cclaxton
05-04-2014, 09:57 AM
Really great match, fun to shoot, great facilities, great weather and great group of guys in Southern Maryland, Lexington Park, MD. (Sanners Lake)
I was fortunate to get 1st place SSP Marksman, so got the match bump I was hoping for. I was 20 seconds faster than the 2nd place person. I shot my Gen 3 Glock 34, used Jack Ross 9mm-147gr (checked every round and found no problems in 250 rounds, which is all I checked.). The 34 has the ZevTech IDPA legal drop-in trigger, and a KKM barrel. I used authentic Glock magazines (3ea gen 3 and one gen 4), having found the KCI Korean ones were causing double feeds. (Anybody want them?)
I have to admit I am really impressed with the Glock platform: simplicity, sight radius, relative accuracy, handling and reliability. One of the things I still dislike is the large trigger guard gives me a serious case of "Glock knuckle" and I am not sure I could shoot the Glock continuously for this very reason. I know one person who grew a cyst on his middle knuckle after shooting for many years. Another thing is getting my Glock to run reliably took some replacement parts, and a different recoil spring. I also had to do some dremel work on the mag release (sharp edges). Dirty mags also caused reliability issues. Once I got all those issues solved, it is 100% reliable.
I got the ESP match bump to Sharpshooter using my CZ Shadow last year at the Liberty Match. My strategy is to move back to my CZ Shadow and shoot ESP Sharpshooter and work on the Match bump to Expert. Based on how many more people are competing in SS, I expect to work harder and and take more practice to make Expert. In order to get a match bump it is my experience that I actually need to be shooting at the next class level in order to win a match bump. (I call this "out-sandbagging" the other sandbaggers)
A friend asked me if I wanted to move to CDP (45cal) and try for a match bump to SS. But I don't really have a decent 45cal, and ammo is more expensive, so I think I am going to stick with the 9mm divisions for now. I own a Tisas 1911 (http://www.trabzonsilah.com/eng/index2.php?p=tabancadetay&id=9), but no holster, mag holders, extra mags, etc. Any thoughts on using this "as-is"? The one I have has nice grippy G10 grips on it. Any thoughts on moving to CDP before moving back to ESP?
Thanks,
Cody
I was fortunate to get 1st place SSP Marksman, so got the match bump I was hoping for. I was 20 seconds faster than the 2nd place person. I shot my Gen 3 Glock 34, used Jack Ross 9mm-147gr (checked every round and found no problems in 250 rounds, which is all I checked.). The 34 has the ZevTech IDPA legal drop-in trigger, and a KKM barrel. I used authentic Glock magazines (3ea gen 3 and one gen 4), having found the KCI Korean ones were causing double feeds. (Anybody want them?)
I have to admit I am really impressed with the Glock platform: simplicity, sight radius, relative accuracy, handling and reliability. One of the things I still dislike is the large trigger guard gives me a serious case of "Glock knuckle" and I am not sure I could shoot the Glock continuously for this very reason. I know one person who grew a cyst on his middle knuckle after shooting for many years. Another thing is getting my Glock to run reliably took some replacement parts, and a different recoil spring. I also had to do some dremel work on the mag release (sharp edges). Dirty mags also caused reliability issues. Once I got all those issues solved, it is 100% reliable.
I got the ESP match bump to Sharpshooter using my CZ Shadow last year at the Liberty Match. My strategy is to move back to my CZ Shadow and shoot ESP Sharpshooter and work on the Match bump to Expert. Based on how many more people are competing in SS, I expect to work harder and and take more practice to make Expert. In order to get a match bump it is my experience that I actually need to be shooting at the next class level in order to win a match bump. (I call this "out-sandbagging" the other sandbaggers)
A friend asked me if I wanted to move to CDP (45cal) and try for a match bump to SS. But I don't really have a decent 45cal, and ammo is more expensive, so I think I am going to stick with the 9mm divisions for now. I own a Tisas 1911 (http://www.trabzonsilah.com/eng/index2.php?p=tabancadetay&id=9), but no holster, mag holders, extra mags, etc. Any thoughts on using this "as-is"? The one I have has nice grippy G10 grips on it. Any thoughts on moving to CDP before moving back to ESP?
Thanks,
Cody