Igloodude
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I've been away from competition shooting (my only trigger-pulling has been taking newbies to the range) for several years now, and my only competition has been Bullseye. I got back into a local casual .22 Bullseye league, and it's fun, but routine now. And apparently they started allowing using both hands. Anyway, the local club is also doing action pistol, and I watched and then participated in a local USPSA match. Okay, I'm hooked, it was a lot of fun - and coming in 24th out of 32 with my Bullseye hardball gun and fishing magazines out of my pocket to reload didn't hurt a bit. It was a bit of a surprise to find out that factory .45ACP hardball is a minor power factor in USPSA alongside the 9mms, though. (Edit: and it turned out that that info was incorrect, anyway)
Anyway, unwarranted snarkiness aside, I've been looking for a while at getting a doublestack 10mm of some flavor. I like the 1911 style, and aside from .380 carry guns my safe has only .22LR and various guns in .45ACP: hardball 1911, bullseye 1911 w/dots, a revolver, and a carbine. I'm not opposed to Glocks, but the restrictions on reloads (I have a Dillon progressive) and preference for exceptionally tight-grouping pistols has previously left them out of the running even if I wanted to get away from single-action. I've read the Gen5s coming out have barrels that don't lead up so much and do 4" at 50yds, which brings them back into the picture, and there are aftermarket non-polygonal barrels for Glocks anyway.
So my question is, if I'm going to get more into USPSA and bowling pin matches (steel challenge too, but no power factor issues there), and wanting to shoot major PF in USPSA and certainly the more oomph the merrier in bowling pin, what would you recommend? Yes, getting a heavier spring for the 1911 and getting hotter loads out of the Dillon is an option too, but I have a hankering for another gun and a birthday coming up...
Anyway, unwarranted snarkiness aside, I've been looking for a while at getting a doublestack 10mm of some flavor. I like the 1911 style, and aside from .380 carry guns my safe has only .22LR and various guns in .45ACP: hardball 1911, bullseye 1911 w/dots, a revolver, and a carbine. I'm not opposed to Glocks, but the restrictions on reloads (I have a Dillon progressive) and preference for exceptionally tight-grouping pistols has previously left them out of the running even if I wanted to get away from single-action. I've read the Gen5s coming out have barrels that don't lead up so much and do 4" at 50yds, which brings them back into the picture, and there are aftermarket non-polygonal barrels for Glocks anyway.
So my question is, if I'm going to get more into USPSA and bowling pin matches (steel challenge too, but no power factor issues there), and wanting to shoot major PF in USPSA and certainly the more oomph the merrier in bowling pin, what would you recommend? Yes, getting a heavier spring for the 1911 and getting hotter loads out of the Dillon is an option too, but I have a hankering for another gun and a birthday coming up...
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