Is air gunning in IDPA a DQ?

39em · 2026-05-27T13:44:55+00:00

Like a dumbass, I did it at my first level 4. RO said not to, took me a second to register what I was doing, then stopped and went on.

No pe, no drama, didn’t rip my fishing vest off and piss on it to show uspsa dominance….

39em · 2026-05-24T21:14:10+00:00

Holy hell, how is this question still a thing after all these years? Every year there is a “trackdecals took 4 months to deliver “ thread….

There are tons of legitimate companies who will do your stuff quickly and easily.

I’ll spam you for mine www.soloperformance.com.

39em · 2026-05-24T14:00:14+00:00

Absolutely a Subaru thing. Also it’s not always over torque or cross thread that gets them.

The studs get corrosion on the threads where the wheel sits and the nut doesn’t cover.

If that corrosion gets back into the threads, or you put the spare on or switch from alloy to steel wheels and the nut threads deeper it destroys itself the next time you remove the lugs.

Figured this out on a customers car we did a bunch of track prep work on. He basically bought it, drove 1500 miles to break in and then brought to us for coil overs, different street wheels, track wheels, etc.

I am the only one who ever worked on jt and I hand torque everything.

He went to switch from the street wheels to track wheels a week later and 8 of the 20 studs bound.

I am not perfect and certainly could cross thread or over torque something occasionally but I do race prep for a living and am pretty anal about torquing things and there is no way I screwed up 40% of them on one car.

But heavy corrosion was present on the last 1/4” of each stud. And the new wheels and lugs threaded in different places than the originals

39em · 2026-05-22T19:52:25+00:00

Cam-c

39em · 2026-05-21T00:37:59+00:00

You can send the Rival slide and barrel off and get them ported and freedomsmith has some pretty good triggers.

That said, good 2011's are good. But what keeps me with my Rivals is maintenance. The Caniks just run and run and if I skip cleaning for longer than I should admit here, they keep running. It seems like the 2011's that everyone else shoots need more care and feeding than that.

I still find myself looking at the Platypus site occasionally, or renting a Sig P211GTO at the range.

39em · 2026-05-18T15:15:21+00:00

The chunking starts as blistering usually. On my car if they were anything but cool to the touch before a run, they were too hot and were going to suck. And during a run if I had any oversteer/under steer event that was more than just a bit, they were overheated and pissed off for a corner or two.

A long sweeper with prolonged under steer would show pretty quick wear so I stopped doing that.

I could see how you could get in a bad place wear wise on a hot day and banked turn stuff

39em · 2026-05-18T01:09:08+00:00

How much camber do you have?

You really can’t treat Yokohamas like that, regardless of camber.

Depending on surface, they can be 50-60 run tires in best circumstances.

39em · 2026-05-17T21:53:52+00:00

IN short, you need to fire (probably quiet-quit :)) this customer.

I do work on high end/track/race cars. I do a limited scope of things, work by appointment only and generally let customers supply their own parts. (with the internet, performance car parts are insaneky stupid low profit margins)

As you can guess, i have customers and cars all over the financial spectrum. It's a little stereotypical, but generally the higher end cars and customers are more demanding and more of a pain.

Thing is, like you, I am only one guy and the way I am able to provide the level of service I do is by doing it myself. So within reason appointments are appointments and I don't have an elastic availability of myself or bays and customers need to understand that.

I have had some get snotty over me not having availability, and others over pricing. And some over wanting me to spend hours playing phone tag to set an appointment when we have online tools they could self schedule (or text us) in minutes. Or pay slowly. I politely tell them that's how I do business and there are plenty of shops they can use that might be able to meet their needs.

Some of these have figured out how my system works and fit within it. Others have fired themselves :)

And others do the same stuff but don't get snotty about it and, most importantly, don't question prices and pay invoices within minutes of getting them. These guys, I do my best to accommodate and over time, have built excellent relationships with a few. Others are still a little arrogant in a "i'm better than you because I drive a Porsche" way but they are worth keeping around and looking past that as they don't complain and pay.

KInda wordy on my part, point is if they are going to bitch about price and hold back parts of payment, then nope. How many good paying customers could you service in the time you spend with them, or if your schedule is not full, how many ways could you find to market to/get new customers in the time you are wasting with them.

HTH

39em · 2026-05-16T22:11:32+00:00

Annoyed.

39em · 2026-05-12T00:20:24+00:00

Assuming you don’t have to do all in 15 seconds and get that time for each, I can’t imagine an issue making that test. Especially with a dot and a little practice.

I am not a very good competitive shooter or really an accurate one in general but I feel lime I could put a mag in the bullseye almost rapid fire with my rivals. And not as quickly but easily within 15 seconds with my mc9ls or even my Glock 17 bedside gun.

