Penguin

Nice to see a fellow bullseye shooter.

Yep, about damn time.

It's a lot of fun shooting USPSA with a duty gun out of duty gear and finishing high in the order...

 

There's a lot to be said for shooting clean, but the scoring puts so much emphasis on speed, a really fast shooter with a bunch of 'C's will still get you.

 

CZs seem to be pretty popular these days, probably can't go wrong, and easy to re-sell if you don't like it.

 

I'm not a big fan of the old P series Sigs... high bore axis, awkward ergonomics, and the D/A to S/A trigger press. All of that will work against you when you're on the clock.

 

The X5 I have is SAO which helps, and it’s all steel with a 5” bull barrel. Recoil is very tame but probably not as flat as the CZ with a lower bore axis. I need to decide if I’m going to sell it, or keep it and get it tuned up to shoot Limited major power factor.

Nice Langdon 92 Centurion.

 

Details? Trigger job? Etc.

Yeah USPSA scoring is not marksmanship intensive, pointing this out at the match made me no friends. Frankly the scoring emphasis on speed above all else in my mind is tantamount to negligence in real world applications. That said the top of the heap shooters shot clean with almost no mikes and no no shoots.

 

It’s all those pukes in the middle who got me by being sloppy and fast. I’d love to design a course for them with a 5’X5’ white no shoot zone around every target... better not miss fuckers, and then put black “hard cover zones” or white no shoots partially obscuring the targets as well. Guys who know how to apply fundamentals quickly would still dominate, but the sloppy fast guys would get ******* crushed.

Shot a USPSA match last Sunday, had fun. Shot my carry gun in Carry Optics division. LOL.

 

Hadn’t picked up a pistol in months, still managed to place ahead of more experienced shooters (with member numbers and shit) by shooting plenty of “A”s (top ten in “A”s for the match). But I was slow, didn’t understand the scoring at all, and running a polymer framed pistol with a duty trigger and small concealment oriented RDS didn’t help. Plus I was running stock 15 round magazines, so I got to reload more than everyone else.

 

Still kind of have an itch to do it again, and actually like practice and shit. Probably not going to campaign my carry gun against purpose built match guns, so I have an excuse now to get a pistol made for USPSA. At this point interested in maybe being able to shoot Production, Limited, and Carry Optics. Kind of leaning towards an all steel frame CZ variant because they fit the rules and were quite popular at the match I attended. Also noticed a few P320 X5’s, but sadly I do not get along with SIG slide stops and virtually never get lock back on an empty magazine.

 

I have a pistol to run in limited if I can work a few issues out with it (P226 X5 .40 S&W) namely the damn slide stop lever is huge, the trigger could use some work, and I don’t care for the sights. It’s also absurdly over sprung.

 

Aside from the X5 I already have, any reason not to pick up a CZ for shooting in divisions with “minor” only scoring?

Interesting.

 

The flip side of this should be a legal requirement that maintenance of the manufacturers systems is included with the subscription. Just pay a subscription for everything. Go ahead BMW, do that with your unreliable trash cars and be on the hook for fixing shit way past 4 years/50K miles.

 

Without that kind of provision it seems like another great reason to avoid BMW products.

Sorry to hear your car got the Chinese Lung Herpes.

You’re just angry that you sucked at sports growing up.

 

I wasn’t good at football I’ll grant you that.

 

Mostly I’m just sick of the shitty human beings that comprise the NFL making truckloads of money playing a game, and then having the temerity to try and lecture the rest of us who actually do real jobs that contribute to society on how to live our lives. The NFL seems to be on board with this bullshit and I’m not interested.

 

I think it would be far more entertaining to have a reality show following these dumb dumbs around trying to work a real job and support their outlandish habits on the kind of pay their real world skills can get them. Plus we could also watch them deal with no one giving a shit about their prowess at playing a game. It would be ******* epically funny. Far more entertaining than football.

My hope for this season: all the teams go bankrupt and the players all have to get real jobs, and we never ever have to see another game again, and that state and local taxpayers are never again asked to help fund a stadium for man children to play games in.

"Probiotics" are not clinically proven and you only would avoid gluten if you have a specific issue (wheat allergy/celiac disease).

 

 

Also - Kias are crap why did you buy one?

 

Because he’s too cheap to buy something of quality.

Dude, send it off for industrial hard chrome.

Well the OP should watch some Trailer Park Boys to get an idea of what life is like in Nova Scotia and what kind of cars will be best suited.

That’s a tough budget for 2 vehicles. $50,000 Canadian Dollars only around $37.5K US.

You might want to be more specific.

 

Money is no object? Interesting to drive, and will go in the snow...... OK.

 

Covers a lot of choices. Do you want a car? How about some sort of bonkers 4X4 truck with a ton of power?

Gun selection is a bit picked over out here. Depends on what you’re looking for.

 

High end guns of any description are fairly available, mid range and cheap stuff not so much.

