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Having set up WCS's rimfire steel side match for several years. 22 won't take down jack if they aren't set properly. (ok, maybe the really teeny knockdown steel that doesn't get dragged out for much is hard to set too ehavy unless it has something wrong with it.) So unless someone is keeping certain folks away from setting some plates heavy for reasons that don't really make any sense, you might have issues even double tapping it.

The price is wrong! Next player.

Sorry, but with regards to the credit default swap shenanigans, the banks are culpable, they weren't some doe eyed innocent. Then you have things like pulling BS with gold leases vs metal on hand, while at the same time acting in collusion with their mining contractors to limit ingot size to drive up metal prices for small quantities to justify pushing up lease prices while extending the "reserve ratio" on the metal they actually did have. Then you have folks like goldman sachs opening up commodities warehouses so they can delay release of materials and get an advantage on spot markets. Add to that that you have a few key banks that have access to all trade date just a wee bit sooner than everyone else. The fact that goldman sachs has had cronies in most of the top positions of federal money management for way too long doesn't help. There's nothing wrong with banking and making a buck, there's definitely something wrong with the current state of banking.

Still not bigger around than my thumb.

Hmm.. I know of several 16" midlength uppers that run jsut fine on wolf (which AFAIK is the same as tula and herters), sounds like your midlength 14.5" is a bit under gassed. I am making an assumption about herters being the same as wolf. Same place makes, no idea if it is actually the same velocity in the real world. I have chronoed wolf, xm193, pmc bronze, a couple flavors of WWB, and some other stuff form my 16" barrel. You should snag a box of pmc bronze as it was one of the lowest velocity rounds of the bunch. It STILL ran multiple 16" BCM midlength barreled guns in cooler weather. Want to have fun, go out on a REALLY cold day. Lots of ammo slows down enough to get sketchy about running a gun when it is 20F with wind chill down around 2F or so.

First, do you need glasses? (no, honestly, are street signs starting to get fuzzy and such?) If yes, try getting prescription glasses and WEARING them. You need to see properly to shoot well. (But what about when the SHTF in the middle of the night and I can't see? Well first don't shoot people you can't identify, but you probably want to learn to point shoot, which reauires you to learn how to shoot well and consistently so you HAVE an index to point shoot from.... Stop making excuses if you need glasses. Just get them.). Something to try, you don't even need to go to the range to do it, just remember to practice safety properly while dry firing (NO AMMO in or around anything you are practicing with PERIOD). Basically pick up our pistol and get a decent grip with both hands on it like you would to shoot and get your natural point of aim on some object or target. A post it with a black circle on it or similar should be sufficient. Something small. Now, bring the gun straight back into your chest and hold it there. Push it out to your natural point of aim with both eyes open a couple times to get a feel down for it. Now repeat with only your dominant eye open being sure to get the sights lined up well, and to get the image of the right sight picture set in your head. Now go back to doing it both eyes open, and when you do, try to keep your mind focused on the correct image of your sights. Start doing all this in slow motion. Do a few one want, alternate, and repeat. Anytime it feels like you are making progress, do a presentation with both eyes open and close your non dominant eye to check if you are getting it right. As you start getting better, speed it up. You are basically trying to teach your brain to focus on the correct image and that your dominant eye is leading the show wiht authority when you are shooting pistol. Assuming you are right handed and left eyed. Try using your dominant eye for pistol, just try doing it by touching your right ear to your right shoulder. Plenty of good shooters use that technique.

Most of the little caldwell targets are CRAP. Even the ones that say for 30-06. They mean 30-06... shooting lead... at 1000fps or less. Which isn't really 30-06 anymore. 7.62x39, .223. .308 will all put holes right through it, and hot centerfire ammo from a pistol will dent the hell out of them. The big caldwell ar550 gong is pretty solid form what I have heard though. It's also $100. If you want something durable for pistol, you want something made out of AR450 or better (or a differently named equivalent). For rifle, you want AR500 or better. HAlf-inch thick is best, but unless you plan to REALLY beat the crap out of it, 3/8" will do. Mike gibson manufacturing makes very nice stuff (mgmtargets.com). Their auto poppers rock for rifle practice at 100+ yards if you don't mind the price. GT Targets makes OK stuff, not as nice in my opinion, but several of their pieces are on the more clever side, and some of them, although not as nice also aren't as overbuilt, and thus more affordable. Action target makes some nice stuff. For simple transport and setup, their evil roy target is awesome. BTW, do NOT put your ar500 targets closer than 100 yards when shooting rifle. .223 will pock mark the surface a bit at 50 yards just on velocity. If you want something cheap to abuse, you cna get ar500 plates from wideners in 1/2" thickness for a very reasonable price. It's ugly but functional, and cheap. If you like the MGM autopoppers, I just scored a couple of "auto-reset steel" from bunker hill steel. ( http://bunkerhillsteel.hostedbyamazon.com/ ) It's their only product, not as nicely cut as mgm, gt, or action targets, but much nicer than the stuff from wideners, and at $80 it is 3/8" ar500 and comes with a couple of lag bolts and an extra spring. I got two recently (two fit in one flat rate USPS box), but haven't gotten to shoot it yet.

