11-18-07 Steel Challenge @ BH2O

[Robb Jensen]

I can't get my Ruger 22/45 to run with anything reliably, or else I'd shoot it in steel too. I may sell it and get a Buckmark.

Try a Volquartsen Exact Edge extractor, they cost about $12 and make a WORLD of difference. My Ruger used to be really finicky on ammo......then the stock extractor broke at 7K rounds. It now has over 14K rounds on it (total) and since putting in the Exact Edge at 7K rounds it'll run on any high velocity ammo.

[Looey]

awesome match.
It was good shooting with the VA Arms team again, i guess i will try to introduce myself next time to VA dinger and the rest of the guys from M4carbine. I am now living around chesapeake and it would be cool to keep shooting together.

[mark5pt56]

Mark,
The Tactical Solutions barrel for the Buckmark isn't considered a 'firearm' like it is on the Rugers (might be easy to bring home ). And you can get it with a Picatinny railed 'bridge' for the receiver. They're damn light. 9x19 really likes hers on the MKIII 22/45 pistol I bought her last Christmas. With the can mounted and the gun fully loaded it still weighs less than the steel upper it came with. I'd say an Aimpoint H1 or R1 would be great on a Browning. 9x19s is much more accurate with the can mounted for some reason. Looks like a pattern with out it, she shot Remington Thunderbolt.

Tactical Solutions, how did I get Innovations? 300 clams for the upper, rail and comp. Man, it never ends!

awesome match.
It was good shooting with the VA Arms team again, i guess i will try to introduce myself next time to VA dinger and the rest of the guys from M4carbine. I am now living around chesapeake and it would be cool to keep shooting together.

Sounds like a plan!

I 100% agree. The steel can be humbling if you're not ready for it.

Yeah, speaking of which, my day started with a miss!

[9x19]

The match was great fun! It was great to meet Dinger and see everyone else again.

[SHIVAN]

Do you have to be "qualified" to shoot??

My New Year resolution is to shoot in comps absolutely for fun....

Thought Blackwater is quite a drive for fun, I am tired of shooting alone.

[mark5pt56]

Do you have to be "qualified" to shoot??

My New Year resolution is to shoot in comps absolutely for fun....

Thought Blackwater is quite a drive for fun, I am tired of shooting alone.

Nope, just have to furnish some personal info to the club so they can send it to Blackwater for access. There's a wide range of shooters there for the matches. Go to www.blackwatershooters.com Gotm4 has a link above this thread as well.

[Dport]

Nope, just have to furnish some personal info to the club so they can send it to Blackwater for access. There's a wide range of shooters there for the matches. Go to www.blackwatershooters.com Gotm4 has a link above this thread as well.

I submitted info earlier this year and never heard back. Is that normal?


(Not that it mattered. I ended up not being available ever single fricken time. )

[chris914]

You guys and gal are killing me! I had hoped that I would be back to shoot this match. I guess that I will have to wait until the spring match. I will also be shooting an M&P. I am glad to hear that you are finally getting some trigger time in, Dinger. You have really started sliding down the slippery slope of all work and no play.
D-port, if you email Terry about your information he will get back to you. He may have just forgotten.
Shivan, you need to come down and shoot. We need a with an H&K to shoot with. Heck if everyone came down to shoot the same match there would be a full M4-C squad.

[Robb Jensen]

If I did my math correctly this is how our group did:

Team VA Arms:
(Robb) gotm4 = 118.18 (rimfire)
(Luis) Looey = 122.60 (production)
Dan = 143.13 (production)
(Pat) Tactical Shooter = 161.39 (production)

Team VA Arms official photographer:
(Bonnie) 9x19 = 248.45 (rimfire)

friends:
(Tim) BigTinVA = 177.20 (production)
Chad = 156.14 (production)
Trish = 271.03 (production)
Alan = 107.26 (open)

[Robb Jensen]

Do you have to be "qualified" to shoot??

My New Year resolution is to shoot in comps absolutely for fun....

Thought Blackwater is quite a drive for fun, I am tired of shooting alone.

No 'qualification' necessary, just email Terry Bailado on the www.blackwatershooters.com website with your information to get on the match announcement list. (BW matches are the 3rd Sunday of every month, there's no Dec match). You can carpool down with us if you want (to save some gas money), we meet up in Fredericksburg. (most of BW matches have either a rifle or shotgun side match which is just 1 stage of typically 30 rounds or less. Our group will all be shooting SBRs for the Jan 08 side match).

Same deal with Fredericksburg USPSA (starts back up in March 08 weather permitting) for that one email Tino at bad320(AT)aol.com to get on the announcement list (matches are the 1st Sunday of the month).

PM for more info on North Mountain (Strasburg VA) USPSA and York PA USPSA both excellent matches (currently both are the 2nd Sunday of the month).

I will have to warn you, shooting competition is addicting and makes shooting at still targets on a square range boring as hell.