Finally got the DAA Magnetic Magazine Pouch and now my USPSA Open Rig is complete.
Not sure what this is for? it’s for unloaded table starts. here’s Saul Kirsch on video explaining how you’d benefit from this :
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Now that I got the 013 Holster setup, I took my four Safariland Model 773 Adjustable Magazine Pouches and attempt to find the sweet spot on the Safariland ELS Competition Belt system Model 032.
The Magazine pouches are very sturdy and comes with two “rollers” on the bottom part of the pouch.
Those rollers assist you in drawing your magazine from the pouch. You can also adjust the tension using the two screws. I didn’t have to because the fit was perfect for my SV and STI magazines.
The way you’d mount the mag pouches would be using the ELS 34 Locking Fork and ELS 35 Receiver plates. You’d screw down the Receiver Plate on the ELS Belt System.
The Magazine Pouches already come with the ELS 34 Locking Fork installed, so all you have to do is to slot them into the plate and they fit snugly.
From what I’ve heard/read/seen on online forums and YouTube, the best way to position a magazine pouch is so that when you grab the magazine, your wrist is not bent out of shape. The best position would be to have your arm and hands in a straight line when you grab your magazine. This took some time as the can’t is restricted to how you position the screws in the Receiver Plate and the Belt.
As you can see from this picture, the position of the first magazine pouch looks extreme, but this allows my hand to lie straight while I gab on to the magazine.
Here it is after putting on all the mag pouches :
My wife says it looks really messy. Functional is what I told her 
Can’t wait to give it a try! I also have a Double Alpha Magnetic magazine holder on order to complete the rig.
Shot this fabulous Level 3 match in the Albany Rifle Range in Oregon. Excellent weather, great facilities, awesome stages. Piss poor performance unfortunately. I did pretty well until I decided to get myself kicked out of the match from a stupid mistake. Watch the video to find out what happened.
Thanks to Mike McCarter and his crew for setting up this fun match. Checkout the details of the match from their website : http://uspsa1.org/
The Stage Descriptions : http://uspsa1.org/?page_id=2
- S1 get the wrecker
- S2 pikes peak
- S3 hot lap
- S4 martinsville
- S5 fill up
- S6 speed trap
- S7 sonoma
- S8 short sprint
- S9 super cross
- S10 ticket booth
- S11 v is victory
- S12 baja 500
How did my gun drop? Ejection Rod got caught under my band-aid and when I reached down to grab the moonclip, it tore the gun out of my hand. Like so.
Well, lessons learned.
Just received this yesterday in the mail. It’s the Safariland 013 Competition Holster System (#013-853-121) for my SV Open Gun. I’m going to start using Safariland gear exclusively when shooting in the USPSA Open division.
I did take almost an hour deciding how I would want to mount this and wear the gun. I think I’ve found the right position, slightly canted inwards and closer to my hip so my arm isn’t in a weird position. Now it feels more natural.
I did want to rake it forward more like I did with my revolver but the holster is large and I might dislodge it with my right thigh. Not sure if that’s a problem yet, so will figure that out after a few matches.
Tested three different grips while rapidly shooting 6 rounds off my Open gun. Weak hand grip (barely holding on to the gun), 70/30 (70 left strength, 30 right), and 100/100 (hard crushing grip both hands).
Look at the results yourself in slow-mo. I wished I had a target to show where the rounds hit, but I’m pretty sure both 70/30 and 100/100 were A zone hits and the weak hand probably only 1 would have hit the paper 🙂
I mentioned earlier that I’ve only manage to fit 28 rounds into my SV Magazine tubes, but after compressing the springs for a few days, they now fit 29, as described by a few shooters on the BENOS forum.
here are the details :
- 29 in SV 170mm + Grams guts + Bolens Basepad (x2)
- 28 in SPS 170mm + STI guts + Bolens 4mm Basepad
- 22 in STI 140mm + STI guts + Bolens 7mm Basepad
Now it’s time to stop playing with the equipment and start shooting!!
We’ve been recording and releasing episodes for the PowerFactor show for almost 7 months now, mostly using our own savings and time from the hosts, Steve & Rick. The only complaint we’ve been receiving so far is the audio quality. The recording equipment we have is a cheapass wireless microphone system from China. It has served us well but recently we’ve been plagued by disconnecting issues resulting in bad audio quality.
Ever since we’ve posted a Donate button on our website, we’ve been receiving a number of donations from loyal listeners who really want to support us and the show. Obviously the first thing we do with these donations, is to buy audio recording equipment to help fix the problem.
We bought two Olympus VN-8100PC audio recorders which are really small and handy.
Not only is the audio quality really good, it is also a self contained unit with built in memory. You can easily plug in it into a PC using USB and copy the WMA or MP3 files out for editing.
It is really very portable, so Steve and Rick can just dump the recorder into their pocket anywhere they are and talk away. We don’t have to lug around the wireless mics, receivers and a laptop like we used to do.
We also bought two matching noise cancelling Olympus ME-15 lapel microphones .
The recorders also come with a really handy and cute neoprene case to keep it safe :
Looking forward to recording more episodes with these recorders and raise the overall quality of the show. Thanks guys!
Just got this installed on my SV Open Gun. It’s much better than the older aluminum magwell that came with it. It’s a little bigger and serves as a “stand” for my grip. It helps keep my grip on the gun tight, plus it looks much better too don’t you think so?
Gaping hole where you shove your mag in hard 
Sexy right?
I bought three used magazines from a fellow shooter on Brian Enos Forum. One SV 170mm Mag tube, one SPS 170mm magazine and a STI 140mm Magazine. I also ordered three Bolen base pads from Shooters Connection and a EGW Magazine Gauge to make sure my magazines are under the maximum length limit for the USPSA Open Division.
Two 3mm and one 7mm for the 140mm STI Magtube.
The SV Tube that I bought came with a Dawson SNL +1 base pad which does not fit the gauge, so I had to swap it with a 3mm Bolen Basepad. (One down)
the SPS magazine was really short, compared to the SV tube, so even with a 4mm Bolen Basepad, it still is under the maximum length. (That’s two legal)
The third one was my old SV 170mm magazine that came with the gun, it about a 1/1000th of an inch longer so I had to file down on some areas to make it shorter a little. I had to do the same with the black SV mag tube above. so after fiddling around a little, here are the results. I manage to make 28rounds fit, but can’t get anymore. Some folks on the forums can fit 30, I have no idea how that’s done. Perhaps I need to tune the springs or something.
The last bit was the STI 140mm mag tube. It came with an STI basepad, I tried fitting on the Dawson SNL+1 basepad and all I got was 21rounds. After replacing it with a Bolen 7mm basepad, now I get 22 out of that magazine.
here’s all of them in a row and the current ammo capacity, I tried but I couldn’t get more than 28rounds to fit reliably.
There, I’m ready to go. armed with 108 rounds of .38 Super Comp. Now all I need is my rig.
Gunbot! 