under saami max. Went with an egw multi caliber, it worked well. Wife got me the 50 hole gauge as a Christmas present. Totally awesome for qc. The sloppy dillon pistol gauges I ran into in multiple calibers, and I've had a few people confirm they had similar issues. The dillon rifle gauges are good to go though.

How does cleaning with stainless affect drying times?

You won't find a cite because calls got through sporadically all day long. It wasn't shut down, it was overwhelmed, as well as some telco infrastructure was destroyed that caused issues for telco.

depends on the size, harbor freight has a roll pin assortment box that might have what you need. Mostly too big for replacing roll pins on guns, but no idea how big of one you can get away with on a stock.

Tac is pretty insensitive to temp swings. There was an American rifleman article on temp sensitivity, that had a few powders. One of the hodgkin extreme powders (not Varget iirc), tac and a couple others. Loaded them all at once and chronoed them over multiple seasons. Iirc the temp spread was 20f to 90f, and tac's muzzle velocity changed less than the Hodgkin powder marketed as enhanced temperature tolerant. It's a very good powder for the ar platform.

Stripped lower gets logged as 'other'. I'll let actual ffls chime in as to what that means here.

I've only got the 55 gr varmint nightmare (vne in the ramshot load data) out to the range yet. I've got a mess of 60-62gr stuff to chrono and test for accuracy waiting for a day I can take off and it isn't raining.

Tac meters like water. No seriously, like don't use it in a lee perfect powder measure, it'll actually work its way out in funny places due to tolerances. Works awesome from my hornady lnl powder measure on a stand with a satern funnel. Nearly as fast a gravity. In my gun I get better accuracy than Varget because the charge is more consistent since I'm not going to trickle every charge to a specific weight. Add to that the issues with seating on a not identical compressed charge, and tac wins.

This is the one thing that kills 9mm for me. The case and bullet are just small enough they give me fits trying to go fast. On my progressive, without a case feeder, I could do about 450-490 an hour in .45 (the duplo blocks of reloading), about 350-400 in .40, and about 200-250 in 9 between fumbling components and $@!?*%# crimped primers sneaking in.

You may get a reprieve. The extended forecast is calling for thunderstorms and rain most of the day. We'll see how it shapes up.

Anything other than bench or prone and they suck. I haven't even found them very good for sitting or kneeling IMO.