We have had people under 16 compete regularly. I think the youngest one I had no problem trusting to reliably shoot safely was an 11 year old girl. If you want to let them try uspsa, start at the indoor matches.

Just to be clear, participate in 5 is just fine for finishing probation.

For USPSA stuff you really need to shoot with both eyes open (except for maybe the 50 yard standards kind of shots). Losing 50% of your visual field will really slow you down. Is it hard to master? That depends on the shooter. It wasn't particularly hard for me. I think about the only thing you can say definitively on difficulty is that it will be easier for some and harder for others, and that if you are cross eye dominant you still have that range, but it will be generally a bit harder.

frikin awesome idea, I may have to steal it. I currently use a large box, but I ahve enough at this point to make it problematic. If midway has more sales on their range rug ripoffs where you can get them for like $6, I may just have a range rug for each pistol.

Here's a hint. You aren't shooting against the guys with the open guns unless you are shooting an open gun. REally waht you wind up arguing is something like an inside the waistband holster which is practical for CCW vs something like a plane jane uncle mikes kydex holster. Not having fancy gear is no reason not to compete. It certainly isn't hgoing to keep you from getting better. Also, you can' buy enough gear to be better than you are except for maybe practice ammo. All it really does is up the odds of you delivering your best performance, and even then the only things that owuld count as gear that can make more than maybe a 5-10% difference at best are sights if you are using ones that your brain really doesn't like processing, and a gun that doesn't jam... which is about as practical as you can get.

That's 10,000 a year for a popualtion around 300,000,000. The military is down 6000 for a population of about 200,000. cars are near 500,000 for the same decade.

I'd dig the accu-range ina 1-4+ range scope for 3-gun. For hunting, a plex is fine if you understand what the subtensions are.

Define practical gear. My production rig is pretty no frills. Heck, my "race gear" is pretty no frills except for the gun. I usually finish at the border of the top third with either my l-10 or production setup. You can finish pretty high without a lot of the go fast gear. Most of it isn't that much faster, just provides some looser tolerances on the performance envelope of the shooter.

Main difference is that precision delta is usually a little faster for the same powder due to a softer jacket that is real thin. the thin jacket can sometimes come back at you more easily form steel targets, but not enough that I ever worried about it. For cleaning supplies, primers, and sutff like that, the prices are what they are (usually competitive enough to buy the one or two things ratehr than having them shipped), and you can buy them without any drama. heck, even ammo isn't a problem if they have what you want anymore and don't mind paying the prices. It's the guns and most anything in the glass cases where things become stupid unless they decide they like you for whatever reason.

"If you don't like it, leave" is all well and good right up until you run out of places to go. Tiresome as it is, the fight needs to be fought every day in every place it needs fighting.

Don't care what it is made out of. If you increase surface area, you increase friction. You have to increase mass, velocity, or both to not lose penetration.

To answer all three. At least when I got mine, they did not come in a tall. I'm 6'7", 37" inseam, about 245lbs. I actually wear my pants around my waist, not halfway down my pelvis, and I don't have an issue with my techwear shirt pulling out, and definitely not with it hanging up on my gun, although I am pretty near the limit. At least with the quarter zip polo style. For the quarter zip polo style, you really aren't going to get much below about $80 unless you order a ton of them. The round collar tee style is much cheaper ~$50-60 depending on what you have done.

My inner trouble maker would buy a box just to start the rules lawyering at whatever USPSA match that I don't run. In fact I think I may go start a thread on benos to see if I can get the rules lawyers stirred up.

I already linked the actual source of them with the files to print them out.

For the M&P I'd go with no thumb safety. Not because I have anything against them, but because I find the implementation of it on the M&P to have put the wrong shaped lever in the wrong place.

You'd lose money. But look at people that are getting tea party group endorsements during primaries and getting the nod for races. But when your platform is cut spending, but not defense, medicare, or social security, you are going to be hard pressed to cut more than about 15% of the budget assuming you fire everyone else. It's not a rational position, but rather more of the unicorn pooping rainbows type of solution. I like freedom. I don't mind responsibility. I want fiscally sane policies, and I want people to be left the hell alone by government. When I deal with the teaparty, it's a very face-palm kind of experience. I don't have much use for the causal racism, homophobia, and absolute certainty that everyone will be happy with the religion they think is most awesome. Especially in NJ, this wasn't so bad, but as the more rational fade into the background, this stuff is getting more concentrated, even here.

In general they are as reliable. Except the wilsons. Like I have stated previously, their little welded on stop seems tough, until the weld breaks form repeated impact on insertion. I've seen way more of them fail than I am comfortable with. If I were going to go with a 10 rounder for self defense, tripp mags.. no question, as good or better build quality on the tube, nice follower design, especially in .45, and the basepad as insertion stop on theres is spot on and as far as I have seen does not have the issue with needing trimming in some guns that the CMC does. Also, despite virgil's house burning down, the business is fine and still getting stuff to customers.

True, if you studiously avoid anything that might be construed as a pistol grip, you can have the threaded barrel.