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Wow, Alec, you did an awesome job! Thanks for throwing that together. I forgot about all the angles and spots you put the camera. The one on the ground looking up is cool, you rarely get to se a pic of you shooting from downrange. And despite what Harry was trying to egg me on to doing, i would never shoot the camera. lol

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Thanks Mike, i'm pretty sure the death jam on my rifle screwed me royally but i'm still curious to see the scores too. lol I totally understand what you mean by keeping it moving; i do the same with my 22 rifle with a dot in static steel and it works. Your experience with speed and target acquisition was pretty evident even if you weren't used to that particular gun. you may just have to slow it down a little as you approach and sweep the plate to match your reaction time. Like they say, "shoot it at the first opportunity" and if that means starting to pull the trigger as the dot breaks the edge of the plate to give you enough time to break the shot while the dot is still covering the steel, then do it. Thats pretty much what i do with my 22 and i never have to stop and hover unless its a plate where i have to reverse direction or its one of the tiny ones WAYYY out there! I wish i could use my 22 for these matches but i dont think it would hardly knock any of them down considering how much trouble i was having with 9mm even. :/ I was having trouble with using the irons on this rifle. i dont generally use an AR or irons and so i just mounted/sighted these sights before the match and i think i put the rear sight too far back. i couldn't really see the rear ghost ring at all so the sight picture was mostly just the front post. I have to mess with this thing a little more.

Thanks for the video, Frank, you got some nice action on film! I think i ran that pistol (and all my mags) dry as i knocked down the final plate on more than one stage. ooof! I definitely noticed Mike and Elvis were lightning fast with thier carbines; i gotta get a dot on mine for he next time. On the big hoser stage in the beginning, check out harry scrambling to find mags on the mess of a table to scavenge 1 or 2 more rounds. lol

Ray, you have to learn the Randy Lee revolver Ninja Reload. I gotta give you credit though, its no easy task to bang through all those moonclips, especially on those hoser stages. lol

Sweet, cant wait for the vid! I meant to ask you about your trojan saturday... was it 9mm and do you run JHP's or FMJ's through it? I'm looking at buying a 9mm trojan and i have read a lot of reports online of them not feeding 9mm jhp's worth a damn and thats a problem for me as its all i reload.

Did those guys just get done playing hockey on the roof of the Quick-Stop?

The tents were much appreciated, thanks Rey! Any one know where/when the knockdown steel match scores from last Saturday are posted?

I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying that due to the fact that its the firearm, they don't sell as much paclite ruger barrels as they sell buckmark barrels due to the added nuisance of being a whole new handgun so I imagine that ruger would likely face the same slow sales

Have you tried the new sr22?? My buddy just bought one and between the polymer frame and the aluminum barrel, its as light add it could be. Even if you scaled the 2245 lite down 20% I doubt it would be quite as light as the sr22 since its only a sleeved barrel and with the small grip size of the sr22,, it would be perfect for your kids!

There's a small hitch with that... In the ruger mk series guns, the *barrel/upper* Is the registered firearm so it makes it a bit more difficult to sell barrels.

Im in

Wow, Ray, it looks so much smaller in person. :shrug:

Beat it, n00b!

As usual, it was a Garand ole time, buddy!

What is your most specific complaint about the factory sights? Are they too plain (plain black sights) and difficult to distinguish the front blade from rear notch? If so, some fiber optic, night sights or even a simple set of white dots could add some needed contrast. Or is your problem more with the precision? If sights are too big and clunky (many stock guns have big chunky blades and notches) or conversely too fine (older GI style sights were very minimalistic), it can be difficult to get a precisely aligned sight picture. A set of sights like those from Dawson for example, with a thin fiber front for visibility and precision and a plain black notch if medium width would give you a plenty of daylight on either side of the blade for alignment coupled with the contrast of the front dot for visibility makes for a very nice sight picture. Same can be achieved with a lot of different brands and types of sights whether its a simple painted front blade, true night sights, fiber optic or even the hybrids. Try looking at these various types of sights on some friends guns or at a gunshop with good variety and see what you like.

I wish they would embed a minimal steel chassis in the plastic frame similar to what polymer pistols have. An inexpensive sheet metal chassis that reinforces all the action pin holes and buffer tube mounting boss would go a long way to imparting extra rigidity.

FEG is sold pending permits.

It looks like many of us in the group did quite well, kudos to us! Nick's heavy metal was definitely the hit of the rifle stage; i think the only way you could trump that is with he sweet punctuated sound of an enbloc clip ejecting from an M1 Garand.

Results are up. http://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-display-match-results-detail.php?indx=4338

Distinguished Glock gentleman!

So where/where does shongum post thier results?

I'm probably in. I'm going to try and do a double header of Shongum (which i've never been to before) and CJ.

Thanks. Ron got back to me and said everything is fine so hopefully i'll everyone there saturday. This is the outdoor range address, correct? 363 Janes Chapel Road, Mansfield Township, NJ 07863

Check if there are any 3-gun matches in your area. They are defintely action oriented and you get to use your rifle (and pistol and shotgun) at various distances.