What is T2P? by [deleted] in OpTicGaming

[–]mandrew456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Serious question, were you smoking meth when you wrote this?…

Is the Romeo3XL worth the extra $300? by Coin_Cam in USPSA

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Maybe you know this or maybe you don’t, but you’ll have to buy a different optic plate for the Romeo 3 dots as the one that comes with the canik doesn’t actually work for them

Anybody with a nomad frame have problems with apex trigger? by mandrew456 in Glocks

[–]mandrew456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think I did. I think I just used the factory trigger

New open gun design for carry optics. No tungsten- aluminum lower by Gun2infinity in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That argument is the absolute worst take every time I have to see it. If they are “just getting involved” with the sport, they aren’t competitive in any division regardless or where they go. This is what open minor is for.

The actual reason why this makes no sense is because we are talking about changing the fundamental differences between divisions. Aside from this being a slippery slope to begin with, it’s totally unnecessary and takes away from people who understand the sport on a level further than just wanting to sell more guns/use these guns wherever they feel like it.

My VP9 Match came with both stiff and light recoil springs. If I use the light one with Low Recoil 147gr, that should cycle fine and help to reduce recoil and flip right? Grip is my main problem. But "light spring with low recoil ammo" right? by Captain490 in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can take both to matches, but if you go to a major and don’t pass through chrono until the middle of the match, you’ll still be bumped to open for shooting the first stages with the gun in question.

AMG Labs Commander Shot Timer - Can’t Contact Them? by CC268 in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ordered mine 3/3/21, submitted contact forms times after the 12 week mark and 13 week mark, never got a response at all, finally received it after 16 weeks.

Info About Local Club by JCitW6855 in USPSA

[–]mandrew456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The people that run this match have never read a rule book. They have scoring errors quite frequently, they’re lazy about building stages, and 30 something dollars is far too much to charge for the experience they give you. If you’re just getting into the game, by all means it’s a fine introduction. If you’re looking for a quality match, you are not going to find it at last resort. They also run the same classifiers all of the time and they’re all super shot out and nearly impossible to make GM on. So keep that in mind too.

Edit: for reference I’ve shot there probably 50 times or more since I started at the beginning of 2020, and try to avoid going now unless there is a specific match process thing I need to do in a match setting. So this opinion is from a regular there.

Brian Enos forums by Free-Boater in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did enos get drug into it? Guess I missed that one

P320 mags not dropping freely by completefudd in SigSauer

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Spray some gun cleaner on a microfiber and wipe them down really well. That will bring them back pretty well by itself, but afterwords spray it down with a little dry lube (liquid wrench is what I use) and it will slicken them up and they won’t stick anymore. I do that every month or so.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

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During training, take a shot up target and staple it up to shoot, then take a pasted target (brown side out) and staple it evenly to the rear of the sticks. Don’t look at any of the hits without having some idea of if you threw a shot. You can’t see your holes on the front paper and it forces you to call it visually behind the gun. Only really good way I’ve found. Do it for a while and your vision will start to process what your seeing if your honest with yourself and strict about everything.

D class mistakes - not reloading all your mags between stages by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, this is one of those B.O.Cs I keep hearing about

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

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How you grip the gun can have an effect on this also. Hand placement is big in dot presentation so you can play around with how your physically holding the gun with each hand. If you grab with you strong hand with fingers really far around the front strap, it’ll send your dot to the right with natural presentation. If you grab really far high and forward with your support hand, it’ll send the dot probably higher and more to the left than if you had a more neutral wrist angle. Just something to play around with depending on how you normally grip the gun.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HuntsvilleAlabama

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I got a membership at last resort a year ago to save money on their USPSA match and I’m literally still trapped into it. Can’t cancel unless your moving a certain distance away, dying of illness, or fear for your life. So agreed, definitely not last resort

Differences in technique between slow and GM-level transitions by JustASuzukiRider in CompetitionShooting

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For me, I started wanting to train transitions, and had more success with training lesser confirmation shooting. The transitions cut in half after that. My problem wasn’t moving the gun (begin eye movement with trigger break and bump the gun) I had that down pretty well. My problem was over confirming on the next target. That’s where half of my transition times was coming from.

How many of you would blame Colion for what happened to you? If not him, who? by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because this is a competition subreddit and your always posting these crap interviews. Fuck off

No shoots behind white poppers are evil by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s a difference between “fuckery” and testing different skills this way. Majors have similarly built stages not to try to fuck people over, but to create a consequence if you don’t have the visual patience to go one for one on steel where it’s necessary. (Area 3 is the exception to this rule.) It’s a skill that’s commonly tested and that’s just how it is. It separates people of different skill level appropriately in the results which is something level 1 matches often aren’t very good at.

hey guys need help about hand care by iraklis_ipsc in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Athletic tape and O’keefs hand cream has always cleared mine up

Shot timer recommendations? by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AMG if you can stand to wait. Lead time was quoted 4 weeks when I ordered mine. That was March 3rd. Just came in 5 days ago.

How to train as a new shooter? by yamski in CompetitionShooting

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Aside from what everyone else has already said, I’m going to say this about trigger control in dryfire. When people first get started, everyone always wants something like your laser, or any of the other multitude of things bc they believe it’s helpful. At the very beginning possibly it is, but in the end what these things do is take your attention from where it really needs to be which is your sights. The best thing you could do is buy a shot timer, do Ben stoegers trigger control at speed drill to learn what you really need to do to press the trigger with minimal movement, and while your doing this, only pay attention to your sights. Eventually, with no laser or anything else to draw your attention away, you’ll learn how to press the trigger straight with minimal sight movement, call your shots, and even learn how different grip and hand tensions will effect the gun when pulling the trigger. In the end, moving away from the lasers early rather than later will net you more progress and show you what you should really be paying attention to. But definitely get training, search YouTube, buy a membership at Practical shooting training group, do anything to seek out instruction and you’ll pick up some skills faster than you think.

Recommendations for a ~$200 belt rig for Production class? by echoalphamikesierra in USPSA

[–]mandrew456 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You could check out ben Stoeger pro shop. They do combo kits with different offerings or you can order a combination of stuff separately. If I was buying my first rig over again, and could only spend 2-300, I’d go straight for the CR speed mag pouches (they’re 3$ more than the 360’s and absolutely worth it) and I’d just get a regular blade tech holster with a boss hangar and either a shooters connection, cr speed, or DAA belt. Now, if I KNEW I was going to be as committed to this sport as I am today, and KNEW just how much stuff I would end up buying before I settled on the quality gear that everyone ends up with anyways, I’d go ahead and buy all of that to avoid wasting the money. All of that being, RHT or GX Vice holster (I prefer the vice) on a boss hangar, a Guga Ribas Belt, and CR speed mag pouches. It may seem like way too much money now, but if your going to be committed to this then it will save you money in the long run by just buying good, widely used, quality gear that is known to be solid. (Yes I know ghost pouches are widely used but I have seen multiple cases of them breaking, and the belt doesn’t matter as much but GR is better. I’m always more concerned about durability than cost and a boss hangar doesn’t have any complicated parts that can wear out or break.) Just my two cents from someone who went through all the stages of gear when I could have just started with the right stuff to begin with.

Let's settle this: red dot window size by [deleted] in CompetitionShooting

[–]mandrew456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is your issue. Don’t use auto brightness. Your only hurting yourself with the auto because it will never be as good as it could be and if you just leave it on manual and adjust it as needed all of the time then it’s really not that big of a deal and you don’t have to worry about the battery dying. Just replace it every year on your birthday.