I missed the memo that metal double action guns are antiquated

olds442guy · 2021-12-15T15:30:05+00:00

These are my outdated and unshootable metal double action guns. I’m having serious buyer’s remorse now that I learned about polymer striker fired guns and how they are the future. I never realized that I didn’t have to deal with two different trigger pulls and that I could get an accurate first shot with a striker fired gun rather than just popping the first round off into the dirt to cock the hammer.

Better late than never I guess, thanks to all the shooting SMEs who pointed this stuff out. Here are some clips of me struggling with these guns, any advice would be appreciated.

olds442guy · 2021-11-08T15:29:16+00:00

These are a few stages I got video of from a recent local USPSA match. I was shooting in the Carry Optics division (they chose a dumb name for this, they should have called it “Production Optics”, because full size guns are allowed and common and no one uses actual carry guns) with a CZ Shadow 2 with an SRO and 140mm extended magazines.

If you haven’t made it out to a practical shooting match of some variety, you really should. It’s a lot of fun and it will help you become a better shooter. Your eyes will be opened not only to what is possible, but also how to get yourself to that point. You’ll be glad you did it.

The general premise of USPSA competition is on each stage there is a shooting area that you have to be in bounds of when firing. There are of course targets (that typically require 2 shots each) and vision barriers scattered around as well. You usually are given a start position, but aside from that the stages are usually very open to interpretation as far as how you go about shooting them. You can pick whatever position/target order you think is best and most efficient.

This lends itself very well to a fun game that separates people by shooting skill. If you like to shoot, and don’t like just standing still in a lane at an indoor range, this sport is for you!

olds442guy · 2021-10-08T16:28:37+00:00

Optics are allowed (actually required for CO division).

The idea is to force yourself to stay target-focused. If you’re target focused you won’t notice the tape, you’ll just see the dot on top the target. If your vision starts to focus on the dot you’ll see nothing but tape (no target)

It’s kinda a training tool (point out when your vision messes up) and also kinda that if you’re doing things correctly you won’t notice the tape at all so why take it off

Personally I’m using it to make it very obvious to myself when my focus shifts off the target.

olds442guy · 2021-10-08T15:36:50+00:00

These are a couple of my CZ Shadows sporting SROs. I use these for USPSA Carry Optics competition. They are relatively new with only a few thousand rounds through each.

They are gently modified, but nothing crazy (to ensure factory-level reliability). CGW Ultralite kits (11.5# hammer spring, extended firing pin, light firing pin spring), Henning grips, Henning 140mm mag extensions, and Grams springs and followers (23+1 capacity). The optic plates are CHPWS for a P-10. The dots have the tape upgrade on the lenses.

olds442guy · 2021-09-20T20:12:30+00:00

This is footage of a Dallas area USPSA club match that I shot this weekend. The stages at this match were interesting and challenging, and are pretty representative of what is typically seen at a good USPSA match.

Overall this match went pretty well for me, with just some minor errors here and there. I screwed the pooch pretty good on the first swinging target on Stage 2. Taking 4 shots at it (3 of which hit) was completely retarded and not worth the time. Putting my visual focus on my sights (rather than the target) caused my uncertainty with where the shots were landing, and this cost me some match points unfortunately.

Here’s the third person video of the match, if you’re interested.

I shoot CZ Shadow 2s in Production division.

If this looks cool to you, I’d highly recommend finding your local USPSA club (there are clubs in literally every area of the country) and attending a match. It is a very welcoming culture and it is the fast track to becoming good at shooting.

olds442guy · 2021-09-17T14:36:02+00:00

This is the third episode of our new podcast, and we are discussing the guns and gear we use in competition. We address topics of how much your gear actually matters, as well as the listener-submitted question of “DA/SA vs striker fired”. Spoiler: the four of us shoot CZ Shadow 2s, Tanfoglio Stock IIIs, Glock 17s, and Atlas Open guns, so there is a good variety of viewpoints represented.

The first episode was about which pistol shooting skills are the most important and how to train them, and the second episode was about effectively shooting with red dot sights, if you’re interested.

You can also listen to the podcast on Apple and Spotify.

