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Today was Renton’s last USPSA match for the season. They’ll shutdown for the next three months and restart matches again in February 2011. Took my S&W 625 JM for a spin with the Austin Moonclip Server. It was a difficult match because there were lots of pitfalls and forced all shooters to focus on accuracy than speed. Had some major screw-ups but it was really fun. Look at the big smile!
here’s the video of the match :
Here’s Cel who beat me by 1%, and fun guy to shoot with.
and Gregg who was shooting his 686 in .38 SPL. He didn’t have enough speed loaders and was using Speed Strips!! RESPECT 
This is a great guide for women who have their Concealed Pistol License (CPL) of Concealed Carry Weapon license (CCW). Women have very different body shapes than men and clothing preference, so Falia is doing a great job going through the various different types of holsters and carry options for various clothing styles.
We had an interesting discussion in a local club forum about which 380ACP ammo to carry in a small gun like the Ruger LCP and that led me to conduct a very simple investigation using the wonders of YouTube.
Most of the hollow point 380s do well if you shoot it through water jugs or ballistic gel, but once you put 4 layers of denim in front of it, almost every one of them don’t expand. I think shooting through 4 layers of Denim is a good gauge of how the bullet will perform in a realistic self defense scenario as you would most likely be shooting through some clothing.
Here’s a video of the Corbon DPX shot into water jugs (yes, I know this is hardly scientific) but it’s the only thing we have to compare performance.
– Awesome expansion.
and the same bullet, through 4 layers of denim.
– Whut??!?
Here’s more.
Remington Golden Sabre : – Also bad through denim.
Speer Gold Dot : – No expansion
Winchester Ranger-T : – My Fav, but no expansion
PMC Starfire : – no expansion
and finally,
Buffalo Bore : – awesome expansion!
Hornady Critical Defense :
The Buffalo Bore .380ACP is “+P”. I don’t feel confortable carrying +P in the LCP as it’s not recommended. Not because of recoil, but because of structural integrity.
Hornady’s claim of reliable expansion is pretty much spot on, it expands consistently through everything (you can watch the videos on youtube yourself). Although the expansion is not as large as the other brands, it is consistent.
that’s why I carry Critical Defense, that and practicing proper shot placement.
** and NO I’m not sponsored by Hornady, perhaps I should be 
Thanks to NCFLYFISHER for making those videos.
Just got this in today. I’m a big fan of Rudy glasses, ever since I first saw Julie Golob wear them and I thought it looked very cool.
I bought the Rydons Shooting Clear frame with their Racing Red and Yellow lenses initially. The Yellow lens helped a lot during Fall and Winter when the Northwest is pretty much gloomy everyday.
The yellow lens helped to light up the course of fire when it’s dull or dark. I also bought a clear lens to see if they work better than the yellow, and in fact it did. It worked so well that I shot my best ever match at the recent Washington State IDPA Championships wearing a clear lens.
Recently they launched a new set of clear lens called the Multilaser Clear which is supposed to be clear with very little tint and has a very reflective chrome like look from the front. It’s not “mirror” but it’s shiny enough to be cool!
Can’t wait to give it a spin at the next match. Will let you know how well it works.
PS. I am part of the Rudy Project IDPA Shooting Squad, not because they pay me (they don’t) but because I like their products and how they are helping to promote the shooting sport. so there!
Comparing the amount of smoke that comes out of the muzzle using different types of bullets. Lead Cast is known to be much more smokier because of the lube they put on it during production. The lube burns up during ignition and causes a big puff of smoke.
I’m using Hodgdon Clays Powder and it works well with other types of bullets like Molys or jacketed ones, not lube. Checkout the difference in this video :
I’ve been using the A-ZOOM brand of Aluminum Snap Caps for most of my dry-fire training this past few months. It has worked well for my single stack practice with my Kimber 1911s. They serve to protect my magazine feed lips if I miss a quick reload and hit the bottom of the magwell.
When I switched to shooting revolvers 2 months ago, I bought extra Snap Caps, loaded them on moon clips and went through several drills. Everything worked well except for two minor problems.