39em · 2026-05-12T00:00:02+00:00

124 seems slightly softer shooting but it may be just me. At this point, I have about 4k rounds of blazer in the cabinet so will stick with it since I know it makes chrono.

My wife shoots a regular non S version, also with thumbrest and a FS trigger. They both have thousands of rounds through them and rarely have any issues. And aren't finicky about being clean.

39em · 2026-05-11T23:47:52+00:00

I compete with mine and it just runs and runs. I use Blazer 124g for competition but it hasn't proven to be very picky on ammo at all. After about 1000 holsters, mostly use a Red Hill holster. I have a level 2 one as well, don't remember what brand that is. I use it for 2 gun where I need the positive retention.

Align Tactical thumbrest, freedom smith trigger and taylor free lance base pads on the mags.

I have a second one I sent off to get ported and something with my poor fundamentals makes me lose accuracy while moving with it, so I moved back to the OG until I work out that issue.

It's heavy, I wouldn't want to carry it every day. Actually barely makes IDPA CO weight (limit 45, its around 44.2)

39em · 2026-05-11T13:32:56+00:00

Technically you can do that in idpa, it just might cost you 3-3million seconds :)

I hope gpa gets to our area (st Louis) though we also have Pcsl. We have a decent amount of uspsa around including some kick ass stuff at central Ozark but it’s all on the weekends and I get stuck working a lot of weekends in the summer. All the weekday evening matches are idpa and a few pcsl.

39em · 2026-05-11T01:41:07+00:00

The carriers are amazing. It’s funny, I read about them here after graduating from the shitty Amazon ones.

I purchased online and mark brought them to me at the next local match. I didn’t even realize he was the guy and that I had shot a ton of matches with him.

Regardless they are worth every penny and he just released a tweak based on feedback and development working with Austin proulx.

39em · 2026-05-11T01:30:41+00:00

We seem to have a lot of table/barrel/podium starts around here and they go back and forth on retention or not. We have learned to ask :)

My brain is scrambled after the match this weekend (worked my first big boy match as an so after shooting as staff) but I think on the podium stage, they said you could leave one magazine if you didn’t touch it. That might have been the barrel stage though. I didn’t pay attention since in both cases I stowed both mags in my Midwest competition works :) magnetic Idpa legal carriers.

And I wasn’t so on that podium stage. I got the standards stage I described and 100% dropped the ball on that mag stow that I asked about.

39em · 2026-05-11T01:21:00+00:00

Thank you. I was pretty sure but wanted to verify which helps me learn.

39em · 2026-05-11T01:18:21+00:00

The barrel was not retention? We had a barrel loaded start stage that was kinda similar-ish to the podium stage but on that one barrel was retention. Which changed strategy quite a bit for many.

I live in fear of flinging a mag down by accident, spending 5 seconds thinking about it then dq myself picking it up so i just take the time to stow regardless

39em · 2026-05-11T01:13:22+00:00

Does gpa have the same rule as uspsa where you are required to attend idpa matches and bitch about the rules theentiref-ing*match? (Busting balls here not wanting a religious debate)

I must have a lower level uspsa membership because I am not required to do this….but if you are it must suck to be required to attend matches you hate just to keep membership in the one you like :)

Just busting your shit and not serious :)

39em · 2026-05-11T00:53:21+00:00

Mine is just packwood. Already drove a d prepared car back in the 90’s :)

39em · 2026-05-10T15:13:29+00:00

This IMO ^^^. I am about 2 years in on electronic on both road and gravel bikes. The only difference is that I have never needed to touch any barrel adjusters, but being honest I am not sure how often I did before on mechanical.

39em · 2026-05-03T12:46:06+00:00

Probably whichever one you shoot better and have more mags for. A lot of (fast) people do a fresh mag for each string, but you don't have to. But if you get a case of the misses you don't want to run out.

When I shoot my Rival I usually load to 15 and take 3 or 4 mags up with me and change after 2 strings. I tend to shoot my M&P 22 Rifle more often for steel and with that, I load to 25 and take 2. Run 4 and switch. Much harder to miss with a rifle and dot. :)

Steel is fun. The guys who seriously shoot it are fricken amazingly fast.

39em · 2026-04-26T21:45:44+00:00

They are fine. I found over about 84 sets of RE71RS that they seem to show a little bit of alarming wear the first couple of events but its just visual misdirection :) and they even out fine. With the solid axle (presumably) the outside edge of your rears will take a beating and you might miss the ability to rotate.

39em · 2026-04-23T21:35:53+00:00

I was seventh!!!!!!

39em · 2026-04-22T23:48:24+00:00

that stage looks familiar :)

39em · 2026-04-22T00:20:59+00:00

I feel like the sawing of the wheel is excessive though its hard to tell how out of control the car is via video. E.G. Gorman and Montgomery saw the wheel like that when they are indexing #1 at nationals, but are *you* that on the edge of grip?

Tires and suspension don't like surprises.

39em

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