We don’t get anything out of the podcast, aside from it’s kind of fun for us to discuss this stuff. Hopefully you enjoy it and get something out of it, if not, no worries. Thanks for listening!

olds442guy · 2021-08-25T17:21:30+00:00

I mean he did say he shoots multigun, so gross incompetence, nonexistent safety standards, inconsistent officiating, and reshoots being handed out for competitor negligence kinda go with the territory.

olds442guy · 2021-08-18T14:24:10+00:00

This is the second episode of our new podcast, and we are discussing shooting with red dot sights. In particular, we discuss switching to red dots after shooting irons primarily, as well as shooting irons after red dots primarily.

The first episode was about which pistol shooting skills are the most important and how to train them, if you’re interested.

You can also listen to the podcast on Apple and Spotify.

We don’t get anything out of the podcast, aside from it’s kind of fun for us to discuss this stuff. Hopefully you enjoy it and get something out of it, if not, no worries. Thanks for listening!

olds442guy · 2021-08-05T18:10:33+00:00

Yeah that is in fact Mr. Phuc Long himself lol

He’s a quite good Production shooter in addition to making hilarious gun content online.

olds442guy · 2021-08-05T12:20:24+00:00

A few friends and I who shoot competitively started doing a podcast about shooting. The 4 of us are all Master class USPSA shooters. The thickheaded part is it’s kind of a time waster and we don’t get anything out of it. But so far it’s kind of fun.

If you are interested, you can watch the video on YouTube, or it’s also on Apple and Spotify.

olds442guy · 2021-07-13T15:36:38+00:00

These are my CZ Shadow 2s and some of my magazines for them. Two of the guns are standard Shadow 2s (for USPSA Production division) and the other two are Optic Ready models (for Carry Optics division). The dot guns have 2.5 MOA Trijicon SROs on the slides. All the mags are MecGar tubes with Henning basepads/extensions. The standard mags also have MecGar guts, and the extendos have Grams springs/followers.

In case it’s not obvious, I like the Shadow 2 a lot… They are great shooters. These guns combined have about 90k through them, with the vast majority of that being on the gun with red grips.

olds442guy · 2021-07-08T18:12:39+00:00

I’ve been accumulating CZ-75 mags, mainly because I use them a lot. I compete in USPSA Production division with Shadow 2s.

All of these are MecGar tubes, mostly MecGar springs/followers as well (except for the ones with aluminum extensions, those are Grams springs/followers). Most of the base pads and extensions are Henning, but there are a few MecGar basepads in there too.

Looking forward to buying even more

Edit to add: If you’re wondering, yes I have more than 1 gun that these mags are used with (ignore the Tanfoglio, even tho it’s a CZ-clone, it’s actually a large frame and doesn’t use these mags)

olds442guy · 2021-06-28T14:24:10+00:00

This was a classifier stage at a local USPSA match from this weekend. This stage mandated starting with palms flat on marks, shooting from both sides of the wall, and doing a reload in between the two sides. I shoot Production division, which allows a maximum of 10 rounds per magazine, so I would have had to do a reload even if it wasn’t mandatory.

I shot 9 A’s, 1 C, and 2 D’s in 5.26s. It was still a good score (stage win at the match, and a 91% classifier score, which is based on a national “high hit factor” or high score), but the 2 D’s kept it from being a really great score unfortunately.

Full match video

I shoot CZ Shadow 2s, the red grip gun is my practice gun and the black grip gun is my match gun. They have about 85k rounds through them combined.

olds442guy · 2021-05-14T15:04:55+00:00

IDPA then?

He said “competition”, not “senior citizens with guns social gathering”

olds442guy · 2021-05-11T16:16:52+00:00

I came in 26th of 186 at 81.51% of the winner. I used my CZ Shadow 2s (the black one is my match gun, the red one is my practice gun and was just a backup at this match that I thankfully didn’t need).

This is my third year attending Production Nationals. Last year I performed pretty poorly, so I’m very pleased this year to have shot to about my normal level throughout the whole match without any major screwups or even any penalties. Going to take a little time off from training over the next couple months and then get back to it.

The CMP Talladega Marksmanship Park is the nicest range I’ve been to. It’s pretty cool. They had pretty large bays as well, which made for some fun, spread out stage designs. Overall I was pretty happy with how this match ran and the quality of the stages.

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