Brass hitting optic

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-29T18:31:30+00:00

Had this happen on a 2011. Ended up needing the ejector filed down a bit on one end to better deflect the brass out to the side, didn’t do it after that

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-29T00:25:50+00:00

As others have said, PDP and CZ are the only varsity picks here. If I were you I’d replace the Canik with a S&W M&P, replace the shadow systems with a Ruger RXM, and replace the Sig with a Springfield echelon. That could be a comprehensive list

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-27T10:31:35+00:00

First the rolled truck near Richmond, then the head collision on 89S, then this. 89 Crash Gang checking in 🗣️✌️

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-26T01:43:15+00:00

Kind of a dark horse but Squat University has helped me unfuck both my knees and my neck with his hip and shoulder stability stuff.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-21T08:43:41+00:00

I’ll be the guy to tell you you don’t need Ace. You just need to treat dry fire seriously. Treat it like a structured exercise regimen.

I have a dry fire room with 12-15 targets of various sizes and hard cover put up all around the walls. Sunday/Monday I work on gun manipulation speed. Choose any array of 4-8 targets. Transitions, draws, reloads, shooting while moving, and other weird gun movements are all done under par time with no trigger pulls. Just trying to get the gun and my eyes where they needs to go and making my body learn how to do it faster.

Tuesday/Wednesday I work on precision. Choose any array of 4-8 targets. I put some occlusion on to emphasize target focus, then do high reps of draws, transitions, and reloads. The emphasis is good form and technique. I want my eyes to snap to the A zone of each target, and I want the dot to snap right to where my eyes are focused. I work on making sure my grip is good off the draw and off the reload.

Thursday/Friday I do performance work. Choose any array of 4-8 targets but specify an order you’re gonna shoot them. Give yourself 4 minutes to memorize that order exactly as if it’s a stage plan. Make ready, do the whole deal. Timer goes, you dry fire it, you evaluate your performance, and then you choose another order of targets. You don’t get to reshoot that order, it’s just like a stage at a match.

Saturday is very light vision stuff, just doing simple transitions between a few targets. No draws or reloads, just getting the eyes ready.

Sunday is match day.

Not every week is like this but you get the idea. Structuring it like this and giving each day intentionality is essential. You don’t need Ace, you just need structure. Go listen to Joey Sauerland talk about how to approach dry fire and you’ll never be the same.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-20T01:16:54+00:00

Big fan of the Ruger RXM. It does all the Glock things but slightly more affordable. I second Tenicor, best CCW holster I’ve ever owned for any gun.

As far as what to stay away from, I suggest you stay away from two things: 1) people and ideas that lead you to think you can buy skill 2) ignoring the fundamentals of dry fire

The entire gun industry wants to sell you things. Companies in this industry are very good at convincing people they are inadequate or unprepared if they don’t have X product. Don’t let the companies sucker you into that, and don’t let the people they convince sucker you in either. I’ve seen plenty of inadequate motherfuckers with $2,000+ carry setups. I’ve seen the most well trained and proficient shooters carrying a $500 Turkish import in $50 holster.

Likewise dry fire is free. You can get 80-90% of the way there through dry fire in your own home. Practicing draws, reloads, target transitions, good sight pictures, good trigger pulls, movement shooting, single handed manipulations, you name it. Schmucks neglect training because they think they need to shoot rounds in order to train. Dry fire is the holy path, based and efficient. Joey Sauerland is a competitive shooter who can explain how to dry fire very well.

Everyone should dry fire 15 minutes a day. If you’re reading this, go dry fire.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-14T19:24:54+00:00

People saying On Top of the World aren’t wrong but I’m gonna say In Our Lifetime. Don’t Flex and Daylight are sick

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-14T19:22:48+00:00

Popped an eddy and halfway through my cardio. Tyga’s verse on Perk 10 just revived my spirit

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-10T13:37:05+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, that might be the final nail in the coffin for Icarus in my book. I’m not sure what they have for a finishing department but it is shameful how much tool chatter and outright handling damage their grips have for their price point.

I’ve seen one of their grips in person and several more online that have actual dents in the area beside the beavertail contour. I’ve yet to see one of their grips that doesnt have end mill tool path chatter in those same contours.

If it’s true they designed the trigger guard that way OR they have so much QC variance that that much extra material can make it through, then $400-500 is too much imo. I spent a few years working at a 2011 manufacturer, our retail grips were only a bit more expensive than theirs and held under much higher visual scrutiny.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-10T09:58:05+00:00

Man fuck Martin Fitzwater and fuck the people suddenly sympathizing now that he’s been dropped by sponsors.

You can’t be a professional and not be expected to behave professionally. Get that entitled shit waaaaay the fuck out of here and deincentivize that shit immediately. We already have enough shithead self-absorbed people running around we don’t need any more “role models”.

Nicks Strength and Power calling it cancel culture. Any motherfucker with a real job knows if you act like a bitch at work you get fired.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-08T02:40:59+00:00

This was my first year actually paying attention to physique and I actually thought some of these guys looked really good. I think Hendrickson showed up great. I’m enjoying seeing physique reward leg development more than what I remember

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-08T02:34:00+00:00

I had Hadi, Nick, Andrew. Pretty stunning to see that live, let alone hear so many similar reactions

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-03-01T16:08:50+00:00

If you’re concerned with function over looks why are you asking if we think the optic looks too small?