1. They’re light.
Much lighter than standard loaded ammo, and thus has affected my reload and gun handling a little. When I shot my past two matches, I was surprised to find out (too late in fact) that the real rounds are much heavier, thus requiring me to adjust my reloads a little bit. Not too big a problem.
2. They’re too smooth.
This one was a bigger issue for me. The aluminum rounds were very smooth and will drop out of the cylinder without needing to use the ejector rod. What happened after a couple of hundred reloads is that I forget to push on the ejector rod and expect the moonclip to drop out of the cylinder. Not too big a problem in practice, but in my last match, if you watch this video, you’ll see me fumble my reloads because real ammo expands a little after ignition and stays in the cylinder, requiring me to push on the ejector rod to drop out.
That pissed me off because now I have to work on PROPER reloading technique to undo all that bad practice I’ve accumulated. UGH!
In order for me to have more realistic dummy rounds, I had to make my own, out of the actual components that I use in my match ammo. But how do I make them inert?
Well, use fired brass, leave the spent primers on the brass, because I need to fill the brass case with used Corn Cob media. Why? so that the bullets won’t drop into the empty case when I drop the moon clip on the ground. Having corn cob media in the brass case prevents the bullet from being hammered back into the case.
some fired cases have a dark line to show where the previous bullet sat in, that’s is where I’ll fill the corn cob media to.
After that, just run the cases through the reloading press bullet seating die, and taper crimp die.
Just make sure that you mark the rounds clearly to differentiate between live and inert ones. The fired primer and red Sharpie ring tells me that these are dummy rounds.
They work very well, is very heavy and sticks to the cylinder, forcing me to actually press on the ejector rod to reload. Just like in live-fire.
Sweet!
Is the venerable .45 ACP. America’s Caliber. I’m proud to be associated with it.
Shot the monthly IDPA match in the Renton Fish & Game Club on Saturday and had a lot of fun. The gun ran flawlessly, only one light strike, probably from a primer that didn’t seat well. The trigger job is very good, I just need to get used to it and I’m sure it’ll do wonders to my score.
I came in top revolver and 30th out of 91 shooters. Not bad considering I beat most Sharpshooters & Marksman of other faster semi-auto guns. Need to work on my accuracy and reloading a little bit more.
Here’s the video of the match :
My goal is to beat Experts in other divisions (namely ESP + SSP) in a few months. Let’s see if I can do it!
Love this post by a Brian Enos forum member CherryRiver from Illinois about what makes us shoot revolvers in competition. Revolvers are slower than their Semi-auto counterparts, they’re heavy, made with steel in this new world of light weight, high capacity polymer guns. Revolvers only hold 6-8 rounds compared to 15 to 30. So what makes a revolver so attractive to shoot?
Revolvers are the sort of machine that wears a lot of its guts on the outside. You can see the cylinder going around, you can see the sweep of the trigger powering all that whirly stuff, you can see the hammer cycling, and during the reload, you can see all kinds of important mechanical gadgets and even, all of the chambers. Not so much with autos. Get up with the modern ones with strikers and you can’t even pick up that little bit of hammer moving action. Everything seems to be going on inside, where it’s an unseen mystery.
The best analogy I’ve ever come up with is locomotives. A half-dozen brilliantly efficient EMDs can gurgle by, producing horsepower by the many thousands with calm, even effortless, slickness. They work so well we almost cease to marvel at 10,000-plus tons of freight under the sweatless control of a single operator.But let a steam locomotive clank by and crowds gather by the zillions, snapping photos and inhaling coal smoke (and getting pelted with cinders), breathless and completely in thrall by all of the motion.
The steam locomotive wears its guts on the outside, just like revolvers. The wheels are seven or more feet tall and turn like vertical merry-go-rounds. The main rods are almost the size of a man’s trunk and fly, absolutely fly, back and forth with impossible speed, seemingly ready to launch off into the sky… but they don’t. There’s fire and smoke and steam everywhere, pouring out of stacks and pop valves and slide valves and who knows how many leaks.
That’s the enchantment- mechanical activity.So it goes for revolvers. You can see stuff happening.
Well said my friend. Time for me to go take my revolver out of my bag and admire it again.
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