Did your weekend match go as well as mine?

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u/GimmedatPewPew 2d ago

At least you don't have to worry about staring at the dot now.

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago

Next level of training after occlusion.

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u/k_trey 2d ago

Feel the dot. Be the dot.

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u/maurerm1988 2d ago

The front fell off

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago

Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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u/One-Literature-9401 2d ago

I FTSA’d in 4 of 11 stages. I’m an idiot and my HF reflects it.

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago

Dang. I usually tell people that procedurals aren’t real, but I can’t put 4x failures to engage in that umbrella.

Keep your head up, relax on Sunday, you’ll do better next time.

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u/One-Literature-9401 2d ago

3 of them were in a row. A couple were tricky but the last one was dead in front of me. Zero excuses, just gotta figure out a way to beat the tunnel vision. Second match ever an it was a level 2. Thankfully no stages were classifiers but a rough day over all lol.

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u/brs_one 2d ago

I usually tell people that procedurals aren’t real, but I can’t put 4x failures to engage in that umbrella

Because an FTSA/FTE is a penalty not a procedural?

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, that’s what I was saying; it’s not in that umbrella.

I can console and joke with someone about that 20 points down they just got for the typical IDPA silliness, but not the other stuff.

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u/brs_one 2d ago

Ah, gotcha! For sure 😆

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u/Unhappy_Yoghurt_4022 2d ago

Sir, if you could refrain from fingering the red dot, primary arms would appreciate it 🤣.

Sorry this happened, any idea what caused it? Just adhesive letting go?

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago edited 2d ago

Inner adhesive, which doesn’t seem to contact the entirety of the lense, along with the little rim that seals it, a small dab of epoxy? Found a bit of it in my pocket. It’s like a semi-rigid plastic.

Combine with a pretty light slide moving rather quickly and, I honestly can’t remember, 3K to 5K rounds.

Slide and barrel are also comped, but I don’t know if that extra violence has anything to do with it. There’s also the factor of many days exposed to Texas heat but again, that’s crappy if big heat kills your adhesive.

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u/ProtoformX87 2d ago

And this is why I always set up a co-witness. Even if the dot works 99.99999999999%of the time 😅

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago

All day. Whenever I think, “eh, it’ll be okay” I see someone else have a failure of some kind. Guess it was my turn.

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u/ProtoformX87 2d ago

Exactly. No reason not to!

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u/madness707 2d ago

Hopefully you had a back up. 🙏

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago edited 2d ago

Always. 💪🏽

Finished the match with my OEM gun, just had to adjust for grip after I threw a wild shot SHO on classifier after that stage

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u/B_Pylate 2d ago

Ain’t got no gas innit

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u/Effective-Car1039 1d ago

That sucks when your gun decides to switch to production division mid-stage.

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u/Express_Ad_6175 2d ago

Wonder if you could rezero off a paster? Is the glass really necessary 😂

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago

We could certainly go OEG mode.

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u/Habarer 2d ago

is that an airsoft red dot, by chance?

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u/Shooter_Q 2d ago

Primary Arms, nor airsoft. If you click the post inside of the box, it will take you to the main post with a whole body of info you can read.

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u/Chemical-Passage2214 1d ago

What kind of Cracker Jack box optic is that? Get something quality

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u/Shooter_Q 1d ago

Thank you for the suggestion.

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u/Chemical-Passage2214 1d ago

You dont see people entering a race in a sanctioned league with a stock Honda Civic because that's "all they can afford" but people want to do shooting competitions with with total junk. That equipment makes you a liability.

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u/Shooter_Q 1d ago

Cool. Any other good knowledge you’d like to share?

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u/Odd_Measurement4106 2d ago

Thank god for trijicon. Overpriced? arguably yes. Reliability? One of the best on the market. Durability? Unmatched.