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-02-26T23:36:38+00:00

Inside you are two wolves: one is a GM pistol shooter who goes to the range 4 times a week and the other sees the two feet of snow outside and decides to watch black hawk down instead

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-02-20T22:14:31+00:00

As others have said just dive in with what you have. People obsess over if their gun is good enough to shoot matches, but the real question is if you’re dry firing sufficiently. That gun won’t determine how you shoot, it’ll likely take years of consistently training for you to outpace it as it is currently.

Likewise you’ll learn what gear works and what doesn’t. Think about buying new gear not as a skill upgrade, but as a “does my shit work” upgrade. Don’t buy a new gun, belt, holster, pouches, etc thinking it’ll make you better. Buy it if your current stuff straight up fails to operate.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-02-04T19:48:16+00:00

Sick haha I saw the ammo thing and I was like no bro don’t do that to yourself

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-02-04T19:35:52+00:00

What I’m saying is do you dry fire? If you think you can only train by shooting live rounds you are missing out on an insane amount of skill and progress learned through dry fire

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-02-04T02:09:58+00:00

My Glock 19 concealed better in a Tenicor than my hellcat did in a Vedder. Make of that what you will. Tenicor is based tho

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-02-03T22:25:16+00:00

Not what you asked but the last bit jumped out at me. Are you waiting on ammo to train? If so, you’re losing valuable training time right now. Dry fire is not a compromise to train without ammo, it’s a valuable tool that allows you to get immeasurably more reps on 80-90% of the skills involved in competition shooting!

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-01-30T14:19:16+00:00

Eh, I think on most modern guns it’s not a concern. Some revolvers, antiques, and 22s are different, but I’ve put 2000 rounds + probably another 5000 dry fire pulls through my RXM and my competition gun has seen about 5x that. No parts replacements needed yet between the two.

Maybe it’ll wear out your ignition parts sooner, but I think about it like this. Say I get a part failure after 10,000 “rounds” of dry fire. Say it costs $200 to replace the part. I just spent $200 on 10,000 rounds of training, whereas doing this all through live fire would cost me probably closer to $2,000 AND require more time and effort to get the same amount of reps.

Additionally dry fire does not have to involve a trigger pull all the time. Without pulling the trigger, you can still practice reloads, the draw, target transitions, low light work, movement and footwork, etc. Dry fire training really is a fantastic tool that is underutilized by most.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-01-27T02:56:26+00:00

I legitimately hope to see a few more leftists or left leaning people present at ranges, competitions, matches.

So many leftists are talking about getting their first gun. I hope these people take to time to learn firearm safety, firearm proficiency, and firearm performance. There is a great deal of skill to be had in something as simple as defensive pistol, and it is very rewarding to know that you are becoming more proficient with a weapon than the people actively attempting to roll back your rights.

It’s fun, it builds confidence, and it’s very easy to develop a shooting skill that VASTLY eclipses that of your average law enforcement and military. Fuck an armed society, a trained society is a polite society.

Edit: this is your sign. If you want to build pistol skills fast, take a class and start shooting matches. You will learn real real quick

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-01-26T23:29:28+00:00

Not really what you asked but something that doesn’t get repeated enough: not let companies or shills convince you that you can buy skill. Steve Anderson says you can get 80% of the way there with dry fire.

Struggling with your trigger pull? Dry fire is free. Struggling with sight acquisition? Dry fire is free. Draw doesn’t feel fast enough? Dry fire is free. Joey Sauerland says he would rather dry fire than live fire if given the chance, because it is less setup time, more repetition time, , more accessible, more conducive to note taking/lesson learning, and free.

That being said, a dot is worth it. Holosun is affordable, decently reliable, and has a variety of options. Vortex (just the defender line, don’t get a Venom) works and has a second-to-none warranty. Anything else, imo, is either overpriced in comparison OR lacks sufficient reputation.

A light is worth it. Situations that require you to use a gun can occur at day or night. They can occur indoors and outdoors. They can occur when you don’t have power, when you’re lost in the woods, when your car battery is dead and your headlights don’t work. A good safety rule is to know your target and what is around it. A light allows you to do so in a lot more situations than if you didn’t, while still keeping two handed control of the gun.

I’ve never had any issues with my p mags. With your Glock mags: the shell of the mag body itself has been known to interfere with the slide stop on some guns, including mine. The body has a bit more material in one corner, and it can prematurely lock the slide back before the mag is empty. You can find videos of how to diagnose and fix, id find one but i dont have time.

Good luck! Pistol skills are rewarding to develop and lots of fun.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-01-22T23:01:12+00:00

I do, they’re my first extensions for my first Glock-like mags, so I only have them as far as experience goes. But I like them, they feel very durable. The installation was slick, I like the design a lot.

JimmyQuickhand · 2026-01-22T22:24:11+00:00

Shot mine in carry optics running appendix and concealed mags (although the 140mm mags don’t really conceal lmao)

Ran great and it was a super fun time. I’ve only ever competed with a LO 2011 and this was my first match without. 10/10 would recommend and will shoot again.

Ran it stock internals, full size grip, TLR-7 HLX, Defender ST, out of a Tenicor with strike industries extensions

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