 

Ammo is spotty, if you shoot primarily 9mmX19 NATO and 5.56mmX45 NATO, you’re in for a lousy time finding stuff. Back order it if you can, eventually it will be filled. I advise ordering a case or two at a time if you can afford to.

 

Other stuff is no problem, revolver ammo not an issue, big bore auto not an issue .40S&W and .45 ACP can still be had. Hunting rifle caliber ammo no problem.

 

I know people like to simplify and standardize their calibers, but those of us with multiple choices still get to shoot and find ammo. Might not be the gun I want to train with, but it’s the gun I can feed. I have pistols in .40 and .45 so far ammo isn’t impossible to find for those two. I have a revolver that can run .45 ACP, .45 Super, .45 Schofield, .45 Colt, and .454 Casull. Granted it’s a big 6” barrel custom made 5 shot but if you think I can’t do work with a .452” diameter 300gr bonded core hollow point trucking along at 1500fps I think you’re in for a bad time, years ago I used to use that load to shoot rocks and it will strait up smash sandstone rocks the size of your head into chunks and dust. Same for a hunting rifle, I can promise you don’t want to get zapped by a 140gr Barnes solid copper polymer tipped hollow point moving along at 3175fps, I know what they will do to deer and antelope, and I know guys who have put them in one shoulder of a bull elk and out the other on the opposite side. Don’t underestimate “fudd” guns, they might not be all tacti-cool but they’re almost always chambered in shit that is way way more potent than general issue military small arms. Remember if they’ll go right through an elk and leave a fist sized hole on the exit side, they’ll similarly **** up some dumb motherfucker who shows up in your house at 0300 to talk about Jesus.

Too much money for not enough performance in the type of shooting I would be doing.

 

Both PRS and NRL have a strict speed limit and caliber restrictions, and the AI really only shines in big magnums that have no competitive advantage in either series or are outright not allowed.

 

A quick look at what top shooters are using in either series, and it’s pretty much actions from Impact Precision, Defiance Machine, Curtis Custom, American Rifle Co, Bighorn Arms, and few others. Stocks/chassis are usually Masterpiece Arms, Modular Driven Technologies, Manners, or Foundation. Add a high end cut rifled custom barrel, and a high end trigger.

 

The pros aren’t running AI’s in this game, but they are crushing dudes who are bringing AI’s.

 

Remember a lot of the stuff that makes an AI or Barrett etc attractive for duty use or agency issue isn’t strictly needed on a competition gun. Some of the features on a competition gun would be totally inappropriate for a duty gun.

 

Plus there’s the issue of what division to shoot in. PRS production class rules dictate a rifle cost of under $2500, so you can shoot production class or go play with the big boys who’ve gone full retard on a $1400 action in a $1300 stock, with $300 triggers, a $750-$1000 custom barrel (that the top guys will burn up 2-3 of each season but they have sponsors), with $3K glass in $400 mounts. Plus a bipod, tripod, hand stops, barricade stops, bags, range finder, and a slew of other shit.

Maybe this? Or is the range too short on it? Just be careful since this could massacre your fingers worse than the "Garand Thumb".

 

 

 

 

Seems like there's some wind drift in that video.

 

 

Of course - you got to find one.

 

Neat old rifles but no, something more along these lines:

 

https://www.americanrifle.com/shop/product/nucleus-gen-2-0-rifle-1200?category=26

In addition if I need more distance the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands are within a 30 minute drive. I’d just need to buy steel and a hanger.

Before you do, make sure you have somewhere to shoot it... at least 400-600 yards.

 

Years ago, I built a Remington 700 in .308. At the time I had easy access to a spot to shoot 600 yards. Things changed, and I had to drive over an hour to shoot more than 200 yards. Rifle didn't get shot for 2 years, so I ended up selling it.

 

Precision rifles are fun, but boring at short ranges. Unless you have easy access to a longer range, you may regret building one.

 

Dude I live less that 15 minutes from a very nice range with steel already hung at 800 yards (if you have to use the 800 yard line firing position, more is possible with some creative positioning). Also have 300, and 500 yard steel. Plans to expand out to 1000 are in the works and there is space to do it.

 

Played with a friend’s 6.5X284 Norma out to 840 on the steel. Had fun, want more.

 

Probably go 6mm Creedmoor or 6.5 PRC, maybe both depending on chosen action and ability to run more than one bolt face. I’m familiar with using go and no go gauges, and have a good vice and torque wrench. Barrel changes don’t frighten me, and many of the better actions are so precise you can get chambered pre-fit barrels from Bartlein, and Proof Research.

Staring into the rabbit hole of precision rifles. Want to buy one or have one built.

 

This is going to be expensive.

Joining the HK master race, hard to go wrong.

Not quite 3.

Next car, probably a 2018 or 2019 Lexus LS500 with AWD. Haven’t decided if the SS stays or is traded in.

 

Subaru’s haven’t been in contention since 2007, they make nothing that even remotely appeals to me.

Facepage and Instafag are for the bottom 3% of the IQ bell curve, and adolescent girls.

 

I don’t do social media.