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Some manufacturers market flatpoints and truncated cone toward competitive shooters who have to knock down steel. A flatter bullet is less likely to ricochet or deflect off a steel popper than a round nose when hit at an angle or on the edge, or so the theory goes. I don’t necessarily buy this theory, but I know from experience that edge shots and glancing hits can fail to drop steel (especially when shooting minor), so FP and TC bullets may have a small advantage.

If I see a deal on a .40 I like, I may pick one up. .40 ammo didn’t vanish like 9mm did.

I’ve been shooting a G24 in USPSA Limited division for the last seven or eight months. It’s been massaged and I have it set up “just so.” It is indeed a shooter.

Some jacketed hollow point pistol bullets have a copper base instead of exposed lead, like many jacketed round nose and flat points. This can reduce fouling.

What rifle

If I ever get tired of shooting handguns, I’m gonna learn to play a guitar. That probably won’t happen, but that’s my plan.

The guy earned it.

Damn, a first class ticket was worth its weight in gold on that flight.

CZ 455 and a Ruger Mk II bull barrel. Both will shoot the lights out.

That Clark Kent fellow is the only guy that can do that.

Gotcha. My bad on the confusion.

I shoot handguns left-handed. Over the years, I have found many right-handed guns to be quite lefty friendly. A 1911 (with ambi safety) is a perfect example. In fact, when certain guns started being offered with ambi mag catches and slide releases, I thought, “why would I do that? It works better set up for right-handed shooting.” A couple right-handed friends have set up their ambi guns for a leftybecause they discovered that they preferred dropping a magazine or the slide with their trigger finger the way I do. Being about 60% left-handed and mildly ambidextrous, I could switch hands and may eventually be as good right-handed. But it wouldn’t make sense unless I had to. I guess that’s a southpaw’s life in a right-handed world.

Well maybe that clears some of the confusion if we are talking about a shooter who doesn’t know. If someone is unaware of eye dominance issues, all that makes sense. However, there are some who insist that shooting cross dominant is hopelessly flawed and the only solution is to switch hands (again, talking handguns here). Some consider cross-dominance a problem even when the cross-dominant shooter is not having problems. I have heard of a couple trainers in the past (can’t remember who) who would force students to switch hands as a rule, not after working with the student. This is asinine. Switching hands to cure eye dominance issues should be a last resort in most cases.

But why on earth would a cross-dominant shooter not compensate?

Yes I get all that, but I'm not sure what you are trying to say. There is no "problem" with shooting cross-dominant. Rotating one's head a couple inches to the left or right is a minor adjustment that cross-dominant shooters do, but after that, everything is the same. Are you referring to cross-dominant shooters who don't know they are cross-dominant?

I’ve done business with Old South a couple times. Good folks.

I don’t understand this. I’m a cross-dominant shooter and if I close my dominant eye and correct my aim, the sights are still lined up on the target whether I move the gun or move my head. I’m just using my other eye. If the sights are not lined up on the target, I didn’t correct anything.

What type of shooting did you coach? Long-gun related dominance issues sometimes seem to be harder to deal with than when shooting a handgun. Also, it helps if one eye is DOMINANT. I've occasionally run across a shooter who has a barely dominant eye and can't decide which eye to use. Those are harder to solve than the ones who are shooting cross-dominant. Seems like a lot of them end up with a piece of clear tape on their glasses over whichever eye they are trying not to use.

The bottom half of a 2011 is (until recently) polymer. The "grip" is a one piece item that consists of the grip and trigger guard and a separate mainspring housing. This part mates to a chassis (aka frame), which together form what we would think of as the frame of a 1911. I say until recently because people have started making metal grips. A 2011 is a completely different animal than simply being a double stack 1911. Below is an example of a 2011 frame: https://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/prod/190-750020111-00

I am right eye dominant and shoot long guns right handed and handguns left handed and have never felt a need to change anything. I shoot everything with both eyes open. I often hear shooters given advice that a switch to the opposite side is necessary and I feel that this advice is terrible for most people. However, eye dominance can pose a significant issue is when one is shooting long guns with both eyes open and a change may help.

Got some G48/Shield magazine trigger time today. I wanted a second 48 before the great COVID gun buying spree began and local prices went straight up. Then I found one for $479 in town and jumped on it. Got the Shield mag catch and sights set up. I have five Shield mags numbered 1-5. 1 and 2 are my first two that I added the stiffer springs to. I was about out of carry ammo and a buddy and I recently cashed in on the recent Target Sports Federal HST sale. I don't get lathered up over magazine articles and gel tests, but HST is supposedly the best. Maybe it is. At half price, it was a lot cheaper than buying more Hornady Critical Defense that I was using. I tested 1 and 2 with the old silver slide gun and 3 and 5 with the new gun after some breaking in with jacketed and coated handloads. I didn't have enough ammo to test all mags with both guns (and don't know when it will be available). Mag 4 would hold only 14, so it will sit in the safe for a month with 14 and I'll revisit it later. Otherwise, everything ran. On a side note, competitive Glock shooters agree that a 4.5 striker spring is as light as you go with a stock striker to avoid light strikes. I do this on gamer guns, but avoid much modification on carry guns. I threw caution to the wind and put a 4.5 striker spring in the new gun after polishing the internals. To really test it, I loaded some ammo with some older Wolf primers, which have a reputation for being the hardest primers available. The 4.5 spring ate them up (along with the HST) and was easier to shoot than the silver gun. The silver gun will now get the same treatment. I'll test it before carrying it, but I'm confident it will run, too.

Well, according to Van Jones, one reason is that black people ignored the disease: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/opinions/african-americans-covid-19-risk-jones/index.html

Boss told us to do everything we could from home. His boss said no working from home. Another normal day.

My dad used to love Polish jokes. My mother was into genealogy and found some Prussians on his side. At times, Prussia overlapped eastern Germany and western Poland. He slowed down on the Polish jokes, but my mother started telling them.

I think I would let others be guinea pigs first. I haven’t gotten a flu shot in years and have had it twice—H1N1 in 2009 and a different strain in 2002, which was a couple months after getting a flu shot. I don’t think the vaccine caused it, but it sure as hell didn’t prevent it. H1N1 sucked, but it was no comparison to the asswhipping the 2002 flu gave me. It was like an atomic sinus infection + food poisoning + 30 minutes in the octagon with Chuck Liddell. I began to seriously wonder if I would see the next week. An overall unsatisfactory experience.